Being Algae Transformations in Water, Plants
This book explores how aquatic environments are as networked together by algae as the terrestrial world is by plants.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Boston :
BRILL
2024.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Critical Plant Studies
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009805099206719 |
Table of Contents:
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction Algal mor(t)ality
- Chapter 1 There’s Something in the Water: Algae, Eliminativism, and Our Moral Obligations to Biological Beings
- Chapter 2 Seeking an Algal Perspective: Exploring “Harmful” Algae through an Interview with Nodularia spumigena
- Chapter 3 Contemplating Life, Death and Time Together with Diatoms
- Chapter 4 Communicating Algae Polycultures: Photobioreactors, the Phycosphere and Its Living Waters
- Chapter 5 Algae in the Human World: Beauty and Taste Come First
- Chapter 6 An Investigation of Algae’s Applications, Inspired by Indigenous and Vernacular Craft Traditions
- Chapter 7 Uses of and Considerations on Algae in Medieval Islamic Geography
- Chapter 8 Microalgae and Human Affairs: Massive Increase in Knowledge Drives Changes in Perceptions of Good and Bad Blooms
- Chapter 9 Becoming Marimo: The Curious Case of a Charismatic Algae and Imagined Indigeneity
- Chapter 10 “A Seaweed Goes to War”: Agar as a Thermal Medium in C.K. Tseng’s Research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (1943–1946)
- Chapter 11 Augmented Polycultures: Scaling up Algal Ecosystems and Design of a Biofouling Aesthetic
- Chapter 12 Phytofictions and Phytofication
- Chapter 13 Seaweed as the Denizens of the New Commons in the Anthropocene
- Being Algae ~ Coda
- Index
