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Tuberous Worlds
Vegetal Politics and More-Than-Human Relations
Series: Yale Agrarian Studies Series
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A fascinating examination of "tuberous associations"βthe economies, politics, and ecologies enabled by human-tuber interactions. The world is much more tuberous than most people know. From the millions of smallholder peasants cultivating tuber plants to the teams of scientists mapping potato genomic information to the industrial manufacturers...
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A fascinating examination of "tuberous associations"βthe economies, politics, and ecologies enabled by human-tuber interactions.
The world is much more tuberous than most people know. From the millions of smallholder peasants cultivating tuber plants to the teams of scientists mapping potato genomic information to the industrial manufacturers selecting the best varieties for producing French fries, life unfolds in a tuber-enabled environment. This book describes the many different forms of "tuberous association"βthe patterns of production, kinship, collaboration, resistance, feeding, and care that arise from and are made possible by tuberous partnerships.
Tubers are vital partners, or allies, that support life within autonomous collectives and at the same time are entwined in the extractive practices of colonisation, land enclosure, and plantationβfacts that reveal the complexity and contingency of vegetal politics. To explore this complexity, the contributors to Tuberous Worlds consider an array of tuberous bodies, such as cassava, taro, yam, potato, and sweet potato, to draw out the subtleties and textures of human-tuber companionship in all their startling diversity.
By considering tubers not only as a "product" or "staple," but also as partners, kin, and ancestorsβas lifeforms grafted to our ownβthe authors argue for a nuanced understanding of tuberous politics, economies, and ecologies.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780300281774
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 07 April 2026
Country: United States
Imprint: Yale University Press
Illustration: 21 b-w illus.
Contributors:
- Edited by David Nally
- Edited by Olivia Ange
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 235.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 368
About the Author
Olivia AngeΜ is professor of anthropology at the Free University of Brussels. David Nally is professor of historical geography and fellow of Jesus College at the University of Cambridge.
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