Roots of Power : The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants (Hardcover)

Chap 1 Introduction: Approaching the Boundary Multi-sited ethnography Political ecology Ethnobotany Institutions Outline of the book Chap 2 Beating the Bounds for Boundary Plants Structure, territory, and tenure From structure to process Symbolic boundary processes Monomarcation and polymarcation The spatial turn The plant and multispecies turns The ontological turn Re-turning to political economy Conclusion Chap 3 Tanzania: Knots of Peace on Kilimanjaro Kilimanjaro as a social-ecological system Living land tenure Ancestors in the landscape Knots of peace, order, and meaning Conclusion Chap 4 Cameroon: Bounded Vitality and Rank in the Oku Monarchy Oku as a social-ecological system Boundary plants and land tenure in Oku Social organization and boundary plants on patrol Masquerades, witchcraft, and life-force in Oku Life flowing through boundary plants Conclusion Chap 5 Papua New Guinea: Embodying Places, Emplacing Bodies The vegecultures of Oceania Papua New Guinea as a social-ecological system Cordyline as a botanica franca Mapping social relations with boundary plants Beauty, place, and order Conclusion Chap 6 French Polynesia: Rank and Revitalization in the Society Islands Vegecultures and social ranking in Remote Oceania The Society Islands as social-ecological systems Boundary plants and monuments to hierarchy The conjunctures of cordyline and colonialism Revitalized boundaries in a new society Decentralized protection and power Conclusion Chap 7 St Vincent: Dragons in a Postslavery Peasant Society Boundary plants in the Plantationocene St. Vincent as a social-ecological system Boundary struggles in the provision grounds The social organization of dragons The red dragon is the guide Conclusion Chap 8 Conclusion: Beyond Boundaries Methods revisited Boundaries and routes of power in the past Boundary plants and the roots of power today Beyond the bounds References