Foreword

Introduction. Feeding off plant-human relationships

Sylvie Pouteau

Plant turns revolving around the plant cause

The plant cause at the heart of the farmers’ cause

PlantCoopLab, the emergence of the plant cause as an originary phenomenon

Six entries in the plant cause

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1. A look at the PlantCoopLab experience

Sylvie Pouteau

Taking an approach to agriculture from the perspective of plant humanities

Exploring the margins where ecologized agriculture is being invented

The non-productive part of interdisciplinary practice: prior consultation

Group dynamics through transdisciplinary practice: four experiences

Exerting narrative empiricism rather than theorizing

Perspectives, entering a second phase of PlantCoopLab

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2. After gathering: to make territory and profession with the wild side of plants and environments

Florence Pinton

To consider relationships with the living world at the edge of productive activities

Plant workers facing modernity

From plant to territory

An underrated profession that isn’t really one at all

Heading for a different approach to governing rural territories

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3. With plants, to rethink the living work

Sébastien Mouret

Growing and gathering at the edge of production

Thanking plants for their generosity

Heading for a political ecology of work

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4. The non-productive part of work. In praise of joy

Maria Fernanda de Torres Álvarez

Methodology

Rejection of uselessness

The suspicious part

Living work and possible opening

Working on oneself

In praise of joy

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5. Towards virtuous agroecology, cooperating with plant agency

Sylvie Pouteau

An invitation to an ethics of agriculture?

Agroecology through the lens of virtue ethics

Plant agency, a blind spot of agroecological priorities

Plant agency, a course of recognition

Heading for an agroecosophy with plants

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6. Welcoming the wild part of plants at work

Aurélie Javelle

Context and methodology

A protean wildness

A wildness that embodies the untamed side of the world

Rejection of the term “wild”

Overcoming dualism through the living work with plants

A living work made possible by respecting what lies beyond control

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7. Animal cause/plant cause. The inevitable polarity of veganism

Jocelyne Porcher

Plants are things

Plants are not things

Working with plants

Biotechnology or life

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Perspectives. Towards a parliament of plants

Sylvie Pouteau

To be inhabited and to inhabit

Losing and regaining speech

Representing and claiming worlds

Plant watersheds and their embassies

The parliament of plants, a passport for the future?

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List of authors