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Going to Seed: Essays on Idleness, Nature, and Sustainable Work

Going to Seed: Essays on Idleness, Nature, and Sustainable Work

Neville, Kate J.

Paperback

Series: Sowell Emerging Writers Prize

Letters & EssaysGeneral SociologyNature Writing

Publisher Price: $26.95

ISBN10: 1682832031
ISBN13: 9781682832035
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: May 15 2024
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.04 Depth: 8.99
Language: English
An abandoned place, a disheveled person, a shabby or deteriorating state: we describe such ruin colloquially as going to seed.

But gardeners will protest: going to seed as idle? No, plants are sending out compressed packets filled with the energy needed to sow new life. A pause from flowering gives a chance for the seeds to form.

In a time of urgent environmental change, of pressing social injustice, and of ever-advancing technologies and global connections, we often respond with acceleration--a speeding up and scaling up of our strategies to counter the damage and destruction around us.

But what if we take the seeds as a starting point: what might we learn about work, sustainability, and relationships on this beleaguered planet if we slowed down, stepped back, and held off?

Going to Seed explores questions of idleness, considering the labour both of humans and of the myriad other inhabitants of the world. Drawing on science, literature, poetry, and personal observation, these winding and sometimes playful essays pay attention to the exertions and activities of the other-than-human lives that are usually excluded from our built and settled spaces, asking whose work and what kinds of work might be needed for a more just future for all.

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