Jennifer ATCHISON, University of Wollongong, Australia
Catherine PHILLIPS, University of Melbourne, Australia
Plants in diverse forms and as part of diverse assemblages have long been associated with different representations of time in geographical thought. Tree rings, pollen grains, and relictual flora for example, all materialise temporal registers of the past in the present and have been used in naturalistic analysis for comparative biogeography and studies of change over time. Prescient thinking on time and on crisis however, has challenged western conceptions of time and argued that other modes of reckoning time occur and are required (Bastian 2012; Bastian 2009). In this paper we consider how emergent dimensions of plant time materialise and are being deployed in sustainability agendas in urban forestry and biosecurity contexts, and what these obscure or offer for thinking through crisis.
Mots clés : plant|time|climate ready|invasive
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