TY - JOUR
T1 - Requiem for the weeds
T2 - Reflections in Amsterdam city park
AU - Kopnina, Helen
PY - 2013/12/1
Y1 - 2013/12/1
N2 - Human and plant relationships are described within the rich tradition of multispecies ethnography, ethnobotany, and political ecology. In theorizing this relationship, the issues of functionalism, and interconnectivity are raised. This article aims to re-examine the position of plants in the context of contemporary urban spaces through the prism of environmental ethics. Despite conceptual plurality and socio-cultural complexity of human-plant relationships, social scientists fail to note how the perception of 'greenery' has objectified plants in urban environment. Without seriously considering bioethics, theories of human-plant relationship might fail to note exploitive anthropocentric relationship between humans and plants in urban spaces. The article is inspired by reflections of urban flora in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
AB - Human and plant relationships are described within the rich tradition of multispecies ethnography, ethnobotany, and political ecology. In theorizing this relationship, the issues of functionalism, and interconnectivity are raised. This article aims to re-examine the position of plants in the context of contemporary urban spaces through the prism of environmental ethics. Despite conceptual plurality and socio-cultural complexity of human-plant relationships, social scientists fail to note how the perception of 'greenery' has objectified plants in urban environment. Without seriously considering bioethics, theories of human-plant relationship might fail to note exploitive anthropocentric relationship between humans and plants in urban spaces. The article is inspired by reflections of urban flora in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
KW - Bioethics
KW - Environmental ethics
KW - Ethnobotany
KW - Plants
KW - Urban spaces
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84881092629&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.scs.2013.01.007
DO - 10.1016/j.scs.2013.01.007
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84881092629
VL - 9
SP - 10
EP - 14
JO - Sustainable Cities and Society
JF - Sustainable Cities and Society
SN - 2210-6707
ER -