Green Sense

Prologue: Seeing-feeling-thinking flora; Part I Restoring sense to plant research: Cultures: The technicised plant in nature's laboratory; Reconciling the "Two Cultures" schism; Towards transdisciplinary botanical thinking; Poeticising plant research: Floral poetics; Cultural botany: Bridging two cultures, building on cultural ecology; Fields; Introduction to the South-West; Reconfiguring botanical field work; Poetic enquiry into South-West flora; Ethnographies along the South-West wildflower trail; Gestural walking; Place as context; A practice of aesthesis; Part II Botanical Histories: Narratives: Thoreau's approach to multiple narratives; The narrative streams of Zamia Palm; Nyoongar conceptualisations of plants; Plant narratives and aesthetics; Values: Plants and aesthetics: Reading Lindley's sketch; Words and images: The anatomy of a botanical document; Metaphors and misnomers: Characterising the Swan River Colony; Vision and beauty: The Horticultural Object; Botany and commercialisation: Multi-sensoriality in economic terms; Colonisation and classification: Naming plants; Absences and aesthetics; Aesthetics: Plants as objects of sight: From visuality to sensation; Plants as objects of art: From artefacts to habitats; Plants as objects of disinterestedness: From detachment to engagement; Plants as objects of scientific discourse: From reason to embodiment; Theorising a corporeal aesthetics of plants; Part III Botanical Cultures: Green: Green speak; The positive-negative nature of green; Green fertility, dun sterility: South-West Australian contexts; Hope and Stegner: Unravelling greenness; Towards an aesthetics of xeriscapes: The Ravensthorpe Woman; Ethnography: Anthoethnography and the culture of wildflowers; What does wildflower tourism entail?; Breath of the bush: The history of South-West wildflower tourism; Mediation of presence: Contemporary wildflower tourism in the South-West; Anthoethnographic themes at wildflower venues; Beyond the flower: From wildflower tourism to botanical appreciation; The promise of anthoethnography; Memory: Remembering plants; The physiology of human memory; Botanical memory at the intersection of embodiment, environment, emotions, and ethnography; Botanical memories of mourning: Biodiversity, beauty and grieving; Botanical memories of celebration: Orchids, love and rapture; Botanical memories of embodiment: Sucking; Banksia nectar; The intricacies of botanical memory; Part IV Botanical Languages: Language; Gathering of tongues: Aesthetic language and flora; When language speaks, who listens?; Language, vision and flora: Towards "the Open"; Language, senses and flora: Botanical metaphor; Towards a language of plants and sensation; Poetry: Poeticising flora; Landscape poetry and habitat poetry; Reading Lansdown, Choate, and Kinsella as habitat poets; Celebration of landscapes and appreciation of habitats; Part V Botanical Futures: Mourning: A 'species' is bodiless; The Sixth Great Extinction; Landscapes of absence; Botanical, emorials; From subject-centred mourning to connectivity mourning; Mourning the loss of flora; Walking: The botanising stroll: People embrace the bush; Techniques of walking: The habitus of bipedal, ovement; Distance and contact: Early South-West walkers and botanisers; Walking the flowering Landscape: Metavisual appreciation of plants; Bodily interaction and embodied appreciation; Aesthesis: The bodily senses and flora; Aesthesis: Perception and sensation; Floraesthesis and the metasenses; Body futures: Healing, wellbeing and flora; Aesthetics and aesthesis: Theorising bodily appreciation of flora; Coda: Prospects: Philosophical implications: Questions of intimacy and union; Past into present: Researching cultures of flora; Implications for creativity: Environmental practices and processes; Conclusion: Possibilities for ecocultural studies and the humanities; References.