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Cartographies of Postcolonial Vegetal Politics takes a deep dive into the stratified and rigidly segmented territorialities of Plant Humanities or Critical Plant Studies. It strikes up an epistemic departure from the arboreal structures of ‘plant-thinking’ and subsequently lays out ‘plant-becoming’ in terms of ontophytological thinking revised in alignment with rhizomatics so as to critically design the discursive edifices of postcolonial vegetal politics—differential grammatology of which stands wedded to the production of the ‘new’ and thus understood to be able to position vegetality as event-in-(dis)order. Abhisek Ghosal emphasizes the profound importance of Deleuzo-Guattarian grammatologies in pulling up ‘plant-becoming’ from being subjected to a set of rigidly structured models of vegetality. It is by working out aleatory eventualities of postcolonial haecceities that ‘structures’ of vegetality constituting the intellectual rigour of Critical Plant Studies are tenably discarded to foreground ‘n-1’ becomings of vegetality—multiplicities of which can well be sensed by means of reckoning vegetality as deterritorial vector that can facilitate scholars to cartograph the eventual unfolding of postcolonial vegetal politics afresh.

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Abhisek Ghosal's incredibly rich Cartographies of Postcolonial Vegetal Politics is a call for vegetal thinking. It is a call to continue the posthumanist project of decentering the human as the primary point of ontological and epistemological reference. This book is a bold, sensitive, and deeply thoughtful exploration into the liminal spaces and poetic times of plant lives and it is an enchanting philosophical journey into the realms of plant awareness and intelligence. It will change how you think and feel about the magnificent world of plant life. --Adrian Parr Zaretsky, University of Oregon

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Abhisek Ghosal teaches in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology.

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