Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants. By Michael Sheridan. 2023. Routledge, New York. 275 pp.

  • Jayaditya Vittal Manipal Institute of Social Sciences Humanities and Arts, Manipal Academy of Higher Education in Manipal, Karnataka, India
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14237/ebl.16.1.2025.1918
Keywords: Boundary Plants, Tanzania, Cameroon, St. Vincent, French Polynesia, Dracaena, Cordyline

Author Biography

Jayaditya Vittal, Manipal Institute of Social Sciences Humanities and Arts, Manipal Academy of Higher Education in Manipal, Karnataka, India

Jayaditya Vittal is a PhD scholar in environmental humanities at the Manipal Centre for Humanities in Manipal, Karnataka, India. His work is concerned with the relationships and narratives of human and other-than-human beings in the estuaries of the windward Western Ghats.

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