Meeting Mosses: Toward a Convivial Biocultural Conservation
Description:
In this dissertation I propose an ethical framework for "meeting mosses." At first glance, mosses are a tiny type of plants that have been uncritically understood as "primitive plants," to the extent that they are defined by negation as "non-vascular plants." Hence, mosses have been considered as "primitive" relatives of "true" vascular plants. This distortion is linked to the fact that mosses have been overlooked and represented as a radical otherness in Western civilization. To critically exa…
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Date:
December 2022
Creator:
Zhu, Danqiong
Partner:
UNT Libraries