Below we’ve listed some of the texts we’re inspired and informed by (and a few we wrote!). They expand on issues raised in our “Mini-Manifesto: Some notes and provocations on seeding the next epoch in collaboration with weeds“
Geniusz, Mary Siisip. 2015. Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings. Edited by Wendy Makoons Geniusz. 1 edition. Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press.
Gilio-Whitaker, Dina. 2019. As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock. Beacon Press.
Hobbs, Richard J, Eric Higgs, Carol M Hall, Peter Bridgewater, F Stuart Chapin III, Erle C Ellis, John J Ewel, et al. 2014. “Managing the Whole Landscape: Historical, Hybrid, and Novel Ecosystems.” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 12 (10): 557–64. https://doi.org/10.1890/130300.
Irons, Ellie. 2020. “The Next Epoch Seed Library’s Lawn Lab: A Public Experiment in Collaboration with Seeds, Time, and Weeds.” Media+Environment 2 (1): 13470. https://doi.org/10.1525/001c.13470.
———. 2024. “Feral Hues & Invasive Pigments: Examining Nature-Based Solutions through Ecosocial Art Engaging Spontaneous Urban Vegetation and Informal Greenspace.” Nature-Based Solutions 6 (December):100137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbsj.2024.100137.
Kellogg, Scott. 2021. Urban Ecosystem Justice: Strategies for Equitable Sustainability and Ecological Literacy in the City. 1st edition. Routledge.
Kimmerer, Robin Wall. 2015. “The Sacred and the Superfund.” In Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, 310–40. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions.
Li, Jiayang, and Joan Iverson Nassauer. 2020. “Cues to Care: A Systematic Analytical Review.” Landscape and Urban Planning 201 (September):103821. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2020.103821.
Mancuso, Stefano, Alessandra Viola, and Michael Pollan. 2015. Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence. Translated by Joan Benham. 2 edition. Washington: Island Press. https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.libproxy.rpi.edu/lib/rpi/detail.action?docID=3317668#goto_toc.
Monge, Lucia. 2018. “Plantón Móvil: Interspecies Collaboration in the Walking Forest.” Global Performance Studies 1 (2). https://gps.psi-web.org/issue-1-2/gps-1-2-8/.
Paperson, La. 2014. “A Ghetto Land Pedagogy: An Antidote for Settler Environmentalism.” Environmental Education Research 20 (1): 115–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2013.865115.
Phillips, Daniel, and Mark Lindquist. 2021. “Just Weeds? Comparing Assessed and Perceived Biodiversity of Urban Spontaneous Vegetation in Informal Greenspaces in the Context of Two American Legacy Cities.” Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 62 (July):127151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2021.127151.
Rupprecht, Christoph D. 2017. “Informal Urban Green Space as Anti-Gentrification Strategy?” In Just Green Enough, edited by Winifred Curran and Trina Hamilton, 1 edition, 209–26. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge.
Sandilands, Catriona. 2013. “Dog Stranglers in the Park?: National and Vegetal Politics in Ontario’s Rouge Valley.” Journal of Canadian Studies 47 (3): 93–122.
Sikorska, Daria, Wojciech Ciężkowski, Piotr Babańczyk, Jarosław Chormański, and Piotr Sikorski. 2021. “Intended Wilderness as a Nature-Based Solution: Status, Identification and Management of Urban Spontaneous Vegetation in Cities.” Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 62 (July):127155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2021.127155.
Sikorski, Piotr, Beata Gawryszewska, Daria Sikorska, Jarosław Chormański, Axel Schwerk, Agata Jojczyk, Wojciech Ciężkowski, et al. 2021. “The Value of Doing Nothing – How Informal Green Spaces Can Provide Comparable Ecosystem Services to Cultivated Urban Parks.” Ecosystem Services 50 (August):101339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2021.101339.
Solnit, Rebecca. 2003. As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.
Stoetzer, Bettina. 2018. “Ruderal Ecologies: Rethinking Nature, Migration, and the Urban Landscape in Berlin.” Cultural Anthropology 33 (2): 295–323. https://doi.org/10.14506/ca33.2.09.
Subramaniam, Banu. 2001. “The Aliens Have Landed! Reflections on the Rhetoric of Biological Invasions.” Meridians 2 (1): 26–40.
Tredici, Peter Del. 2010. “Spontaneous Urban Vegetation: Reflections of Change in a Globalized World.” Nature and Culture 5 (3): 299–315. https://doi.org/10.3167/nc.2010.050305.
Tredici, Peter Del, and Steward T. A. Pickett. 2020. Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast: A Field Guide. Second edition. Ithaca: Comstock Publishing Associates.
Young, Alex. 2018. “EAT (y)OUR SIDEWALK: An Interview with SPURSE – Drain Magazine.” 2018. http://drainmag.com/eat-your-sidewalk-an-interview-with-spurse/.