Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction: Life in the Anthropocene

1. The Probiotic Turn: Rewilding and Biome Restoration

2. Thinking like Gaia: The Science of the Probiotic Turn

3. Symbiopolitics: Governing through Keystone Species

4. Wild Experiments: The Controlled Decontrolling of Ecological Controls

5. Geographies of Dysbiosis: The Patchiness of the Probiotic Turn

6. Future-Pasts: The Temporalities of the Probiotic Turn

7. Probiotic Value: Putting Keystone Species to Work

Conclusions: A Spectrum of Probiotics

Acknowledgments

Glossary 

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Jamie Lorimer is associate professor in the School of Geography and the Environment at University of Oxford. He is author of Wildlife in the Anthropocene: Conservation after Nature (Minnesota, 2015).

Reviews

"This brilliant book delivers an incisive reading of probiotic cultural practices today-taking in everything from home fermentation to permaculture to rewilding. Jamie Lorimer expertly shows us that social and scientific projects that aim at re-calibrating microbial, bodily, and ecological worlds are experiments in the politics of symbiosis. In our days of viral peril, The Probiotic Planet is a vital reminder of the multiple futures biology may yet prepare."-Stefan Helmreich, author of Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond"Moving between human intestines and forests patches, The Probiotic Planet maps a diverse and emerging terrain of ecological experimentation, both formal and vernacular. A transdisciplinary analysis that brings detailed attention to scientific practices into dialogue with critical social theory, this book is also a bold and important experiment in its own right."-Heather Anne Swanson, director, Aarhus University Centre for Environmental Humanities "Lorimer unravels the multiplicities of present-day scientific designs for the future."-Los Angeles Review of Books "This book bridges the gap between two widely separated topics: healing the planet by rewilding, and internal sanitation of the body by natural allies."-Anthropos "The book is well referenced... and the text is supported by appropriate and readable tables and charts."-CHOICE