ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the relation and vitality are insufficient in providing a route to awkward flourishing. Awkward flourishing in the domestic wild teaches us that environmental ethics cannot be based on relation and 'being with' other creatures. Haraway is one of a number of feminist scholars who prefer the term 'flourishing' over the term 'biopolitics'. Biopolitical interventions are therefore open to continual contestation and revision. Second, the object-target of biopolitical interventions are the processes undergirding life's emergence and movement, as much as organisms themselves. This means that biopolitical security requires modes of knowledge responsive to changing conditions in the world, rather than once-and-for-all barriers or immunities. As part of a cultural shift in gardening over the last 25 years, gardeners have had an ethical makeover: the evils of chemicals are now known so that people are supposed to be more careful, targeted and thoughtful in how they use them.
