Listening to plants: Conversations between critical plant studies and vegetal geography
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Publication Date
2022Journal Title
Progress in Human Geography
ISSN
0309-1325
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Volume
46
Issue
2
Pages
629-651
Language
en
Type
Article
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Lawrence, A. (2022). Listening to plants: Conversations between critical plant studies and vegetal geography. Progress in Human Geography, 46 (2), 629-651. https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325211062167
Abstract
<jats:p> Attention to plant life is currently flourishing across the social sciences and humanities. This paper introduces recent work in the informal sub-discipline of ‘vegetal geography’, placing it into conversation with the transdisciplinary field of ‘critical plant studies’ [CPS], a broad framework for re-evaluating plants and human-plant interactions informed by principles of agency, ethics, cognition and language. I explore three key themes of interest to multispecies scholars looking to attend more closely to vegetal life, namely: (1) plant otherness; (2) plant ethics; (3) plant-human attunements, in the hope of encouraging greater cross-pollination between more-than-human geography and critical plant studies. </jats:p>
Keywords
Articles, Plants, vegetal geography, critical plant studies, more-than-human geography, plant-human relations, otherness, multispecies ethics
Sponsorship
Cambridge Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Training Partnership (AHRC DTP) (AH/L503897/1)
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/L503897/1)
Identifiers
10.1177_03091325211062167
External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325211062167
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/335836
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