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Figure 4. Distribution of Global Plants Partners. Courtesy of Global Plants/JSTOR.

Distribution of Global Plants Partners. Courtesy of Global Plants/JSTOR.

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in Global Plants and Digital Letters: Epistemological Implications of Digitising the Directors' Correspondence at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew > Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 May 2015
Figure 4. Distribution of Global Plants Partners. Courtesy of Global Plants/JSTOR. More
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Figure 5. Global Plants advanced search function. Courtesy of Global Plants/JSTOR.

Global Plants advanced search function. Courtesy of Global Plants/JSTOR.

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in Global Plants and Digital Letters: Epistemological Implications of Digitising the Directors' Correspondence at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew > Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 May 2015
Figure 5. Global Plants advanced search function. Courtesy of Global Plants/JSTOR. More
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in Global Plants and Digital Letters: Epistemological Implications of Digitising the Directors' Correspondence at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew > Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 May 2015
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Boreal Plants That Enchant: A Lively Ethnography of Sakâwiyiniwak (Northern Bush Cree) Multispecies Kinship Obligations

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Janelle Marie Baker
Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 385–400.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-9712467
Published: 01 July 2022
...Janelle Marie Baker Abstract This article describes moments of plant-induced enchantment during community-based environmental monitoring and ethnographic research in Treaty No. 8 sakâwiyiniwak territories. These multispecies ethnographic encounters while collaborating with Elders and friends from...
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“These Lusting, Incestuous, Perverse Creatures”: A Phytopoetic History of Plants and Sexuality

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Joela Jacobs
Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 602–617.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-9962926
Published: 01 November 2022
...Joela Jacobs Abstract This article traces the emergence of and shifts in ideas about plant sexuality in European literature from the late seventeenth century to the present, with a particular focus on influential British and a few less well-known German texts. Positioned as a specifically...
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Communicating with Plants: The Dream, the Science, the Everyday Reality

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Randy Laist
Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 371–384.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-11150051
Published: 01 July 2024
...Randy Laist Abstract The Secret Life of Plants , a 1973 book that was developed into a 1979 documentary film, reports on a flurry of parapsychological research involving attempts to communicate with plants using electrodes, lie detectors, and psychic powers. The book highlights the work of Cleve...
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Global Plants and Digital Letters: Epistemological Implications of Digitising the Directors' Correspondence at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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Anna Svensson
Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 73–102.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-3615907
Published: 01 May 2015
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Figure 1. Squash plants in a Guerrilla Garden growing up the side of a 1940s-era building. Photograph by Sarah Elton.

Squash plants in a Guerrilla Garden growing up the side of a 1940s-era buil...

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in Growing Methods: Developing a Methodology for Identifying Plant Agency and Vegetal Politics in the City > Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 1. Squash plants in a Guerrilla Garden growing up the side of a 1940s-era building. Photograph by Sarah Elton. More
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Figure 5. Ganong (left) with students and Pelargonium plants in the Plant Physiology House, 1910. Bell jars covered in paper sit on a table on right. Photograph by Katherine Elizabeth McClellan. Buildings Records, College Archives, Smith College Special Collections.

Ganong (left) with students and Pelargonium plants in the Plant Physiolog...

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in The Bell Jars: Smith College, Pelargonium sidoides , and Sylvia Plath’s Botanical Imagination > Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 5. Ganong (left) with students and Pelargonium plants in the Plant Physiology House, 1910. Bell jars covered in paper sit on a table on right. Photograph by Katherine Elizabeth McClellan. Buildings Records, College Archives, Smith College Special Collections. More
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Growing Methods: Developing a Methodology for Identifying Plant Agency and Vegetal Politics in the City

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Sarah Elton
Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 93–112.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-8867219
Published: 01 May 2021
...Figure 1. Squash plants in a Guerrilla Garden growing up the side of a 1940s-era building. Photograph by Sarah Elton. ...
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Rethinking Plant Power: Bioenergy, Vegetal Labor, and Postproductivist Energy Cultures

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James Palmer
Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 661–679.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-11327308
Published: 01 November 2024
...James Palmer Abstract Bioenergy derived from plants is typically defined by its capacity to act as a sustainable substitute for fossil fuels. Yet plants might also help us to rethink the very purpose of energy in the Anthropocene, with implications for prevailing attitudes toward growth...
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Plant Infrastructure: Mangoes, Race, and Empire in Early Twentieth-Century Miami

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Tim Watson
Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 58–78.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-10943105
Published: 01 March 2024
...Tim Watson Abstract This essay analyzes Miami as a place where plants are a major component of urban infrastructure. The centrality of tropical plants to the growth of Miami connects that city to the history of empire, where control of plant matter was the violent model for the standardization...
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Recalcitrant Lifeworlds: Decolonizing the History of Human-Plant Relations

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Aparajita Majumdar
Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 79–99.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-10943113
Published: 01 March 2024
...Aparajita Majumdar Abstract This article analyzes how a failed rubber crop from the plantations of British India became indispensable to the shaping of Indigenous ecologies in the India-Bangladesh borderlands. While a growing scholarship focuses on plants that became profitable within plantation...
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Media Ecologies of Plant Invasion

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Erin Despard, Michael Gallagher
Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 370–396.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-7156793
Published: 01 November 2018
... though the methods employed can be destructive and long-term success is often limited. Building on recent work critiquing categorical approaches to invasive species management, we argue that such campaigns obscure not only the underlying conditions but also the ongoing production of plant invasiveness...
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Figure 4. Plant label for Encephalartos altensteinii x trispinosus at Kirstenbosch. Photograph by Melanie Boehi.

Plant label for Encephalartos altensteinii x trispinosus at Kirstenbosch....

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in Radical Stories in the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden: Emergent Ecologies’ Challenges to Colonial Narratives and Western Epistemologies > Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 4. Plant label for Encephalartos altensteinii x trispinosus at Kirstenbosch. Photograph by Melanie Boehi. More
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Figure 5. Planting seedlings according to age facilitates the identification of “runts” and “rogues.” Credit: Sophie Chao

Planting seedlings according to age facilitates the identification of “runt...

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in Seed Care in the Palm Oil Sector > Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 November 2018
Figure 5. Planting seedlings according to age facilitates the identification of “runts” and “rogues.” Credit: Sophie Chao More
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Ecologies, One and All: Singularity and Plurality in Dialogue

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Anne Rademacher, Mary L. Cadenasso, Steward T. A. Pickett
Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 128–140.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-10216195
Published: 01 March 2023
..., the interactions among organisms, and the interactions between organisms and the transformation and flux of energy and matter.” 18 Centered as it is on the transformative role of organisms—plants, (human and nonhuman) animals, and microbes—in the world, almost all of ecology’s most significant ideas have...
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Figure 1. A dam structure creating a lake.

The Tucuruí hydroelectric plant on the Tocantins River. Pará, Brazilian Ama...

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in Flooded Lives: Amazonian Visual Culture and the Ruins of Hydropower in Brazil > Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 March 2025
Figure 1. The Tucuruí hydroelectric plant on the Tocantins River. Pará, Brazilian Amazon. From the film Amazon Mirror . Courtesy of Fernando Segtowick. More
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Figure 3. Linneaus’s table of plant species for constructing his Horologium Florae, arranged by the hour when flowers begin to bloom each day (from 3:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon on this page). From: Caroli Linnaei, Philosophia Botanica (Stockholm: Kiesewetter, 1751: 274).

Linneaus’s table of plant species for constructing his Horologium Florae, a...

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in Chronophilia; or, Biding Time in a Solar System > Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 November 2019
Figure 3. Linneaus’s table of plant species for constructing his Horologium Florae, arranged by the hour when flowers begin to bloom each day (from 3:00 a.m . to 12:00 noon on this page). From: Caroli Linnaei, Philosophia Botanica (Stockholm: Kiesewetter, 1751: 274). More
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Figure 4. Art wall, treatment plant. Photo by John Sabraw (2017).

Art wall, treatment plant. Photo by John Sabraw (2017).

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in Extractive Fictions and Postextraction Futurisms: Energy and Environmental Injustice in Appalachia > Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 November 2019
Figure 4. Art wall, treatment plant. Photo by John Sabraw (2017). More