Human and plant interfaces: relationality, knowledge and practices

Gibson, Diana; Ellis, William

doi:10.1080/23323256.2018.1483735

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“…There is also work on the ethics of doing insider fieldwork as an African anthropologist (eg. Setlhabi 2019; Mutaru 2018); on local cosmologies as seen through human/plant relations (Gibson and Ellis 2018); and, as in the previous era, considerable work on the complexities of postcolonial African identities. An interesting shift that can also be seen is the rise of papers which have informants/respondents as co-authors to an academic author/professional anthropologist, (eg.…”

Section: Asna In Its Present Guise: Internationalisation From 2014 To...mentioning

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Producing Anthropological Knowledge in and of Southern Africa: A Case Study of the Anthropology Southern Africa Journal

Morreira¹

2022

JHEA

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This article conducts an archival examination of the Anthropology Southern Africa journal (formerly the South African Journal of Ethnology/Suid- Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Etnologie), in keeping with Allen and Jobson’s (2016) call for anthropology to examine its own archives, as spaces of knowledge production which act as indexes of power. The article moves through three eras of the journal, between 1978 and 2020, showing how it evolved from being the home of volkekunde anthropology under apartheid, to a space for the production of anthropological knowledge by both established and nascent voices from the global South. Turning attention to the demographic minutiae of praxis within journals enables the start of a conversation about who was making anthropological know edge at different moments in history, and what sort of knowledge was made.

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Section: Asna In Its Present Guise: Internationalisation From 2014 To...mentioning

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Producing Anthropological Knowledge in and of Southern Africa: A Case Study of the Anthropology Southern Africa Journal

Morreira¹

2022

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“…Visiblement les questions d'ordre méthodologique et épistémologique posent de multiples défis (Myers, 2015 ;Gibson et Ellis, 2018 ;Gibson, 2018) et restent sans réponse satisfaisante. Éthiquement -et comme cela se pose pour les humains -, au nom de quoi rendre compte de sociétés dont the vegetation thinking (Holdredge, 2013;Tassin, 2016) and knowledge (Hallé, 1999;Beerling, 2007;Chamovitz, 2012).…”

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‘Plant piety’ in question La « piété végétale » en question

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Relational Transilience in the Garden: Plant–Human Encounters in More-than-Human Life Narratives

Alexander

2024

Open Cultural Studies

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Whereas many indigenous and non-western cultures see plants and humans as connected, western worldviews tend to disregard plants as material commodities. Plant non-thinking of this kind is increasingly being challenged in response to the environmental threats arising from human exceptionalism. This essay investigates garden narratives as a form of more-than-human life writing which depicts plant–human relations as mutually transformative and reciprocal. I argue that garden narratives pioneer such a rethinking as a win-win scenario. The positive developments garden writers document are consistent with a concept put forward in environmental psychology: transilience. Making reference to five recent western garden narratives I show how plant encounters can help us move towards an emerging environmental culture which emphasises more-than-human embeddedness and embraces symbiotic over competitive relations.

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Human and plant interfaces: relationality, knowledge and practices

Cited by 5 publications

References 20 publications

Producing Anthropological Knowledge in and of Southern Africa: A Case Study of the Anthropology Southern Africa Journal

Producing Anthropological Knowledge in and of Southern Africa: A Case Study of the Anthropology Southern Africa Journal

‘Plant piety’ in question La « piété végétale » en question

Relational Transilience in the Garden: Plant–Human Encounters in More-than-Human Life Narratives

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