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Plant Perspectives Journal
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Plant Perspectives is a S2O journal in interdisciplinary plant studies exploring plant–human interactions in all spatial, temporal and cultural contexts 🌱

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We've published a new article ahead of print in 'Global Environment', by Sunny Ruchi Ecka on "Mahua: A Lifesaving Famine Food in the Nineteenth Century"; read it #openaccess here: www.doi.org/10.3828/whpg... #envhist #plantstudies @globalenvironment.bsky.social @plantperspectives.bsky.social
January 13, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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Open access article in @plantperspectives.bsky.social - Mangroves as Sacred Forests: Connecting People and Nature, by Sabrina Dookie "..examines the global prevalence of sacred mangrove forests and outlines their benefits across various contexts and paradigms"
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December 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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For the New Year, we're running a SALE of 25% off all books on our site. Use code WHP2026NY on anything listed here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... || Thanks to M. Johnson for painting these aconites, blossoming near Cambridge even in deep midwinter. #envhist #envhum #pastorialism #plantstudies
January 5, 2026 at 11:12 AM
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We've published a new #openaccess article ahead of print in 'Plant Perspectives', in which Sabrina Dookie considers 'Mangroves as Sacred Forests'. You can find it here: www.doi.org/10.3197/whpp... @plantperspectives.bsky.social #mangroves #plantstudies #forests #planthum #envhum
December 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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We've published two new poems online first in 'Plant Perspectives': Pujita Guha, 'the plants to live by' (doi.org/10.3197/WHPP...); and Nicholas Robinette, 'Betula papyrifera' (doi.org/10.3197/WHPP...). Both are #openaccess – enjoy!
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November 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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We've posted a recording of the excellent event 'Plants, Memory, Belonging', co-hosted recently by Oak Spring Garden Foundation and our journal 'Plant Perspectives'. Fascinating presentations and discussion! Check it out here: youtu.be/CssAzff55Q4?... @plantperspectives.bsky.social #planthumanities
Plants, Belonging, Memory
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October 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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This online event is happening tomorrow which means there's still to sign up!

Join us for this inspiring event with Maria Thereza Alves, Jessica Lee, Marcello Di Paola, Goldie Poblador AND a panel discussion on plants, memory, and belonging.

Registration is free via the 🔗 in the post below
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The journal is co-presenting an online event with Oak Spring Garden Foundation on 8th October – 'Plants, Memory belonging'

Join us for some wonderful research on plants by writers, artists, and academics

Register here: www.osgf.org/programs-and... #envhist #envhum #PlantStudies
Poster for the event Plants, Memory Belonging
October 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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We've put a new post up on our blog, in which Maria Kernecker explores how plants can provide a 'way in' to a landscape; the relates to her recently published article in 'Plant Perspectives'. #plantstudies @plantperspectives.bsky.social whitehorsepress.blog/2025/10/07/p...
Plants as a Way In
In this blog, linked to her recently published article in Plant Perspectives, entitled BETWEEN GRAZING AND GATHERING: PLANT KNOWLEDGES, BELONGING AND BECOMING IN THE SWISS ALPS, Maria Kernecker exp…
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October 7, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Very happy that my article on the ackee tree in Jamaica is out! Thanks to @treeseeker.bsky.social and @planthums-uk.bsky.social for editing this excellent special issue.

www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/article/v...
Image of the fruit and seeds of the ackee tree in front of leaves.
October 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Huge thanks to the team at @plantperspectives.bsky.social @whitehorsepress.bsky.social and @sarahwhpress.bsky.social for creating such stunning designs for our special #arborealhumanities issue!
Check out all the beautifully crafted papers, poetry and reviews at whp-journals.co.uk/PP/issue/vie...
October 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Delighted to announce that our special issue of #PlantPerspectives @plantperspectives.bsky.social journal is NOW LIVE 🎊🎉🍾🥂

See:
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Great range of papers, poetry, narrative non-fiction, and book reviews on the #arborealhumanities 🌳

Huge thanks to @planthums-uk.bsky.social
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September 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Happy to have my essay on P.B. Shelley and Wordsworth's 'woodland state' included in the 'Tree Cultures and the Arboreal Humanities' special issue of @plantperspectives.bsky.social, ed. by @treeseeker.bsky.social & @planthums-uk.bsky.social 🌿🌳
Article cover image of a blossoming branch in front of a stack of books
October 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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#PLANTS, #MEMORY, #BELONGING free online event October 8, 2025, 16.00-18.00 GMT. Sponsored by #Oak_Spring_Garden_Foundation & @plantperspectives.bsky.social Featuring: Maria Thereza Alves, Jessica J Lee, Marcello Di Paola, Goldie Poblador. Register: www.osgf.org/programs-and...
September 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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The latest issue is out: Tree Cultures and the Arboreal Humanities, guest edited by @rbgkew.bsky.social's Caroline Cornish & Christina Hourigan

Featuring research articles on arboreal biographies, poetics of place, resistance & more; poetry, and book reviews 🌲🌳

🔗: www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/
September 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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The video recording is now available free of the Plant Initiative webinar Strangers at Home: Plant-Human Migrations: A conversation with Yota Batsaki and Giovanni Aloi, that was held Sep 18, 2025. Topics include invasive plants, plant humanities, and more. youtu.be/TLpmI9sIlJs
Strangers at Home: Plant-Human Migrations - A conversation with Yota Batsaki and Giovanni Aloi
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September 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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'Plant Perspectives' is co-presenting an online event with Oak Spring Garden Foundation on 8th October – 'Plants, Memory belonging'. See attached for updated details; and you can register here: www.osgf.org/programs-and....
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#envhum #plantstudies #envhist
September 17, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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We've published another article online first in 'Plant Perspectives, by Maria Lee Kernecker on 'Between Grazing and Gathering: Plant Knowledges, Belonging and Becoming in the Swiss Alps'; online here: doi.org/10.3197/WHPP... @plantperspectives.bsky.social #envhum #plantstudies
September 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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We've published a new book review online first in 'Plant Perspectives'; Ximena Sevilla reviews Diego Molina's book 'Planting a City in the Tropical Andes: Plants and People in Bogotá, 1880 to 1920'. Read it here: www.doi.org/10.3197/WHPP... @plantperspectives.bsky.social #plantstudies #envhist
Diego Molina, 'Planting a City in the Tropical Andes: Plants and People in Bogotá, 1880 to 1920' | Plant Perspectives
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September 15, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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The journal is co-presenting an online event with Oak Spring Garden Foundation on 8th October – 'Plants, Memory belonging'

Join us for some wonderful research on plants by writers, artists, and academics

Register here: www.osgf.org/programs-and... #envhist #envhum #PlantStudies
Poster for the event Plants, Memory Belonging
September 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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The new issue Vol 2, Issue 1 of the interdisciplinary open access @plantperspectives.bsky.social Plant Perspectives Journal is available for free download, and includes many interesting plant-related articles as well as poetry & reviews. www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/
March 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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#KEW_GARDENS / #WAKEHURST based #POSTDOC #RESEARCH #FELLOWSHIP, 4 yrs, #interdisciplinary applications welcome, deadline 20 April 2025. More: careers.kew.org/vacancy/kew-... @kewgardens.bsky.social @rhulgeography.bsky.social @plantperspectives.bsky.social @natsca.bsky.social
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March 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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We’ve published issue 2.1 of ‘Plant Perspectives’, #openaccess here: www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/issue/vie... #plantstudies @plantperspectives.bsky.social
March 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Very pleased indeed to share the latest issue of Plant Perspectives! Read the full OA issue at www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/

We have research articles on poppies, design and photography (amongst other plants and topics); non-fiction writing & poetry, and book reviews 🌱

#PlantStudies #envhum #envhist
The cover of plant perspectives volume 2, issue 1. The cover image is of the bottom of a large mossy tree trunk and some deliciously chunky exposed tree roots.
March 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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There's still time to sign up for Gifts from the Sentient Forest's session on 'TEA CULTURES OF THE NORTH: Connecting to the Plant Wisdom of the Arctic'.

This online event will be held in collaboration with us(!) and the newly formed International Network for Tea Studies. 🍵🫖
TEA CULTURES OF THE NORTH: Connecting to the Plant Wisdom of the Arctic Wednesday, 19 March 2025, 3–5pm Helsinki Time In collaboration with the International Network for Tea Studies and The White Horse Press On Wednesday, 19th March 2025 at 3pm, the Kone Foundation-supported project Gifts from the Sentient Forest will host a cross-disciplinary discussion of the wild and cultivated tea plants of Northern Europe. Gifts from the forest arrive to us in diverse forms including as wild healing teas gathered across the Northern seasons as part of land-based cultural traditions. This seminar will connect the idea of forest sentience to the detoxification, rejuvenation, and healing of people, plants, and places. With diverse backgrounds in phytochemical research, Indigenous Sámi culture, and natural products design, our speakers will share their knowledge of the curative attributes of angelica, coltsfoot, Labrador tea, nettle, northern sweetgrass, roseroot, willow, and other northern species. This event will be held in collaboration with the newly formed International Network for Tea Studies as well as the new plant humanities journal Plant Perspectives published by The White Horse Press. Åsa Andersson Martti will introduce some of the major spring immunity teas of Sápmi. Martyna Vengrytė will present her research conducted with Lina Raudonė on the medicinal potential of Labrador tea in the Northern Hemisphere. Katja Misikangas will share the wisdom of Arctic herbs based on her family experiences and her work with Arctic Warriors. This free seminar will be offered as part of Gifts from the Sentient Forest with support from the Kone Foundation’s ‘In the Woods’ funding programme. The project aims to understand how recognising the plant world of Northern Finland in contexts other than exploitation can illuminate the ways forests rejuvenate human-nature relationships and sustain the Earth. Please register by sending a brief email to: sentientforestproject@gmail.com
March 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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And another ahead of print on the website: Cole Swanson’s “Among the Drupes (Elegy for a Wasteland)” link to the article in bio 🔗 #envhum #plantstudies
The cover page of Cole Swanson’s article “Among the Drupes (Elegy for a Wasteland)” showing the title, author's name and article DOI. The White Horse Press logo (a small white horsehead) is on the bottom left.
March 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM