Critical Perspectives on Plants, Race, and Colonialism: An Introduction

When I learn from plants, I imagine possibilities for rethinking and doing science and law otherwise. I begin to get a feeling for plants and how they offer alternative ways of sensing, relating to, and being responsible in co-becomings with human and more-than-human beings. This learning has been a process. When I began working with and alongside ‡Khomani San peoples over a decade ago, I focused my learning on San struggles in South Africa over the patenting of Hoodia gordonii plants and their knowledge of them. I did not consider what Hoodia succulent plants could teach me.

• Publication year

  2019

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• Publication date

  2019-12-10

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Environmental Science, History

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  DOI 10.28968/cftt.v5i2.32309
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