Storying Plant Communication

Mariko Oyama Thomas is Interdisciplinary Scholar and Teaching Faculty at Skagit Valley College, USA. She holds a PhD in Environmental Communication from the University of New Mexico and is also Co-Founder of the arts and ecology collaborative Submergence Collective.Melissa M. Parks is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and the Environmental Humanities Program at the University of Utah and Associate Director of the Taft-Nicholson Center for Environmental Humanities Education in Centennial Valley, Montana, USA.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Lessons in Cross-PollinationChapter 1. World-Makers: A Case for Stories in the Study of Plant CommunicationChapter 2. Storying Place and Plants: Care-Based Practices for Plant Relations-in-PlaceChapter 3. Germination: Cotyledon Kin and CommunityChapter 4. Learning and Teaching with the Plant WorldChapter 5. The Southwest Whispers: Commune and Plant-TalkConclusion. Toward Theories of Plant Communication: Notes for Narrating the FutureAbout the Authors

This beautifully written, transportive book breaks the spell of plant blindness and the overarching spell of anthropocentrism from which it came. The work gives readers insights and offerings into ways of immersively and relationally being in the world - through the eloquence of the authors themselves, the interweaving of fascinating research across disciplines, the stories shared by those who continue to care for, and be cared for by, plants as kin, and guided reflection on how we perceive, communicate with, and reunite with the green world.