Tracing the digital plant humanities: Narratives of botanical life and human-flora relations

Authors

Paul Longley Arthur, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
John Charles Ryan

Author Identifier

Paul Arthur: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1494-0533

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Title

Future Humanities

Publisher

Wiley

School

School of Arts and Humanities

RAS ID

76467

Funders

Kone Foundation

Comments

Arthur, P. L., & Ryan, J. C. (2024). Tracing the Digital Plant Humanities: Narratives of Botanical Life and Human‐Flora Relations. Future Humanities, 2(3). https://doi.org/10.1002/fhu2.15

Abstract

In this paper, we trace the emergence of what we term the digital plant humanities (DPH) as an evolution of burgeoning botanical interest among environmental and digital humanists. We argue that DPH coalesces the theoretical and methodological frameworks of the three research areas of plant humanities, environmental humanities, and digital humanities. After conceptualising DPH, we analyse three projects representative of the emergent field—the Native American Ethnobotany Database; Herbaria 3.0; and Microcosms: A Homage to Sacred Plants of America—while referring to a broader range of formative projects including the Plant Humanities Lab.

DOI

10.1002/fhu2.15

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