The Literary and Cultural Plant Studies Network is part of Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, a network of plant initiatives. Most notably, the network has produced a regular podcast.
Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene is a collaborative initiative that seeks to generate transdisciplinary conversations and education bridging research and action on plant lives and stories, and pursuing respectful relationships with plant beings by advancing an ethics of care. It started as a collaboration between the Consortium of Environmental Philosophers, The Plant Initiative, the Literary and Cultural Plant Studies Network, and the Eternal Forest project.
We believe that the current challenges of the Anthropocene offer a compelling and urgent opportunity to advance a movement for thinking and engaging differently with plants as well as for the need of new and creative allyship and exchange between researchers, practitioners, educators, and activists. Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene is built on a foundation that is respectful of Indigenous and local botanical knowledges, contemporary scientific discoveries, and world philosophies and literatures.
For more information or to join in this initiative, please email networkingwithplants@gmail.com. Steering Committee Members meet in Northern/Southern hemisphere groups and include Meera Baindur, Kate Brelje, Joe Culhane, Marcello DiPaola, Evgenia Emets, Prudence Gibson, Joela Jacobs, Suryatapa Jha, Alice McSherry, Paul Moss, Anna Perdibon, and Deepta Sateesh.