Global More-than-Human Histories of Palms

EDITORIAL
Palm Readings: More-Than-Human Tropical Histories Sophie Chao, Pilar Egüez Guevara, Jayson Maurice Porter

MOBILITIES, DIASPORAS, AND TRANSLOCAL ECOLOGIES
A Perspective on the Historical Role and Future of Bactris Gasipaes as a Food Crop Javier Carrera

Transatlantic Ecologies of the African Oil Palm: Photo-Poetic Explorations of the Intimacies of Diaspora Gbenga Adesina, Case Watkins

Planting Power: Visual Cultures of the Philippine Coconut Cropscape Theresa Ventura

PALMS AS WORLD-MAKERS BEYOND COMMODITY HISTORIES
Cooking and Playing with the Chonta Palm Vanessa Villegas Solórzano

Ephemeral and Territorialised Oil Palm Trees Rosa Cavalcanti Ribas Vieira

ENCLOSURE, EXTRACTION AND UNEQUAL CARE
Palms of Progress: A Longer View of Pahang’s Oil Palms Alice Rudge

Women Workers and Bodily Dispossessions in Indonesia’s Oil Palm Plantations Perdana P. Roswaldy

‘Oil Palm Has Godfathers; Coconut Doesn’t Have Mourners’: The Racialised Politics of Plant Health and Pest Control in Tumaco, Colombia Andrés Caicedo

ARCHIVES, MEMORY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL FUTURES
The Role of Palm-Leaf Manuscripts in the Preservation of Traditional Siddha Medicine in Tamil Nadu, South India Shruthi Kumar

Uses of Native and Exotic Palms in Ecological Restoration: Lessons From the Mashpi Shungo Reserve, Ecuador (2009–2024) Alejandro Solano-Ugalde, Pilar Egüez Guevara, Agustina Arcos-Torres

POETRY
‘La Chucula’ Paolo Realpe Mina

BOOK REVIEWS
Andrés León Araya, The Coup and the Palm Trees: Agrarian Conflict and Political Power in Honduras Christopher Loperena

EDITORIAL
Plants in Places John Charles Ryan

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Media Ecologies and Transcendent Technology in Richard Powers’s ‘The Overstory’ Thomas Storey

Jacaranda Trees, Place and Affect: An Analysis of Australian Newspaper Articles, 1900–2023 Elizabeth Oriel

Entangled Genealogies: Mulberries, Production of Racial Categories, and Land Development in Central Virginia Alissa Ujie Diamond

Chicanx Cannabis Relationships: Cultural and Political Histories of Cannabis Resistance Magaly Ordoñez

Secularise to Conserve. The History of the Wax Palm in Colombia Diego Molina

Pondering with Örö Pines – Talking with Trees as an Undisciplinary Method Annette Arlander

POETRY
Betula Papyrifera Nicholas Robinette

the plants to live by Pujita Guha

BOOK REVIEWS
Amitav Ghosh, Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories Heather Martin

Diego Molina, Planting a City in the Tropical Andes: Plants and People in Bogotá, 1880 to 1920 Ximena Sevilla

Tree Cultures and the Arboreal Humanities

INTRODUCTION
Introduction: Tree Cultures and the Arboreal Humanities Caroline Cornish, Christina Hourigan

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Tree Biographies and the Cultural History of Place at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew* Christina Hourigan

Beatrix Potter and the ‘Timber Question’: Arboreal Stewardship in the English Lake District Anna Burton

Shelley’s Arboreal Poetics of Place and Wordsworth’s ‘Woodland State’ Amanda Blake Davis

Amherstia Nobilis: High priest of the Vegetable World Kate Teltscher

The Absence of the Ackee Tree: Jamaican Botanical Resistance and Kew’s Colonial Archive Heather Craddock

Un-cultivation in America: Discourses of Wild and Foraged Apples Maria Kennedy

Where on Earth are the Moon Trees? Melanie Ford, Eric A. Macdonald

POETRY
‘Let Us … Have a Look at the Glorious Old Yew Once Again’: Eliza Cook, Yew Trees and Intertemporal Legacies Shani Cadwallender

The Tree You Want Dean Anthony Brink

BOOK REVIEWS
Sumana Roy, How I Became a Tree Shruti Jain

Daniel Lewis, Twelve Trees: And What They Tell Us About Our Past, Present and Future Natasha Heller

M.L. Herring, Born of Fire and Rain: Journey into a Pacific Coastal Forest Mika Hyman