{"id":4794,"date":"2024-01-10T14:49:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T14:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/?page_id=4794"},"modified":"2026-02-25T10:13:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:13:06","slug":"plant-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/journals\/plant-perspectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant Perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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PP Vol. 3 (2), October 2026<\/a><\/h4>\n
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Global More-than-Human Histories of Palms<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

EDITORIAL
Palm Readings: More-Than-Human Tropical Histories<\/a> Sophie Chao, Pilar Eg\u00fcez Guevara, Jayson Maurice Porter<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Transatlantic Ecologies of the African Oil Palm: Photo-Poetic Explorations of the Intimacies of Diaspora<\/a> Gbenga Adesina, Case Watkins

Planting Power: Visual Cultures of the Philippine Coconut Cropscape<\/a> Theresa Ventura<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PALMS AS WORLD-MAKERS BEYOND COMMODITY HISTORIES
Cooking and Playing with the Chonta Palm<\/a> Vanessa Villegas Sol\u00f3rzano

Ephemeral and Territorialised Oil Palm Trees<\/a> Rosa Cavalcanti Ribas Vieira<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ENCLOSURE, EXTRACTION AND UNEQUAL CARE
Palms of Progress: A Longer View of Pahang\u2019s Oil Palms<\/a> Alice Rudge

Women Workers and Bodily Dispossessions in Indonesia\u2019s Oil Palm Plantations<\/a> Perdana P. Roswaldy

\u2018Oil Palm Has Godfathers; Coconut Doesn’t Have Mourners\u2019: The Racialised Politics of Plant Health and Pest Control in Tumaco, Colombia<\/a> Andr\u00e9s Caicedo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Uses of Native and Exotic Palms in Ecological Restoration: Lessons From the Mashpi Shungo Reserve, Ecuador (2009\u20132024)<\/a> Alejandro Solano-Ugalde, Pilar Eg\u00fcez Guevara, Agustina Arcos-Torres<\/p>\n\n\n\n

POETRY
\u2018La Chucula\u2019<\/a> Paolo Realpe Mina<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BOOK REVIEWS
Andr\u00e9s Le\u00f3n Araya, The Coup and the Palm Trees: Agrarian Conflict and Political Power in Honduras<\/em><\/a> Christopher Loperena<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

PP Vol.3 (1), March 2026<\/a><\/h4>\n
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EDITORIAL
Plants in Places<\/a>\u00a0John Charles Ryan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Media Ecologies and Transcendent Technology in Richard Powers\u2019s ‘The Overstory’<\/a> Thomas Storey

Jacaranda Trees, Place and Affect: An Analysis of Australian Newspaper Articles, 1900\u20132023<\/a> Elizabeth Oriel

Entangled Genealogies: Mulberries, Production of Racial Categories, and Land Development in Central Virginia<\/a> Alissa Ujie Diamond

Chicanx Cannabis Relationships: Cultural and Political Histories of Cannabis Resistance<\/a> Magaly Ordo\u00f1ez

Secularise to Conserve. The History of the Wax Palm in Colombia<\/a> Diego Molina

Pondering with \u00d6r\u00f6 Pines \u2013 Talking with Trees as an Undisciplinary Method<\/a> Annette Arlander<\/p>\n\n\n\n

POETRY
Betula Papyrifera<\/a> Nicholas Robinette

the plants to live by<\/a> Pujita Guha<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BOOK REVIEWS
Amitav Ghosh, Smoke and Ashes: Opium\u2019s Hidden Histories<\/em><\/a> Heather Martin

Diego Molina, Planting a City in the Tropical Andes: Plants and People in Bogot\u00e1, 1880 to 1920<\/em><\/a> Ximena Sevilla<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PP Vol.2 (2), October 2025<\/a><\/h4>\n
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Tree Cultures and the Arboreal Humanities<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

INTRODUCTION
Introduction: Tree Cultures and the Arboreal Humanities<\/a> Caroline Cornish, Christina Hourigan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Tree Biographies and the Cultural History of Place at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew*<\/a> Christina Hourigan

Beatrix Potter and the ‘Timber Question’: Arboreal Stewardship in the English Lake District<\/a> Anna Burton

Shelley\u2019s Arboreal Poetics of Place and Wordsworth\u2019s \u2018Woodland State\u2019<\/a> Amanda Blake Davis

Amherstia Nobilis: High priest of the Vegetable World<\/a> Kate Teltscher

The Absence of the Ackee Tree: Jamaican Botanical Resistance and Kew\u2019s Colonial Archive<\/a> Heather Craddock

Un-cultivation in America: Discourses of Wild and Foraged Apples<\/a> Maria Kennedy

Where on Earth are the Moon Trees?<\/a> Melanie Ford, Eric A. Macdonald<\/p>\n\n\n\n

POETRY
\u2018Let Us … Have a Look at the Glorious Old Yew Once Again\u2019: Eliza Cook, Yew Trees and Intertemporal Legacies<\/a> Shani Cadwallender

The Tree You Want<\/a> Dean Anthony Brink<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BOOK REVIEWS
Sumana Roy, How I Became a Tree<\/em><\/a> Shruti Jain

Daniel Lewis, Twelve Trees: And What They Tell Us About Our Past, Present and Future<\/em><\/a> Natasha Heller

M.L. Herring, Born of Fire and Rain: Journey into a Pacific Coastal Forest<\/em><\/a> Mika Hyman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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