Plant Geographies

Abstract

How have plants and our relations with them changed through space and time? How do we understand plants in the context of contemporary environmental change? How are geographers attempting to center plants in their analysis? In this chapter on plant geographies, we examine these questions by considering the place of plants in geographical analysis. Although geographers have long studied plants, they are not often central concerns within human geography. Starting with an example of wheat, we illustrate different modes of attending to plants in associations with and without the human, in the context of rapid environmental change, and in ways which have challenged the conceptual frames of geogra..