Susannah Chapman

Susannah Chapman is a lecturer in sociocultural anthropology at University College Cork. Her work explores plant-human relations, food systems, and environmental governance, with a particular focus on the coloniality, biopolitics, and translational practices of efforts to regulate, conserve, and transform plant life in since the late nineteenth century.

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Responsable Rice and the Silent Voices of Life

Theorizing the Contemporary

Responsable Rice and the Silent Voices of Life

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Plant Responsability and the Politics of Vegetal Care: An Introduction

Theorizing the Contemporary

Plant Responsability and the Politics of Vegetal Care: An Introduction

The concept of care has become central to understanding multispecies relations (Puig de la Bellacasa 2017; Mol et al. 2020; Münster et al. 2021). In work on veg... More

Plant Responsability and the Politics of Vegetal Care

Theorizing the Contemporary

Plant Responsability and the Politics of Vegetal Care

The concept of care has become central to work on multispecies relations. In scholarship with vegetal beings, care sometimes involves a situated attunement or e... More