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Recording: September 25th Seminar by CQ Award Winner, Dr. Sarah Elton

October 14, 2020 by ccqhrAdmin

Thank you to everyone who attended this event! The recording is now available on our YouTube channel here.

On Friday, September 25, from 12-1:30 PM, Dr. Sarah Elton presented her doctoral dissertation research in CQ’s first online seminar. There was a 1-hour presentation and moderated discussion, followed by a 30-minute informal chat with the presenter. Dr. Elton is the winner of the 2019-2020 Joan Eakin Award for Methodological Excellence. Read the Awards Announcement here.

Title: Growing Methods: Exploring how to work with plants as research participants in critical qualitative research 

Abstract: Posthumanist research shifts the research lens from the Euro-Western human’s self-appointed status as the earth’s supreme to invite nonhumans – animals and plants – to be the focus of qualitative study. However, it is not straightforward to trouble methodological perspectives that see non-humans as simply backdrop in order to make way for nonhumans like plants and animals in knowledge production.

In this presentation I put forward a qualitative research methodology that helps to see plants as social actors, supporting health in the city. Reporting on my doctoral work I share a multispecies ethnography of gardeners and the plants they grow for food in Toronto’s Regent Park. As a critical qualitative health researcher I wrestle with questions that include – How to account for plants and their agency? What is evidence of vegetal politics? What is a multispecies ethnographer doing when decentering the human in relation to garden plants, beyond what is un-done ontologically?

Cite this page as: CQ. (2020, October 14). Recording: September 25th Seminar by CQ Award Winner, Dr. Sarah Elton. Retrieved from: https://ccqhr.utoronto.ca/2020/10/14/september-25th-seminar-by-cq-award-winner-dr-sarah-elton/.

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