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Upcoming Speakers

  Fall 2020 Virtual Seminar Series

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

Speaker: Dr. Sarah Elton

Date: Friday, September 25, 2020 from 12-1:30 PM

There will be a 1-hour presentation and moderated discussion, followed by a 30-minute informal chat with the presenter.

Register here: Eventbrite

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, August 28). Upcoming Speakers. Retrieved from: https://ccqhr.utoronto.ca/seminars/upcoming-speakers/.

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