Tree Knowing: Ethnographic Encounters, Sensuous Scholarship, Relational Ontologies, and Environmental Empathy
Abstract and open access link to Dr. Sarah Abbott’s Doctorate of Social Sciences dissertation. more >
Toward a New Way of Being with Plants
Talks by Sarah and many other plant-forward speakers for this June 2021 online conference are freely available online. more >
“Approaching Nonhuman Ontologies: Trees, Communication, and Qualitative Inquiry”
Sarah’s first academic journal article, published in Qualitative Inquiry and available to the public as open access through Sage Choice. more >
“If a Tree Falls… Perspectives on Sentience”
Sarah Abbott and Simon Leadbeater’s co-authored chapter, “If a Tree Falls… Perspectives on Sentience,” published in Evolving the Forest, edited by Richard Povall, Simon Lloyd & Jeremy Ralph. more >
“Filming with Nonhumans”
Sarah’s first solo book chapter, “Filming with Nonhumans,” published in editor Phillip Vannini’s The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video. more >
Field Trip: Changing the Climate
A public online event and video featuring students sharing some of their work from Sarah’s multidisciplinary Winter 2020 class dedicated to climate change at the University of Regina. more >
“Academics Writing for a Broader Public Audience”
Sarah Abbott and Philip Vannini’s co-written chapter published in editor Patricia Leavy’s The Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship. more >
Website Growing
Sarah’s website continues to be expanded with new and older content added and updated. more >
This Time Last Winter: The Making Of
Watch the film: The behind-the-scenes production story of This Time Last Winter: The Making Of includes commentary from the director, producer, actors, students, and professional crew along with footage taken during the filming of This Time Last Winter. more >
“After the Fine Cut: Disseminating Video-based Research”
Sarah Abbott and Phillip Vannini’s co-written book chapter “After the Fine Cut: Disseminating Video-based Research” in The Craft of Qualitative Research: A Handbook, edited by Steven W. Kleinknecht, Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott, and Carrie B. Sanders. more >