gestures toward Plant Vision
A short cinematic meditation by Sarah Abbott inviting consideration of perception in vegetal beings. more >
Upcoming / Past Talks + Film Screenings
Talks and interviews based in Sarah’s research involving the sentient relations of trees, sentient ecologies, nonhuman knowing, eco-empathy, public/multispecies ethnography, Indigenous perspectives, plant science, interspecies communication, the climate crisis, and screenings of Sarah’s films. more >
‘Killing’ trees: How true environmental protection requires a revolution in how we talk about, and with, our forests
Sarah’s article in the online magazine The Conversation. more >
Sensory Acts: More Than Human Communication in the Circumpolar North
5-year research project co-led by Alex Oehler, Sarah Abbott and the Aklavik Inuvialuit Hunters and Trappers Committee thanks to funding from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. more >
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 >