Toward a New Way of Being with Plants
Please join Sarah and many others for this online conference to be held June 17 + 18, 2021! 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 >
Doctorate of Social Sciences Research
Information and updates on Sarah’s doctoral research, “An Ethnography of Trees: Sensuous Scholarship on Plant Ontologies and Environmental Empathy.” more >
Upcoming + Recent Tree Talks
Talks based in Sarah’s doctoral research on the sentient relationality of trees, Indigenous research methodologies, public ethnography, plant science, interspecies communication, and philosophies associated with the nonhuman turn. more >
gestures toward Plant Vision
A short filmic meditation by Sarah Abbott inviting consideration of visual perception in vegetal beings. 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 >