Termed the Edibility Approach, this method foregrounds the ways that plants influence human bodies as a result of their edibility and considers the corollary processes that occur during ingestion and after digestion. Whatmore 2002 Head et al., 2012) multi-species (Kirksey and Helmreich 2010) framework that rejects reductionist methods in favour of a relational, materialities approach an alternative method to consider plant/human-animal relationships that focuses on edibility and the consequences of ingestion is proposed. “The Edibility Approach”: Using Edibility to Explore Relationships, Plant Agency and the Porosity of Species’ BoundariesĮdibility, New Materialities, Plant Agency, Species Boundaries, More Than HumanĪBSTRACT: In light of correspondence between interdisciplinary representations of plant abilities, this paper raises questions about plant/human-animal relationships and in so doing problematizes the category/species boundaries that both establish and characterize the differences between plant and animal. Durham and London: Duke University Press. Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning.
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