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Plant Perspectives is a new forum, grounded in interdisciplinary plant studies, to explore plant–human interactions in all spatial, temporal and cultural contexts. Plants are the central actors here, and the journal encourages new directions in the study of sensory, instrumental and affective entanglements between human and vegetal spheres. Papers will address a wide variety of subjects, including but by no means limited to: horticulture and arboriculture; colonialism and other power asymmetries; medicine, health and care; governance, rights and ethics; art and literature; film and media; heritage and leisure; traditional ecological knowledge; conservation and environmental change; and scientific communication. Taking ‘environmental humanities’ as its foundation, the journal warmly invites contributions from those working in academic disciplines such as anthropology, geography, history, literary studies, philosophy and social sciences; from those whose work transcends traditional disciplinary classifications or extends towards the natural sciences; and from those outside the academy, for example garden and forest practitioners, artists, creative writers and activists. Rigorous standards of double-anonymous peer review will apply to research articles, but the journal will also have sections showcasing a range of non-traditional forms (interviews, narrative fiction and non-fiction, poetry, visual and multimedia essays), subject to appropriate processes of evaluation. Plant Perspectives will thus be a place where the paths of different discourses cross and their branches intertwine, where scholars and practitioners with an interest in plants can develop and hone new thinking and where – crucially – the plant itself is always centre stage.
The journal publishes both double blind peer reviewed papers and invited material. Special Issue proposals are welcome and should be directed to the Editor.Papers should be submitted using our ONLINE SUBMISSION SYSTEM.
Plant Perspectives is conceived as open access. For this year, we are seeking to cover the journal's production costs without charging author fees through a Subscribe-to-Open offer.
If our preferred S2O model does not prove financially sustainable for the journal, APCs might apply in future; in the event that APCs are introduced later, a waiver scheme will be available.
From 2026 a suggested production fee of £5000 will apply to Special Issues, in order to support keeping the journal fee-free for individual authors in regular issues. It is hoped that this fee can be covered through the institutional backing of SI editors and contributors. Waivers / reductions for individual SI editors and contributors can be discussed if necessary.
Keeping PP Open Access with no author fees means we need to raise enough funds each year to cover the journal’s production costs. If you'd like to see this new forum for interdisciplinary plant studies continue to be published on a freely accessible basis, there are a few ways you can help.
The journal embeds principles of inclusion and diversity, manifested in the editorial board, peer review policies and the Diamond Open Access model, which involves no fees to either readers or contributors. The White Horse Press is committed to the fair treatment of all authors, editors and reviewers, and particularly concerned to support Early Career Researchers. Our goal is to forge lasting relationships, based on mutual respect and civility. Plant Perspectives adheres to the publication standards and ethics shared by all White Horse Press publications. The submission process will request multi-authored papers to attach a statement of how the work was divided between the authors and how the order of authors has been decided. It is important to foster communication between academic communities in different regions and working in different languages. The journal will welcome contributions first published in languages other than English and WHP will offer support in honing the English.
Clare Hickman Reader, Environmental and Medical History, Newcastle University
Historic gardens and landscapes; past botanic collecting and collections; cultural histories of natural spaces and plants that have been classed as having therapeutic properties
Diego Molina British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Environmental History and Historical Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London
Plant-human interactions in Latin America; environmental history of plants and botanical science (e.g. travellers, scientific representation of plants, botany and power); plants in cities (especially in the tropics); photography and plants
Niall A. Peach Assistant Professor, Latin American Studies, University of Cincinnati
Vegetal–human entanglements in Mexico and the Caribbean: Rural and watery spaces, agribiopolitics and plants ('garden' sites); Blackness, Indigeneity, and environment: belonging and alternative reworlding with plants.
Jon Pitt East Asian Studies Department, University of California, Irvine
Entanglements of plant life and various forms of literature: fiction, poetry, SF, horror, nature writing, etc.; film (narrative, documentary, experimental) and sound media; East Asia
Mardi Reardon-Smith Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ADM+S Centre, Monash University
Environmental anthropology and science and technology studies (STS); invasive plant species; traditional knowledges of biological resources; environmental management; political ecology
Laura Pustarfi Lecturer, Philosophy and Religion, California Institute of Integral Studies
Trees; Continental philosophy; ethics; psychedelic plants
Mariko O. Thomas Teaching Professor, Environmental Communication, Skagit Valley College
More-than-human communication; plant storytelling; human-plant relationships; ecocultural identity; magic and mythology; environmental justice
Kathryn Van Wert Associate Professor, English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies, University of Minnesota Duluth
Literary representations of human-plant relationships from the modernist period forward; ecopoetics; vegetal alterity; plants as teachers
Rachel Zollinger Assistant Professor, Art Education, University of New Mexico
Place and plant pedagogies; plants as metaphors, collaborators, and symbionts; art-based methodologies and plants
Subarna De Lecturer, Anglophone Cultures, Tallinn University
Kristan M. Hanson 2026/2027 Vermont Community Fellow, Art History and Plant Humanities, Vermont Folklife
Prudence Gibson Senior Lecturer, Arts, Design, and Architecture, University of New South Wales
Kristina Van Dexter Forest Futurities
Goutam Majhi Assistant Professor, English, Sadhan Chandra Mahavidyalaya (affiliated with the University of Calcutta)
Caroline Kreysel PhD Student, Environmental History, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
John C. Ryan Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Nulungu Institute, University of Notre Dame Australia
ISSN: 2753-3603 (Online, OPEN ACCESS)
TOP BANNER (left to right): Diego Delso, Cemetery, Tulcán (Ecuador) CC BY-SA; Ben Luxworth at Adaptalux, Leaf; Wikimedia Commons, Kassel Mandragora; BOTTOM BANNER: Richard Turner, Kew Gardens, CC BY-SA; BODY: Amitabha Ghosh via PG Click, Village children playing; SIDEBAR: Wild Flowers of New York , Wikimedia Commons.
