The University of Arizona Press
Date: Thursday, May 8, 2025
Time: 12 p.m., EDT
Where: North Carolina Botanical Garden, 100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC
, editor of Embodying Biodiversity: Sensory Conservation as Refuge and Sovereignty, will speak on “Embodying Biodiversity, Re-storying Conservation: Tending in Times of Unraveling,” at the North Carolina Botanical Garden. The vast majority of biodiversity conservation worldwide is carried out not by large-scale initiatives but by ordinary people who cultivate sensory-motivated, place-based bonds with specific plants. This talk delves into the power of everyday forms of biodiversity conservation, motivated by sensory and embodied engagement with plants. Gagnon is an environmental and political anthropologist. She is a postdoctoral fellow at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with the Bringing Southeast Asia Home Initiative.
This hybrid in-person and virtual event is free and open to the public, but space is limited so register here.
About the book:
Harnessing a myriad of methodologies and research spanning multiple continents, Embodying Biodiversity delves into the power of everyday forms of biodiversity conservation, motivated by sensory and embodied engagement with plants. Through an array of interdisciplinary contributions, the authors argue that the vast majority of biodiversity conservation worldwide is carried out not by large-scale, hierarchical initiatives but by ordinary people who cultivate sensory-motivated, place-based bonds with plants.
Acknowledging the monumental role of everyday champions in tending biodiversity, the contributors write that this caretaking is crucial to countering ecological harm and global injustice stemming from colonial violence and racial capitalism.
