Subject: Decolonising Plant Knowledge Research Network

Description: The 'colonial Atlantic opening' and its implications for early modern science have been the object of extensive recent research. Links to present-day processes of resistance and adaptation invite a different attention to the voices of ‘subverted plant worlds’ from plantations to exclusive ecological reserves, and from forest gardens to urban migrants' backyard potted plants. Processes of resistance-adaptation defy colonial logics. Critically listening to the diverse imaginaries that plant worlds disclose across space and time can provide elements that help bridge divides, which are both epistemological and political. Our questions intersect in a multifaceted exploration of the colonisation of plant knowledge(s), past and present, focusing on Latin America but not excluding other regions.