Storying Plant Communication: More-than-Human Relationships in New Mexico

This beautifully written, transportive book breaks the spell of plant blindness and the overarching spell of anthropocentrism from which it came. The work gives readers insights and offerings into ways of immersively and relationally being in the world - through the eloquence of the authors themselves, the interweaving of fascinating research across disciplines, the stories shared by those who continue to care for, and be cared for by, plants as kin, and guided reflection on how we perceive, communicate with, and reunite with the green world. * Tema Milstein, Professor of Environment and Society, University of New South Wales, Australia * Storying Plant Communication makes an important contribution to the growing environmental and internatural communication literature. Through engaging prose woven together with multidisciplinary literatures, the authors address the critical question of how we know, understand, and communicate our relationship with plants. That the Land of Enchantment provides the context for their investigation makes the story even more compelling. * Emily Plec, Professor of Communication, Western Oregon University, USA * What is a story but a long thread, almost invisible, weaving the wonders of our daily delight that emerges by disrupting the values, beliefs, and actions that constrain the performances of convivial ecocultural identities. Within the pluriverse of species, the stories in Storying Plant Communication are the poetic vibrations that register the nurturing spaces of co-creation between plants and us. The authors’ voices are woven in colors and textures, like a quilt. They have inspired me to find my own story. * José Castro-Sotomayor, Associate Professor of Environmental Communication, California State University Channel Islands, USA, and Co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity (2020) and Intersectional Activism in Environmental Communication (2025) *