Sustainable Development Goals

Abstract/Objectives

This study is conducted in Penang as the field site, aiming to explore the effects, phenomena, and characteristics of imagination triggered by human–plant interactions. During the first two years, the research focused on “Plant Imagery of Artists” and “The Wild Imaginings of Humans Living with Plants.” In the subsequent two years, the study expanded to examine alternative plantation imaginaries under the context of plant cultivation and the imaginative relationships between humans and these environments.

Results/Contributions

Regarding the characteristics of plant imagination in Penang, five points are proposed: the regulation of plant sensory experience and memory images, the regulation of labor imagery and life cycles, the techniques for recalling and imagining wild flavors, the alternative plantation imagination as a nurturing system, and the creation of identity through the imagination of plants by the Chinese community in Penang. These five research propositions will serve as focal points and key discussion topics for future ethnographic writing on the imagination of plants in Penang.


Keywords

Imaginary、imagination、image、plant、Penang、attunement、plantation、Plantationocene

Contact Information

洪碧苓
dhss@my.nthu.edu.tw