Jessica J. Lee: The entangled histories of human and plant migration

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

kaméa chayne

Nature, Alternative Health, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Health & Fitness, Science

4.9 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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What do the terminologies we often use to describe plants reveal about human and human-plant relations? How is the current landscape of the plant world entangled with human histories of desire, power, and imperialism?

Drawing from her experience living across various countries and continents as a third-generation migrant, Jessica J. Lee delves into the nuances of shifting attitudes towards both plant and human migration stories throughout time. Join us as we explore how terms such as “weeds,” “naturalized” or “invasive” are defined and used to describe the plant world, how we might expand our understandings of belonging through recognizing the movement, as well as rootedness, of plants, and more.

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1:10.2	And that's where I think very often that human resonance, that wanting to find a parallel with human stories, it doesn't break down, but it's where I think I really exercise a lot of caution.
1:21.8	Because the more I, you know, sat with the language used to describe plants, I was just reminded of, you know, what we've really seen over the past nearly 10 years of, you know, just this enormous rise in really hateful language to describe people.
1:48.1	Yeah. people. You're listening to Green Dreamer, and I'm your host, Kamehashane.
1:52.9	Today we welcome Jessica J. Lee, a British-Canadian Taiwanese author,
1:58.2	environmental historian, and the author of several books, including two trees
2:03.1	make a forest, dispersals, as well as the children's book, A Garden Called Home. She's also the founding
2:10.4	editor of the Willow Herb Review and teaches creative writing at the University of Cambridge.
2:17.2	You know, I think it's an interesting thing because the more I thought about plants when
2:20.9	thinking about this book, I kept coming back to, I guess that question that I get asked all
2:25.8	the time, right?
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