Tracing the Digital Plant Humanities: Narratives of Botanical Life and
Human-Flora Relations
Abstract
In this paper, we trace the emergence of what we term the digital
plant humanities—abbreviated as DPH throughout—as an evolution of
burgeoning botanical interest among environmental and digital humanists.
We argue that DPH coalesces the theoretical and methodological
frameworks of the three research areas of plant humanities,
environmental humanities, and digital humanities. After conceptualising
DPH, we analyse three projects representative of the emergent
field—the Native American Ethnobotany Database; Herbaria 3.0; and
Microcosms: A Homage to Sacred Plants of America—while referring to a
broader range of formative projects including the Plant Humanities Lab.