In this episode of the Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene Podcast, Kate Brelje interviews Dr. Jon Pitt about his work on critical plant and Japanese studies. For more information about Pitt's work, see his University of California, Irvine profile here: https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile/?facultyId=6691. You can also find him on Twitter by his handle @Jon_L_Pitt. His recently published article on the trees of Hiroshima and Chernobyl, "Documenting Wordless Testimony: Botanical Witnesses of Hiroshima and Chernobyl" appears in Angelaki, which you can find here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0969725X.2023.2233801. Also, you can find out more about his forthcoming translation book of Hiromi Ito's work, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits, complete with ordering information here: https://nightboat.org/book/tree-spirits-grass-spirits/. And finally, his forthcoming chapter on marimo, "Becoming Marimo: The Curious Case of a Charismatic Algae and Imagined Indigeneity" will be in Critical Plant Studies Volume 8 Being Algae (https://brill.com/display/title/68608).
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The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is
Special thanks to steering committee member Joe Culhane for creating the podcast image.
