Project overview
The project engages with contemporary feminist and queer questions of care, healing and the ‘more-than-human’ dimensions within community practices.
It extends Dr Brebenel’s previous critical research on post communism and artistic practice from former socialist Eastern Europe and the Baltic region, by focusing on examples of healing and care.
It investigates historical Socialist visions of the environment, science, and the use of alternative medicines and sets these in conversation with recent global queer and feminist practices of care, which revive herbalism as a community practice.
It further positions itself within a larger conversation in critical posthumanist studies and more specifically, within a section of this discourse, that of plant studies.
It extends Dr Brebenel’s previous critical research on post communism and artistic practice from former socialist Eastern Europe and the Baltic region, by focusing on examples of healing and care.
It investigates historical Socialist visions of the environment, science, and the use of alternative medicines and sets these in conversation with recent global queer and feminist practices of care, which revive herbalism as a community practice.
It further positions itself within a larger conversation in critical posthumanist studies and more specifically, within a section of this discourse, that of plant studies.
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