Plant ethics: Knowledge, care, and co-becomings

Abstract

The author calls for plant ethics sensitised to vegetal alterity. She outlines the major positions in the field of environmental ethics, whereby she focuses on the calls to go beyond the extensionist framework. She answers questions about how plants emerge in material-discursive processes and how they are inscribed in biopolitical regimes. She introduces the approaches to plantness that reconsider the plant as a processual (Houle) and open (Pouteu) being. The author appeals for developing plant ethics understood as a knowledge-based ethics of care for the Other entangled in multiple material and embodied co-becomings.