Living with Plants: Hilal Alkan speaks with Laurens Schlicht about Care, Migration, and Multispecies Relations

The conversation centres on the multifaceted relations of care that
connect humans and plants in contexts of migration. Hilal Alkan is
particularly interested in practices of “emplacement” – that is,
how people situate themselves in new places and come to feel at
home. As part of her research, Hilal Alkan visited people in their
homes and gardens and invited them to show her their plants. Her
interlocutors spoke about where the plants came from, how they were
cared for, and what stories and memories were connected to them. In
the conversation, Hilal Alkan also describes this method as
“plant-prompted life story collection”