Writing

See more details about the volume, The Wisdom of Trees: Thinking Through Arboreality, edited by David Macauley and Laura Pustarfi, forthcoming from SUNY Press in June, 2025.

Laura PustarfiJanuary 5, 2025treesComment

Arboreality and the Ethics of Standing in Place in The Vegetal Turn

My chapter, “Arboreality and the Ethics of Standing in Place” has been published in the volume The Vegetal Turn: History, Concepts, Applications, edited by Marcello Di Paola, Springer, 2024.

Laura PustarfiDecember 30, 2024trees, vegetal turn, place-based rightsComment

Forthcoming Chapter in The Vegetal Turn: History, Concepts, Applications

My chapter, “Arboreality and the Ethics of Standing in Place” is forthcoming in the volume The Vegetal Turn: History, Concepts, Applications edited by Marcello Di Paola, forthcoming from Springer on December 8, 2024. Please stay in touch for updates.

Laura PustarfiSeptember 26, 2024trees, vegetal turn, place-based rightsComment

Forthcoming Volume - The Wisdom of Trees: Thinking Through Arboreality

The volume, The Wisdom of Trees: Thinking Through Arboreality, edited by David Macauley and Laura Pustarfi, is forthcoming from SUNY Press in 2025. Please stay in touch for updates.

Laura PustarfiJune 2, 2024treesComment

A Dendrochronological Phenomenology

This presentation investigates trees and time from a phenomenological and ecofeminist perspective.

Laura PustarfiMarch 24, 2024trees, dendrochronology, time, phenomenologyComment

Toward an Arboreal Ethic of Place

In this essay, I address rights for trees, specifically proposing that trees may have a right to place based on the work of phenomenologist Edward S. Casey.

Laura PustarfiJune 30, 2023trees, rights, place-based rightsComment

Why Trees and People Form Mutually Beneficial Relationships

A thoughtful, eye-opening discussion of the scope of plant-human interactions.

Laura PustarfiFebruary 2, 2023trees, intelligence, interview

In The Company Of The Forest

This short, imaginative piece was written for the International Trees Foundation for their Trees Journal Issue 78. I am thrilled to support this organization protecting trees in the United Kingdom and Africa.

Laura PustarfiFebruary 15, 2022trees, arboreality, personhoodComment

A Place for Trees: Toward Arboreal Rights

In this essay, I will address rights for trees, specifically proposing that trees may have a right to place based on the work of phenomenologist Edward S. Casey.

Laura PustarfiJuly 11, 2021trees, rights, place-based rightsComment

Arboreality and the Ethics of Standing in Place

This paper was part of a panel at the International Association for Environmental Philosophy, delivered on October 10, 2020.

Laura PustarfiDecember 31, 2020arboreality, ethics, trees, forestsComment

Arboreality: Revisioning Trees in the Western Paradigm

A sample of my completed dissertation, Arboreality: Revisioning Trees in the Western Paradigm, is available to view on ProQuest.

Laura PustarfiFebruary 9, 2020arboreality, trees, dissertationComment

Into a Quiet Within: Reflections on Arboreal Phenomenology

Reconsidering arboreal phenomenology has implications for our human relationships to trees and forests, both personal and societal. Read my essay, published by The Side View, here.

Laura PustarfiJuly 17, 2019trees, forest, phenomenologyComment