Julyan Marq Levy

Julyan Levy is currently researching the role of plant agency in the emergence of alternative economies. Firstly, exploring the concept of plant agency and its significant in shaping today’s world. Then asking what are the links between plant agency and alternative economies and could a more attentive relationship with plants have a transformative and positive impact on the polycrisis we find ourselves entangled in? 

Julyan aims to bring focus to the decolonisation of the human-plant relationship - drawing on Western scientific epistemology through a more-than-human, multi species lens alongside indigenous ontologies that recognise indigenous peoples kinship with plants.

Julyan Levy is a qualified chef and humanities secondary school teacher. He is a drug reform activist and member of the Green Party Drugs Policy working group. His undergraduate anthropology dissertation, a mini-ethnography of low-impact intentional communities, was published in a Routledge environmental volume in 2019. His masters dissertation was a multispecies ethnography of the human-cannabis relationship.

Anthropology, ethnography, human geography and more-than-human ontologies.