Mycorrhizal Movements: A Conversation with Giuliana Furci

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Furci, Giuliana; Mitchell, Elspeth; Vráblíková, Lenka and Zúñiga, Xalli. 2025. Mycorrhizal Movements: A Conversation with Giuliana Furci. philoSOPHIA: A Journal of transContinental Feminism, ISSN 2155-0891 [Article] (In Press)

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In this multifaceted conversation, field mycologist and Fungi Foundation founder Giuliana Furci reflects on the political, ethical, and spiritual dimensions of fungal life. Speaking from decades of grassroots activism and fieldwork, Furci discusses the importance of language, relational ethics, and ancestral knowledge in mycological and ethnomycological research. She shares insights into the development of the world’s first ethnomycological ethical guidelines, the recovery and stewardship of the Historias y Memorias Mazatecas archive, and the role of fungi in deconstructing colonial and anthropocentric epistemologies. Touching on themes of rotting, symbiosis, identity, and the metaphysics of decomposition, Furci offers a visionary account of fungal co-existence, one that foregrounds discipline, reverence, and long-term, multispecies commitment to planetary care.

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This is an author produced version of an article accepted for publication in philoSOPHIA: A Journal of transContinental Feminism made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Keywords:

fungi, mycorrhizal thinking, decolonial feminism, multispecies care, science, gender, ecological epistemologies, mycology, decomposition

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