The Arts
Caribbean eco-aesthetics
Strategies of survival through contemporary art
by Kate Keohane, Daniella Rose King, Giulia Smith
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This edited volume reframes the Caribbean as a paradigm of ecological resilience and creativity by bringing together the voices of contemporary artists and scholars who are at the forefront of environmental activism in the region and across its diasporas. While dominant narratives percolating from the environmental sciences to the mainstream press present the Caribbean as a frontier of planetary disaster, the contributors to this volume show how the region offers radical models for overcoming the environmental challenges of the present. At the heart of this argument lies the history of the Caribbean as a centre for grassroots forms of anti-colonial and anti-capitalist resistance founded upon nature-centred cosmologies and practices. Caribbean Eco-Aesthetics shows how contemporary artists are mobilising this radical heritage in a bid to unlock alternative planetary futures.
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Caribbean eco-aesthetics considers the ways in which contemporary artists with Caribbean heritage are working to redress the ecological damage inflicted during centuries of colonial and neo-colonial exploitation by appealing to cultural lineages that trouble capitalist conceptions of progress and sustainability. In offering these grassroots models of ecological action as an entry point into the intersecting fields of Caribbean and environmental studies, this edited volume redefines the terms of a largely catastrophic discourse through the lens of hope, resilience, and creativity. By privileging the work of artists and activists who are confronting the environmental violence of empire, whilst also engaging anti-colonial forms of ecological insurgence, we seek to reposition the transnational Caribbean as a zone from which to imagine and actualise planetary futures beyond the ecocide logic of capitalist accumulation.
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Caribbean eco-aesthetics considers the ways in which contemporary artists with Caribbean heritage are working to redress the ecological damage inflicted during centuries of colonial and neo-colonial exploitation by appealing to cultural lineages that trouble capitalist conceptions of progress and sustainability. In offering these grassroots models of ecological action as an entry point into the intersecting fields of Caribbean and environmental studies, this edited volume redefines the terms of a largely catastrophic discourse through the lens of hope, resilience, and creativity. By privileging the work of artists and activists who are confronting the environmental violence of empire, whilst also engaging anti-colonial forms of ecological insurgence, we seek to reposition the transnational Caribbean as a zone from which to imagine and actualise planetary futures beyond the ecocide logic of capitalist accumulation.
Author Biography
Kate Keohane is Career Development Fellow in Art History and Wellbeing, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford Daniella Rose King is a curator, writer and Lead Curator, Collections Galleries at Wellcome Collection Giulia Smith is an art historian, curator and Senior Tutor in Contemporary Art History and Theory at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date February 2026
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781526179890 / 152617989X
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPrint PDF
- Pages312
- ReadershipGeneral/trade; College/higher education; Professional and scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions234 X 156 mm
- Biblio NotesDerived from Proprietary 6233
- SeriesRethinking Art's Histories
- Reference Code16514
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