Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology

While ecology has received little systematic attention within art history, its visibility and significance has grown in relation to the threats of climate change and environmental destruction. By engaging artists widespread aesthetic and political engagement with environmental conditions and processes around the globe and looking at cutting-edge theoretical, political, and cultural developments in the Global South and North Decolonizing Nature offers a significant, original contribution to the intersecting fields of art history, ecology, visual culture, geography, and environmental politics. Art historian T. J. Demos, author of Return to the Postcolony: Specters of Colonialism in Contemporary Art (2013), considers the creative proposals of artists and activists for ways of life that bring together ecological sustainability, climate justice, and radical democracy, at a time when such creative proposals are urgently needed.

• Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies
• Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today
• Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene
• Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West
• Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures)
• Art & Ecology Now
• The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
• Parable of the Sower (Earthseed)
• Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime
• Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)