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.
Edited by:
Kate Keohane,
Daniella Rose King,
Giulia Smith
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 777g
ISBN: 9781526179890
ISBN 10: 152617989X
Series: Rethinking Art's Histories
Pages: 318
Publication Date: 24 February 2026
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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ELT Advanced
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Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction — Kate Keohane, Daniella Rose King, Giulia Smith Part I: Caribbean livingness 1 Hurricane praxis: visual conversations about hurricanes and climate change in the Caribbean — Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert 2 Between the stars, the sea and the soil: ecological poetics in art of the Caribbean and its diasporas — Daniella Rose King 3 Earthkin precarious and heroic: La Vaughn Belle’s Crucian ancient futures — Genevieve Hyacinthe 4 Offshore imaginations: Nadia Huggins and Kimberly Palmer in conversation — Nadia Huggins and Kimberly Palmer Part II: Sacred spaces 5 The sacred undersea in Caribbean eco-aesthetics — Mimi Sheller 6 I, Ixora — Andil Gosine 7 Antonius Roberts: sacred spaces — Giulia Smith Part III: Extraction and repair 8 Ecologic entanglements: artistic interventions in the Plantationocene — Annalee Davis and Kate Keohane 9 Sonia E. Barrett’s bodies of evidence — Catherine Spencer 10 All that grounds us — Diana McCaulay Part IV: Art ecologies 11 Visualising the Capitalocene and creating a planetary art world from an artist atelier in Santo Domingo — Carlos Garrido Castellano 12 Rhizomatic research and curatorial ecologies in Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados — Natalie McGuire 13 The geography of production: a conversation between Tatiana Flores and Christopher Cozier — Christopher Cozier and Tatiana Flores -- .
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.
