ABSTRACT
International in scope, this volume brings together leading and emerging voices working at the intersection of contemporary art, visual culture, activism, and climate change, and addresses key questions, such as: why and how do art and visual culture, and their ethics and values, matter with regard to a world increasingly shaped by climate breakdown?
Foregrounding a decolonial and climate-justice-based approach, this book joins efforts within the environmental humanities in seeking to widen considerations of climate change as it intersects with social, political, and cultural realms. It simultaneously expands the nascent branches of ecocritical art history and visual culture, and builds toward the advancement of a robust and critical interdisciplinarity appropriate to the complex entanglements of climate change.
This book will be of special interest to scholars and practitioners of contemporary art and visual culture, environmental studies, cultural geography, and political ecology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|64 pages
Extractivism
chapter 2|9 pages
In the Frontiers of Amazonia
chapter 3|10 pages
From Tuíra to the Amazon fires
part II|74 pages
Climate Violence
chapter 8|12 pages
The Coming War and the Impossible Art
chapter 11|10 pages
The Perpetual Present, Past, and Future
chapter 12|10 pages
Remembering the Land
chapter 13|10 pages
Multispecies Cinema in Wretched Waters
part III|65 pages
Sensing Climates
part IV|80 pages
In/Visibilities
part V|89 pages
Multispecies Justice
chapter 28|11 pages
“With Applied Creativity, We Can Heal”
chapter 30|10 pages
The Politics and Ecology of Invasive Species
chapter 32|12 pages
Activist Abstraction
part VI|63 pages
Ruptures/Insurgencies/Worldings