Caribbean Eco-Aesthetics - Strategies of Survival Through Contemporary Art

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.

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Kate King Keohane
• Assisted by: Kate Keohane (Editor), Daniella Rose King (Editor), Giulia Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 24.02.2026
• EAN: 9781526179890
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-7989-0
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Rethinking Art's Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Theory of art, NATURE / Ecology, ART / Caribbean & Latin American, Caribbean islands, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Relating to people of the Caribbean diasporas / heritage, ART / History / 20th & 21st Century