Caribbean eco-aesthetics

Strategies of survival through contemporary art

Kate Keohane, Daniella Rose King, Giulia Smith

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2026
• Print ISBN:
  9781526179890
• eBook ISBN:
  9781526179883
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Art General

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of illustrations
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part I Caribbean livingness
• Part II Sacred spaces
• Part III Extraction and repair
• Part IV Art ecologies
• Index