The Arts, Environmental Justice, and the Ecological Crisis

In the paper

“Akomfrah also included photographs of General Augusto Pinochet’s victims thrown into the sea”

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“In one screen, a whale appears with its young. In the prior scene, we witnessed the celebratory black and white footage of whale hunts in the Southern Ocean.”

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“The genius of this work is the use of BBC footage from the six-part series Planet Ocean with historical footage of capture—whether it be of whale hunts, or the recreation of the washing up of Black bodies on beaches from the Transatlantic slave trade.”

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“on the soundtrack, we hear the unsettling words of a haunted past echoing forward as the words of the former slave trader turned abolitionist, Reverend John Newton are re-enacted”

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“I have conducted archival research for the past few years at the Linnean Society (Royal Academy) in London, where I have traced the original letters of white creole traffickers of human, animal, and plant life.”

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“In the next scene, a Nigerian migrant describes his terrifying experience of being left adrift in the Mediterranean, alongside a second channel of a lone polar bear floating upon a melting piece of ice.”

In the paper

“the plant's changing status from rural staple, its leaves used in salads and diuretic teas, to tenacious weed, attacked through herbicides that reduce biodiversity”

In the paper

“the wayward seeds disseminating through the air in a way that ensures its global ubiquity”

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“Its sands are now famous as vital nesting spaces for endangered leatherback turtles; and turtle conservation, ecotourism, and artisanal fishing have replaced exploitative practices brought by colonization in its wake.”

In the paper

“Grand Riviere captures what is perhaps Trinidad's most unspoiled ecotone”

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“In Tasmania, an engineering device designed to measure the force exerted in disciplined tasks, the dynamometer, was used to compare performances by Indigenous subjects and by Europeans: the results, so it was claimed, indicated a natural association between civilisation and strength, primitivism and weakness”

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“A range of cartoonish animal and hybrid figures, such as the self-representational three-tailed mongoose wearing her elementary school shoes, appear in these works (fig. 13).”

In the paper

“That conjuncture was also when the modern order of the natural sciences began to be established”

In the paper

“Chell mixes ink with the residue of the internal combustion engine taken from the place where he picked each flower: unburned hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and particulate matter.”

In the paper

“None of her works illustrate a specific environmental disaster, nor do they shout a fix for one or even offer an aspirational slogan.”

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“What I appreciate most about James Barry’s painting is this: no one else is affected by the weather, only Lear (fig. 23).”

In the paper

“The landscape, dreamlike—nightmarish—captures the three distinct zones that mark the ecotone: the dark, menacing, and attacking sea; the grand river that invited explorers into the island's forested interior; and the narrow strip of beach where a forlorn horse (a colonial invasive species) is watched by a committee of Trinidad's ubiquitous black vultures”

In the paper

“Indigenous peoples were understood as natural types, to be contrasted with, and often treated with contempt by, scientific scrutiny.”

In the paper

“Exterminism and exploitation were underwritten by systems of surveillance—and they were met with continuing resistance and cultural affirmation.”

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“This year the artist has created many drawings and paintings that respond to two dominant concerns of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic and police violence against Black people.”

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“His silhouetting technique borrows from the late eighteenth century, retaining the fragile shapes of roadside plants: hairy bittercress, creeping buttercup, and, of course, the dandelion.”

In the paper

“Its geographical specificity—it is a landscape that can be visited, experienced first-hand—evokes a history of extraction and exploitation of the land as a site of famous but abandoned cacao plantations, now reforested and home to growing biodiversity.”

In the paper

“The ecological crisis too is an irrefutably relational constellation in which overlapping systems of oppression need to be considered in constant dialogue with the past, present, and future.”

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“Nothing about environmental justice today, to misquote Adorno, is self-evident.”

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“We are reminded that, like the ocean, these histories of somatic, earthly and liquid energy return us to the devastating and innumerable capitalist designs of dispossession.”

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“John Barrell’s Dark Side of the Landscape published forty years ago, convincingly argued that landscape paintings that we interpret almost immediately as idyllic, in fact emerge “from a world of social and economic relations that are anything but idyllic”.”

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  cites John Barrell, The Dark Side of the Landscape: The Rural Poor in English Painting 1730–1840

In the paper

“Soil, for instance, from being represented as surface has emerged in artistic practice and theory and criticism as an ecosystem that is alive and implicated in various entanglements, and as an active constituent of the atmosphere.”

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  cites Ros Gray and Shela Sheikh, “The Wretched Earth: Botanical Conflicts and Artistic Interventions”

In the paper

“Others, such as Neera Jain, have argued that unless calls for distributional, procedural, and recognition justices are grounded in other kinds, such as epistemological, ontological, and cognitive justices, such blind spots will be impossible to remove.”

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  cites Neera Jain

In the paper

“recalling Thatcher’s complicity in neoliberal dictatorships”

In the paper

“Akomfrah makes present a vertiginous claim, the transactional haunt, the sea pregnant with ghostly traces, images, fragments, and echoes within the ebb and flow of the Atlantic Ocean and the Middle Passage.”

In the paper

“Wrapped up in local cosmologies, Indigenous methods of mining and metalworking were sustainable, ecologically friendly, and produced output with minimal impacts to the environment (fig. 5).”

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In the paper

“where images from natural disasters, colonial discoveries, animal massacres, and references to the Middle Passage loop give the audience a submerged view on the terror of coloniality and its ongoing presence in modernity”

In the paper

“This is not about producing histories of equivalence but, instead, makes evident how the archival presence of the sea acts as a visual mediator for colonial and anthropogenic brutality.”

In the paper

“As if to emphasize the disposability of life within the extractive capitalist economic model”

In the paper

“Françoise Vergès’ “racial Capitalocene” (following Cedric Robinson) critiques Dipesh Chakrabarty’s notion of a universal, undifferentiated humanity that has become a geological force to regard the Anthropocene squarely within colonialism and capitalism’s racializing processes.”

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  cites Françoise Vergès, “Racial Capitalocene: Is the Anthropocene Racial?”

In the paper

“Gold mining damaged the environment and utilised toxic chemicals.”

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In the paper

“Bringing activist scientists, curators, and Indigenous water protectors into alliance, the Natural History Museum moved institutions like the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and the Watershed Institute to take a firm stand against fossil capitalism.”

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  cites See “Kwel’ Hoy: We Draw the Line!”
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  cites “Kwel’ Hoy: Many Struggles, One Front”

In the paper

“Meanwhile, the owners of capital continued to accumulate, stockpiling with dire consequences for the environment and its dependent communities.40”

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In the paper

“These overlapping palimpsestic images connect global experiences of authoritarianism, expulsion, migration, and extinction to the origin stories of racial and extractive capitalism.”

In the paper

“Much of this research and activist work has tended to take the form of institutional critique and disruption, but there are also nascent possibilities to re-articulate cultural institutions in alliance with the forces fighting fossil capitalism.”

In the paper

“The relationship between Black women and research is fraught because we have been the very specimens of taxidermy.”

In the paper

“This aesthetic and decolonial form of connecting across oceans and extractive histories allows us to make present the capitalist imperative of drilling that depends upon moving off the land.”

In the paper

“They are the primary cause of the global ecological crisis of our time.”

In the paper

“The concept of intersectionality, which emerged from the work of Black feminist legal theorist Kimberlé Crenshaw demands that overlapping systems of oppression tied to race, class, gender, and sexuality are not studied in isolation.”

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  cites Kimberlé Crenshaw on Intersectionality, More than Two Decades Later

In the paper

“Visual and environmental histories of plantations expose the structures of power embedded in imperialist, capitalist, and racial formations and the enduring legacy of plantation corporatism that persists today and continues to give rise to modern slavery, growing land dispossession, and accelerated species loss.”

In the paper

“The world’s oldest active biological society, founded in 1788 for the production of natural history by gentlemen in the metropole, for “armchair naturalists and collectors” as art historian Sria Chatterjee aptly describes them.”

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  cites Sria Chatterjee

In the paper

“This, however, is a false dichotomy and, as Heise advocates, it is imperative to consider that “both cultural and ecological systems are imbricated in global ones”.”

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  cites Heise, 2008

In the paper

“On the flipside, as Ursula K. Heise has argued, environmental humanities perspectives have sometimes slipped into an essentialist investment in “marginalized” or “local places” as somehow having a more pure, authentic, or real relationship to their geographies than the “Western” or “globalist” perspective.”

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  cites Ursula K. Heise, Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global

In the paper

“Beyond the English working class, the discipline of art history, especially British art history, is a product of the nineteenth century and thoroughly entangled with histories of colonialism and capitalism—and slavery.”

In the paper

“Regardless of this victory, the relationship between museums, the art market, and petro-capitalism is far from over.”

In the paper

“It persists in the reconceived World Gallery of the Horniman Museum today, propelling a Diné cosmopolitical mandate to rebalance disordered relations into a precarious future.”

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“T.J. Demos has argued that the Anthropocene rhetoric, through images and texts, often acts as a mechanism of universalization, which obscures the accountability of the military–state–corporation apparatus.”

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  cites Demos, Against the Anthropocene

In the paper

“Vertigo Sea enters a complex liquid geography, where the ocean is the container, a void, the space of abolition, the site of massacre”

In the paper

“It was established to exclude everything I represent as a Black woman.”

In the paper

“While it is imperative that we transition off fossil fuels, in other words, this change may lead to forms of green colonialism whereby minerals and other precious resources are stripped from vulnerable regions in the Global South.”

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  cites Martín Arboleda, Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction Under Late Capitalism

In the paper

“Alternative terms such as Capitalocene (coined by Jason Moore) insist that it is not humanity as a homogenous acting unit that can be held responsible for the Anthropocene but accumulation and investment of capital in the fossil economy in certain parts of the Western world that triggered an epochal change.”

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“Making the link between spatial dispossession of land (for extraction) and dispossessions of persons in chattel slavery (as another form of spatial extraction), Yusoff has argued that geology is historically situated as a transactional zone, in which mineral-as-property and person-as-property were one and the same.”

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  cites Yusoff, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None

In the paper

“Settler colonialism is an unfinished and continuously evolving project and the intimate interrelationships between transatlantic slavery, land grabs, genocide, ecocide, fossil fuel economies, and the financialization of nature continue to shape the global present.”

In the paper

“where the history of the non-human is presented alongside the history of racialized humanity’s devaluation”

In the paper

“As scholars like David Schlosberg have pointed out, the justice movements that took shape in late 1990s North America mostly focused on the issues of the distributional equity of environmental harm and the recognition of the diverse experiences of this harm, but was often blind to its own race and class privileges.”

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In the paper

“Botanists, botanical gardens, and museums became “the base for all economies” and “agents of empire”.”

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  cites Londa Schiebinger, Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World

In the paper

“This was trailed by the significant finding of vast gold deposits on the Rand in what is now Johannesburg in the 1880s.”

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In the paper

“Taking such forensic work into museums in order to break the ties between cultural institutions and Big Oil, Liberate Tate has executed headline-grabbing and effective actions in museums, BP or Not BP? has challenged the British Museum’s ties to Big Oil, and Platform London has shown us how to track some of the links between banks, oil, and the arts.”

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  cites Mel Evans, Art Wash: Big Oil and the Arts

In the paper

“This polluted water and made mining dumps around Johannesburg’s townships in Soweto unsafe and dangerous.37”

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In the paper

“Natural history research is as much reading against the language of the archival grain as it is examining sketches, drawings, and paintings of animals and plants.”

In the paper

“In their report on oil and gas pollution in Vaca Muerta, for example, the Forensic Architecture group explores the claims of the Indigenous Mapuche people that extraction by companies like Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Total has irreversibly damaged their ancestral homeland in what is one of the world’s largest shale deposits.”

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In the paper

“The visuality of such European colonial archives is striking because it produces another fiction: the underside of the pastoral.”

In the paper

“The fossil fuel industry wants to greenwash its image by promoting itself using corporate sponsorship, but it is not happy when activists indict and publicize these oily ties.”

In the paper

“Black thought has become a human resource for the humanities as Black bodies were for the sciences.”

In the paper

“After all, this crisis was built, not conjured.”

In the paper

“the less “nature” we see, the more it has been transformed, and the more we should wonder about how it came to be that way.”

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In the paper

“Thus, the only way out is a different kind of building.”

In the paper

“In How Flexible Can We Make the Mouth (2019), her exhibition for Dundee Contemporary Arts, the Scottish-Barbadian artist Alberta Whittle used a combination of historic and contemporary imagery to collapse the temporal and ontological distance between the Columbian exchange and the accelerated atmospheric turbulences that now beset the Antilles, and Barbados in particular (fig. 11).”

In the paper

“Ultimately, the epistemic crisis adds insult to the injury of the twinned ecocidal, genocidal project of the so-called Industrial Revolution, more aptly the ongoing European Invasion.”

In the paper

“Michelle Stephens encourages a vertical axis for examining the archipelago, which I read as the connectivity of global tectonic plates, the geologic bedrock that connects the submarine archipelago.45”

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“Its forest represents a victory against colonial deforestation, as nature re-imposes itself over the debris of colonization.”

In the paper

“We are always weathering, but as Neimanis and I elaborate in a later piece, we are always weathering but not always in the same way.”

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In the paper

“That Yale, the university associated with this journal, is still defending its fossil fuelled portfolio as recently as February 2020 should be contemplated with horror.”

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In the paper

“We live in times in which relationality seems to be the name of the game at all scales: from bio-geo planetary processes, to the warp and weft of deep time as it emerges in the present, to knots of creatures implicated in mutual becoming and living.”

In the paper

“Anthropocenic art is based upon a wager on relationality.”

In the paper

“I have defined this elsewhere as “racial sedimentation” in my examination of the forgotten catastrophe of racial indenture to describe the extractive, transformative, layering of race in landscape.47”

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In the paper

“It sits on display at the Museum of Modern Art with a grid-like form that evinces the anthropomorphic violence, taxonomy, and otherworldliness of the sugarcane plantation.”

In the paper

“Alterity and distance are the necessary supplement for life and relation.”

In the paper

“They are an expression, in part, of how feelings of distress and an awareness of her own visceral animality, including her survivalist instinct, are amplified in times of crisis.”

In the paper

“Black and Asian subjects became racialized and treated as if they were renewable resources, mined from West Africa, mined from Kolkata, mined from Hong Kong.”

In the paper

“Decomposed bones of abducted Africans, murdered Indigenous peoples, and indentured Asians materially and literally compose a bedrock of disposable life, the hemisphere.”

In the paper

“These weedy sites mock the Victorian visual tradition of pastoral meadows; they are micro-habitats at once degraded, and yet sustaining diverse, persistent vegetation.”

In the paper

“The installation made an affecting case for placing the origins of the Anthropocene with the European colonisation of the Americas, critiquing the universalising geologics implicit in the nomenclature of this discourse.”

In the paper

“This was a key stage both in the naturalisation of the Other within imperialist European erudition and also in the socialisation of nature within aggressive European sciences.”

In the paper

“Taxonomy is an anxious fiction that requires repetition and societies like the Linnean to become true.”

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“Crucially, the project addressed Britain as a nation founded on collective amnesia, where the historic effacement of overseas regimes of colonial as well as neo-colonial exploitation go hand in hand with the privilege of welcoming each summer heatwave with not so much as an afterthought for the catastrophic ramifications that such climatic anomalies have on a planetary scale.”

In the paper

“In a planetary system, environment is omnipresent; the question is therefore not whether an artwork has environmental content, but rather the form and degree of transformation of the non-human world that is depicted: the less “nature” we see, the more it has been transformed, and the more we should wonder about how it came to be that way.”

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In the paper

“These forms of capital production and resource extraction became at this moment both a motive for imperial aggression and a key weapon in the struggle.”

In the paper

“The work of making images of those regions played an indispensable role in the forging of this militant notion of history and genealogy, of nature and alterity. It still does.”

In the paper

“For all the known variation captured by meteorologists, the weather report ascribes a single temperature for an entire region as if such differences did not exist.”

In the paper

“In order to discipline and differentiate these subjects, race was necessary.”

In the paper

“Awkwardly announcing that 2019 would be the Year of Carbon, the British Geological Society stated that: “Carbon-based energy resources […] remain of critical importance as both a source of energy but also in planning for a future carbon-neutral society”, filtering emissions from its journal Petroleum Geoscience.”

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In the paper

“The geological record of sedimented layers of bones, of biomatter, of fossil fuels reveals the uneven violence of human history.”

In the paper

“Harris would have recognised the contemporary discourse of the Anthropocene, and the attendant rise of New Materialist philosophies within the North Atlantic humanities, as belated recognitions on behalf of Western intellectuals of the ecological flaws of an imperialist conception of history understood as human progress achieved against the background of a passive Earth.”

In the paper

“It also works against experiencing empathy for and allyship with non-human animals.”

In the paper

“This differentiation was foundational to colonization of the Americas, justifying the conquest of nature and, simultaneously, non-white peoples.”

In the paper

“These pictures are not exactly art, but science, not representation, but intended as fact.”

In the paper

“Contemporary artists with diasporic affiliations in the transnational Caribbean have been ready to foreground the political and cognitive strategies forged on the racialised frontiers of capital, where the violence of climate change is most harshly felt.”

In the paper

“The potency of this logic is still felt 500 years after Columbus’s arrival, including through laws that govern sexuality (sodomy and bestiality are usually linked) and norms around dress (humans wear clothes, animals are naked).”

In the paper

“The initial and most obvious reason is that the ontological reality of being-in-relation does not map on to a given set of ethico-political outcomes.”

In the paper

“Lear’s individual emotions, his sense of social obligation, the literal atmospheric conditions, the ideological paradigm all combine to produce the meaning of the wind in his hair.”

In the paper

“Black intellectual capital is acknowledged and synthesized, absorbed by citational practices of extraction.”

In the paper

“There is a relationality here, but it cannot cross easily into generalised multispecies ethic of care.”

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In the paper

“I suggest, however, that relationality is more uncertain ground than it seems for anthropocenic art and environmental justice.”

In the paper

“The advent of a carbonised economy in the wake of the development of the stationary steam engine and its adoption across key industrial sectors of expansive capitalism has been proposed as the decisive moment when human action first became a planetary force of geological scale.”

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In the paper

“By creating a linguistic hybridization of its own—poetic meaning that has detached itself from the syntactical coherence of its English language sources—Willard’s project invites viewers to understand landscape as animated by and through relationality.”

In the paper

“By decelerating entropy, the film unlocks a history of Inuit resistance to that colonial force in and through the counterforce of endurance.”

In the paper

“Beyond the Caribbean, the near-universal effort that we expend in most human societies to define ourselves as human-not-animal has the effect of disciplining measures, which tend to be more punitive to humans who less fit defined norms of humanity.”

In the paper

“Grand Riviere's lasting impact, however, is as a reminder of the threat facing vulnerable ecotones like that formed at the place where the Big River, the sea, and the vulnerable shores of the village of Grande Riviere meet.”

In the paper

“I start with his musings on fluvial correspondences because they exemplify a diasporic sensibility capable of intuitively grasping the space–time dislocations of an ecological crisis of planetary proportions.”

In the paper

“Similarly, Like Gold Dust (2019–ongoing) by the London-based artist Roshini Kempandoo ventriloquises and amplifies the environmental activism of Latina and Indigenous women in the Americas, drawing on the work of Kathryn Yusoff to link histories of mineral extraction with centuries of Black subjection (fig. 12).”

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In the paper

“In the context of Barry’s painting, everyone is also weathering, not just Lear.”

In the paper

“Such transoceanic circuits afforded, and continue to afford, a uniquely sophisticated perspective on the Earth’s interconnectedness and fragility.”

In the paper

“The discourse of the Anthropocene is accompanied by a self-actualizing form of fatalism that forecloses the possibility of future life while erasing complex histories.”

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In the paper

“Conventionally understood as a depiction of the monotony and alienation of post-war urban life, it might instead be taken as a measure of the settler capitalist project in Australia.”

In the paper

“Marsh’s principles are, by now, a cornerstone of ecological thinking.”

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In the paper

“The dark space capturing the reflections of the stars, catching the moonlight as it bounces against the trees and the bending palms, speaks to me of the threat posed by sea-level rise as the final layer of erasure threatening the American tropics to which Trinidad belongs.”

In the paper

“To mine Black theory answers the simultaneous calls to #CiteBlackWomen and to perform land acknowledgements for local Native tribes.”

In the paper

“Relationality is fertile ground for projects of settler-capitalist exploitation, as well as progressive projects of care.”

In the paper

“Sinnapah Mary’s imagined figure in this painting also has a basis in colonial history.”

In the paper

“The violence of the plantation order enclosed my forebears for centuries in the Antilles and tried and failed to erase Indigenous West African and Southern Chinese epistemologies.”

In the paper

“Latent within these images is the long process and global reach of environmental violence: we can no longer conscientiously think of them as idealised relics of a more rural past.”

In the paper

“particularly Heather Davis and Zoë Todd’s insistence that we date the start of climate change in the early seventeenth century with the profound transformation of the Americas through modern colonialism: the beginning of the plantation slavery system, and the attendant terraforming of the land through deforestation, extraction, and the relocation of millions of humans, plants, and animals.”

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“Both for herself and her audiences, she probes our location in this crisis, asking us to consider how our experiences of trauma and injury inform the understanding we have of our place in nature, and to reflect about how we might be implicated in its destruction.”

In the paper

“They have their influential English counterpart in John Ruskin’s statement that “small things and great are alike part of one mighty whole”—a comment underpinning not just his own criticism and drawing, but also that of his many artistic followers who obeyed his imperative to observe nature closely.”

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In the paper

“The photographer Nadia Huggins, another artist I identify of this aesthetic, gives subaquatic focus to Indian Bay in the artist’s country of birth, St Vincent and the Grenadines.”

In the paper

“Wilson Harris, the Guyanese-born writer and peripatetic intellectual, delivered these prescient words in a BBC Radio 4 broadcast, aired in 1996.”

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“The recent development of climate attribution studies means that corporate, state, and individual actors can now be better identified in civil suits for what they hide in latency, in time, and for the crime of ecocide, should it be officially recognized.”

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In the paper

“In the present moment of racial crisis, Black thinkers long ignored are now being drawn upon, extracted for the value of their ideas.”

In the paper

“These bodies—of fish and human, of wind gusts and shipwrecks—are not invisible in the history of British art, but require a different attunement to be read for their implication in the colonial origins of climate change.”

In the paper

“However, citation is by nature an extractive process of intellectual mining that erases even while “saying their names”.”

In the paper

“As the geographer Nigel Clark continues to argue, the earth persists through abyssal forces that cannot be cared for, only endured.53”

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In the paper

“Multispecies relationality is tricky—we may care, but our non-human others usually do not.”

In the paper

“Beings can be brought into relation through noticing/care/love as well as through exploitation/violence/death—and often through both vectors at once.”

In the paper

“Instead, what her practice does is represent some of the complex terrain of the broad historical trajectories and processes, including our unconscious and subconscious impulses, which produce conditions of the present.”

In the paper

“Settler apocalypticism replicates the desires of colonial ancestors by pre-emptively nullifying the contemporaneity of Indigenous political struggles.”

In the paper

“The best-known golden spike was never meant to stay where it was.”

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In the paper

“To this day, the humanities continue to privilege what DeLoughrey calls “white (settler) cultural production” over the environmental consciousness of Black, Creole, and Indigenous authors and activists, obscuring a rich tradition of ecocritical thinking with profound insights on the limitations of utilitarian and techno-driven conceptions of progress.”

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“The extraction of Black thought operates by the same colonial logic that led to the ecological crisis, capitalism.”

In the paper

“The vessels of racial slavery became repurposed as the ships of racial indenture in a violent recycling of labour, an extraction of disposable, fungible life.”

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“The processes of geology and atmosphere are not, despite the fantasies of the geo-engineers, manageable.”

In the paper

“I point to an archipelagic aesthetic with the ethos of what the late Barbadian poet Kamau Brathwaite described as “the unity is sub-marine”.44”

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“Recent studies of the geological record have likewise suggested that 1610 is the “golden spike”, or start of the climate crisis.”

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“Within scientific disciplines and methods produced in that setting, companion claims about the representation of others as somehow natural—allegedly devoid of complex social life or even recognisable histories—have been at least as vicious and important.”

In the paper

“Belief in the value of even the most apparently unimportant element in the natural world received repeated theological support, not least from the many clergy contributing to the dissemination of Victorian natural history.”

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“Primary among the artists I identify as of this archipelagic aesthetic is the Afro-Chinese Cuban painter Wifredo Lam (fig. 9).”

In the paper

“Indigenous and enslaved peoples and indentured workers, who were brought to the western hemisphere following emancipation, were placed somewhere between the poles. They were “less human, more animal”, and therefore deserving of both the oppressive extraction of their labour, akin to the extraction of natural resources, and candidates for the civilizing hand of colonial powers.”

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“When the golden spike travels on loan, an official replica takes its place—both put Native American genocide on display.”

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“COVID-19 poses an imperceptible threat to the air-as-commons; the bodies of Black and Indigenous peoples are as susceptible as ever.”

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“The work does not even hint at the stolen land, the massacres, the sheep with jack-hammer hooves, the bush rolled and burnt, the gaping dusty mines, but all of these are the repressed extractivist foundations on which Collins Street was built, enabling the growth of settler populations, and the accumulation of settler wealth.”

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“He was not the Black Picasso, as has been repeated ad nauseam.46 Rather it was Picasso who extracted Blackness as a white Spaniard.”

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“Citation produces value through appropriation as the logic of capitalist extractivism does.”

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“Like Gold Dust complicates official narratives about the benefits of foreign investment in the Guyanese economy by foregrounding the perspectives of those women who are simultaneously at the forefront of protests against neocolonial extractivist ventures and at the sharp end of their cataclysmic effects on the planet, but whose voices go largely unheeded in the West.”