Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology

While ecology has received little systematic attention within art history, its visibility and significance has grown worldwide in relation to the pressing threats of climate change, global warming, and environmental destruction. By engaging artists' widespread aesthetic and political engagement with environmental conditions and processes around the globe--looking at cutting-edge theoretical, political, and cultural developments in the Global South and North--''Decolonizing Nature'' offers a significant and original contribution to the intersecting fields of art history, ecology, visual culture, geography, and environmental politics. Art historian T. J. Demos, author of ''Return to the Postcolony: Specters of Colonialism in Contemporary Art'' (2013), considers the creative proposals of artists and activists for ways of life that bring together ecological sustainability, climate justice, and radical democracy, at a time when such creative proposals are urgently needed.