The Critical Heritage Ecologies reading group addresses the intersections of ecological thinking and practice with art history, cultural studies, heritage studies, and museum studies. We have a particular interest in questions of repair and reparations, inheritance, coloniality / decoloniality, and planetarity.
Meetings
We meet every six weeks, usually at the Humanities Venture Lab
(Oudemanhuispoort 4-6, room E0.03).
This group is open to academics and non-academics interested in the
intersection between art, heritage, museums, material culture, and
ecology. If you would like to participate and for any questions, please
contact Maria Suarez (m.p.suarezcaicedo@uva.nl).
Past Readings
Demos, T.J. Radical Futurisms: Ecologies of Collapse, Chronopolitics, and Justice-to-Come. Sternberg, 2023
Ferdinand, Malcom. A Decolonial Ecology : Thinking from the Caribbean World. Translated by Smith Paul Anthony. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021.
Kisin, Eugenia. Aesthetics of Repair : Indigenous Art and the Form of Reconciliation. Toronto ; University of Toronto Press, 2024.
Page, Joanna. Decolonial Ecologies : The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art. 1st ed. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2023.
Papadopoulos, Dimitris, María Puig de la Bellacasa, and Maddalena Tacchetti, eds. Ecological Reparation : Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2023.
Subramaniam, Banu. Botany of Empire : Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2024.
Táíwò, Olúfẹmi O. Reconsidering Reparations. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.
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