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.

Introduction — Kate Keohane, Daniella Rose King, Giulia Smith

Part I: Caribbean livingness
1 Hurricane praxis: visual conversations about hurricanes and climate change in the Caribbean — Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
2 Between the stars, the sea and the soil: ecological poetics in art of the Caribbean and its diasporas — Daniella Rose King
3 Earthkin precarious and heroic: La Vaughn Belle’s Crucian ancient futures — Genevieve Hyacinthe
4 Offshore imaginations: Nadia Huggins and Kimberly Palmer in conversation — Nadia Huggins and Kimberly Palmer

Part II: Sacred spaces
5 The sacred undersea in Caribbean eco-aesthetics — Mimi Sheller
6 I, Ixora — Andil Gosine
7 Antonius Roberts: sacred spaces — Giulia Smith

Part III: Extraction and repair
8 Ecologic entanglements: artistic interventions in the Plantationocene — Annalee Davis and Kate Keohane
9 Sonia E. Barrett’s bodies of evidence — Catherine Spencer
10 All that grounds us — Diana McCaulay

Part IV: Art ecologies
11 Visualising the Capitalocene and creating a planetary art world from an artist atelier in Santo Domingo — Carlos Garrido Castellano
12 Rhizomatic research and curatorial ecologies in Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados — Natalie McGuire
13 The geography of production: a conversation between Tatiana Flores and Christopher Cozier — Christopher Cozier and Tatiana Flores

Caribbean eco-aesthetics considers the ways in which contemporary artists with Caribbean heritage are working to redress the ecological damage inflicted during centuries of colonial and neo-colonial exploitation by appealing to cultural lineages that trouble capitalist conceptions of progress and sustainability. In offering these grassroots models of ecological action as an entry point into the intersecting fields of Caribbean and environmental studies, this edited volume redefines the terms of a largely catastrophic discourse through the lens of hope, resilience, and creativity. By privileging the work of artists and activists who are confronting the environmental violence of empire, whilst also engaging anti-colonial forms of ecological insurgence, we seek to reposition the transnational Caribbean as a zone from which to imagine and actualise planetary futures beyond the ecocide logic of capitalist accumulation.