The Climate & Colonialism Reading Group
The Climate & Colonialism Reading Group is part of the multi-year Climate & Colonialism project led by Dr Sria Chatterjee at the Paul Mellon Centre. For more information on future events and information about readings, please sign up to the mailing list.
This interdisciplinary Reading Group aims to provide a space for discussion and reflection about the role of the arts and visual cultures in discourses around climate and colonialism. It hopes to foster a dialogue that begins to question systems of oppression that have contributed to the colonial project and its relationships to ecology. The selection of texts for the Reading Group will foreground ecofeminist, Black, Brown and Indigenous scholarship that focuses on the intersections between the environment, extraction and colonial systems and also histories of decolonisation and speculative imaginaries of human and more-than-human ecologies. It is open to everyone.
The Reading Group will be hosted by the Paul Mellon Centre in collaboration with Anisha Palat (PhD in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh). Sessions will take place online with some space for hybrid events, allowing people to attend regardless of time zone and geographical location. The Reading Group will meet once every two months, beginning in February 2023.
More information on future events and access to readings will become available. If you have any questions, please write to the organiser Anisha Palat: [email protected]

Diana More, BP or not BP? Statement on the Reopening of the British Museum, 2020, photograph,
Digital image courtesy of Digital image courtesy of Diana More (all rights reserved)
See also
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Thinking with Water: Climate & Colonialism Reading Group Launch
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Thinking with Water: Climate & Colonialism Reading Group Launch
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Thinking with Animals: Climate & Colonialism Reading Group
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Thinking with Animals: Climate & Colonialism Reading Group
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Thinking with Ice: Climate & Colonialism Reading Group
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Thinking with Ice: Climate & Colonialism Reading Group
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Thinking with Meat: Climate & Colonialism Reading Group
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Thinking with Meat: Climate & Colonialism Reading Group
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Thinking with Climate Coloniality: Climate & Colonialism Reading Group
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Thinking with Climate Coloniality: Climate & Colonialism Reading Group
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Thinking with Extractivism: Climate & Colonialism Reading Group
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Thinking with Extractivism: Climate & Colonialism Reading Group
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Thinking with 'The Nutmeg's Curse': Climate & Colonialism Reading Group
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Thinking with 'The Nutmeg's Curse': Climate & Colonialism Reading Group
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Thinking with Oil and the Graphic Novel: Climate & Colonialism Reading Group
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Thinking with Oil and the Graphic Novel: Climate & Colonialism Reading Group