Ecologies of Violence
Crimes against Nature
in the Contemporary Cultural Imagination
The aim of this project is to understand how environmental degradation is being framed and remembered as violence in contemporary culture, and how representations of such ecological violence articulate and reflect on questions of guilt, implication, and responsibility.
News
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Susanne Knittel at Workshop on Rights of Nature in Anthropocene Literature
On 2 July, Susanne Knittel participated in the workshop Rights of Nature in Anthropocene Literature at the University of Vechta (Germany).…
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Practicing Multispecies Justice: A Conversation with Danielle Celermajer
On June 1, EcoViolence and the Utrecht Network for Environmental Humanities hosted a conversation with Danielle Celermajer, moderated by Susanne…
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Looking back to the Post-Extractive Assemblies Lab
Over four months, the Post-Extractive Assemblies Lab became a shared viewing and reading table, a space for experimentation, and discussion,…
Events
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08 October 2026Workshop ‘Post-Extractivist Propositions: Moving Images and Ecologies of Violence
‘Post-Extractivist Propositions: Moving Images and Ecologies of Violence’ brings together scholars, artist-researchers, and filmmakers to explore how moving images reveal…
Banner images
- Susanne Knittel, 2024, Moreton Bay Fig, UCLA Campus, Los Angeles, California, USA (seeds brought from Australia in the 1870s).
- Ifor Duncan, 2024, Water Hyacinths on the reservoir of the Hidroituango Megadam, Cauca river, Colombia.
- Ifor Duncan, 2024, A bocachico fish on the Hidroituango Megadam, Cauca river, Colombia.
- Sofia Lovegrove, 2018, Tropical Botanic Garden of Belém, Lisbon, Portugal (former Colonial Garden).