New Cluster for Ecology, Culture and Coloniality (ECCo)
The Aesthetics of Empire cluster within LNUC Concurrences has recently reformed as the new cluster for Ecology, Culture and Coloniality (ECCo). The decision was made by members during a workshop held in Höör in September 2024, in order to better represent active research interests and projects within the cluster.
The new title was chosen to foreground members’ shared concerns with cultural narratives, imaginaries and discourses, on the one hand, and with intersecting global struggles for racialized, gendered and environmental justice, on the other.
ECCo brings researchers of all career levels together around questions related to these interests, and includes members working in disciplines across the humanities. Projects connected to ECCo cover such topics as South African resource and energy cultures; speculative fiction and the global food-system; ecotopian and ecocritical postcolonial comics; the politics of border narratives in Roman archaeology; palm oil in world-literature; the colonial politics of climate emergency declarations, and more.
The cluster meets regularly for research seminars, holds occasional workshops, and frequently hosts speakers or guest researchers (within the framework of the LNUC Concurrences guest researcher program). If you are interested in finding out more about our seminar schedule and activities, contact Rebecca Duncan.