The Cluster for Ecology, Culture and Coloniality (ECCo)

In the age of climate emergency, global inequality, and – most recently – the uneven effects of pandemic illness, it is increasingly clear that the way people and environments are categorized in dominant imaginaries continue to produce serious effects.

Our Research

The Cluster for Ecology, Culture and Coloniality (ECCo) is an interdisciplinary group of researchers at the Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, whose work addresses issues of social and environmental justice. 

We are especially interested in how cultural texts – literary, visual, digital and others – critically imagine the intersection of ecological destruction with racialised, gendered and class inequality. We are also concerned with the ways that cultural narratives and forms have made the world legible to extractive regimes, historically and into the present. Our focus extends to theories of political ecology, with an emphasis on methodologies that help to explain how unfolding climate breakdown connects to histories of enslavement and colonization, and to active systems of oppression.  

ECCo activities include regular reading and research seminars, lectures, and workshops, and we frequently host visiting scholars within the framework of the LNUC Concurrences guest researcher programme.  

Cluster members engage with culture as an active material force, one that has made the world and so might participate in its remaking. We welcome connections with scholars, writers and artists working in any of our areas of interest. 

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