21st-Century Climate Imaginaries : Global Activism, Ecopoetry and the Arts of Environmental Justice

Adopting a comparative approach, this book argues that many iconic 21st -century metaphors and images used to communicate climate change and ecological crisis actually conceal the destructive foundations of Anthropocene life. Climate crisis images and narratives produced by the global north have long structured the way environmental change is understood and managed.This open access book examines how apocalyptic 'climate memes' - which are familiar from dominant environmental media, eco-art and science communication - risk invisibilising ecological and social injustices on the ground and perpetuating colonizing and violent planetary responses.The book showcases alternative climate imaginaries emerging from global south, Indigenous-led and anti-colonial movements.Through five case studies in Chile, Greenland, the Pacific Islands, the UK, and Canada, it introduces key contemporary artists, activists and scholars whose creative interventions challenge colonial, extractive, and late capital