This issue of Art Review Oxford explores diverse artistic, historical, and literary responses to ecological grief—the overwhelming sense of loss arising from climate instability and mass extinction. Drawing on T. J. Demos' concept of "ecology as intersectionality," the issue brings together writers from different disciplines and geographical locations to examine how grief manifests across human and more-than-human worlds. Contributors engage with subjects ranging from toxic mining and endangered waterways to glacial loss, post-apocalyptic apathy, and the entanglement of human joy and environmental mourning. Rather than retreating into solitary suffering, the issue treats grief as, in environmental philosopher Thom Van Dooren's words, a pointer to "a shared world"—a collective space where individual grievances converge and keep one another company.

Issue 8, Winter 2024
Issue Editor: Xinyue Liu
Editor: Jason Waite