Curating Multispecies Justice

Within the broader theme of artistic research and climate justice, this doctoral project investigates curatorial practices and multispecies justice, with a particular focus on museums and cultural spaces in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Multispecies justice takes the interests of nonhumans - including animals, plants, forests, rivers and ecological systems - seriously in claims for justice. This means reshaping society, politics and legal systems to consider nonhuman interests when making decisions. Many philosophers, writers, legal scholars and Indigenous representatives have recently argued for different forms of multispecies justice to address the profound inequities of the ecological crisis. Artists and cultural institutions have also developed important initiatives to highlight, encourage and in some cases implement a multispecies justice approach. This doctoral project will contribute to these debates through theoretical and practice-based research.