For some time now, contemporary history research has been increasingly focusing on the field of art. In their three-part dossier “Kunst + Geschichte – Perspektiven der Forschung” for zeitgeschichte|online, Jutta Braun and Maria Neumann explore how this field of research has been shaped in particular by National Socialism and postwar society, and which other areas can be examined.
The book „Arts and Extractivism in the Global Present“, edited by Liliana Gómez and Alexander Brust, is now available! Through the lens of contemporary art, this book focuses on social ecologies and those spaces that are characterized, on the one hand, by a high degree of biodiversity and, on the other, by a long history of the extraction of resources, (neo)colonial relationships, and extractivism. Contributors discuss the importance of ignored knowledge practices and systems as well as alternative designs of the world that reach beyond simply thinking about progress.