activism

Writer and artist Nina Elder finds herself falling into a dark crevasse on a small Cycladic island, later to create an installation from squid ink the islanders had collected. From Issue 28, a special issue on Uncivilized Art, with images from the issue by Nina and Liz Miller-Kovacs.

Welcome to our autumn special issue on uncivilised art now available in our online shop. We set off today with an editorial 'tree map' of the book and the stunning covers by Canadian artist and forest activist Kyle Scheurmann.

To mark the significant recent victory of the land access movement in England, we bring you Robert Sherman's piece on the right to sleep beneath the stars on Dartmoor

'The future we expected has changed shape.' In a story originally written for our special issue ARK, Liz Jensen tells of staggering personal loss in the midst of the world's cascading crises. Her book about her biologist and activist son, Your Wild and Precious Life, is out this month. With an image by Angela Cockayne.

In this excerpt from Dark Mountain: Issue 14 – TERRA, Juman Simaan writes about how the erasure of Palestinian fellahi (peasant) culture meets unarmed resistance in the concept of ‘Awna, a unique sense of belonging to land, community and history

In this penetrating essay, artist and lecturer Mat Osmond, looks at how the disruption of activism challenges a fossil-fuelled ecocidal civilisaton and asks: what is the true role of education when generations are being betrayed by the sleepwalking culture that fosters them?

'Activist and writer Shrishtee Bajpai on working alongside Indigenous peoples from a pristine river in Ladakh to an urban forest in Mumbai. From our latest issue ARK

Mat Osmond reflects on 'The Magnitude of All Things;', Jennifer Abbott's searing and luminous film about of personal and planetary grief

Jessica Townsend shares her 'life raft' – an example of a contemplative community coming together amid tumultuous times to engage with activism and climate breakdown.

In the light of recent climate protests, Mat Osmond considers what it entails to hold ourselves accountable to a generation facing catastrophe.