The Critical Conservation Essays present reflections, provocations, and research emerging from the project and its wider community of scholars, artists, and practitioners.

Published regularly on this page, the essays confront questions at the heart of Critical Conservation: What does it mean to conserve in a time of ecological collapse and planetary crisis? What — and whom — are we trying to preserve? Where does conservation stand in a more-than-human world? What does it mean to decolonize conservation and challenge its institutional histories? Who holds the authority to conserve, and whose knowledge counts? How might conservation be radically rethought across art, craft, heritage, science, and the environment?

The series invites diverse voices and experimental formats, opening a space for dialogue, critical inquiry, and new imaginaries of conservation.