A new LAND Library

In spring this year, artist Ashanti Harris led a series of three creative book groups, exploring ideas and provocations from the bestselling book, It’s Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform our World by Mikaela Loach. 

Each evening offered accessible, critical conversation and learning about climate breakdown and how it is connected to capitalism’s systems of repression. To continue this thinking, and to expand on the ideas explored in the sessions, Ashanti has created a wee library and reading list of resources that challenge dominant narratives and perceptions of climate action.

Whether you were involved in the book group, or you are interested in learning more about  community-led healing and organising, you can borrow any of the titles from Deveron Projects' offices.

Resources included:

Books available to borrow:

• It’s Not That Radical: Climate Action to Change Our World - Mikaela Loach, 2023
• Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism -  Vanessa Machado de Oliveira, 2021
• Fractal Repair: Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica - Matthew Chin, 2024
• Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds - Adrienne Maree Brown, 2017
• Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community - Camille Separa Barton, 2024
• What It Takes To Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change The World -  Prentis Hemphill, 2024
• It’s Not Just You: How to Navigate Eco-Anxiety and the Climate Crisis - Tori Tsui, 2022
• Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room - Foluke Taylor, 2023
• Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean - David Alston, 2021 

Articles available online:

• Hurricane Melissa Is The “Storm Of The Century”. Nothing About This Is Natural - Mikeala Loach, 2025, British Vogue
• Zora Neale Hurston, Diaspora, and the Memory of Hurricanes - Janell Hobson, 2017, Black Perspectives

How to borrow

Get in touch by emailing ane@deveron-projects.com or phoning 01466 794494. Please note you must be able to collect and return the book in person from Deveron Projects’ office behind Huntly Library. 

About the LAND Residency

Artist Ashanti Harris is working with communities in Huntly to develop new artwork rooted in land, energy, colonial histories/presents and grief. You can find out more about this here.