Stories Come to Matter: Water, Food, and other Entanglements
open access | peer reviewed
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edited by
- Santiago Alarcón-Tobón - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
- Enric Bou - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
Abstract
This volume contains some of the contributions to a workshop on Environmental Humanities, in particular to ecocriticism topics in relationship with two subfields: Blue Humanities and Food Studies. Specifically, the contributions are focused on two key entanglements: water and food, both of which serve as critical examples of how matter and meaning are intertwined. The chapters cover a wide variety of issues: Latin American water issues linked to indigeneity and social justice, the meaning of the Magdalena River in Colombia, fish, the true meaning of ‘paella’, or a reimagination of traditional Jewish Venetian menus from an ecocritical perspective. All are aimed to deepen and broaden the discussion about meaning and matter, emphasizing the significance of stories and imagination while outlining the vast network of agencies that shape our world.
Keywords Storytelling • Ecocriticism • Archipelagic thought • Iberian Studies • Ecological activism • Paella • Water • Venice • Delight Lab • Foodscapes • Malta • Environmental Humanities • Constitution • Food and memory • Cuisine • New Materialisms • Food Studies • Speculative gastronomy • The Mediterranean Sea • Geological Writing • Celebrations • Grávido Río • Chile • Non-human agency • Latin America • Bluefin tuna • Hydrohumanities • Magdalena River • Manuel Vázquez Montalbán • Extinction • Ignacio Piedrahita • Estallido social • Jewish foodways • Identity • Social upheaval • Bruno Latour • Blue Humanities • Fish ranches
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-906-1 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-906-1 | Published May 9, 2025 | Language en
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