Lagoonscapes

The Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities

Thinking the Planet with Venice

open access | peer reviewed
Abstract

The first Italian journal expressly dedicated to the Environmental Humanities, Lagoonscapes, is animated by a ‘local’ awareness and a ‘planetary’ vision. Its title mirrors this spirit and the inescapable need to strengthen the junction between cultural perspectives and ecological complexity. Lagoonscapes is a sort of prism through which multiple perspectives converge, turning the Venetian lagoon into a symbolic laboratory, an observatory, a forge of ideas about the global panorama of the Environmental Humanities. Art, meteorology, climatic imagination, bodily immersions in the ecology of places, food, eco-ethnography, multimedia performance, extractive tourism, debunked clichés, and quagmires: this first issue is a sample of what we envision to be our mission, namely, to create bridges of elements, voices, and visions, facilitating encounters of theories and individual matters, and stimulating ‘trans-local’ negotiations along with planetary awareness.

Keywords Embodiment • Elena Mazzi • Johann Wolfgang Goethe • Thomas Mann • Culinary knowledge • Presence • Weather • Walking • Capitalocene • Banksy • Nature • Seafood • Material ecocriticism • Eleonora Sovrani • Environmental sensing • Extractive tourism • Contemporary art • Art • Death in Venice • Environmental Humanities • Blue humanities • The senses • Cruise ships • Markets • Environmental media • UNESCO • Art-activism • Foodways • Joan Jonas • Venice • Ecology • Environmental justice • Meteorology • Nineteenth century • Body politic • Submergence • Gli Impresari • New Humanities • Multispecies • Performance • Environment • Ocean Space

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2021/01 | Published Dec. 20, 2021 | Language en

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