Thinking the Planet with Venice
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Language: en
Published: Dec. 20, 2021
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.
Weather • Environmental justice • Embodiment • Gli Impresari • Death in Venice • Body politic • Joan Jonas • Eleonora Sovrani • Ocean Space • Extractive tourism • Cruise ships • Environmental sensing • Nineteenth century • Markets • Nature • Presence • Contemporary art • Material ecocriticism • Environment • The senses • Art • Submergence • Foodways • Art-activism • Venice • Blue humanities • Environmental media • Environmental Humanities • Thomas Mann • Banksy • Multispecies • Capitalocene • Johann Wolfgang Goethe • Meteorology • Performance • Ecology • Seafood • New Humanities • UNESCO • Elena Mazzi • Culinary knowledge • Walking