Journal | Lagoonscapes
Monographic journal issue | 1 | 1 | 2021

Thinking the Planet with Venice

open access | peer reviewed
    edited by
  • Serenella Iovino - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA - email orcid profile
  • Stefano Beggiora - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
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 Death in VeniceEnvironmentOcean SpaceThe sensesCruise shipsVeniceCapitaloceneEnvironmental sensingThomas MannJoan JonasBlue humanitiesEnvironmental HumanitiesEnvironmental justiceExtractive tourismMaterial ecocriticismArtMultispeciesMeteorologyGli ImpresariNew HumanitiesUNESCOEnvironmental mediaJohann Wolfgang GoetheEleonora SovraniBanksyCulinary knowledgeEcologyMarketsContemporary artPresenceBody politicArt-activismPerformanceWeatherNineteenth centurySubmergenceFoodwaysSeafoodWalkingEmbodimentElena MazziNature

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