Lagoonscapes The Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities

Journal | Lagoonscapes
Monographic journal issue | 4 | 1 | 2024

Epic, Ecocriticism, and Aesthetic Anthropology: New Approaches to the Environmental Challenges

open access | peer reviewed
    edited by
  • Stefano Beggiora - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
  • Lidia Guzy - University College Cork, Ireland - email
Abstract

This issue offers a selection of contributions by esteemed authors from the most diverse universities and institutes known for their work and commitment in Environmental Humanities, Ecocriticism, An-imal studies, Blue Sciences, Ethno-Ecology. Alongside them, a great space in this volume has been dedicated to the pioneering, experimental and creative work of younger researchers and postgradu-ates. We therefore propose a long journey through the literature and recent brilliant narratives com-ing from Africa and India, corroborated by exploratory and ethnographic scientific investigations at the ‘edge of the world’, from the distant islands of Scotland (St Kilda) to the Himalayan ridge (Sikkim). A series of Italian case studies document paradoxes and problems of the Sicilian land-scape, of feral tourism in Venice, and of the environmental policies of the lagoons in the Po River Del-ta. A renewed session dedicated to interviews, artistic performance and aesthetics enriches the final part of this volume. Through amazing productions from Australia, India, Italy, Estonia, the artist and the performer present themselves as a new sort of eco-political agents and mediators, in the attempt to process the traumatic anthropogenic ecological disaster and to reintegrate the individual into the living planet.

Keywords Touristification • Roy’s botanical discourse • Human-tree dynamics • Po River Delta • Animal Ethics • Land grabbing • Solastalgia • Ecosomatics • HPAIV • Sacred ecology • Clam farming • Nature/Culture • Crisis of perception • Toxic narratives • Beyul • Care • Human-seabird relations • Namwali Serpell • Post nature • Sikkim • Ecocriticism • Moving landscapes • Decolonial arboreal identities • Sculpture • Climate change • Epic poems • Animated landsape • Avian aspects of aquapelagos • Multispecies ethnography • Senegal Delta • Social-Ecological systems • Winter season • Postcolonial narratives • Inter-species relations • Anthropogenic ecological losses • Apocalyptic thinking • Sicily • Hydrosociology • Plantationocene • Extinction • Sci-arts • Land/Sea • Touristic monoculture • Planthroposcene • Goro Lagoon • Petrofictions, Environmental justice • Anthropocene • Capitalocene • Critical embodied practices • Europe • More-than-human ecologies • Eco-political • Arboreal symbiosis • Energy • The Old Drift • Environmental anthropology • Non-indigenous species • Anti‑tourism movement • Environment • Ferality • St Kilda

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2024/01 | Published July 24, 2024 | Language en

Copyright © Stefano Beggiora, Lidia Guzy. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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