Epic, Ecocriticism, and Aesthetic Anthropology: New Approaches to the Environmental Challenges
open access | peer reviewed-
edited by
- Stefano Beggiora - Ca' Foscari University of Venice - email orcid profile
- Lidia Guzy - University College Cork - email
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 Crisis of perception • Energy • Hydrosociology • HPAIV • Toxic narratives • Sci-arts • Multispecies ethnography • More-than-human ecologies • St Kilda • Petrofictions, Environmental justice • The Old Drift • Po River Delta • Apocalyptic thinking • Eco-political • Animated landsape • Care • Ecocriticism • Goro Lagoon • Planthroposcene • Postcolonial narratives • Land grabbing • Anthropogenic ecological losses • Sacred ecology • Arboreal symbiosis • Senegal Delta • Touristification • Roy’s botanical discourse • Capitalocene • Beyul • Critical embodied practices • Winter season • Animal Ethics • Touristic monoculture • Sikkim • Environment • Environmental anthropology • Epic poems • Nature/Culture • Sicily • Climate change • Clam farming • Moving landscapes • Non-indigenous species • Namwali Serpell • Social-Ecological systems • Anthropocene • Europe • Avian aspects of aquapelagos • Decolonial arboreal identities • Post nature • Human-seabird relations • Inter-species relations • Anti‑tourism movement • Extinction • Human-tree dynamics • Ferality • Solastalgia • Plantationocene • Land/Sea • Sculpture • Ecosomatics
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