Lagoonscapes

The Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities

Teaching the Environmental Humanities in Europe

open access | peer reviewed
Abstract

This special issue of Lagoonscapes gathers pedagogical reflections, teaching concepts, and experiments developed by university teachers across Europe who work in conversation with the field of the Environmental Humanities. Amidst the escalating climate crisis, accelerated by a resurgence of right-wing nationalisms and ongoing systems of environmental injustice, learning how to teach (and learn) with, through, and about socio-ecological precarity, interdependencies, and enmeshment is a crucial and increasingly urgent task that requires an expansion of traditional methodologies and subject matters. With an emphasis on place-based, creative, and collaborative approaches to pedagogy, this collection features contributions from the UK, Ireland, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Italy, Poland, Sweden, and Belgium that foreground interdisciplinary dialogues – from literary and cultural studies, to visual and conceptual art, maritime history, ethnography, and (coastal) archaeology. Committed to an understanding of Environmental Humanities teaching as education for change, many contributions take the learning process beyond customary classroom settings and foster conversations between critical EH theory and embodied, situated experience.

Keywords Place-based learning • Environmental affect • Chin-yuan Ke • Ecopoetics • Ambivalence • Humans • Difference • Literature • Place-based education • Site-specific dance • Sea Spray • Speculative museum • Natural and human archives • Citizen science • Temporality • Sound Studies • Aquapelagos • More-than-human ecologies • Multispecies ethnography • Place-specific teaching • Aesthetic practice • Newspapers • Climate adaptation • Water • Posthumanities • Shell Middens • Artistic research • Drought • Futuring • Climate history • Ethics • Literary Studies • Wonder • History • Anthropocene • Environmental pedagogy • Transdisciplinarity • Futurities • Insularity • Concept of time • Ecopedagogy • Faroe Islands • Ancient history • Relations • Classics • Liberal environmentalisms • Aesthetics • Higher-education • Coastal archaeology • Water Humanities • Arts-based teaching • Creativity • Environmental history and archaeology • Planetary sensing • Digital storytelling • Elemental ecocriticism • Fieldwork • Action • Environmental humanities • Ethnography • Ebb and Flow • Climate Imaginaries • Environmental Humanities • Geological turn • International teaching • Transformative learning • Dendrochronology • Taiwan’s wetlands

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2025/02 | Pubblicato 15 Dicembre 2025 | Lingua en

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