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