Lagoonscapes

The Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities


Lagoonscapes

The Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities open access | peer reviewed

Aims & Scope

Lagoonscapes. The Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities is a digital, open-access, international, and trans-disciplinary journal based at The New Institute Center for Environmental Humanities of Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. Lagoonscapes welcomes submissions from all the core disciplines of the Environmental Humanities, including literary and media studies, critical theory, visual arts, environmental and cultural history, political theory, and anthropology. Contributions are subject to a double-blind peer review process and are published by Edizioni Ca’ Foscari. The journal aims to promote a cross-disciplinary dialogue on contemporary and historical environmental issues, investigating relationships with non-human forms of life and the natural world from decolonial, feminist, and activist perspectives. Venice and its lagoon are a privileged location for sensing and interrogating the effects of human activity and climate change regarding the biological, cultural, and social dynamics of local ecosystems. The journal is associated with the pioneering Master in Environmental Humanities offered by Ca’ Foscari University and it aspires to become an international platform for scholars, artists, and activists to engage with the growing field of the Environmental Humanities.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/LGSP/ZKwIUroQ | e-ISSN 2785-2709 | Periodicity biannual | Language en

Copyright 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.

Latest published issue

Cover del fascicolo 5 | 1 | 2025
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  • Cracking the Surface: Flows Between Above and Below Ground
  • Simone M. Müller, Livia Cahn
  • July 21, 2025

  • ‘Cracking the Surface’ is a metaphor that resonates deeply with the contributions to this special issue that began from an interest to compose with and better grasp the movements and interrelationships between, from and across, above and below ground. How to write them up together in a way that is mindful both of human and more-than human actors, materials animate and inanimate, and their respective power relationships? Focusing on matters extracted, others dumped, ground that falls, water that rises, divers that delve, pollution that spills and percolates, villages that collapse and buildings that rise, contributions in this special issue reassemble and reassess the very relationships between above and below ground. To give depth to the surface, contributions from architects, art historians, anthropologists, cultural theorists, film makers, historians, photographers, and a sound artist engage with the volumetric perspective and explore the possibilities that cracks, holes, or pits – as mines, excavations, pits, or water reservoirs – confer conceptually when analyzing the existential threats to our collective conditions of existence on this planet.

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  • Peggy Karpouzou, Nikoleta Zampaki
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  • Stefano Beggiora, Lidia Guzy
  • July 24, 2024

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  • Natalie King, Francesca Tarocco
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