Journal | Lagoonscapes
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 HPAIVExtinctionAnthropogenic ecological lossesDecolonial arboreal identitiesEpic poemsRoy’s botanical discourseThe Old DriftNamwali SerpellApocalyptic thinkingSculptureEnvironmental anthropologySolastalgiaNon-indigenous speciesEcosomaticsArboreal symbiosisHuman-tree dynamicsHuman-seabird relationsNature/CultureTouristic monocultureSocial-Ecological systemsSikkimEnvironmentAvian aspects of aquapelagosCapitalocenePlanthroposceneAnthropoceneToxic narrativesSenegal DeltaSicilyMore-than-human ecologiesEcocriticismAnimal EthicsFeralitySt KildaMultispecies ethnographyClam farmingMoving landscapesSci-artsClimate changeAnimated landsapePost natureLand/SeaCrisis of perceptionCareGoro LagoonEuropeSacred ecologyHydrosociologyInter-species relationsPo River DeltaEnergyWinter seasonPlantationoceneBeyulTouristificationLand grabbingAnti‑tourism movementEco-politicalPostcolonial narrativesCritical embodied practicesPetrofictions, Environmental justice

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