Teaching the Environmental Humanities in Europe
open access | peer reviewed-
edited by
- Lucio De Capitani - Ca' Foscari University of Venice - email orcid profile
- Cristina Brito - Universidade Nova de Lisboa - email
- Moritz Ingwersen - Technische Universität Dresden - email orcid profile
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 International teaching • Ancient history • Transdisciplinarity • Aquapelagos • Dendrochronology • Creativity • Site-specific dance • Climate adaptation • Place-specific teaching • Natural and human archives • Action • Liberal environmentalisms • Citizen science • Sea Spray • Climate Imaginaries • Ethics • Insularity • Elemental ecocriticism • Drought • Climate history • Coastal archaeology • Anthropocene • Environmental Humanities • Chin-yuan Ke • Water Humanities • Multispecies ethnography • Relations • Posthumanities • Aesthetic practice • Aesthetics • Digital storytelling • Literature • Geological turn • Fieldwork • Temporality • History • Futurities • Classics • Environmental affect • More-than-human ecologies • Taiwan’s wetlands • Transformative learning • Higher-education • Ecopedagogy • Arts-based teaching • Artistic research • Ambivalence • Literary Studies • Speculative museum • Concept of time • Futuring • Place-based learning • Ethnography • Water • Environmental pedagogy • Environmental history and archaeology • Faroe Islands • Place-based education • Sound Studies • Ebb and Flow • Ecopoetics • Environmental humanities • Newspapers • Planetary sensing • Shell Middens • Humans • Wonder • Difference
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2025/02 | Published Dec. 15, 2025 | Language en
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