Publications
Speculative Futures: Digital Eco-Stories from an Environmental Humanities Teacher Training Program in Europe
Title: Speculative Futures: Digital Eco-Stories from an Environmental Humanities Teacher Training Program in Europe
Date of Publication: December 2025
Publisher: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari Venice University Press
e-ISSN: 2785-2709
Amitav Ghosh’s declaration of “a crisis of the imagination” with regard to the current period on our planet is the venture point for our paper to present digital Eco-Storytelling as a speculative participatory approach useful for stimulating cultural imaginations of futurities and hence counteracting this crisis. Guided by ecopedagogy, which aims at constructing learning towards increased social and environmental justices, we will present and analyze findings from the EcoStories International Teacher Training Program carried out in 2025 with students from the University of Malaga, Ca’ Foscari University Venice, and University of Graz.
Entanglements, Narratives, and the Environment:
Inter-American Perspectives
Title: Entanglements, Narratives, and the Environment: Inter-American Perspectives
Date of Publication: December 2024
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9781666968279
Entanglements, Narratives, and the Environment: Inter-American Perspectives provides an interdisciplinary ecocritical reading of narratives and environmental entanglements from an Inter-American perspective, predominantly providing literary, film, and cultural analysis of texts from the Americas. In light of Amitav Ghosh’s (2016) exploration of “a crisis of the imagination” in the face of climate change and environmental degradation, this book addresses the potential of literature, history, and politics in comprehending the profound dimensions and violence of these challenges. The chapters show, among others, that the Anthropocene demands fresh narratives and theoretical perspectives, particularly within the framework of Inter-American Studies, which can offer a new venue to discuss pressing issues and to provide intersectional and inter-regional considerations. Thus, drawing on Inter-American perspective with its hemispheric perspectives opens the possibilities for an ecocritical reading of the complexities and relationalities of the climate crisis in the humanities as well as the social sciences. As a result, the book includes historical and political analysis, as well as literary, cultural and film analysis of texts from the Americas. The chapters engage in deconstructing popular myths, de-centering Western approaches, and eventually show through these critical engagements how the climate crisis demands multi-dimensional readings.
Multiliteracies and Global Citizenship in Language Education
Title: EL.LE (Educazione Linguistica. Language Education)
Volume: 13, Number 3
Date of Publication: November 2024
Publisher: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, Venice University Press
e-ISSN: 2280-6792
This issue of EL.LE: Educazione Linguistica. Language Education, composed of multiple voices, brings together diverse perspectives to explore the connections between language education, global issues, and digital innovation. Designed for educators and researchers,this volume offers ideas and reflections to support the development of global skills and address the realities of a digital age in language education.
Edited by Cristina Baldacci, Shaul Bassi, Lucio De Capitani and Pietro D. Omodeo
What does Venice look like when observed from the perspective of climate change, environmental collapse, and human-animal relations in an age of industrialization and mass extinction? That is, as a privileged observatory of the Anthropocene?
This guide, composed of several voices, forms a new, illuminating and disturbing mosaic of Venice and its Lagoon. What does the Venetian School of Painting tell us about our relationship with the environment and animals? What do peripheral places in the Lagoon like Porto Marghera and Pellestrina reveal about the advent and impact of modernity? What stories of extinction lie behind local delicacies like baccalà mantecato? What does the centuries-old relationship of Venetians with water tell us about other cities threatened by an increasingly hostile climate?