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Epic, Ecocriticism, and Aesthetic Anthropology: New Approaches to the Environmental Challenges

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.

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Editorial: Three Years with Lagoonscapes and Environmental Humanities
Stefano Beggiora, Lidia Guzy

“The Sea Has Waves, The Fula Has Cows”: Moving Waters, Labour and Capital in Anthropocene Senegal
Pietro Daniel Omodeo

Post Nature and Ecocritical Epic in Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift
Costanza Mondo

An Avian-Aquapelagic Heritage at “the Edge of the World”
Reflections on Humans and Seabirds on St Kilda and the Arrival of HPAIV
Philip Hayward

Symbiotic Narratives for a De-Colonial Turn
Exploring the Arboreal Identity in Sumana Roy’s Out of Syllabus
Harjot Banga

Sikkim’s Moving Landscapes
Towards Non-Human Agency Scenarios for the Future
Alessandro Mannarini

Gone with the Clam
Multispecies Arrangements and Feral Rhythms in the Goro Lagoon (Po River Delta)
Francesco Danesi della Sala

Big Cruise Ships Going Feral: An Ecocritical Reading of Overtourism in Venice
Irene De Giorgi

Haunted Sicilian Landscapes: Orazio Labbate Petrovisions and the Italian Energy Hubris
Claudia Lombardo

Anatomy Lessons: Michele Beevors as Eco-Political Agent
Leoni Schmidt

Somatic Arts and Liveable Futures
Embodying Ecological Connections
Raffaele Rufo

“Winterreise”. Sci-Arts Winter Season Journey Through the Human-Nature Relationships of the Land-Sea Continuum, from North Sea to Baltic Sea
Anatole Danto

“Your and My Elements Are the Same”. A Conversation with Vibha Galhotra
Interview by Stephanie J. Lindsay and Maria Kopylova
Maria Kopylova, Stephanie J. Lindsay