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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.

Table of Contents:

TEACHING THE ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES IN EUROPE

Introduction: Teaching the Environmental Humanities in Europe
Lucio De Capitani, Cristina Brito, Moritz Ingwersen

The Carrier Bag of Geostories: Transformative Pedagogy for Human-Lithic Enmeshment
Moritz Ingwersen, Sophie Lindner

Entangling Sensing: Arts-Based Methods for Teaching the Environmental Humanities and Critical Posthumanities
Siobhan Leddy

Place-Based Knowledges, Water, and the Classics: Teaching the Environmental Humanities in Warsaw, Augsburg, and Ghent
Katja Sarkowsky, Marco Formisano, Paweł Piszczatowski

Rivers and Oceans, or the Place Where the Blue Humanities Meet Lisbon
Cristina Brito, Isabel Gomes Almeida, Isabel Araújo Branco, Ana Catarina Garcia, Nina Vieira

Speculative Futures: Digital Eco-Stories from an Environmental Humanities Teacher Training Program in Europe
Eva Katharina Bauer, Fabiana Fazzi, Nicole Haring

Relations and Difference: Teaching the Human and More-than-Human Ecologies in Germany
Pooja Nayak

Sounding Carbon Ruins: Speculative Design for Climate Futures
Graeme Macdonald, Jonathan Skinner

Preservation by Record of Ireland’s Shell Middens: Citizen Science Practice and Pedagogy
Rory Connolly, Alan Healy

Tree-Rings as Text: Reading the Climatic and Life History of an Irish Oak
Francis Ludlow, Eva Jobbová, David M. Brown, Christopher Morris

General Section

Zoning in and out
Traditional Aquapelagic Temporality and Chronometric Time in the Faroe Islands
Firouz Gaini, Erika Hayfield, Philip Hayward

Filtering Death, Performing Life: Environmental Humanities and the Ecologies of Taiwan’s Wetlands in Chin-yuan Ke’s Documentaries
Yalan Chang