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"Italy and the Environmental Humanities: Landscapes, Natures, and Ecologies" is the first book to examine Italy--taken as a territory of both matter and imagination--through the lens of the environmental humanities. The collection's twenty-two essays include contributions from leading environmental humanities scholars as well as narrative pieces by Italian eco-writers and theorists. The book builds an innovative proposal for reimagining Italy beyond its usual clichés as a hybrid, plural, eloquent place and takes theoretical approaches that include ecocriticism, posthumanism, environmental history and sociology, eco-art, food studies, and animal and landscapes studies, among others. Italian landscapes, natures, and ecologies here encompass post-seismic rubble and the stratifying geo-social layers of the Anthropocene, the contaminated fields of the ecomafia's trafficking and Slow Food's gastronomy of liberation, poetic birds and storied trees, resident parasites and nonhuman creatures. The volume records stories of life forms and signs, justice and violence, deserts and places, uncertain borders and oil, dissident communities and interspecies dialogues, poetry and slaughterhouses, industry and art, sea and roots. At a time when the tension between the local and the global requires that we reconsider our multiple roots and porous place-identities, the text builds a creative critical discourse and offers a series of new voices that will enrich not just nationally oriented academic studies but also the entire debate on environmental culture"-- Introduction -- Gianni Celati's voicing of unpredictable places / Patrick Barron -- An ecology of voices : the soundscapes of Tuscany's Lunigiana / Almo Farina -- "Birds who speak my dialect" : poetry, birds, and landscape in Andrea Zanzotto / Damiano Benvegnu -- Witnessing the slaughter : human and nonhuman animals in Ivano Ferrari's poetry / Matteo Gilebbi -- Dialogo ergo sum : my pathway into posthumanities / Roberto Marchesini -- Italo Calvino and the landscapes of the anthropocene : a narrative stratigraphy / Serenella Iovino -- Resisting erasure : landscape, folklife, and ethics in the Calabrian and Arbereshe novels of Carmine Abate / Viktor Berberi -- Terra in Dino Buzzati's fantastic landscapes / Serena Ferrando -- Aeropittura : modern aviation and the fascist idealization of the Italian landscape / Sophia Maxine Farmer -- On places and looking : Italy's silent epiphanies / Franco Arminio -- Thinking like a parasite : malaria, plasmodium, and Sardinia's extraordinary longevity / Marcus Hall -- Ascending underground : an ecocritical way through the Susa Valley / Luca Bugnone -- Thinking on foot in the hydrocarbon sublime : Paolo Sorrentino's petrocultures / Elena Past -- Slow food and terra madre : a conversation with Carlo Petrini on ecology, rural traditions and new food cultures / Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan -- An environmental historian among activists : the political, the personal, and a project of guerrilla narrative / Marco Armiero -- We will not tremble : healing the body politic in post-earthquake Emilia-Romagna / Andrea Hajek -- Thinking through Taranto : toxic embodiment, eco-catastrophe, and the power of narrative / Monica Seger -- Room with a view (of a landfill) : the making of Verdenero / Marco Moro -- This nostrum that is neither sea nor remedy : Mediterranean re-visions / Pasquale Verdicchio -- Eco-futurism nature, matter, and body in Filippo Tommaso Marinetti / Enrico Cesaretti -- Nature's creative balance : on Italian eco-art / Andrea Lerda -- Walking roots : knitting past and future through Italy's woods / Tiziano Fratus -- Afterword : the proper study of the humanities is no longer "man" / Rosi Braidotti
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