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Latest publications

Technology and Culture, vol. 66 no. 1, 2025, p. 107-133. Project MUSE

"What lived in Venice was still afloat'
Speculative Texts as Spatial Events in the Venetian Lagoon"

Emiliano Guaraldo

Literary Geographies, Vol. 10 No. 2 (2024)

Capitalization and the production of value at the nexus of academia and industry: the case of a microbiome startup.

Luciano Ferrari, Roberta Raffaetà and Lorenzo Beltrame

New Genetics and Society, 43(1) 2024

Unveiling the hidden agenda: Biases in news reporting and consumption 

Alessandro Galeazzi, Antonio Peruzzi, Emanuele Brugnoli, Marco Delmastro, Fabiana Zollo

PNAS Nexus, Volume 3, Issue 11, November 2024

Organizing Microbial Diversity and Interspecies Relations through Diagrams: Trees, Maps, and the Visual Semiotics of the Living

Valeria Burgio, Roberta Raffaetà

Biosemiotics (2024)

The Sea Has Waves, The Fula Has Cows’: Moving Waters, Labour and Capital in Anthropocene Senegal

Pietro Daniel Omedeo

Lagoonscapes 4/1 (2024): 11–30

The Senegal Delta and Global Capitalism

Pietro Daniel Omedeo

Monthly Review 75/9 (2024)

Unpacking social media 'engagement': a practice theory approach to science on social media

Sarah R. Davies, Rebecca Wells, Fabiana Zollo, Joseph Roche

Journal of Science Communication 23(06), Y02, 2024

News and misinformation consumption: A temporal comparison across European countries

Anees Baqir, Alessandro Galeazzi, Fabiana Zollo

Plos One

Learning from farmers on potentials and limits for an agroecological transition: a participatory action research in Western Sicily

Luigi Conte, Julia Prakofjewa, Tiziana Floridia, Alice Stocco, Vito Comar, Francesco Gonella and Martina Lo Cascio

Frontiers in Environmental Science

Understanding the complex links between social media and health behaviour

Fabiana Zollo, Andrea Baronchelli, Cornelia Betsch, Marco Delmastro, Walter Quattrociocchi

BMJ 2024; 385

Up there and out of time? Alps and challenged modernities in the history of European anthropology. Reimagining Europe.De-colonizing Historical Imaginaries, Disciplinary Narratives

Gabriele Orlandi

Folklore and Ethnology and Beyond, Historical Approaches in Cultural Analysis Working Group of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF), Jun 2024, Marburg, Germany

Eating Like a Buddhist: Vegetarianism and Ethical Foodscapes in the Twenty-First Century

Francesca Tarocco, Amalia Rossi, Ben Weilun Zhang, Silvia Francescon

Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale, 60(1), 257-286.

Data as environment, environment as data: One Health in collaborative data-intensive science

Lucilla Barchetta and Roberta Raffaetà

Big Data & Society, 11(2).

Understanding thermal justice and systemic cooling poverty from the margins: intersectional perspectives from Rio de Janeiro

Antonella Mazzone, Enrica De Cian, Elias de Paula, Andreia Ferreira  & Radhika Khosla

Published in Local Environment, 1–18.

Animal Protection (husheng) and Ethical Eating Practices in Modern Chinese Buddhism
现代中国佛教的动物保护和道德饮食习惯

Francesca Tarocco

Published in Review of Religion and Chinese Society, 2024

Cognition and Intelligence After the Post-Human Turn
Insights from the Brain-Gut Axis

Roberta Raffaetà
     
Published by Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2024

The Invisible Fisherman: The Economy of Water Knowledge in Early-modern Venice

Pietro Daniel Omodeo

Publshed in Ichthyology in Context (1500–1880), ed. by Paul J. Smith and Florike Egmond (Leiden: Brill, 2023), pp. 362-3910

Discussing the Future of Anthropological Collaborations with Data Scientists

Roberta Raffaetà, Giovanna Santanera  and Francesca Esposito

Published in Anthropology in Action, Special Issue Editorial Introduction: Entangling Data while Entangling Disciplines

Building Common Ground
Ecological Art Practices and Human-Nonhuman Knowledges

Edited by Emiliano Guaraldo

Published by Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2023

Italian Science Fiction and the Environmental Humanities

Daniel A. Finch-Race, Emiliano Guaraldo, Marco Malvestio

Published by Liverpool University Press, 2023

Primo Levi and the Terrestrial Condition

Emiliano Guaraldo

Published in ENTHYMEMA, (33), 26–43, (2023).

Understanding systemic cooling poverty

Antonella Mazzone, Enrica De Cian, Giacomo Falchetta, Anant Jani, Malcolm Mistry & Radhika Khosla

Published in Nature Sustainability (2023)

Everybody Talks About the Weather

Editor: Dieter Roelstraete
Editor associati: Mario Mainetti, Cornelia Mattiacci
Conversazioni tra Dieter Roelstraete e Amitav Ghosh
Testi di Giovanni Aloi, Cristina Baldacci, Shumon Basar, Soren Brothers, Giuliana Bruno, Amber Jane Butchart, Barnabas Calder, Pippo Ciorra, Selina Neirok Leem, Cornelia Mattiacci, Andrea Moro, Luca Mercalli, Michael Rock, Lucia Pietroiusti, Björn Stevens, Jennifer Uchendu, Gaia Vince

Published by Fondazione Prada, Milano 2023
ISBN: 9788887029857

Maternal and food microbial sources shape the infant microbiome of a rural Ethiopian population 

Manara, Serena; Selma-Royo, Marta; Huang, Kun D; Asnicar, Francesco; Armanini, Federica; Blanco-Miguez, Aitor; Cumbo, Fabio; Golzato, Davide; Manghi, Paolo; Pinto, Federica; Valles-Colomer, Mireia; Amoroso, Loredana; Corrias, Maria Valeria; Ponzoni, Mirco; Raffaetà, Roberta; Cabrera-Rubio, Raul; Olcina, Mari; Pasolli, Edoardo; Collado, Maria Carmen; Segata, Nicola 

Published in Current Biology, vol. 33 issue 10

Haunting Pasts to Flowing Futures: In Search of Oceanic Agency

Pietro  Consolandi, Dave Mekhala

On the Law of the Sea 2022. Fisheries and the Law of the Sea in the Anthropocene Era

Published by Ascomare Yearbook

The Cooling Solution

De Cian, Enrica, Gaia Squarci, Jacopo Crimi, Antonella Mazzone, Talita Borges Cruz, Paula Borges da Silveira Bezerra, Lorenza Campagnolo, Francesco Pietro Colelli, Marinella Davide, Giacomo Falchetta, Dattakiran Jagu, André F.P. Lucena, Malcolm Mistry, Filippo Pavanello, Teresa Randazzo, Sebastian Renner, Roberto Schaefer, Ian Sue Wing.

ISBN: 979-12-210-3229-1, (2023)

 

 

Venice and the Anthropocene: An Ecocritical Guide

Edited by Cristina Baldacci, Shaul Bassi, Lucio De Capitani, Pietro Daniel Omodeo

Published by Wetlands

Geopraxis: A Concept for the Anthropocene

Pietro Daniel Omodeo

Published in Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas 11/22 (2022): 10:1-10:52

Roberta Raffaetà

Published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022

Growing polarization around climate change on social media

Max Falkenberg, Alessandro Galeazzi, Maddalena Torricelli, Niccolò Di Marco, Francesca Larosa, Madalina Sas, Amin Mekacher, Warren Pearce, Fabiana Zollo, Walter Quattrociocchi & Andrea Baronchelli

Published in Nature Climate Change, 2022

Praticare la religione durante la pandemia. Mutamenti nella Comunità Evangelica Cinese padovana causati dal COVID

Jacopo Scarin

Published in Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale, 58(1), 779-802, 2022

Catching up with the European Union’s recovery and resilience agenda: green transition reforms in the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan

Benedetta Cotta, Ekaterina Domorenok

Published in Contemporary Italian Politics, 2022

 

 

Lagoonscapes

We are happy to announce the launch of Lagoonscapes, The Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities. It is a digital, open-access, international, and trans-disciplinary journal based at NICHE, and it promotes a cross-disciplinary dialogue on contemporary and historical environmental issues, investigating relationships with non-human forms of life and the natural world from decolonial, feminist, and activist perspectives. 

NICHE acknowledges the support of Banca d'Italia to the publication of the first three issues of Lagoonscapes. 

Thinking the Planet with Venice
Humanities, Ecocriticism and Multispecies Relations. Proceedings (part I)
Humanities, Ecocriticism and Multispecies Relations. Proceedings (part II)
Arboreal Ecocriticism
Framing Environments in Russia: Critical Reflections on Ecology, Culture and Power
Swimming Against the Tide
Epic, Ecocriticism, and Aesthetic Anthropology: New Approaches to the Environmental Challenges
Ecologies of Life and Death in the Anthropocene