Between Tragedy and Miracle: Reclaiming the Italian Commons
Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”
July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon
In the Introduction to Italy and the Environmental Humanities, editors Serenella Iovino, Enrico Cesaretti, and Elena Past describe a peninsula in environmental crisis, a victim of what they call “the strange mechanism that transforms cultural richness into misery, and public good into a private supply for short-term speculations” (2). While that continues to be true in many sectors, there are abundant examples in the country’s arts, literatures, ...