Ricerc@Sapienza

This project investigates the representations of the climate crisis in different European cultural productions through a
transdisciplinary, transnational, postcolonial, intersectional, and inter-/transmedia approach. It analyzes the current theoretical
debate on the Anthropocene, on environmental violence as a legacy of colonial imbalances of power, and on the connection
between environmental justice and social justice (with a specific focus on gender inequalities). It then examines how cultural
productions play an indispensable role in fighting climate change ¿ as they help to translate it into real-life characters and
settings ¿ and spread a culture of awareness and care.
The project focuses on Italian and European (British, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, among others) cultural productions through an intermediality strategy and a transmedial approach, considering literature, film, tv and web
series, podcasts, visual and performing arts from 1992 (when the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change was signed
and the concept of the Anthropocene theorized) to the present. This research project will build an innovative framework that
will allow to apply the theoretical and methodological tools of environmental humanities, ecocriticism, and gender studies to
the cultural productions examined.
The dissemination of the research results will foster the debate among both academic and non-academic audiences, through
activities addressed to the academic community (seminars, final conference, articles, conference proceedings) and to civil
society at large (events in collaboration with museums, public schools, libraries, realization of a podcast). The research team
will include national and international experts in different fields of inquiry who come from a number of disciplines and
approaches, ranging from literature to media studies, film studies, postcolonial studies, gender studies, cultural studies,
history, philosophy, geography, and visual arts.