climate changes

Environmental Justice Is Social Justice: Literary and Cultural Representations of the Climate Crisis in Third-Millennium Europe through a Gender-Based Analysis

Environmental Justice Is Social Justice: Literary and Cultural Representations of the Climate Crisis in Third-Millennium Europe through a Gender-Based Analysis

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

Oltre la retorica della bella città innevata

In winter cities it is normal that piled-up snow, perhaps moved by the wind or the snowplows, subtracts a large part of the public space, the surfaces compacted by the trampling become dangerously slippery, the melting water, the ice and the slush behave as physical and mental barriers to soft mobility, that seasonal deposits capture large quantities of pollutants and congest the water disposal system.

Climatic variability over the last two millennia in the Mediterranean area. A review from marine paleoarchives

Una ricostruzione dettagliata delle oscillazioni climatiche riconosciute negli ultimi 2000 anni viene proposta tramite confronto di dati sugli isotopi stabili dell’ossigeno misurati sul foraminifero planctonico Globigerinoides ruber in diverse aree del Bacino del Mediterraneo (Bacino di Minorca, Mar Tirreno centrale e meridionale, Golfo di Taranto, Mar Adriatico Meridionale e Israele).

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