Del 80 i serien Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies

Italian Science Fiction and the Environmental Humanities

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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

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This volume explores Italian science fiction from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, covering literary texts, films, music and visual works by figures as diverse as Maria Rosa Cutrufelli, Peter Kolosimo, Primo Levi, Antonio Margheriti, Gilda Musa and Roberto Vacca. It broadens the horizons of both Italian studies and the environmental humanities by addressing a long-neglected genre, and expands our understanding of relations between the ecological, the imaginary and the sociopolitical. The chapters draw on a variety of methodological frameworks, including animal studies, ecocriticism, ecofeminism, eco-media studies, energy humanities and posthumanism. The reader will gain insights into consequential topics such as anthropocentrism/speciesism, ecomodernist thought, environmental justice struggles at the planetary and regional level, non-human and new materialist ontologies, utopian/dystopian philosophies and prospects for transitioning beyond the crisis of petro-modernity through the construction of post-depletion futures.Open Access versions of the introduction and six of the book chapters are available on the Liverpool University Press website.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-09-11
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieLiverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies
Antal sidor240
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781807810078

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Daniel A. Finch-Race is an Assistant Professor in Geography in the Department of History and Cultures at the University of Bologna. Emiliano Guaraldo is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Geography at the New Institute Centre for Environmental Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. Marco Malvestio is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Literature in the Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies at the University of Padua.

Introduction: Greening Italian Science Fiction – New Approaches to a Long-Lasting GenreDaniel A. Finch-Race, Emiliano Guaraldo, Marco MalvestioSection I: Science in the AnthropoceneHerbert Pagani’s Mégalopolis: A Rock Opera between Dystopian Science Fiction and Ecological UtopiaEleonora LimaCultural and Ecological Extinction in Primo Levi’s Science-FictionMichele MaiolaniWhat Kind of Science? Italian Science Fiction Writers against the Economic BoomDaniele ComberiatiSection II: Visions of ExtinctionEcofeminist Care at the End of the World: Collaborative Survival in Niccolò Ammaniti’s Anna and Maria Rosa Cutrufelli’s L’isola delle MadriRaffaella Baccolini and Chiara XausaBarbarism, Animalization, and the End of the World: Fantasies of Regression and Mutation in Italian Science FictionSimona MicaliA Post-Apocalyptic Garden of Eden. Marco Ferreri’s Il Seme dell’UomoEmiliano GuaraldoSection III: Urban Landscapes and Industrial Capitalism in a Rapidly Changing CountryIndustrial Wonders and Pitfalls in Émile Souvestre’s Le Monde tel qu’il sera en l’an 3000 (1846) and Agostino della Sala Spada’s Nel 2073! (1874)Daniel A. Finch-RaceSpaceships in the Anthropocene: Peter Kolosimo and the End of (Our) TimesMarco MalvestioUncanny Spaces in Inhuman Times: The Art of Giacomo CostaMatteo GilebbiAgainst Eco-Fascism: Space and Place in Tullio Avoledo’s FurlandFlorian MussgnugSection IV: Posthuman, More-than-Human, and Interspecies RelationsGreen Traces: Vegetal Imagination in Italian Science Fiction from Gilda Musa to SolarpunkEnrico CesarettiBonsai Children, Enchanted Gardens: Nature as Artifice in Paolo Zanotti’s Dystopian Fairy TaleValentina Fulginiti‘All We Need is Love’?: Eros, Agape, and Koinonia in the Time of Mass ExtinctionDanila CannamelaEco-Horror: Human-Animal Encounters in Italian Science-Fiction FilmsRobert A. RushingSolarpunk, or rather Solartivismo: An Interview with Francesco VersoArielle Saiber