Journey through climate change at the mouth of the Po River

In the 1980s, a small fishing village at the mouth of the Po River was the scene of an unprecedented revolution. The Goro lagoon, in the Ferrara Delta, was transformed into one of the world's largest sites for farming Philippine clams. It was the beginning of a gold rush that would radically change the landscape and local traditions. At the same time, the Po Delta began to show the controversial and unsettling effects of global warming more and more clearly. Unexpected environmental phenomena call into question the cultural expectations of order and control that have become entrenched in this small amphibious microcosm. In the Sacca di Goro, humans find themselves face to face with an ecological metamorphosis that profoundly questions the imaginaries and cosmologies of late modernity, which sought to reduce the non-human to a docile and exploitable resource. This book is an ethnographic journey into the climate crisis in Goro and the socio-environmental upheavals that have characterized its recent history, and an invitation to reconsider the role of humans in the broader fabric of ecological relationships in which they are immersed.
Afterword by Paolo Pecere.

Year of publication: 2025
Language: Italian