Afterword by: Paolo Pecere
Year of publication: 2026


Synopsis:
In the 1980s, a small fishing village at the Po river mouths becomes the protagonist of an unprecedented revolution. The Goro lagoon, in the Ferrarese Delta, is transformed into one of the world's major sites for farming the Manila clam. It is the beginning of a gold rush that will radically change the landscape and local traditions. In the same period, the Padanian Delta begins to show more and more clearly the controversial and disorienting effects of global warming. Unexpected environmental phenomena challenge the cultural expectations of order and control sedimented in this small amphibious microcosm. In the Sacca di Goro, humanity finds itself face to face with an ecological metamorphosis that deeply questions the imaginaries and cosmologies of late modernity, with which the non-human had been reduced to a docile and exploitable resource.
This book is an ethnographic journey into Goro's climate crisis and the socio-environmental upheavals that have marked its recent history, and an invitation to reconsider our role in the broader fabric of ecological relations in which we are immersed.


Other information:
Series: Barene
Pages: 128
Language: Italian
ISBN: 9791280930408