Emiliano Guaraldo
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Item type:Publication, Arte e conflitto nell’era dell’estrattivismo crocieristicoThis essay examines artistic activism in Venice as a response to cruise tourism and its extractive logics. Drawing on the concept of neo-extractivism developed in the Latin American context, I read Venice as a site of extraction where tourism operates not on raw materials but on the city's urbanity, natural environment, and social fabric. While the 2021 decree banning large cruise ships from the Giudecca canal remains largely ineffective, and cruise companies deploy sustainability discourse as greenwashing, activist art has emerged as a critical practice for articulating counter-imaginaries. Through the analysis of works by Gli Impresari, Banksy, Eleonora Sovrani, and Elena Mazzi, I argue that these artistic interventions operate on the plane of the imaginary and the sensible, engaging directly with the specificity of local ecosystems. Rather than reproducing the abstract and planetary framing of neoliberal environmental governance, these works visualize the material damage inflicted by extractive tourism and propose alternative ways of inhabiting the lagoon.Type:book section