Monica Porzionato

I am a PhD candidate within the project Rethinking Urban Tourism Development: Dealing with Sustainability in the Age of Over-Tourism at the Department of Strategic Communication, Lund University (Sweden). I hold a BA in Communication from the University of Padova, a MA in Semiotics from the University of Bologna and a MA in Women’s and Gender Studies from Utrecht University. My research interest is primarily concerned with the ways language affects human’s relation to the natural environment, and vice versa how the natural environment affects human’s language. My current PhD-project explores the possibility of a posthumanist and multisensory approach to climate change communication in the touristic setting of Venice, wherein it analyses how strategic ways of representing climate change produce different sensory and affective perceptions of changing environments, and how such perceptions sustain or resist the branding strategy of such place.