Nicola Martellozzo

Nicola Martellozzo is a Researcher at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. His work focuses on anthropological interpretations of environmental disasters, cultural memory, and political symbolism. He teaches courses in History of Popular Traditions and has been permanently based at Ca' Foscari since at least 2019.

• Current teaching includes HISTORY [FT5] and HISTORY [FTR5] courses on popular traditions
• Key research themes: environmental disasters, multispecies relations, political symbolism, cultural memory

His recent publications analyze post-disaster recovery in Italian mountain valleys and conspiracy rhetoric in North African contexts. Collaborations include co-authored works with Andrea Tollardo. Martellozzo's scholarship bridges ethnographic fieldwork with critical theory from Walter Benjamin to Ernesto De Martino, examining how societies process crises through symbolic systems and material practices.

His 2024-25 publications emphasize:

• Climate crisis and mountain communities
• Human-wildlife coexistence
• Temporal dimensions of disaster recovery
• Symbolic interpretations of environmental phenomena
• Anthropological approaches to public policy
• Memory and heritage in contested landscapes