o:550595 Annali di Ca’ Foscari Serie orientale. Vol. 61 - Supplemento, novembre 2025 Metaphors: Conceptualising Horizons of Meaning en At the core of human thought and expression lies the profound capacity of metaphor – the act of understanding one concept in terms of another. However, over the last decade, in response to the socio-political and ecological realities of the ‘Anthropocene’, disciplines like anthropology have also pointed at the limitations of human thought, highlighting its fundamental role in large scale planetary destruction. These critical enquiries into modes of thought beyond the human such as in Eduardo Kohn’s path breaking work with indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon forests, challenged our perceptions about the ‘field’ of thinking and communication as the sole domain of humans. It is with such a renewed orientation of metaphors that we organised our PhD symposium, Metaphors: Conceptualising Horizons of Meaning, held from the 26th to the 28th of February 2024 at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. The present volume aims at exploring some of these perspectives. The symposium was the result of a collective endeavour by the doctoral candidates of the PhD in Asian and African Studies, XXXVIII cycle, at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice: Rebecca Ciattini, Wenxin Jin, Cien Liang, Laura Locatelli, Michele Pulini, Michele Scarlassara, Kesang Thakur, and Claudia Zancan. Table of contents: METAPHORS: CONCEPTUALISING HORIZONS OF MEANING Editors’ Preface Rebecca Ciattini, Wenxin Jin, Laura Locatelli, Michele Pulini, Kesang Thakur, Claudia Zancan Inter-Ships: Metaphors as Encounters Mieke Bal Chinese Neologisms and Metaphorical Potential in Pedagogy Claudio Gebbia Re-Reading the Cityscape. How Saihate Tahi’s Poetry Installation Shi no kasoku Opens Up New Urban Imaginaries Sarah Puetzer Swelling Horizons: Coloniality, Sea-Level Rise, and their Otherwise Lukas H. Seidler From Metaphors to Figurations: Experiencing ‘Margin’, ‘Centre’ and ‘Resistance’ in the Ethnographic Field and Beyond Elsa Gios, Nabila Tavolieri Pathways to Nirvāṇa: Aquatic Imagery and Visual Metaphors in Gandhāra Alice Casalini The Medieval Daoist Metaphor of the Cave: Cosmogony, Sacred Geography, and the Human Body Xiaoyu Zhang A Metaphorical Narrative of Outer Space in China’s Diplomacy: Toward a Heavenly ‘Community of Common Destiny’ Tonio Savina Climate Im/Mobility Studies • <p>At the core of human thought and expression lie • Figurations • At the core of human thought and expression lies t • The symposium was the result of a collective endea • Coloniality • Cave • Buddhist architecture • Human body • China • Decolonization • Chinese • Cosmogony • Ethnography • Pedagogy • Sacred geography • Nirvāṇa • Édouard Glissant • Encounter • Metaphorical narrative • Feminist writing • Aquatic imagery • Gandhāran art • Avant-garde • Creative writing • These critical enquiries into modes of thought bey • Japanese literature • Foreign language • Critical Ocean Studies • Medieval Daoism • However, over the last decade, in response to the • Space diplomacy • Sea-level rise • Common destiny • Urban art • Climate change • Horizon • The present volume aims at exploring some of these • Environmental Humanities • It is with such a renewed orientation of metaphors • Metaphors • Chinese neologisms • Metaphor • Contemporary poetry • Community of shared future for humankind • Visual metaphors • Site-specific art • Urban space 1552099 10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2025/03 1552256 2385-3042 1552101 1125-3789 2026-02-04T10:13:28.603Z 44 yes 52 Wenxin Jin person Rebecca Ciattini person Laura Locatelli person Michele Pulini person Kesang Thakur person Claudia Zancan person Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia - Dipartimento di Studi sull’Asia e sull’Africa Mediterranea application/pdf 18381168 http://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/o:550595 no yes 16 70 UNIVEEDITORIA Edizioni_cafoscari 246 p Annali di Ca' Foscari. Serie orientale 61 (suppl. nov. 2025) Venezia Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press 2025-12-14