Description

Human degradation of the environment has been documented by scholars across a range of disciplines: the global temperature of the planet continues to rise, abandoned industrial sites stain once vibrant communities, and questions about the purity of our water and foods linger. In the shadow of these material conditions, concerned citizens have reacted by issuing critiques against careless consumerism and excessive lifestyles. Their hope is to illustrate and inspire alternative ways of living. As part of such efforts and activism, some have turned to performance as a means to investigate matters further, pose challenges and questions, and enact new ways of being and thinking in a globalized world. Performance on Behalf of the Environment is a collection of essays from a diverse group of scholars that explore critically the strengths, limitations, and processes of what can be termed environmental performances.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction: Performance on Behalf of the Environment
Jnan A. Blau and Richard D. Besel

PART I: PERFORMERS AND AUDIENCES

Chapter 2: It’s a Party, Not a Protest: Environmental Community, Co-Incident Performance, and the San José Bike Party
David Terry and Anne Marie Todd

Chapter 3: Performing Nonhuman Liberation: How the ALF and ELF Rupture the Political Imagination
Jason Del Gandio

Chapter 4: Eco-Comedy Performance: An Alchemy of Environmentalism and Humor
Alison Bodkin

Chapter 5: Embodied Perspective by Incongruity: Environmental Critique in an Age of Performance
Richard D. Besel

PART II: PLACES AND SPACES

Chapter 6: Reinhabiting the Land: From Vacant Lot to Garden Plot
Barbara Willard

Chapter 7: “Progress Fell Upon Us”: Ecotourism, Culture, and Performance in the Peruvian Amazon
Jnan A. Blau

Chapter 8: “On Finding Ways of Being”: Kinesthetic Empathy in Dance and Ecology
Julia Handschuh

Chapter 9: Indeterminate Hikes+: Hiking Through the Urban Wilderness
Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint

PART III: MATERIALS AND PROCESSES

Chapter 10: Indigenous Theatre in Global Times: Situated Knowledge and Ecological Communities in Salmon Is Everything and Burning Vision
Theresa May

Chapter 11: Staging Sustainable Shakespeare: “Greening” the Bard While Advancing Institutional Mission
Ray Schultz and Jess Larson

Chapter 12: Puppet Planets and Spirit Soldiers: Staging Ecological Representations in Baby Universe and Forgotten World
Courtney Ryan

Product details

Published 26 Nov 2013
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 270
ISBN 9780739174999
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 6 BW Photos
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Richard D. Besel

Anthology Editor

Jnan A. Blau

Contributor

Alison Bodkin

Contributor

Julia Handschuh

Contributor

Jess Larson

Contributor

Theresa May

Contributor

Leila Nadir

Contributor

Cary Peppermint

Contributor

Courtney Ryan

Contributor

Ray Schultz

Contributor

David Terry

Contributor

Anne Marie Todd

Contributor

Barbara Willard

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