Nature Performed - Environment, Culture and Performance

Informationen zum Autor Bronislaw Szerszynski is Lecturer in Environment and Culture at the Institute for Environment! Philosophy and Public Policy at Lancaster University. He is the author of The Sacralization of Nature: Nature and the Sacred in the Global Age (Blackwell Publishing! 2004) and co-editor of Re-ordering Nature: Theology! Society and the New Genetics (2003) and Risk! Environment and Modernity: Towards a New Ecology (1996). Wallace Heim is a doctoral student. She has exhibited sculpture internationally and designed for the theatre! television and film. Claire Waterton is Lecturer in Environment and Social Policy at the Institute for Environment! Philosophy and Public Policy at Lancaster University. Klappentext This book brings together contributions from scholars across the humanities. * A wide-ranging exploration of the interface between performance and nature. * Examines the use and usefulness of ideas of 'performance' for understanding human-nature relationships. Zusammenfassung This book brings together contributions from scholars across the humanities. A wide-ranging exploration of the interface between performance and nature. Examines the use and usefulness of ideas of 'performance' for understanding human-nature relationships. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements. Introduction (Bronislaw Szerszynski! Wallace Heim and Claire Waterton). Part I: Making Worlds. Performances and Constitutions Of Natures: A Consideration Of The Performance Of Lay Geographies (David Crouch). Ritual Theory and The Environment (Ronald Grimes). A Passionate Pursuit: Foxhunting As Performance (Garry Marvin). Part II: Living Here. Green Distinctions: The Performance Of Identity Among Environmental Activists (Dave Horton). Performing Safety In Faulty Environments (Peter Simmons). Public Participation As The Performance Of Nature (Stephen Healy). Part III: Embodying Abstraction. Performing The Classification Of Nature (Claire Waterton). Performing Facts: Finding A Way Over Scotland's Mountains (Hayden Lorimer and Katrin Lund). Performing Place In Nature Reserves (Matt Watson). Part IV: Unsettling Life. Feral Ecologies: Performing Life On The Colonial Periphery (Nigel Clark). Slow Activism. Homelands! Love! and The Lightbulb (Wallace Heim). Technology! Performance and Life Itself: Hannah Arendt and The Fate Of Nature (Bronislaw Szerszynski). Notes of Contributors. Index. ...

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• Authors: Szerszynski, Bronislaw Szerszynski, Bronislaw Heim Szerszynski
• Assisted by: Wallace Heim (Editor), Bronislaw Szerszynski (Editor), Claire Waterton (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2004
• EAN: 9781405114646
• ISBN: 978-1-4051-1464-6
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Sociological Review Monographs; The Sociological Review Monographs
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries