Nature performed : environment, culture and performance
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Nature performed : environment, culture and performance
（Sociological review monograph）
Blackwell/Sociological Review, 2003
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Draws on different disciplines and intellectual traditions and on different conceptions of `performance' and `nature'.
Contributions are rooted in real-world contexts and problems, explored through detailed ethnographic work.
Explores domains as diverse as allotments and bioinvasion, fox hunting and green politics.
Makes a distinctive contribution to the `cultural turn' in environmental research.
Table of Contents
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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