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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.
| ISBN | 1405114649 | | Pages | 238 | | ISBN13 | 9781405114646
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 338 | | Imprint | Blackwell Publishing Ltd | | Published in | Oxford | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Sociological Review Monograph | | Publication date | 30 Jan 2004 | | Height (mm) | 231 | | Library of Congress | NX212 | | Width (mm) | 158 | | DEWEY | 306 | | Spine width (mm) | 13 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly |
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| | | Acknowledgements | | | | | | Introduction by Bronislaw Szerszynski and Wallace Heim and Claire Waterton | | 1 | | | | Performances and constitutions of natures: a consideration of the performance of lay geographies by David Crouch | | 17 | | | | Ritual theory and the environment by Ronald Grimes | | 31 | | | | A passionate pursuit: foxhunting as performance by Garry Marvin | | 46 | | | | Green distinctions: the performance of identity among environmental activists by Dave Horton | | 63 | | | | Performing safety in faulty environments by Peter Simmons | | 78 | | | | Public participation as the performance of nature by Stephen Healy | | 94 | | | | Performing the classification of nature by Claire Waterton | | 111 | | | | Performing facts: finding a way over Scotland's mountains by Hayden Lorimer and Katrin Lund | | 130 | | | | Performing place in nature reserves by Matt Watson | | 145 | | | | Feral ecologies: performing life on the colonial periphery by Nigel Clark | | 163 | | | | Slow activism: homelands, love and the lightbulb by Wallace Heim | | 183 | | | | Technology, performance and life itself: Hannah Arendt and the fate of nature by Bronislaw Szerszynski | | 203 | | | | Notes on contributors | | 219 | | | | Index | | 221 |
"A testimonial to the passions, responsibilities and creative activism currently being enacted in areas of environmental concern...the book overall makes an important contribution, with many strong and interesting chapters, and should have appeal across a wide range of audiences." Environmental Values, vol 14/4 "In more ways than one, this book challenges us to use our imaginations." Cultural Geographies  Be the first to write a customer review
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