Situated Knowing: Epistemic Perspectives on Performance (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)

By: Ewa Bal and Mateusz Chaberski

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Synopsis: Situated Knowing aims to critically examine performance studies’ ideological and socio-political underpinnings while also challenging the Anglo-centrism of the discipline. This book reworks the concept of situated knowledges put forward over thirty years ago by American biologist and philosopher Donna Haraway in order to challenge the Enlightenment paradigm of objectivity in sciences by emphasising the role of the embodied and partial socio-cultural perspective of the scholar in the production of knowledge. Through carefully selected case studies of contemporary natural, cultural and technological performances, contributors to this volume show that the proposed approach requires new genealogies of traditional concepts, emerges from encounters with contemporary performative arts or contact zones and may potentially go beyond the human in order to include non-human ways of being in the world. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of performance studies, cultural studies, media studies and theatre studies.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 198 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781000082142
Related ISBNs:: 9780367809584, 9780367408657, 9780367408657, 9780367512941, 9780367512941
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 08/12/20
Copyrighted By:: Ewa Bal, Mateusz Chaberski
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Ewa Bal
Edited by:: Mateusz Chaberski