Performing Environmentalisms: Expressive Culture and Ecological Change

By: Aaron S. Allen and Eduardo S Brondizio and Assefa Tefera Dibaba and Rebecca Dirksen and Mary Hufford and John Holmes McDowell and Mark Pedelty and Jennifer C. Post and Chie Sakakibara and Jeff Todd Titon and Rory Turner and Lois Wilcken

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Synopsis: Performing Environmentalisms examines the existential challenge of the twenty-first century: improving the prospects for maintaining life on our planet. The contributors focus on the strategic use of traditional artistic expression--storytelling and songs, crafted objects, and ceremonies and rituals--performed during the social turmoil provoked by environmental degradation and ecological collapse. Highlighting alternative visions of what it means to be human, the authors place performance at the center of people's responses to the crises. Such expression reinforces the agency of human beings as they work, independently and together, to address ecological dilemmas. The essays add these people's critical perspectives--gained through intimate struggle with life-altering force--to the global dialogue surrounding humanity's response to climate change, threats to biocultural diversity, and environmental catastrophe. Interdisciplinary in approach and wide-ranging in scope, Performing Environmentalisms is an engaging look at the merger of cultural expression and environmental action on the front lines of today's global emergency. Contributors: Aaron S. Allen, Eduardo S. Brondizio, Assefa Tefera Dibaba, Rebecca Dirksen, Mary Hufford, John Holmes McDowell, Mark Pedelty, Jennifer C. Post, Chie Sakakibara, Jeff Todd Titon, Rory Turner, Lois Wilcken

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 296 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780252052972
Related ISBNs:: 9780252044038, 9780252086090
Publisher:: University of Illinois Press
Date of Addition:: 09/14/21
Copyrighted By:: the Board of Trustees
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Social Studies, Earth Sciences, Music
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: John Holmes McDowell
Edited by:: Katherine Borland
Edited by:: Rebecca Dirksen
Edited by:: Sue Tuohy