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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
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
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