Nature performed
Subtitle: environment, culture and performance
By: edited by Bronislaw Szerszynski, Wallace Heim and Claire Waterton.
Contributors: Szerszynski, Bronislaw.; Heim, Wallace.; Waterton, Claire.
Series: The Sociological review monographs; Sociological review monograph.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub./Sociological Review
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Nature -- Effect of human beings on.; Performative (Philosophy); Human beings -- Effect of environment on.
Description: vi, 226 p. : 23 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Performances and constitutions of natures: a consideration of the performance of lay geographies / David Crouch; title: Ritual theory and the environment / Ronald Grimes; title: A passionate pursuit: foxhunting as performance / Garry Marvin; title: Green distinctions: the performance of identity among environmental activists / Dave Horton; title: Performing safety in faulty environments / Peter Simmons; title: Public participation as the performance of nature / Stephen Healy; title: Performing the classification of nature / Claire Waterton; title: Performing facts: finding a way over Scotland's mountains / Hayden Lorimer and Katrin Lund; title: Performing place in nature reserves / Matt Watson; title: Feral ecologies: performing life on the colonial periphery / Nigel Clark; title: Slow activism: homelands, love and the lightbulb / Wallace Heim; title: Technology, performance and life itself: Hannah Arendt and the fate of nature / Bronislaw Szerszynski.