Performance on Behalf of the Environment (eBook)

Richard D. Besel is an associate professor in the Communication Studies Department at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Jnan A. Blau is an associate professor in the Communication Studies Department at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Performance on Behalf of the EnvironmentJnan A. Blau and Richard D. BeselPART I: PERFORMERS AND AUDIENCESChapter 2: It’s a Party, Not a Protest: Environmental Community, Co-Incident Performance, and the San José Bike PartyDavid Terry and Anne Marie ToddChapter 3: Performing Nonhuman Liberation: How the ALF and ELF Rupture the Political ImaginationJason Del GandioChapter 4: Eco-Comedy Performance: An Alchemy of Environmentalism and HumorAlison BodkinChapter 5: Embodied Perspective by Incongruity: Environmental Critique in an Age of PerformanceRichard D. BeselPART II: PLACES AND SPACESChapter 6: Reinhabiting the Land: From Vacant Lot to Garden PlotBarbara Willard Chapter 7: “Progress Fell Upon Us”: Ecotourism, Culture, and Performance in the Peruvian AmazonJnan A. BlauChapter 8: “On Finding Ways of Being”: Kinesthetic Empathy in Dance and EcologyJulia HandschuhChapter 9: Indeterminate Hikes+: Hiking Through the Urban Wilderness Leila Nadir and Cary PeppermintPART III: MATERIALS AND PROCESSESChapter 10: Indigenous Theatre in Global Times: Situated Knowledge and Ecological Communities in Salmon Is Everything and Burning Vision Theresa MayChapter 11: Staging Sustainable Shakespeare: “Greening” the Bard While Advancing Institutional MissionRay Schultz and Jess LarsonChapter 12: Puppet Planets and Spirit Soldiers: Staging Ecological Representations in Baby Universe and Forgotten World Courtney Ryan