"For too long now, nature has been seen as the silent onlooker at the performance of the human. But other ways of looking at performance are possible, ways which do not assume that this is the case. Through a series of sparkling chapters, this collection is one of the first to argue for letting both ?human? and ?nature? act up, in the process challenging both these categories? right to exist. Great Stuff." – Nigel Thrift, University of Bristol As interest grows in ideas of ?performance? and ?performativity? in the humanities and social sciences, these concepts can be extended and re–cast to inform human relations with nature. Nature Performed demonstrates how the many–dimensional prism of performance can generate new understanding of nature–human relations. Using case–studies drawn from a wide–ranging set of real–world contexts, the chapters explore issues such as: how concepts of performance can be used to interrogate the character of nature–human...

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