TY - BOOK AU - Szerszynski,Bronislaw AU - Heim,Wallace AU - Waterton,Claire TI - Nature performed: environment, culture and performance SN - 1405114649 AV - GF75 .N364 2003 U1 - 304.2 22 PY - 2003/// CY - Oxford, Malden, MA PB - Blackwell Pub./Sociological Review KW - Nature KW - Effect of human beings on KW - Performative (Philosophy) KW - Human beings KW - Effect of environment on N2 - Offering a wide-ranging, critical examination of the use and usefulness of ideas of performance for understanding human-nature relationships, this book gathers together a range of approaches to performance, nature and culture and subjects them to systematic critical discussion. As interest grows in ideas of "performance" amd "performativity" in the humainties and social sciences, these concepts can be extended and re-cast to inform human relations with nature. This book demonstrates how the many-dimensional prism of performance can generate new understandings of nature-human relations ER -