Nature Performed: Environment, Culture and Performance

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• A wide-ranging exploration of the interface between performance and nature.
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• Examines the use and usefulness of ideas of ‘performance’ for understanding human-nature relationships.
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• Draws on different disciplines and intellectual traditions and on different conceptions of ‘performance’ and ‘nature’.
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• Contributions are rooted in real-world contexts and problems, explored through detailed ethnographic work.
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• Explores domains as diverse as allotments and bioinvasion, fox hunting and green politics.
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• Makes a distinctive contribution to the ‘cultural turn’ in environmental research.

Wallace Heim is a doctoral student. She has exhibited sculpture internationally and designed for the theatre, television and film.

Claire Waterton is Lecturer in Environment and Social Policy at the Institute for Environment, Philosophy and Public Policy at Lancaster University.