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Kershaw, Baz (2012) Performance ecologies, biotic rights and retro-modernisation. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, Vol.17 (No.2). pp. 265-287. doi:10.1080/13569783.2012.670426 ISSN 1356-9783.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2012.670426
Abstract
This article is based on a paper first presented at the Performance Studies international annual conference on Performing Rights at Queen Mary, University of London, 2006. It has been rewritten specially for this themed issue of RiDE in light of my research following publication of Theatre Ecology: Environments and Performance Events in 2007. Mainly in the format of a thought experiment, it argues that the current ecological crisis of global warming could be a systemic ‘insanity’ of planet Earth produced by a human compulsion to perform. It aims to demonstrate that finding cures for this affliction requires a radical revision of how Homo sapiens values human rights via complementary biotic rights inclusive of other organic species. As these rights are an aspect of ongoing global performance ecologies understood as integral to eco-systemic evolution, it becomes necessary for humans to invent refreshed ways of assessing how futures variously emerge through the natures of present and past. The article's thought experimental methods are adopted, in part, so that a few jocular analytical tropes can be treated as entirely serious. Hence it proposes that the concept ‘retro-modernisation’ should be recycled immediately and that one of the shortest of verbal paradoxes is adopted as a motto by all eco-warriors of the dramatic, theatrical and performing arts – but it is certainly not ‘Be spontaneous!’
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance | ||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
ISSN: | 1356-9783 | ||||
Official Date: | 2012 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.17 | ||||
Number: | No.2 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 265-287 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1080/13569783.2012.670426 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Description: | From the Special Issue : Themed Edition: Enviromentalism |
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