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Haedicke, Susan C. (2016) Performing Farmscapes on urban streets. Popular Entertainment Studies, 7 (1-2). pp. 93-113. ISSN 1837-9303.
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Abstract
In The Principle of Hope, Ernst Bloch introduces the idea of the “Not-Yet”, a ubiquitous utopian impulse that stimulates future-oriented thinking about “something … that has never been conscious before.” These imaginings of a better future, Bloch argues, are really only ways to understand the obscurities of the present. Street theatre companies, like Le Phun, Opéra Pagaï, Friches Théâtre Urbain and Fallen Fruit, seek to envisage a “not-yet” of future urban farmscapes in familiar present-day locations. Their performance-based projects highlight contemporary social issues around alternative agricultural practices and suggest imaginative provocations to world-wide concerns around food security by proposing ephemeral urban farms in unexpected city sites and restoring the efficacy of an agricultural “commons” where resources and tasks are shared. Each project thus metaphorically marks the urban landscape with creative possibilities for a more secure food future. Dr Susan Haedicke is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Warwick, UK. Her current research interests include a focus on local food growing initiatives and community gardens worldwide and how they ‘perform’ in the larger social setting.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Street theater, Alternative agriculture, Utopian plays, Urban agriculture, Food security | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Popular Entertainment Studies | ||||||||
Publisher: | School of Creative Arts, Faculty of Education & Arts, The University of Newcastle, Australia | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1837-9303 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 30 September 2016 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 7 | ||||||||
Number: | 1-2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 93-113 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 16 November 2016 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 16 November 2016 |
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