Geographies of Us: Ecosomatic Essays and Practice Pages (Routledge Studies in Theatre, Ecology, and Performance) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 103247999X ISBN 13: 9781032479996

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

Geographies of Us: Ecosomatic Essays and Practice Pages is the first edited collection in the field of ecosomatics.

With a combination of essays and practice pages that provide a variety of scholarly, creative, and experience-based approaches for readers, the book brings together both established and emergent scholars and artists from many diverse backgrounds and covers work rooted in a dozen countries. The essays engage an array of crucial methodologies and critical/theoretical perspectives, including practice-based research in the arts, especially in performance and dance studies, critical theory, ecocriticism, Indigenous knowledges, material feminist critique, quantum field theory, and new phenomenologies. Practice pages are shorter chapters that provide readers a chance to engage creatively with the ideas presented across the collection. This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective that brings together work in performance as research, phenomenology, and dance/movement; this is one of its significant contributions to the area of ecosomatics.

The book will be of interest to anyone curious about matters of embodiment, ecology, and the environment, especially artists and students of dance, performance, and somatic movement education who want to learn about ecosomatics and environmental activists who want to learn more about integrating creativity, the arts, and movement into their work.

About this title

About the Author

Sondra Fraleigh is Professor Emeritus, Department of Dance, State University of New York, Brockport, U.S.A.

Shannon Rose Riley is Professor of Humanities & Creative Arts, San José State University, U.S.A.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 103247999X
• ISBN 13: 9781032479996
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 388
• Editor: Fraleigh Sondra, Riley Shannon Rose