Embodying Climate Change
Self-immolation and the hope of no escape
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21687644 |
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| Authors | Clara Margaret Wilch (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 61-68 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-17 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Performance Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1352-8165 • E-ISSN: 1469-9990 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13528165.2020.1752578 |
| OpenAlex | W3033496326 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
This article looks to performing arts and performance studies for ways to grasp and make meaning from contemporary climate change, a phenomenon that influential ecological philosophers regard as highly resistant to human comprehension. Thinking through a lethal protest of climate inaction and a dance between human and fungal bodies, the author argues that these embodied acts enable a novel recognition of climate change's intimate presence and personal/political weight. These performance perspectives also indicate the radical ecological potential of slowing down and learning to recognize oneself in, and as, the surrounding world
Aesthetics · Anthropocene · Art · Climate change · Comprehension · Dance · Embodied cognition · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Linguistics · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Ecology
| Highly cited | No |
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