Nature Performed: Environment, Culture and Performance

This book brings together contributions from scholars across the humanities.

• A wide-ranging exploration of the interface between performance and nature.


• Examines the use and usefulness of ideas of ‘performance’ for understanding human-nature relationships.


• Draws on different disciplines and intellectual traditions and on different conceptions of ‘performance’ and ‘nature’.


• Contributions are rooted in real-world contexts and problems, explored through detailed ethnographic work.


• Explores domains as diverse as allotments and bioinvasion, fox hunting and green politics.


• Makes a distinctive contribution to the ‘cultural turn’ in environmental research.