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Author Haedicke, Susan C., author

Title Performing farmscapes / Susan C. Haedicke
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

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Description 1 online resource
Series Performing landscapes
Performing landscapes.
Contents 1. CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION: FARMSCAPES AND SUBJECTIVITIES -- CHAPTER 2: PERFORMING STORIED FARMSCAPES -- 3. CHAPTER 3: CONVERSATIONS WITH FARMSCAPES: TRACES AND ECHOES -- 4. CHAPTER 4: CULTIVATING DIALOGUES BEYOND THE FARM -- 5. CHAPTER 5: EXPOSING HIDDEN MIGRANT FARMSCAPES -- 6. CHAPTER 6: TRANSFORMING MIGRANT FARMSCAPES: PERFORMATIVE PROTEST ART OF THE COALITION OF IMMOKALEE WORKERS -- 7. CHAPTER 7: CONCLUSION: SOWING SEEDS AND CULTIVATING CONVERSATIONS FOR FUTURE HARVESTS
Summary This book argues that the performance-based work in the featured case studies contributes to the construction of food democracy where the public takes back decision-making in shaping the food system. It explores how contemporary artists translate scientific research about local and global agricultural issues into life stories that inform and engage their audiences and, in so doing, transform passive food consumers into proactive food citizens. The pairing of performing and farmscapes (complex webs of farmlands and storylines) enables artists to use embodied practices to encourage audiences to imagine a just and sustainable agri-food system and to collaborate on making it a reality. The book arranges the case studies on a trajectory that moves from projects that foreground knowledge acquisition to ones that emphasize social engagement by creating conversations and coalitions between farming and nonfarming communities to a final one that pairs protest art and political activism to achieve legally-binding changes in the agricultural landscape
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Agriculture in the theater
Food in the theater
Theater and society.
Agriculture and the arts.
Agriculture and the arts
Theater and society
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783030824341
3030824349