Situated Knowing : Epistemic Perspectives on Performance.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Previously published material -- Introduction: Situated knowing: From performance art to the laboratory of knowledge-making -- References -- Part 1 Knowing and alternative genealogies -- Chapter 1 Slough media -- The scandal of the obsolete -- Bone in hand -- Intrainanimacy -- Hand in rock in hand -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 The performing arts as 'cognitive hybrids': The power of the performatic Spiel-Raum -- Walter Benjamin: mimesis and play -- Eric A. Havelock: An analysis of Plato's rejection of mimesis -- Merlin Donald: 'Mimetic culture' -- Conclusions: Performing arts as 'cognitive hybrids' -- Notes -- References -- Part 2 Knowing with performative arts -- Chapter 3 Dead capital -- I -- II -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 Beyond presence: Performing the limits of knowing -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Performative approaches to the cultural policy field -- Notes -- References -- Part 3 Knowing in contact zones -- Chapter 6 Decolonising documentary: Wojtek Doroszuk's Sape and Prince -- The documentary turn -- The documentary in the age of decolonisation -- Performative documentary -- The documentary as a site of translation -- Note -- References -- Chapter 7 Beyond ethnicity? New architectures of access to local cultures in Dorota Nieznalska's Memory and Violence (2019) -- Notes -- References -- Part 4 Knowing beyond the human -- Chapter 8 The shadow of a pine tree: Authorship, agency and performing beyond the human -- What is an author? -- Shared authorship -- What about performing? -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9 What performativity scholars can learn from mushrooms: Situated knowing in polyphonic assemblages.

Performativity beyond the human -- The matsutake as a polyphonic assemblage -- Mushrooms and collaborative survival -- Mushrooms and identities beyond the individual -- Mushrooms and (non-)progressive development -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.

Situated Knowing aims to critically examine performance studies ideological and socio-political underpinnings while also challenging the Anglo-centrism of the discipline.

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