Performance

Expected Structure

• Theme intro by Franz Krause
• Keynote by Ken Olwig
• Paper by David Rojas1 (comment by Andrew)
• Paper by Jukka Nyyssönen2 (comment by Lisiunia)
• Paper by Andrew Whitehouse3 (comment by Jukka)
• Paper by Lisiunia A. Romanienko4 (comment by David)
• 'Spotlight' with Clare Waterton, Ken Olwig and Franz Krause

Introductory considerations

Under the label of ‘performance and imaginaries’ we address a key set of questions for the workshop. Performance is a concept that has been developed to emphasise the particular aspects of the practices that constitute social and ecological forms and processes. Szerszynski et al (2003) summarise that performance suggests practices, often iterative ones that constitute or bring about phenomena that would not exist without this (regular) activity. They continue that this practice always stands in a creative tension with a corresponding script or precedent, which informs that practice, but from which the practice inevitable departs to some extent.

• 1. Rojas, David. "Managing Catastrophe. Carbon Payments and the Aesthetics of Environmental Collapse in the Brazilian Amazon." Workshop "How do you manage? Unravelling the situated practice of environmental management", 2012.
• 2. Nyyssönen, Jukka. "State of Finland as an agent of sustainability – the consequences of introduction of hegemonic ecologies in Sami domicile." Workshop "How do you manage? Unravelling the situated practice of environmental management", 2012.
• 3. Whitehouse, Andrew. "Geese and Raptors: legitimate and illegitimate killing in the Scottish countryside." Workshop "How do you manage? Unravelling the situated practice of environmental management", 2012.
• 4. Romanienko, Lisiunia A.. "Berries, Bombs, and Bodies: Multiple Modes of Managed Militancy in the Anarcho-Primitivist Case of the Unabomber." Workshop "How do you manage? Unravelling the situated practice of environmental management", 2012.