Performing environmentalisms : expressive culture and ecological change / edited by John Holmes McDowell, Katherine Borland, Rebecca Dirksen and Sue Tuohy.

PART I. PERSPECTIVES ON DIVERSE ENVIRONMENTALISMS: 1. Ecoperformativity : expressive culture as spiritual, pedagogical, and activist resource / John Holmes McDowell ; 2. The witness trees' revolt : folklore's invitation to narrative ecology / Mary Hufford ; 3. The critique of being : educating for diverse environmentalisms and sustainable lives in the anthropocene / Rory Turner ; 4. Diverse ecomusicologies : making a difference with the environmental liberal arts / Aaron S. Allen -- PART II. PERFORMING THE SACRED: 5. Singing for the whales : whaling peoples and shared heritage in Arctic Alaska and the Azores / Chie Sakakibara ; 6. The drum and the seed : a Haitian odyssey about environmental precarity / Rebecca Dirksen and Lois Wilcken ; 7. An ecological approach to folklife studies, expressive culture, and environment / Jeff Todd Titon -- PART III. ENVIRONMENTAL ATTACHMENTS: 8. Ecology, mobility, and music in western Mongolia / Jennifer C. Post ; 9. Ecopoetics of place : reclaiming finfinne, past and present / Assefa Tefera Dibaba ; 10. "The sound of freedom" : military jet noise in a contested sound commons / Mark Pedelty -- Afterword : recognizing the contributions and power in performing diverse environmentalisms / Eduardo S. Brondizio

"Performing Environmentalisms examines the existential challenge of the twenty-first century: improving the prospects for maintaining life on our planet. The contributors focus on the strategic use of traditional artistic expression -storytelling and songs, crafted objects, and ceremonies and rituals- performed during the social turmoil provoked by environmental degradation and ecological collapse. Highlighting alternative visions of what it means to be human, the authors place performance at the center of people's responses to the crises. Such expression reinforces the agency of human beings as the work, independently and together, to address ecological dilemmas. The essays add these people's critical perspectives- gained through intimate struggle with life -altering forces- to the global dialogue surrounding humanity's response to climate change, threats to biocultural diversity, and environmental catastrophe. Interdisciplinary in approach and wide-ranging in scope, Performing Environmentalisms is an engaging look at the merger of cultural expression and environmental action on the front lines of today's global emergency." (cubierta posterior)