Performing animality: animals in performance practice
- Submitting institution
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Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 31356529
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 978-1-137-37312-0
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Parker-Starbuck is the co-editor of this 11 chapter volume and author of Chapter 8: ‘Animal Pasts and Presents: Taxidermied Time Travellers’ (18 pages). The edited collection was developed with L. Orozco initially as an AHRC grant, and the ideas that structure the book were shaped through a year-long+ series of meetings and planning for the bid, which in the end, was ranked highly but ultimately unsuccessful. Because the volume was always an outcome of the bid we issued a public call for papers and invited select scholars who had been included in the bid and curated from these submissions. The edition originally did not include chapters from Orozco and Parker-Starbuck, but in the peer review process we were encouraged, as leaders in the intersecting fields of performance and animal studies, to include individual chapters. The 15 page ‘Introduction’ to the volume was co-written by the editors and explains the journey of the book, as well as the development of this field. In it, we explain that one of the driving forces of the book was to facilitate conversations that allow us to raise critical questions about animals in/and performance. We write that ‘some of these questions, such as how do we treat animals in performance practices?, or what is the animal doing [both materially and ethically] in performance? . . . are questions that are addressed in this volume’ (6). The book was carefully curated to represent a range of authors and ideas as this is the first edited collection to address the growing interest in representations of nonhuman animals in theatre and performance. Parker-Starbuck’s 18 page chapter represents her recent contribution to this growing field and analyses the use of taxidermy in performance to argue that these no longer living animals ‘perform’ a resistance to exclusively human driven forms.
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- Non-English
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