Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance, Volume 1: From the Lab to the Streets

Author:   Vivian Appler (University of Georgia, USA) ,  Meredith Conti (University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA) ,  Professor John Lutterbie (Stony Brook University, USA) ,  Prof Nicola Shaughnessy (University of Kent, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Pages:   280
Publication Date:   21 March 2024
Format:   Paperback
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Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance, Volume 1: From the Lab to the Streets is the first of two volumes dedicated to the diverse sociocultural work of science-oriented performance. A dynamic volume of scholarly essays, interviews with scientists and artists, and creative entries, it examines explicitly public-facing science performances that operate within and for specialist and non-specialist populations. The book’s chapters trace the theatrical and ethical contours of live science events, re-enact historical stagings of scientific expertise, and demonstrate the pedagogical and activist potentials in performing science in community settings. Alongside the scholarly chapters, From the Lab to the Streets features creative work by contemporary science-integrative artists and interviews with popular science communicators Sahana Srinivasan (host of Netflix’s Brainchild) and Raven Baxter (“Raven the Science Maven”) and artists from performance ensembles The Olimpias and Superhero Clubhouse. In exploring the science performance as a vital but flawed method of public engagement, it offers a critique of the racist, ableist, sexist, and heteronormative ideologies prevalent across the history of science, as well as highlighting science performances that challenge and redress these ideologies. Along with its complementary volume From the Curious to the Quantum, this book documents the varied ways in which identity categories and cultural constructs are formed and reformed through science performances.

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Author:   Vivian Appler (University of Georgia, USA) ,  Meredith Conti (University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA) ,  Professor John Lutterbie (Stony Brook University, USA) ,  Prof Nicola Shaughnessy (University of Kent, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Methuen Drama
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781350234116


ISBN 10:   1350234117
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   21 March 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Vivian Appler is Associate Professor of Theatre at the College of Charleston, USA. She has published scholarship at the intersection of science and performance in Global Performance Studies, Theatre History Studies, and other journals. She is a former fellow of Fulbright and the Huntington Library, USA. Meredith Conti is Associate Professor of Theatre at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA. She is the author of Playing Sick: Performance of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine (2018) and the co-editor (along with Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.) of Theatre and the Macabre (2021).

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