1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910962021003321

Autore

Tchernichova Elena

Titolo

Dancing on water : a life in ballet, from the Kirov to the ABT / / Elena Tchernichova with Joel Lobenthal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, : Northeastern University Press, c2013

ISBN

1-55553-824-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LobenthalJoel

Disciplina

792.802/8092

B

Soggetti

Ballerinas - Russia (Federation)

Ballerinas - United States

Dance teachers - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: A World Now Lost; 1 | Leningrad; 2 | Make-Believe; 3 | Facts of Life; 4 | Disillustionment; 5 | Rebels; 6 | Nureyev Arrives; 7 | I Start to Teach; 8 | Newlywed; 9 | My Son; 10 | Cultural Exchange; 11 | A Masterpiece; 12 | Seeing the World; 13 | Igor's Choreography; 14 | To the Black Sea; 15 | Restless; 16 | Émigré; Insert; Part II: The New; 17 | Holding Pattern; 18 | New York; 19 | Kirkland and Baryshnikov; 20 | Abt's Stars; 21 | Émigrés and Defectors; 22 | Makarova's ""Bayadère""; 23 | Baryshnikov Takes Over

24 | Russian Men25 | Kirkland Cataclysms; 26 | Abt's Problems; 27 | Ferri and Others; 29 | Harsh ""Beauty""; 30 | Glasnost; 31 | Peak; 32 | Baryshnikov's Swan Song; 33 | End of an Era; 34 | Directing Vienna; 35 | Epilogue; Afterword; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The pageantry and drama of a life in dance



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910951799803321

Autore

Fishel Stefanie

Titolo

Environmentalism After Humanism / / edited by Stefanie Fishel, Andrew M. Rose

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

ISBN

9783031758911

3031758919

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 pages)

Collana

Environmental Politics and Theory, , 2731-6718

Altri autori (Persone)

RoseAndrew M

Disciplina

363.7

Soggetti

Environmental policy

International relations

Environmental Policy

International Relations Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: What Comes After Humanism? -- Chapter 2: Speculative Worlds and Terrestrial Politics: Reframing Fictional Disasters with Latour’s Down to Earth -- Chapter 3: Posthuman Geopolitical Culture(s): Decentering the State in the Anthropocene Epoch -- Chapter 4: Environmental Activism and Ecological Citizenship: An Examination of Vibrant Matter and Distributed Agency -- Chapter 5: Working With Uncertainty -- Chapter 6: Post-Citizens at the Ends of Poetry: Bruno Latour’s Gaia faces Carol Ann Duffy’s The Bees -- Chapter 7: Suffering, Monstrosity, Exceptionality -- Chapter 8: The Trapped Elephant in the Humanitarian’s Room: Ensuring ecological justice amidst a refugee crisis -- Chapter 9: Other-worldly experiences of protected area adaptive management.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the ways in which one might come to recognize and better theorize the political actor, and the political ‘act,’ or ‘event,’ in a post-anthropocentric context. The challenge to contemporary ideas of citizenship, activism, and the state stems not only from the realization that the natural world is inseparable from the social, but that both are the product of hybridized human and nonhuman agencies. As a result,



one must be skeptical of any notion of an environmental fix that bases itself upon an exclusively human agency. What new types of citizenship might emerge from posthuman cultures and artforms? What do effective post-anthropocentric organizing strategies look like? As the relevance of the liberal humanist political subject and the conceptual posthuman of political realism recede, theories of national and international politics are now tasked with rethinking a contemporary environmental politics beyond humanism. To better theorize these destabilizations, this collection puts forth the value of thinking across disciplines, wherein a conversation unfolds between political theory and literary theory that meets at the crossroads of environmental humanities and ecopolitical theory. Stefanie Fishel is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia Andrew M. Rose is Assistant Professor in English at Christopher Newport University, USA.