Situated Knowing

<p><em>Situated Knowing</em> aims to critically examine performance studies’ ideological and socio-political underpinnings while also challenging the Anglo-centrism of the discipline. </p><p>This book reworks the concept of situated knowledges put forward over thirty years ago by American biologist and philosopher Donna Haraway in order to challenge the Enlightenment paradigm of objectivity in sciences by emphasising the role of the embodied and partial socio-cultural perspective of the scholar in the production of knowledge. </p><p>Through carefully selected case studies of contemporary natural, cultural and technological performances, contributors to this volume show that the proposed approach requires new genealogies of traditional concepts, emerges from encounters with contemporary performative arts or contact zones and may potentially go beyond the human in order to include non-human ways of being in the world. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of performance studies, cultural studies, media studies and theatre studies.</p> <p>Introduction: Situated Knowing: From Performance Art to the Laboratory of Knowledge-Making, Ewa Bal and Mateusz Chaberski</p><p>Part 1. Knowing and Alternative Genealogies – introduction by Ewa Bal</p><p>Chapter 1. Slough Media, Rebecca Schneider</p><p>Chapter 2. The Performing Arts as ‘Cognitive Hybrids’: The Power of the Performatic <em>Spiel-Raum</em>, Fabrizio Deriu</p><p>Part 2. Knowing with Performative Arts – introduction by Mateusz Chaberski</p><p>Chapter 3. Dead Capital, Diana Taylor</p><p>Chapter 4. Beyond Presence: Performing the Limits of Knowing, Małgorzata Sugiera</p><p>Chapter 5. Performative Approaches to the Cultural Policy Field, Fabiola Camuti</p><p>Part 3. Knowing in Contact Zones – introduction by Ewa Bal</p><p>Chapter 6. Decolonizing Documentary: Wojtek Doroszuk’s <em>Sape</em> and <em>Prince</em>, Mateusz Borowski</p><p>Chapter 7. Beyond Ethnicity? New Architectures of Access to Local Cultures in Dorota Nieznalska’s <em>Memory and Violence</em> (2019), Ewa Bal</p><p>Part 4. Knowing Beyond the Human – introduction by Mateusz Chaberski</p><p>Chapter 8. The Shadow of a Pine Tree: Authorship, Agency and Performing Beyond the Human, Annette Arlander </p><p>Chapter 9. What Performativity Scholars Can Learn from Mushrooms: Situated Knowing in Polyphonic Assemblages, Mateusz Chaberski</p>