Performing Farmscapes

Series Editors’ Preface
Acknowledgements
Praise for Performing Farmscapes
Contents
About the Author
List of Figures
1 Introduction: Farmscapes and Subjectivities
	A Duet of Farmscapes and Performance
	Food Democracy/Food Citizenship
	Home-Grown: Local Farmscapes
	Working Farmscapes
	Nature, Culture and the ‘Call to Care’: Naturalcultural Farmscapes
	My Farmscapes? Beginnings of an Answer
	The Structure of Performing Farmscapes
	Works Cited
2 Performing Storied Farmscapes
	Theatricalised Farmscapes: Theatre Passe Muraille’s The Farm Show and James Rebanks and Chris Monks’, The Shepherd’s Life
	Dialogues Within Farming Communities: Mary Swander’s Farmscape and Map of My Kingdom
	Storied Walks Around the Farm: Performative Walks with Ffion Jones’ The Only Places We  Ever Knew, Charlotte Hollins on Fordhall Organic Farm and Sylvia Grace Borda’s Farm Tableaux Finland
	A Performance-as-Research Project on Gendered Farmscapes: Who’s Driving the Tractor? Conversations with Women in UK Agriculture
	Works Cited
3 Conversations with Farmscapes: Traces and Echoes
	Farmscape Conversations
	Ffion Jones’ Ode to Perdurance/Awdl Amser
	Friches Théâtre Urbain’s Hope is a Wooded Time
	Louise Ann Wilson’s The Gathering/Yr Helfa
	Mike Pearson’s Carrlands
	Works Cited
4 Cultivating Dialogues Beyond the Farm
	Interventions into Farmscapes of Global Food Chains in Agnes Denes’ Wheatfield—A Confrontation, Nessie Reid’s The Milking Parlour and Shelley Sacks’ Exchange Values
	Cultivating Food Citizenship around Wheat: Anne-Marie Culhane and Ruth Levene’s A Field of Wheat: Arts and Agricultural Project
	Works Cited
5 Exposing Hidden Migrant Farmscapes
	From Field to Fork: Setting the Context
	The Legacy of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath
	Jacques Rancière and the Aesthetics-Politics of Collage
	Harvest of Shame: ‘This is an American Story—A 1960s Grapes of Wrath’
	Into the Fields: The United Farm Workers Union and El Teatro Campesino
	Onto the Theatrical Stage: Octavio Solis’ Alicia’s Miracle and Cherríe Moraga’s Heroes and Saints
	Works Cited
6 Transforming Migrant Farmscapes: Performative Protest Art of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers
	‘I Too Am Human!’
	Transforming Migrant Farmscapes: CIW’s Campaigns
	Migrant Farmscapes and Popular Education
	Protest Art Takes on Migrant Farmscapes
	Hunger and Harvest: CIW’s Public Fasts
	Performing the Migrant Farmscape Online
	Works Cited
7 Conclusion: Sowing Seeds and Cultivating Conversations for Future Harvests
	Works Cited
Bibliography
Index