Ecodramaturgies by Lisa Woynarski

Author:Lisa Woynarski
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030558536
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

This passage demonstrates the artifice of the nature/culture divide and the way in which there is no ‘out there’, as what has been relegated to ‘out there’ is also ‘in here’, in our food, our lands and then our bodies. However, this ‘we’re all in this together’ configuration also runs the danger of conflating differences as the extent to which we feel and experience the negative effects of our ecological relationships is often unjustly and unequally distributed along gender, class, race and disability lines: it is intersectional as I previously described.

There is a politics of exposure in Luna’s work. Alaimo describes practicing exposure as displacing the anthropocentric idea of the human as the male liberal subject: ‘Exposures may be differential, uneven, or incommensurate; yet to practice exposure entails the intuitive sense of the philosophical conviction that the impermeable Western human subject is no longer tenable’ (2016: 5). Exposure is acknowledgement and understanding of the material agency of those human and more-than-human actants in and around us, understanding the ways in which we are exposed and what agential forces enable this bodily exposure (social, political, environmental). ‘To occupy exposure as insurgent vulnerability is to perform material rather than abstract alliances , and to inhabit a fraught sense of political agency that emerges from the perceived loss of boundaries and sovereignty’ (Alaimo 5). Luna enacts material alliances through her performance, use of imagery and her body, between Indigenous peoples and cultures, the plants and land they live off and the global power inequalities that structure their lack of political agency. Luna’s vulnerability is a strength of her piece: she understands the intimate interconnection between bodies and is able to dismantle the false binaries that prop up Western capitalist logic.

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