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BRILL eBooks, 2009
Places are made after their stories. Just as place names describe complex, and conflicted, place-... more Places are made after their stories. Just as place names describe complex, and conflicted, place-making aspirations, so with all marks associated with the marking of places: tracks, the symbolic representation of these in song, dance and poetic speech, indeed all the technologies that join up distances into narratives - they all inscribe the earth's surface with the forms of stories. Of course, these are not the same as the foundational myths of imperial cultures, whose aim is to displace any prior discourse of place-making. They are stories of, and as, journeys: passages in a double sense, constitutionally incomplete because they always await their completion in the act of crossing-over, or meeting, which, of course, is endless. (Paul Carter, Chapter 1) 'Landscapes and Learning' maps some of these stories and passageways to open up new place making possibilities. The book uses the lens of place to explore how we can respond differently to some of the major questions of our time. Postcolonial global concerns such as increased displacement and migration, the loss of indigenous knowledges, and the imperatives of environmental degradation and climate change, require critical educational responses. Place studies provides new languages and fresh metaphors to open up interdisciplinary conversations in the space between local and global, and indigenous and non-indigenous knowledges. Through its focus on the mutual constitution of bodies, identities, histories, spaces and places, place studies offers a conceptual tool for important cultural and environmental transformations.
Practices, teaching and art production practices are modes of thought already in the act. Contemp... more Practices, teaching and art production practices are modes of thought already in the act. Contemporary arts practices call us to think anew, through remaking the world materially and relationally. Building on this ethos of practice as thought already in the act, this collection from practitioner arts educators and cultural theorists responds to increased attention being paid to matter and creativity in social sciences and humanities research, often referred to as new materialism. This collections calls for an embodied, affective, relational understanding of the research process where an intersection of making and thinking is important. In this collection, we show that the way making impacts on thinking is a material pedagogy.
This paper contends that disability should be appreciated as a unique articulation of difference:... more This paper contends that disability should be appreciated as a unique articulation of difference: as a dividuation of the life-force that constitutes all human beings. The paper takes up a Deleuzean ontology, in which people are specific modifications of difference and, as such, ‘disability’ per se cannot be conceived as located in a single body or subjectivity. Rather, disability needs to be understood as a context-specific articulation of omnipresent difference. In advancing this argument, the paper develops an original theoretical inquiry into the politics of disability and Second Life. The work undertaken here is twofold. Firstly, the authors undertake a case study of a discussion about disability and accessibility that occurred on a member blog hosted on an information technology website and also a ‘listserv’ email post to a Second Life interest group. Secondly, a Deleuzian ontology is taken up as a means for thinking outside the political paradox demonstrated by the vernacular...
A volume in Research in Management Education and Development Series Editors: Charles Wankel, St. ... more A volume in Research in Management Education and Development Series Editors: Charles Wankel, St. John's University Virtual Worlds are being increasingly used in business and education. With each day more people are venturing into computer generated online persistent worlds such as Second Life for increasingly diverse reasons such as commerce, education, research, and entertainment. This book explores the emerging ethical issues associated with these novel environments for human interaction and cutting-edge approaches to these new ethical problems. This volume's goal is to put forward a number of these virtual world ethical issues of which research is only commencing. The developing literature specifically regarding virtual world ethics is a recent phenomenon. Research based on the phenomenon of virtual world life has only been developing in the past four years. This volume introduces pathbreaking work in a field which is only just beginning to take shape. It is ideal as both...
Masculinities and Place bring together an impressive range of high-profile and emerging researche... more Masculinities and Place bring together an impressive range of high-profile and emerging researchers to consolidate and expand new domains of interest in the geographies of men and masculinities. It is structured around key and emerging themes within recently completed and on-going research about the intersections between men, masculinities and place. Building upon broader themes in social and cultural geographies, cultural economy and urban/rural studies, the collection is organised around the key themes of: theorising masculinities and place; intersectionality; home; family; domestic labour; work; and health and well-being.
Special Issue on Gender and Plac
Masculinity Beyond the Metropolis, 2006
The small town of Ashland in North America was once a quiet, leafy, green, out of the way locatio... more The small town of Ashland in North America was once a quiet, leafy, green, out of the way location. A country-loving visitor described it as a perfect example of small-town America, a spot that had a ‘sense of unique place’ and a feeling of ‘what makes my town different’ (Store Wars 2001). That was before Wal-Mart came to town. Space and place were reconfigured around the global sign of the world’s largest retail outlet, as Wal-Mart built new roads and reconstructed the face of consumption in Ashland. When Wal-Mart set up shop in Ashland, it squeezed out the flows of capital that used to be directed towards local businesses.
Masculinity Beyond the Metropolis, 2006
Masculinity Beyond the Metropolis, 2006
Numerous Internet sites and web-based newspapers tell stories of economic and industrial change i... more Numerous Internet sites and web-based newspapers tell stories of economic and industrial change in the US town of Philomath in Oregon. These electronically mediated accounts illustrate the ways in which timber corporations virtually annihilated the forests surrounding the North American country town and neighbouring smaller logging towns. This corporately engineered environmental devastation was precipitated by the rise of mechanization in the timber industry. As logging technologies became increasingly advanced, logging labour became progressively more redundant. Many of those who were left unemployed by the timber industry needed new jobs and new vocational identities. One account, of Philomath man George Shroyer, emerges from a number of cyber stories. George’s tale speaks of difficult and often almost fatal risks encountered in the Philomath forests by the town’s loggers. George began working in a Philomath sawmill as a teenage boy. He was employed in various facets of the timber industry for his entire working history. His identity became embedded in his work and in the Philomath logging industry. At the age of 91, George was still behind the wheel of his truck (Hall with Wood 1998).
Masculinity Beyond the Metropolis, 2006
which also provided funding and institutional support. We also offer our genuine and warm thanks ... more which also provided funding and institutional support. We also offer our genuine and warm thanks to all those people who took part in the ethnographic research in participating towns and who so freely shared their perspectives with us. We particularly thank the young people who participated in the extensive interview programme and the school staff who assisted us to organize the research in their schools and towns. We hope that you all feel the text does you and your town justice. We are especially greatful to Lindsay Fitzclarence for his unsparing intellectual input at every stage of the project from its inception to conclusion; joan Fox for her careful reading and tidying over several drafts and for her contribution to our thumbnail sketches; Charlie Fox for his valuable criticisms on Chapter 5; and Vashti Kenway for her gracious unpaid research assistance at crucial moments. Hannah Walker and jeremy Mackinnon worked as research assistants on this project for a period and we thank them for their insightful input. We also thank Trudi Brunton for her help with the final formatting. We also thank Peter Lang for agreeing to allow us to use selections of text from Singh, Kenway and Apple (2005) and to Routledge for agreeing to allow us to reprint sections from Kenway and Kraak (2004). Anna Kraack wishes to thank Eleanor Doig for her ongoing care and encouragement, particularly when she was in the field for long periods of time. jane and Anna Kraack also give thanks to Anna's trusty car which, remarkably, given its antediluvian status, took them to farflung parts of Australia without breaking down. Anna Hickey-Moody would like to say thank you to her (Big) Little Brother B and to Eszeki: the men who have taught her about boys outside cities, and especially to Pen for being her best mate. Collectively we also thank all those colleagues, friends and family who have engaged us in rich, feisty and generative conversations on the topic of this book and whose love and company continue to sustain us. Finally, we thank Briar Towers, commissioning editor for Palgrave Macmillan, whose suggestions for the shape of the book and whose faith in the project began its road to print. ix * * * We write this book as an invitation to you, the reader. Many of you, particularly if you are city centric or 'metro-normative' (Halberstam 2005), may have only a remote knowledge of places beyond the metropolis and this mainly through the fictions and fantasies of the sorts of texts we mentioned earlier or through the geography, history and literature classes of your schooling. You may have a general sense of such places, you may, for instance, know the regions in your country, but not their towns; you may be able to imagine out of the way places, but not know the names of any actual places. You may not know that this place here is like that place there. We hope the following chapters will provoke you to consider the possibility that 'our places' are a bit like your places-those nearer to you. Then, and as we introduce you to the locals (all anonymized), it might be possible for you to think, 'If it is like that there, is it like that here?' and, 'If that is the direction of things there, is that the best direction to take here?' Globalization also invites and necessitates such trans-local considerations as it reconfigures place, makes new connections, provokes new directions, brings the beyond up close, and intensifies the politics of place. There are out of the way places all over the world. Their people and economies are as diverse as their geographies. But also across the world, people who share similar geographies often share similar economies, particularly in the Western world. They thus have much 'then and now' in common, especially as they grapple with the globalizing economic and cultural imperatives we discuss in Chapter 1. But geography is not destiny, and neither are the more predatory forms of globalization. The small, relatively isolated locations we study are connected to global imperatives in complicated ways. Within this complexity, becoming masculine in place is, as we will show throughout this book, no longer what it once was. Masculinity beyond the metropolis involves negotiating a colliding 'constellation of trajectories' (Massey 2005, 149) and producing assemblages of difference. Few of which involve the simple life.
Deleuze’s thought offers new methods for thinking about traditional themes in masculinity studies... more Deleuze’s thought offers new methods for thinking about traditional themes in masculinity studies and it introduces concepts that bring a fresh approach to how I see masculinity and undertake masculinity studies as a discipline.
Edinburgh University Press eBooks, May 21, 2009
Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Aug 1, 2016
Abstract In this article, the phrase ‘being different in public’ is used to think about people wi... more Abstract In this article, the phrase ‘being different in public’ is used to think about people with disabilities in public culture. I argue for the cultural value of disability in an era of austerity arguably marked by an ableism that pushes people to ‘pass’ as not disabled. Such a lack of cultural value is remedied through the work of Disability Arts organizations, and I take the work of a British and an Australian Dance Theatre company as two of many possible examples in which arts practices change public culture through staging the work of performers with disability. In building this argument, I develop a feminist, queer methodology for reading Deleuze and Guattari and Butler as theorists of public culture. Specifically, as theorists that illustrate the cultural significance of being different in public. Reading Butler and Deleuze together can teach us to appreciate lack as a mode of aesthetic refusal, as a way of being obviously different, or ‘positively negative’ in public culture. I take Deleuze and Guattari and Butler as part of the same intellectual public, a community concerned with creative cultural interventions into normative identity politics. I consider integrated dance practice through this framework as a valuable political and public intervention. Integrated dance is a term used to describe dance that brings together people with and without a disability. I argue that disability can be felt and configured differently through performance. The aesthetics of reimagining what a disabled body can do, or what a dancing body should be, not only constitute a practice of aesthetic activism but an aesthetic refusal of dominant body ideologies and capitalist codings of dance.
The essays brought together in this collection explore the capacity performance art holds to move... more The essays brought together in this collection explore the capacity performance art holds to move its viewers: to make us see anew. This collection is intended to take the reader on a journey through experiences of different kinds of wonder. Assembled along a register that ranges from wonder as questioning, as curiosity and asking otherwise (‘I wonder if…’), to experiencing a state of wonder in which experience effects awe, in which we are moved, the papers assembled here illustrate performance and the performative nature of art as aesthetic technologies that provoke question and “enable the world to surprise us, however gently” (Coleman and Ringrose, 2013:20). The wondering begins with questioning – with what if things were otherwise?
The essays brought together in this collection explore the capacity performance art holds to move... more The essays brought together in this collection explore the capacity performance art holds to move its viewers: to make us see anew. This collection is intended to take the reader on a journey through experiences of different kinds of wonder. Assembled along a register that ranges from wonder as questioning, as curiosity and asking otherwise (‘I wonder if…’), to experiencing a state of wonder in which experience effects awe, in which we are moved, the papers assembled here illustrate performance and the performative nature of art as aesthetic technologies that provoke question and “enable the world to surprise us, however gently” (Coleman and Ringrose, 2013:20). The wondering begins with questioning – with what if things were otherwise?
Applied Theatre: Aesthetics re-examines how the idea of 'the aesthetic' is relevant to pe... more Applied Theatre: Aesthetics re-examines how the idea of 'the aesthetic' is relevant to performance in social settings. The disinterestedness that traditional aesthetics claims as a key characteristic of art makes little sense when making performances with ordinary people, rooted in their lives and communities, and with personal and social change as its aim. Yet practitioners of applied arts know that their work is not reducible to social work, therapy or education. Reconciling the simultaneous autonomy and heteronomy of art is the problem of aesthetics in applied arts. Gareth White's introductory essay reviews the field, and proposes an interdisciplinary approach that builds on new developments in evolutionary, cognitive and neuro-aesthetics alongside the politics of art. It addresses the complexities of art and the aesthetic as everyday behaviours and responses. The second part of the book is made up of essays from leading experts and new voices in the practice and theory of applied performance, reflecting on the key problematics of applying performance with non-performers. New and innovative practice is described and interrogated, and fresh thinking is introduced in response to perennial problems.
BRILL eBooks, 2009
Places are made after their stories. Just as place names describe complex, and conflicted, place-... more Places are made after their stories. Just as place names describe complex, and conflicted, place-making aspirations, so with all marks associated with the marking of places: tracks, the symbolic representation of these in song, dance and poetic speech, indeed all the technologies that join up distances into narratives - they all inscribe the earth's surface with the forms of stories. Of course, these are not the same as the foundational myths of imperial cultures, whose aim is to displace any prior discourse of place-making. They are stories of, and as, journeys: passages in a double sense, constitutionally incomplete because they always await their completion in the act of crossing-over, or meeting, which, of course, is endless. (Paul Carter, Chapter 1) 'Landscapes and Learning' maps some of these stories and passageways to open up new place making possibilities. The book uses the lens of place to explore how we can respond differently to some of the major questions of our time. Postcolonial global concerns such as increased displacement and migration, the loss of indigenous knowledges, and the imperatives of environmental degradation and climate change, require critical educational responses. Place studies provides new languages and fresh metaphors to open up interdisciplinary conversations in the space between local and global, and indigenous and non-indigenous knowledges. Through its focus on the mutual constitution of bodies, identities, histories, spaces and places, place studies offers a conceptual tool for important cultural and environmental transformations.
Practices, teaching and art production practices are modes of thought already in the act. Contemp... more Practices, teaching and art production practices are modes of thought already in the act. Contemporary arts practices call us to think anew, through remaking the world materially and relationally. Building on this ethos of practice as thought already in the act, this collection from practitioner arts educators and cultural theorists responds to increased attention being paid to matter and creativity in social sciences and humanities research, often referred to as new materialism. This collections calls for an embodied, affective, relational understanding of the research process where an intersection of making and thinking is important. In this collection, we show that the way making impacts on thinking is a material pedagogy.
This paper contends that disability should be appreciated as a unique articulation of difference:... more This paper contends that disability should be appreciated as a unique articulation of difference: as a dividuation of the life-force that constitutes all human beings. The paper takes up a Deleuzean ontology, in which people are specific modifications of difference and, as such, ‘disability’ per se cannot be conceived as located in a single body or subjectivity. Rather, disability needs to be understood as a context-specific articulation of omnipresent difference. In advancing this argument, the paper develops an original theoretical inquiry into the politics of disability and Second Life. The work undertaken here is twofold. Firstly, the authors undertake a case study of a discussion about disability and accessibility that occurred on a member blog hosted on an information technology website and also a ‘listserv’ email post to a Second Life interest group. Secondly, a Deleuzian ontology is taken up as a means for thinking outside the political paradox demonstrated by the vernacular...
A volume in Research in Management Education and Development Series Editors: Charles Wankel, St. ... more A volume in Research in Management Education and Development Series Editors: Charles Wankel, St. John's University Virtual Worlds are being increasingly used in business and education. With each day more people are venturing into computer generated online persistent worlds such as Second Life for increasingly diverse reasons such as commerce, education, research, and entertainment. This book explores the emerging ethical issues associated with these novel environments for human interaction and cutting-edge approaches to these new ethical problems. This volume's goal is to put forward a number of these virtual world ethical issues of which research is only commencing. The developing literature specifically regarding virtual world ethics is a recent phenomenon. Research based on the phenomenon of virtual world life has only been developing in the past four years. This volume introduces pathbreaking work in a field which is only just beginning to take shape. It is ideal as both...
Masculinities and Place bring together an impressive range of high-profile and emerging researche... more Masculinities and Place bring together an impressive range of high-profile and emerging researchers to consolidate and expand new domains of interest in the geographies of men and masculinities. It is structured around key and emerging themes within recently completed and on-going research about the intersections between men, masculinities and place. Building upon broader themes in social and cultural geographies, cultural economy and urban/rural studies, the collection is organised around the key themes of: theorising masculinities and place; intersectionality; home; family; domestic labour; work; and health and well-being.
Special Issue on Gender and Plac
Masculinity Beyond the Metropolis, 2006
The small town of Ashland in North America was once a quiet, leafy, green, out of the way locatio... more The small town of Ashland in North America was once a quiet, leafy, green, out of the way location. A country-loving visitor described it as a perfect example of small-town America, a spot that had a ‘sense of unique place’ and a feeling of ‘what makes my town different’ (Store Wars 2001). That was before Wal-Mart came to town. Space and place were reconfigured around the global sign of the world’s largest retail outlet, as Wal-Mart built new roads and reconstructed the face of consumption in Ashland. When Wal-Mart set up shop in Ashland, it squeezed out the flows of capital that used to be directed towards local businesses.
Masculinity Beyond the Metropolis, 2006
Masculinity Beyond the Metropolis, 2006
Numerous Internet sites and web-based newspapers tell stories of economic and industrial change i... more Numerous Internet sites and web-based newspapers tell stories of economic and industrial change in the US town of Philomath in Oregon. These electronically mediated accounts illustrate the ways in which timber corporations virtually annihilated the forests surrounding the North American country town and neighbouring smaller logging towns. This corporately engineered environmental devastation was precipitated by the rise of mechanization in the timber industry. As logging technologies became increasingly advanced, logging labour became progressively more redundant. Many of those who were left unemployed by the timber industry needed new jobs and new vocational identities. One account, of Philomath man George Shroyer, emerges from a number of cyber stories. George’s tale speaks of difficult and often almost fatal risks encountered in the Philomath forests by the town’s loggers. George began working in a Philomath sawmill as a teenage boy. He was employed in various facets of the timber industry for his entire working history. His identity became embedded in his work and in the Philomath logging industry. At the age of 91, George was still behind the wheel of his truck (Hall with Wood 1998).
Masculinity Beyond the Metropolis, 2006
which also provided funding and institutional support. We also offer our genuine and warm thanks ... more which also provided funding and institutional support. We also offer our genuine and warm thanks to all those people who took part in the ethnographic research in participating towns and who so freely shared their perspectives with us. We particularly thank the young people who participated in the extensive interview programme and the school staff who assisted us to organize the research in their schools and towns. We hope that you all feel the text does you and your town justice. We are especially greatful to Lindsay Fitzclarence for his unsparing intellectual input at every stage of the project from its inception to conclusion; joan Fox for her careful reading and tidying over several drafts and for her contribution to our thumbnail sketches; Charlie Fox for his valuable criticisms on Chapter 5; and Vashti Kenway for her gracious unpaid research assistance at crucial moments. Hannah Walker and jeremy Mackinnon worked as research assistants on this project for a period and we thank them for their insightful input. We also thank Trudi Brunton for her help with the final formatting. We also thank Peter Lang for agreeing to allow us to use selections of text from Singh, Kenway and Apple (2005) and to Routledge for agreeing to allow us to reprint sections from Kenway and Kraak (2004). Anna Kraack wishes to thank Eleanor Doig for her ongoing care and encouragement, particularly when she was in the field for long periods of time. jane and Anna Kraack also give thanks to Anna's trusty car which, remarkably, given its antediluvian status, took them to farflung parts of Australia without breaking down. Anna Hickey-Moody would like to say thank you to her (Big) Little Brother B and to Eszeki: the men who have taught her about boys outside cities, and especially to Pen for being her best mate. Collectively we also thank all those colleagues, friends and family who have engaged us in rich, feisty and generative conversations on the topic of this book and whose love and company continue to sustain us. Finally, we thank Briar Towers, commissioning editor for Palgrave Macmillan, whose suggestions for the shape of the book and whose faith in the project began its road to print. ix * * * We write this book as an invitation to you, the reader. Many of you, particularly if you are city centric or 'metro-normative' (Halberstam 2005), may have only a remote knowledge of places beyond the metropolis and this mainly through the fictions and fantasies of the sorts of texts we mentioned earlier or through the geography, history and literature classes of your schooling. You may have a general sense of such places, you may, for instance, know the regions in your country, but not their towns; you may be able to imagine out of the way places, but not know the names of any actual places. You may not know that this place here is like that place there. We hope the following chapters will provoke you to consider the possibility that 'our places' are a bit like your places-those nearer to you. Then, and as we introduce you to the locals (all anonymized), it might be possible for you to think, 'If it is like that there, is it like that here?' and, 'If that is the direction of things there, is that the best direction to take here?' Globalization also invites and necessitates such trans-local considerations as it reconfigures place, makes new connections, provokes new directions, brings the beyond up close, and intensifies the politics of place. There are out of the way places all over the world. Their people and economies are as diverse as their geographies. But also across the world, people who share similar geographies often share similar economies, particularly in the Western world. They thus have much 'then and now' in common, especially as they grapple with the globalizing economic and cultural imperatives we discuss in Chapter 1. But geography is not destiny, and neither are the more predatory forms of globalization. The small, relatively isolated locations we study are connected to global imperatives in complicated ways. Within this complexity, becoming masculine in place is, as we will show throughout this book, no longer what it once was. Masculinity beyond the metropolis involves negotiating a colliding 'constellation of trajectories' (Massey 2005, 149) and producing assemblages of difference. Few of which involve the simple life.
Deleuze’s thought offers new methods for thinking about traditional themes in masculinity studies... more Deleuze’s thought offers new methods for thinking about traditional themes in masculinity studies and it introduces concepts that bring a fresh approach to how I see masculinity and undertake masculinity studies as a discipline.
Edinburgh University Press eBooks, May 21, 2009
Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Aug 1, 2016
Abstract In this article, the phrase ‘being different in public’ is used to think about people wi... more Abstract In this article, the phrase ‘being different in public’ is used to think about people with disabilities in public culture. I argue for the cultural value of disability in an era of austerity arguably marked by an ableism that pushes people to ‘pass’ as not disabled. Such a lack of cultural value is remedied through the work of Disability Arts organizations, and I take the work of a British and an Australian Dance Theatre company as two of many possible examples in which arts practices change public culture through staging the work of performers with disability. In building this argument, I develop a feminist, queer methodology for reading Deleuze and Guattari and Butler as theorists of public culture. Specifically, as theorists that illustrate the cultural significance of being different in public. Reading Butler and Deleuze together can teach us to appreciate lack as a mode of aesthetic refusal, as a way of being obviously different, or ‘positively negative’ in public culture. I take Deleuze and Guattari and Butler as part of the same intellectual public, a community concerned with creative cultural interventions into normative identity politics. I consider integrated dance practice through this framework as a valuable political and public intervention. Integrated dance is a term used to describe dance that brings together people with and without a disability. I argue that disability can be felt and configured differently through performance. The aesthetics of reimagining what a disabled body can do, or what a dancing body should be, not only constitute a practice of aesthetic activism but an aesthetic refusal of dominant body ideologies and capitalist codings of dance.
The essays brought together in this collection explore the capacity performance art holds to move... more The essays brought together in this collection explore the capacity performance art holds to move its viewers: to make us see anew. This collection is intended to take the reader on a journey through experiences of different kinds of wonder. Assembled along a register that ranges from wonder as questioning, as curiosity and asking otherwise (‘I wonder if…’), to experiencing a state of wonder in which experience effects awe, in which we are moved, the papers assembled here illustrate performance and the performative nature of art as aesthetic technologies that provoke question and “enable the world to surprise us, however gently” (Coleman and Ringrose, 2013:20). The wondering begins with questioning – with what if things were otherwise?
The essays brought together in this collection explore the capacity performance art holds to move... more The essays brought together in this collection explore the capacity performance art holds to move its viewers: to make us see anew. This collection is intended to take the reader on a journey through experiences of different kinds of wonder. Assembled along a register that ranges from wonder as questioning, as curiosity and asking otherwise (‘I wonder if…’), to experiencing a state of wonder in which experience effects awe, in which we are moved, the papers assembled here illustrate performance and the performative nature of art as aesthetic technologies that provoke question and “enable the world to surprise us, however gently” (Coleman and Ringrose, 2013:20). The wondering begins with questioning – with what if things were otherwise?
Applied Theatre: Aesthetics re-examines how the idea of 'the aesthetic' is relevant to pe... more Applied Theatre: Aesthetics re-examines how the idea of 'the aesthetic' is relevant to performance in social settings. The disinterestedness that traditional aesthetics claims as a key characteristic of art makes little sense when making performances with ordinary people, rooted in their lives and communities, and with personal and social change as its aim. Yet practitioners of applied arts know that their work is not reducible to social work, therapy or education. Reconciling the simultaneous autonomy and heteronomy of art is the problem of aesthetics in applied arts. Gareth White's introductory essay reviews the field, and proposes an interdisciplinary approach that builds on new developments in evolutionary, cognitive and neuro-aesthetics alongside the politics of art. It addresses the complexities of art and the aesthetic as everyday behaviours and responses. The second part of the book is made up of essays from leading experts and new voices in the practice and theory of applied performance, reflecting on the key problematics of applying performance with non-performers. New and innovative practice is described and interrogated, and fresh thinking is introduced in response to perennial problems.