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In “Acting Queer Ecology: Extensions and Excursions,” Alexandrowicz takes the logical next step in his argument: having challenged the gender/sex binary he proceeds to the human/non-human version, ethically compelled to do so in the face of the climate crisis. Making detailed reference to the work of Timothy Morton and Una Chaudhuri, he identifies new ways of thinking about actor training at what may seem like a very strange intersection indeed, that of queer ecology, environmental theatre, indigenous epistemologies, and the pedagogy and aesthetic philosophy of Jacques Lecoq.
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See https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/08/global-warming-must-not-exceed-15c-warns-landmark-un-report (accessed 25 March 2019).
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See https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-47231271/greta-thunberg-the-swedish-teen-inspiring-climate-strikes (accessed 25 March 2019). Swedish student Greta Thunberg is truly remarkable.
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See https://www.thearcticcycle.org/ccta-2017 (accessed 15 June 2017).
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See https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(18)30097-4 (accessed 28 March 2019).
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See https://english.rice.edu/faculty/timothy-morton (accessed 25 March 2019).
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See How to Survive a Plague: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2124803/ (accessed 16 June 2017).
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For a vast collection of evidence in support of seemingly ‘queer’ instances in the non-human world, see Biological Exuberance, Bruce Bagemihl (New York: St. Martin’s, 1999).
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Morton admits this term is his translation of Derrida’s arrivant , from the latter’s “Hostipitality,” [sic] in Acts of Religion , ed., trans., and intro. Gil Anidjar (London: Routledge, 2002), 356–420.
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This was named for and invented by mathematician Alan Turing http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/reingold/courses/ai/turing.html (accessed 6 July 2017).
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See http://www.oed.com.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/view/Entry/156236?rskey=MJOYbn&result=2#eid (accessed 6 July 2017).
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See Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2007).
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See http://uvic.kanopystreaming.com/video/world-alwin-nikolais-program-1 for evidence in support of this point (accessed 4 July 2017).
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See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eUyIiYhyo0 (accessed 4 July 2017).
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See http://theatresmithgilmour.com/ (accessed 3 July 2017).
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See http://www.ecolephilippegaulier.com/ (accessed 26 March 2019). And for more on Gaulier’s pedagogy, see Kendrick, Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 2.1 (2011): 72–85 and Purcell-Gates, Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 8.1 (2017): 46–60.
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See http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=MacKenzie%2C%20Matthew (accessed 27 March 2019).
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See http://www.punctuatetheatre.com/bears-info (accessed 27 March 2019).
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This is a complex topic, on which research continues to unfold. See, for example, Will Roscoe, Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998) and Walter L. Williams, The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture (Boston: Beacon, 1986).
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See, for example, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/the-cultural-appropriation-debate-is-over-its-time-for-action/article35072670/ (accessed 4 July 2017).
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See https://gorillafund.org/who-we-are/dian-fossey/dian-fossey-bio/ (accessed 4 July 2017).
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Alexandrowicz, C. (2020). Acting Queer Ecology: Extensions and Excursions. In: Acting Queer. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29318-5_7
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