Cathy Turner

Bio: Cathy Turner is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dramaturgy & Emblem. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 19 publications receiving 275 citations.

Dramaturgy and Performance

Abstract: Introduction PART I: What is Dramaturgy? Brecht's productive dramaturgy: from emblem to 'golden motor' Names and Identities: Political dramaturgies in Britain PART II: Introduction: The Dramaturg and the Theatre Institution The Dramaturg and the Playwright The Production Dramaturg The Dramaturg and Devising: Shaping a Dramaturgy PART III: Millennial Dramaturgies Bibliography Index

Walking Women: Shifting the Tales and Scales of Mobility

Abstract: Narratives attached to walking practices, influenced by the Romantic, Naturalist and avant-garde movements, continue to frame and prioritise aestheticised acts of walking as heroic, epic, individualist, and conquering. This reiteration of dominant knowledge risks obscuring certain types of walking and other ways to think about and recognise walking art’s potentialities. Encountering work by contemporary women artists and interviewing them about their motivations and experiences suggests the need for a radical mobilization of the rhetorics of scale, a task we begin here. The walking art works we introduce propose a destabilisation of values, unsettling familiar analytical and interpretative approaches: the local is magnified to the scale of the epic; the epic is one small step after another; the familiar is a site of risk; and walking a means for building relations rather than escaping them. Whilst assumptions about who walks, in what way and with what value are confronted, so too is the nature of the task in hand, as the walking body remains entangled in monumental historical and social structures, including the spatial.

Walking Women: Interviews with artists on the move

Abstract: Writing of the limitations placed on women's walking, Rebecca Solnit comments that, ‘Women from Jane Austen to Sylvia Plath have found other, narrower subjects for their art’ (2001: 245). Solnit do...

Mis-Guidance and Spatial Planning: Dramaturgies of Public Space

Abstract: In an editorial for the Journal of Architectural Education, introducing an issue on performance and architecture, George Dodds writes: Architecture is inherently an inclusive and broad-based activi...

A Companion to Tourism

Abstract: systems. In other words repressed existential issues as such, press themselves back on to the agenda . . .moral/existential problems are actively recovered and brought forward into public debate. The specific moral arena of such debates concerns, not just what should be done for human beings to survive in nature, but how existence itself should be grasped and ‘‘lived’’: this is Heidegger’s ‘‘question of Being.’’ (Giddens 1991: 224) This concern with the grand questions of life is also a feature of Beck’s theorizing. In The Brave New World of Work Beck (2000) posits a new relationship between work, leisure, and society in which the overall goal is to sustain the commons and meet the obligations of society. Activities that do not contribute to wider social goals do not contribute to social capital. It is not clear precisely how tourism would figure in this relationship, but it is evident that Beck would entertain ethical objections to the pursuit of any leisure activity that was undertaken entirely for its own sake and without reference to the global commons. ‘‘Apathy, indifference, sloth, and subor- dination are not on the menu’’ (Rojek 2001). Tourism, while contributing to self- actualization, would always face the necessity to protect and enrich the commons. One might thus expect this to be a world in which more environmentally responsible forms of tourism would flourish.

Practice-as-research and the Problem of Knowledge

Abstract: Knowledge and power are simply two sides of the same question: who decides what knowledge is, and who knows what needs to be decided. (Lyotard 1979: 8–9) The ‘problem of knowledge’ has been a topic...

Walking methods in landscape research: moving bodies, spaces of disclosure and rapport

Abstract: Walking methods or accompanied visits are increasingly being used to investigate people’s encounters with landscape. Walking methods are often celebrated for opening up new spaces of disclosure, building rapport and generating new knowledge of landscape. However, stating these benefits of walking as a research method has now become somewhat of a methodological orthodoxy that risks ignoring the diverse contexts and cultural circumstances within which people walk and the relational qualities of landscape. Walking methods do not simply ‘uncover’ people’s responses to landscape, they open particular relational spaces of ‘people-landscape’. Furthermore, walking does not just open up research avenues, it closes them down too. This paper explores in more depth these propositions and the complex interplay between people (as social and embodied beings), walking and landscape. The focus is on examples drawn from walks utilised as method, walks for pleasure and walks for pilgrimage, where I propose some feat...

Pointless Mobilities: Rethinking Proximity through the Loops of Neighbourhood

Abstract: One of the important tasks of mobile sociology is to attend to the diverse proximities that are generated through the interplay of multiple forms of mobility. In answering to this challenge, mobili...