Routledge Studies in Theatre, Ecology, and Performance

Studies in Theatre, Ecology, and Performance (STEP) explores intersections between theatre, ecology, and performance studies in a global context. Amidst the current pandemic, the threat of environmental degradation—in particular climate change, challenges to clean water and air, food insecurity, and species extinction—seems to lurk just off stage. Yet, ecology and the environment remain overriding concerns of the Anthropocene and the pandemic is incriminated in received interspecies practice. Theatre and performance studies can add unique contributions to current conversations around future human behaviours. STEP seeks proposals from those working in intersecting fields of theatre, performance studies, and ecology across the globe. Ecology can be defined as the study of organisms and their interactive environment or "home."

Series editor Sarah Ann Standing encourages a broad interpretation of ecology that embraces a multiplicity of eco-philosophies, ecocriticism, sciences, and arts. STEP seeks proposals that investigate and debate these themes in relation to a broad understanding of performance including theatre, dance, intermedial performing arts, and performance and activism. STEP is interested in scholarship probing ecodramaturgy, new configurations or articulations of the nature / culture relationship, new ecological performatives, and performances of environmental precepts, ideas, themes, or consciousness. Additionally, STEP is particularly interested in decolonialism as it dovetails with current performance genres and eco-justice movements. STEP welcomes LGBTQ voices and invocations of queer ecologies, indigeneity and ecology, eco-feminism, voices from the global south, as well as investigations into labour and class, animality, and the performance of nature.