Scholar, educator and program developer in the areas of cultural sustainability, folklore, and humanistic anthropology. Address: Towson, Maryland, United States
Publikationsansicht. 42026917. Review of 'Downhome Blues Lyrics: An Anthology from the Post-... more Publikationsansicht. 42026917. Review of 'Downhome Blues Lyrics: An Anthology from the Post-World War II Era' (Titon) (1991). Turner, Rory. Abstract. Book Reviews. Details der Publikation. Download, http://hdl.handle.net/2022/2135. ...
Ecological restoration is not only the re-habilitation of the environment, it is a celebration of... more Ecological restoration is not only the re-habilitation of the environment, it is a celebration of a new relationship with nature, and can be regarded as in some sense a new genre of ritual. We are already seeing this with events like the Land Institute's Prairie Festival in Kansas,
In recent years, the term “cultural sustainability” has appeared widely in folk-loristics and rel... more In recent years, the term “cultural sustainability” has appeared widely in folk-loristics and related disciplines. This essay frames its key intellectual inspirations and provides a provisional definition of the term as an area of practice. It also adumbrates a set of principles for evaluating cultural sustainability efforts and a pathway for enacting them.
The American Civil War was fought between i86i and I865. Over 600,000 died in this multilevel con... more The American Civil War was fought between i86i and I865. Over 600,000 died in this multilevel conflict between the Northern States (the Union) and the Southern States (the Confederacy), and the memory of the war continues to this day, preserved in the landscape, in historical ...
This chapter suggests some methodological and pedagogical orientations to the project of cultural... more This chapter suggests some methodological and pedagogical orientations to the project of cultural sustainability. The scholarship of Michael Jackson, Edie Turner, Henry Glassie, and Jeff Todd Titon explores how culture can be existentially sustaining, but often this quality of culture is lost in scholarship and practice. The chapter argues that participation, empathy, and communitas should be cultivated in pedagogy and research methodology. Such an approach recasts the relationship of experts to communities, ways of knowing and communicating, and the ethics of scholarship. Considering well-being and culture from this vantage point suggests factors that are relevant to broader issues in sustainability and have informed the curriculum and philosophy of the Master of Arts in Cultural Sustainability program at Goucher College.
Turner identifies participatory and experiential features of the ethnographic method as a means o... more Turner identifies participatory and experiential features of the ethnographic method as a means of opening ourselves and our students to alternative cultural logics that help decenter the dominant modes of thinking now threatening to permanently and catastrophically alter planetary conditions. He identifies the forms and performances of expressive culture as spaces for connection, mutual recognition, and the exercise of radical critical empathy, and concludes that our curriculum can be enriched by expanding our pedagogies to include opportunities for students to learn and perform folklore genres and to immerse themselves in the life-worlds of others through study abroad and fieldwork. By privileging experience and relationship-building with others over the textualization and categorization of their nature-cultures, we might capitalize on the opportunity to open ourselves to alternative world-making projects.
In recent years, the term “cultural sustainability” has appeared widely in folk-loristics and rel... more In recent years, the term “cultural sustainability” has appeared widely in folk-loristics and related disciplines. This essay frames its key intellectual inspirations and provides a provisional definition of the term as an area of practice. It also adumbrates a set of principles for evaluating cultural sustainability efforts and a pathway for enacting them.
Ecological restoration is not only the re-habilitation of the environment, it is a celebration of... more Ecological restoration is not only the re-habilitation of the environment, it is a celebration of a new relationship with na-ture, and can be regarded as in some sense a new genre of ritual. We are already seeing this with events like the Land Institute's Prairie Festival in Kansas, ...
Cultural sustainability, at its heart, is an existential project, and I suggest some methodologic... more Cultural sustainability, at its heart, is an existential project, and I suggest some methodological and pedagogical orientations to this project in this chapter. A foundation of cultural sustainability work is participation and empathy. I consider here how the experiential qualities of participation and empathy are central to this project in relationship to questions that have guided the inception of a professional master’s program focused on cultural sustainability at Goucher College. Attention to culture as a field of being that opens up possibilities of harmful or helpful experiences and lives has implications for both academic and applied work interested in well-being and a sustainable pluralistic future.
Cultural Sustainabilities: Music, Media, Language, Advocacy, 2019
Cultural sustainability, at its heart, is an existential project, and I
suggest some methodologic... more Cultural sustainability, at its heart, is an existential project, and I suggest some methodological and pedagogical orientations to this project in this chapter. A foundation of cultural sustainability work is participation and empathy. I consider here how the experiential qualities of participation and empathy are central to this project in relationship to questions that have guided the inception of a professional master’s program focused on cultural sustainability at Goucher College. Attention to culture as a field of being that opens up possibilities of harmful or helpful experiences and lives has implications for both academic and applied work interested in well-being and a sustainable pluralistic future.
Publikationsansicht. 42026917. Review of 'Downhome Blues Lyrics: An Anthology from the Post-... more Publikationsansicht. 42026917. Review of 'Downhome Blues Lyrics: An Anthology from the Post-World War II Era' (Titon) (1991). Turner, Rory. Abstract. Book Reviews. Details der Publikation. Download, http://hdl.handle.net/2022/2135. ...
Ecological restoration is not only the re-habilitation of the environment, it is a celebration of... more Ecological restoration is not only the re-habilitation of the environment, it is a celebration of a new relationship with nature, and can be regarded as in some sense a new genre of ritual. We are already seeing this with events like the Land Institute's Prairie Festival in Kansas,
In recent years, the term “cultural sustainability” has appeared widely in folk-loristics and rel... more In recent years, the term “cultural sustainability” has appeared widely in folk-loristics and related disciplines. This essay frames its key intellectual inspirations and provides a provisional definition of the term as an area of practice. It also adumbrates a set of principles for evaluating cultural sustainability efforts and a pathway for enacting them.
The American Civil War was fought between i86i and I865. Over 600,000 died in this multilevel con... more The American Civil War was fought between i86i and I865. Over 600,000 died in this multilevel conflict between the Northern States (the Union) and the Southern States (the Confederacy), and the memory of the war continues to this day, preserved in the landscape, in historical ...
This chapter suggests some methodological and pedagogical orientations to the project of cultural... more This chapter suggests some methodological and pedagogical orientations to the project of cultural sustainability. The scholarship of Michael Jackson, Edie Turner, Henry Glassie, and Jeff Todd Titon explores how culture can be existentially sustaining, but often this quality of culture is lost in scholarship and practice. The chapter argues that participation, empathy, and communitas should be cultivated in pedagogy and research methodology. Such an approach recasts the relationship of experts to communities, ways of knowing and communicating, and the ethics of scholarship. Considering well-being and culture from this vantage point suggests factors that are relevant to broader issues in sustainability and have informed the curriculum and philosophy of the Master of Arts in Cultural Sustainability program at Goucher College.
Turner identifies participatory and experiential features of the ethnographic method as a means o... more Turner identifies participatory and experiential features of the ethnographic method as a means of opening ourselves and our students to alternative cultural logics that help decenter the dominant modes of thinking now threatening to permanently and catastrophically alter planetary conditions. He identifies the forms and performances of expressive culture as spaces for connection, mutual recognition, and the exercise of radical critical empathy, and concludes that our curriculum can be enriched by expanding our pedagogies to include opportunities for students to learn and perform folklore genres and to immerse themselves in the life-worlds of others through study abroad and fieldwork. By privileging experience and relationship-building with others over the textualization and categorization of their nature-cultures, we might capitalize on the opportunity to open ourselves to alternative world-making projects.
In recent years, the term “cultural sustainability” has appeared widely in folk-loristics and rel... more In recent years, the term “cultural sustainability” has appeared widely in folk-loristics and related disciplines. This essay frames its key intellectual inspirations and provides a provisional definition of the term as an area of practice. It also adumbrates a set of principles for evaluating cultural sustainability efforts and a pathway for enacting them.
Ecological restoration is not only the re-habilitation of the environment, it is a celebration of... more Ecological restoration is not only the re-habilitation of the environment, it is a celebration of a new relationship with na-ture, and can be regarded as in some sense a new genre of ritual. We are already seeing this with events like the Land Institute's Prairie Festival in Kansas, ...
Cultural sustainability, at its heart, is an existential project, and I suggest some methodologic... more Cultural sustainability, at its heart, is an existential project, and I suggest some methodological and pedagogical orientations to this project in this chapter. A foundation of cultural sustainability work is participation and empathy. I consider here how the experiential qualities of participation and empathy are central to this project in relationship to questions that have guided the inception of a professional master’s program focused on cultural sustainability at Goucher College. Attention to culture as a field of being that opens up possibilities of harmful or helpful experiences and lives has implications for both academic and applied work interested in well-being and a sustainable pluralistic future.
Cultural Sustainabilities: Music, Media, Language, Advocacy, 2019
Cultural sustainability, at its heart, is an existential project, and I
suggest some methodologic... more Cultural sustainability, at its heart, is an existential project, and I suggest some methodological and pedagogical orientations to this project in this chapter. A foundation of cultural sustainability work is participation and empathy. I consider here how the experiential qualities of participation and empathy are central to this project in relationship to questions that have guided the inception of a professional master’s program focused on cultural sustainability at Goucher College. Attention to culture as a field of being that opens up possibilities of harmful or helpful experiences and lives has implications for both academic and applied work interested in well-being and a sustainable pluralistic future.
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suggest some methodological and pedagogical orientations to this project in this chapter. A foundation of cultural sustainability work is participation and empathy. I consider here how the experiential qualities of participation and empathy are central to this project in relationship to questions that have guided the inception of a professional master’s program focused on cultural sustainability at Goucher College. Attention to culture as a field of being that opens up possibilities of harmful or helpful experiences and lives has implications for both academic and applied work interested in well-being and a sustainable pluralistic future.
suggest some methodological and pedagogical orientations to this project in this chapter. A foundation of cultural sustainability work is participation and empathy. I consider here how the experiential qualities of participation and empathy are central to this project in relationship to questions that have guided the inception of a professional master’s program focused on cultural sustainability at Goucher College. Attention to culture as a field of being that opens up possibilities of harmful or helpful experiences and lives has implications for both academic and applied work interested in well-being and a sustainable pluralistic future.