Introduction

This introduction contends that nonhuman nature and urbanites, particularly marginalized peoples, are micro-managed and spatially contained in daily life through state and corporate forces of bureaucracy. In the face of fatiguing micro-management and overwhelming climate change news, this introduction makes an argument for micro-performances that expose, in concrete and digestible ways, deeply engrained Western directives to contain and domesticate nonhuman nature. Situating the argument within spatial studies and eco-theater, this chapter introduces readers to the author’s concept of spatialized eco-performance as a means of spatializing performance and emphasizing its spatial mobility across human and nonhuman materialities.