Dark Skies : : Places, Practices, Communities.

• Author: Dunn, Nick.
• TeilnehmendeR: Edensor, Tim.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2023.; Ã2024.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (294 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1 Introduction -- 1 Dark skies: meanings, challenges, and relationships -- Part 2 Creative engagements with dark places -- 2 Creative approaches to dark skies research: a dialogue between two artist-researchers -- 3 Dark skies in southern Scotland and northern England: border-crossing sites for creative experiment and envisioning connectedness -- 4 The transparency of night -- Part 3 Sensing dark landscapes -- 5 Nightfalling: dancing in the dark as an artistic practice -- 6 Sensing dark places: creating thick descriptions of nocturnal time and rhythm -- 7 Considering festive illuminations in dark sky places: honouring darkness, creative innovation, and place -- Part 4 Non-human entanglements with dark skies -- 8 Nature's calendar, clock, and compass: what happens when it is disrupted -- 9 Preserving darkness in the wildwood -- 10 Darkening cities as urban restoration -- Part 5 Dark sky communities -- 11 Designing with the dark -- 12 Who is afraid under dark skies?: Four female experts on "spaces of fear", astronomy, and the loss of the night: a group discussion with Sabine Frank, Josefine Liebisch, Laura-Solmaz Litschel, and Dunja Storp -- 13 What do we mean by "dark skies"? -- Part 6 Dark sky tourism -- 14 Tread softly in the dark -- 15 Nocturnal (dark) anthropology: spotlight on an ancient Indian civilisation -- 16 Beauty won't save the starry night: astro-tourism and the astronomical sublime -- Part 7 Conclusion -- 17 Under the night: the futures of dark skies -- Index.