Dark Skies : : Places, Practices, Communities.

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Place / Publishing House:Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2023.
Ã2024.
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (294 pages)
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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.