Rethinking darkness : cultures, histories, practices / edited by Nick Dunn, Tim Edensor.

Rethinking darkness :
Erişim Adresi
Taylor & Francis Link
OCLC metadata license agreement Link
ISBN
9780429535307 electronic book
0429535309 electronic book
9780429521836 electronic book
0429521839
9780429550003 Mobipocket electronic book
0429550006
9780429259654 electronic book
0429259654
9780367201159 hardcover
0367201151 hardcover
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yayın Bilgisi
London : Routledge, 2020.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource
Dizi
Ambiances, atmospheres and sensory experiences of spaces
Özet, vb.
This book examines the concept of darkness through a range of cultures, histories, practices and experiences. It engages with darkness beyond its binary positioning against light to advance a critical understanding of the ways in which darkness can be experienced, practised and conceptualised. Humans have fundamental relationships with light and dark that shape their regular social patterns and rhythms, enabling them to make sense of the world. This book throws light' on the neglect of these social patterns to emphasize how the diverse values, meanings and influences of darkness have been rarely considered. It also examines the history of our relationship with the dark and highlights how normative attitudes towards it have emerged, while also emphasising its cultural complexity by considering a contemporary range of alternative experiences and practices. Challenging notions of darkness as negative, as the antithesis of illumination and enlightenment, this book explores the rich potential of darkness to stimulate our senses and deepen our understandings of different spaces, cultural experiences and creative engagements. Offering a rich exploration of an emergent field of study across the social sciences and humanities, this book will be useful for academics and students of cultural and media studies, design, geography, history, sociology and theatre who seek to investigate the creative, cultural and social dimensions of darkness.
Konu
Light and darkness __ Social aspects.
SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography __ bisacsh
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography __ bisacsh
Diğer Yazarlar
Veritabanı