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Rethinking Darkness: Cultures, Histories, Practices

Rethinking Darkness: Cultures, Histories, Practices

Dunn, Nick
Edensor, Tim

Hardcover

Series: Ambiances, Atmospheres and Sensory Experiences of Spaces

General SociologyGeographySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0367201151
ISBN13: 9780367201159
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 29 2020
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

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.

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