From the Lighthouse: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Light
What is a lighthouse? What does it mean? What does it do? This book shows how exchanging knowledge across disciplinary boundaries can transform our thinking. Adopting an unconventional structure, this book involves the reader in a multivocal conversation between scholars, poets and artists. Seen through their individual perspectives, lighthouses appear as signals of safety, beacons of enlightenment, phallic territorial markers, and memorials of historical relationships with the sea. However, the interdisciplinary conversation also reveals underlying and sometimes unexpected connections. It elucidates the human and non-human evolutionary adapt…
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Weitere Autoren: Edensor, Tim (Hrsg.) / Puckering, Joanna (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-317-13162-5
- EAN: 9781317131625
- Produktnummer: 29181391
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 318 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 24'711 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 45 schwarz-weiße und 10 farbige Abbildungen, 45 schwarz-weiße und 10 farbige Fotos
Über den Autor
Veronica Strang directs Durham University's Institute of Advanced Study and is the author of The Meaning of Water (2004), Gardening the World: Agency, Identity and the Ownership of Water (2009) and Water: Nature and Culture (2015).Tim Edensor belongs to the Geography Department of Manchester Metropolitan University and is the author of From Light to Dark: Daylight, Illumination and Gloom (2017), Industrial Ruins (2005) and editor of Geographies of Rhythm (2010).Joanna Puckering works for the Durham University's Institute of Advanced Study. Joanna completed her PhD at the Department of Anthropology, Durham University.
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