From the Lighthouse: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Light

ISBN-13: 9780367591328 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 292 str.

Veronica Strang; Tim Edensor; Joanna Puckering

Opis

What is a lighthouse? What does it do, and how? What does a lighthouse mean symbolically? This volume analyses how lighthouses appear in multiple forms: from signals of safety to beacons of enlightenment, as phallic assertions of boundaries to monuments of community identity and as technological advancements.

O autorze

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.