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Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting 2018

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10/04/201814/04/2018

Co-chair and co-organiser of two sessions: Dark Landscapes: new forms of experience and place. The relationship with light and dark is fundamental to our regular social patterns and rhythms, and to how most of us make sense and engage with the world. However, recent research has identified the negligible amount of social science examination into these along with contemporary understandings of darkness and place (Edensor, 2013 & 2017). This absence is astounding when we think of the values, meanings and influences that such relationships have upon our cultural practices, not least in how we sense and make meaning in response to widespread urbanization and illumination (Crary, 2013; Dunn, 2016). Rather than consider darkness as negative, opposed to illumination and enlightenment, we wish to explore the rich potential of the dark for our senses and understanding of different spaces. The history of our relationship with the dark (Ekirch, 2005; Palmer, 2000) continues to pervade normative attitudes towards it, although contemporary investigations (Williams, 2008; Attlee, 2011; Morris, 2011; Shaw, 2015) have only begun to open up the possibilities and diversity of alternative experiences. In endeavouring to build an inter-disciplinary field of inquiry into darkness, this session aims to bring together engagements with darkness from a variety of backgrounds and theoretical orientations. We welcome both empirical and theoretical inquiries from a diverse range of disciplines and welcome presentations in non-traditional formats. It is our intention to use this session as a springboard for a forthcoming special issue.

Event (Conference)

TitleAssociation of American Geographers Annual Meeting 2018
Abbreviated titleAAg 2018
Date10/04/1814/04/18
Website
LocationDowntown Marriott, Canal Street,
CityNew Orleans
Country/TerritoryUnited States
Degree of recognitionInternational event