{"product_id":"9780295755205","title":"Transforming Night : The History and Science of Light Pollution - Paul S. Sutter","description":"Who owns the night-and what is lost as we flood it with light, worldwide?Darkness has become legible-and contested. Blending archival narrative with on-the-ground ethnography, Sara B. Pritchard traces how four fields-astronomy, remote sensing, conservation science, and ecology-have investigated artificial light at night, turning a ubiquitous convenience into a category of harm. From observatories chasing ever-receding darkness to the satellite images that first rendered a nocturnal planet from space and recent \"Black Marble\" maps, Pritchard shows how methods, instruments, and field sites shape what scientists can know about night and light-and what remains unseen. Across these encounters, night emerges not as a backdrop but as an environment in its own right-one transformed by rapidly expanding, brightening illumination in the Anthropocene. Transforming Night chronicles the ascent of \"light pollution,\" as well as the new challenge of space-based brightness from satellite constellations, even as dark-sky advocates fight to preserve the starry firmament. Attentive to politics as much as photons, Pritchard brings environmental justice to the fore-highlighting tensions among light poverty, forced illumination, and surveillance and calls for \"beneficial darkness.\" She takes seriously Indigenous astronomers' critiques of dispossession and \"astro-colonialism,\" asking what it means to site world-class telescopes on sacred land. Sweeping from local parks to planetary vistas, Transforming Night reframes a familiar story of modern light as a history of changing nights-past, present, and possible. It will engage readers in environmental history and humanities, science and technology studies, and the sciences themselves, along with dark-sky activists and anyone drawn to the beauty and politics of the world after nightfall.","brand":"Paul S. Sutter","offers":[{"title":"364 pages, 18 Illustrations, black and white \/ 25\/08\/2026 \/ Environmental science, engineering \u0026 technology","offer_id":57415329677687,"sku":"9780295755205","price":29.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9780295755205","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}