Abstract Communities and protected areas worldwide have initiated programs to protect and promote dark night skies. Yet, limited research has explored how and why night skies become of interest or meaningful to people. Because night skies are literally beyond human reach, we focus on how visitors to a U.S. national park imagine night skies and invoke imaginaries that make night skies meaningful. Drawing from interviews, we examine how visitors use symbolic language, narrative, and other discursive practices to develop the social, cultural, and spatial contexts of their night sky experiences. Findings inform our understanding of imagination and imaginaries in tourism and recreation research, while offering new approaches to night skies research.

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夜空体验的话语建构：国家公园游客叙事中的想象与想象

摘要 世界各地的社区和保护区已经启动了保护和促进黑暗夜空的计划。然而，有限的研究探索了夜空如何以及为什么对人们感兴趣或有意义。由于夜空实际上是人类无法触及的，我们专注于美国国家公园的游客如何想象夜空并调用使夜空变得有意义的想象。通过访谈，我们研究了游客如何使用象征性语言、叙事和其他话语实践来发展他们夜空体验的社会、文化和空间背景。研究结果有助于我们理解旅游和娱乐研究中的想象和想象，同时为夜空研究提供新的方法。