Stone: Stories of Urban Materiality

Author:   Tim Edensor
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
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9789811546525


Pages:   376
Publication Date:   02 June 2021
Format:   Paperback
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Stone: Stories of Urban Materiality


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In undertaking a systematic analysis of urban materiality, this book investigates one kind of material in Melbourne: stone. The work draws on a range of pertinent, current theories that consider materiality, assemblages, networks, phenomenology, resource and extraction geographies, memorialisation, maintenance and repair, place identity, skill, sensation and affect, haunting and the vitalism of the non-human.  In appealing to the general reader, academics and students, this book provides a highly readable account, replete with evocative examples and fascinating historical and contemporary stories about stone in Melbourne.

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Author:   Tim Edensor
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
Weight:   0.506kg
ISBN:  

9789811546525


ISBN 10:   9811546525
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   02 June 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Cliff.- Chapter 1: Thinking about Urban Materiality.- Tomb.- Chapter 2: Stony Flows.- Quartz.- Chapter 3: Stony Entanglements: Quarrying, Demolition, Disposal and Remediation.- Foundation.- Chapter 4: The Maintenance and Repair of Stone Assemblages.- Tree.- Chapter 5: Remembering with Stone.- Grotto.- Chapter 6: Sensing Place: Living with Melbourne’s Stone.- Garden.- Chapter 7: Becoming Attuned to Stone: Skill, Craft, Making.- Temple.- Chapter 8: The Ghosts of Urban Stone.- Scholar Stone.

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Tim Edensor is Professor of Human Geography at Manchester Metropolitan University and a Principal Research Fellow in Geography at Melbourne University. He is the author of Tourists at the Taj (1998), National Identity, Popular Culture and Everyday Life (2002) Industrial Ruins: Space, Aesthetics and Materiality (2005) and From Light to Dark: Daylight, Illumination and Gloom (2017). He is the editor of Geographies of Rhythm (2010) and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Place (2020), Rethinking Darkness: Cultures, Histories, Practices (2020) and Geographies of Weather (2020).

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