Stone: Stories of Urban Materiality

by Tim Edensor

In undertaking a systematic analysis of urban materiality, this book investigates one kind of material in 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.

376 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 1, 2020

About the author

Tim Edensor is Reader in Cultural Geography at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has contributed to five areas of scholarship: geographies of tourism, national identity, industrial ruins and urban materiality, geographies of rhythm and spaces of illumination and darkness.