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Stone

Stories of Urban Materiality

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Authors:
  1. Tim Edensor

    1. Institute of Place Management, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK

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  • Provides a highly readable account, replete with evocative examples and fascinating historical and contemporary stories about stone in Melbourne.

  • Thoroughly engages with and advances a range of pertinent, current theoretical thinking across the social sciences and humanities, including notions about materiality, value, mobility, relationality and networks, place identity, sensation and affect, and the vitality of the non-human.

  • Politically engages with notions of sustainability, with the ways in which creative destruction and global flows can have malign effects on the built environment, and with critical questions about what is and is not valued.

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Cliff

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-3
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    2. Thinking About Urban Materiality

      • Tim Edensor
      Pages 5-34

  3. Tomb

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-37
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    2. Stony Flows

      • Tim Edensor
      Pages 39-84

  5. Foundation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-125
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    2. The Maintenance and Repair of Stone Assemblages

      • Tim Edensor
      Pages 127-166

  6. Tree

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-169
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    2. Remembering with Stone

      • Tim Edensor
      Pages 171-216

  7. Grotto

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-219
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    2. Sensing Place: Living with Melbourne’s Stone

      • Tim Edensor
      Pages 221-253

  8. Garden

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 255-257
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    2. Becoming Attuned to Stone: Skill, Craft, Making

      • Tim Edensor
      Pages 259-289

  9. Temple

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 291-293
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    2. The Ghosts of Urban Stone

      • Tim Edensor
      Pages 295-337

    3. Epilogue: Scholar Stone

      • Tim Edensor
      Pages 339-341

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 343-376
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About this book

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.

Reviews

​“Stone transports us into the quiet life of a mundane object that forms the backbone of our social and material lives. But stone does not stay silent for long in the pages of this captivating book. The lithic comes to life, forms networks and relationships, metabolizes with the growth of the city, coalesces into assemblages, and transports, transfixes and provokes memories and feelings. This multi-theoretical excavation reveals that Melbourne’s stone serves as a wonderfully adaptive tool with which to carve new and sophisticated theoretical understandings of urban materiality.” (Phillip Vannini, Professor and Canada Research Chair, Royal Roads University)

“Stone is a fascinating, must-read for scholars of material culture, cities and society. Tim Edensor skilfully accounts of how the historical and experiential worlds of everyday urban life are tangibly and sensorially shaped by the movements, structures and feelings created by stone. This impeccably researched book delivers an important demonstration of how and why we need to engage with theoretical plurality in order to comprehend the complexity of the environments, processes and feelings that constitute our contemporary urban configurations.” (Sarah Pink, Professor of Design and Emerging Technologies, Monash University)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Place Management, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK

    Tim Edensor

About the author

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).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Stone

  • Book Subtitle: Stories of Urban Materiality

  • Authors: Tim Edensor

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4650-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-4649-5Published: 02 June 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-4652-5Published: 02 June 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-4650-1Published: 01 June 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 376

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 54 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Human Geography, Urbanism, Urban Studies/Sociology

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