Stone

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).

• 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.