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Stone

Stories of Urban Materiality

Tim Edensor author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Springer Verlag, Singapore

Published:2nd Jun '20

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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.

ISBN: 9789811546495

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 781g

376 pages

1st ed. 2020