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The Routledge Handbook of Place by Tim Edensor 9781032570471
Booksplease Price: £54.60The handbook presents a compendium of the diverse and growing approaches to place from leading authors as well as less widely known scholars, providing a comprehensive yet cutting-edge overview of... -
Stone: Stories of Urban Materiality by Tim Edensor 9789811546525
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £75.80In 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... -
Stone: Stories of Urban Materiality by Tim Edensor 9789811546495
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £76.10In 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... -
Landscape, Materiality and Heritage: An Object Biography by Tim Edensor 9789811970290
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.44This book focuses on a single artefact, the Barochan Cross, a ninth century stone sculpture in Renfrewshire, Scotland. Exploring the changing stories, meanings, locations, uses and feelings of the... -
Tourists at the Taj: Performance and Meaning at a Symbolic Site by Tim Edensor
RRP: £75.99Booksplease Price: £67.50Clearly written and fascinatingly illustrated, Tourists at the Taj describes the conflicting narratives which surround the site. For some the Taj is an evocative symbol of the colonial past. For... -
From Light to Dark: Daylight, Illumination, and Gloom by Tim Edensor
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01Light pervades the world, and when it is not light, darkness emerges and is combated by electric illumination. Despite this globally shared human experience in which spaces appear radically different... -
Industrial Ruins: Space, Aesthetics and Materiality by Tim Edensor 9781845200770
Booksplease Price: £36.82Across Western cities, there is an increasing obsession with producing manicured landscapes. Standing in contrast to these aesthetically and socially regulated spaces are the neglected sites of... -
From Light to Dark: Daylight, Illumination, and Gloom by Tim Edensor 9780816694426
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.89Light pervades the world, and when it is not light, darkness emerges and is combated by electric illumination. Despite this globally shared human experience in which spaces appear radically different... -
National Identity, Popular Culture and Everyday Life Tim Edensor 9781859735190
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £34.09The Millennium Dome, Braveheart and Rolls Royce cars. How do cultural icons reproduce and transform a sense of national identity? How does national identity vary across time and space, how is it... -
Spaces of Vernacular Creativity: Rethinking the Cultural Economy Tim Edensor 9781138982710
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08Creativity has become part of the language of regeneration experts, urban planners and government policy makers attempting to revive the economic and cultural life of cities in the 21st century... -
Urban Theory Beyond the West: A World of Cities Tim Edensor 9780415589765
RRP: £67.99Booksplease Price: £60.95Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference... -
From the Lighthouse: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Light by Veronica Strang 9780367591328
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £41.24What is a lighthouse? What does it mean? What does it do? This book shows how exchanging knowledge across disciplinary boundaries can transform our thinking. Adopting an unconventional structure,... -
Rethinking Darkness: Cultures, Histories, Practices by Nick Dunn
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book examines the concept of darkness through a range of cultures, histories, practices and experiences. It engages with darkness beyond its binary positioning against light to advance a... -
Sacred Mobilities: Journeys of Belief and Belonging Avril Maddrell 9781138546639
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80This collection draws on the Mobilities approach to look afresh at notions of the sacred where they intersect with people, objects and other things on the move. Consideration of a wide range of... -
Geographies of Making, Craft and Creativity by Laura Price
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.66This book brings together cutting-edge research from leading international scholars to explore the geographies of making and craft. It traces the geographies of making practices from the body, to the... -
Social Networks and Music Worlds by Nick Crossley 9780367867935
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.66Social networks are critical for the creation and consumption of music. This edited collection, Social Networks and Music Worlds, introduces students and scholars of music in society to the core... -
Mobilities and Complexities Ole B. Jensen 9781138601437
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52The new 'mobilities turn' has become a powerful perspective in social theory. John Urry's oeuvre has been very influential in the emergence of this new field and has had lasting impacts on many... -
Football in Africa: Conflict, Conciliation and Community by Gary Armstrong 9780333919798
Booksplease Price: £46.28This groundbreaking collection provides the first detailed social analysis of football within Africa. The book features case-study essays that draw heavily on detailed fieldwork to examine the... -
Advertising, Commercial Spaces and the Urban by Anne M. Cronin 9780230216808
Booksplease Price: £46.74Providing a detailed account of contemporary outdoor advertising and its relationship with urban space, this book examines what the outdoor advertising industry tells us about the commercial... -
Urban Constellations: Spaces of Cultural Regeneration in Post-Industrial Britain by Zoë Thompson
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book investigates the iconic architectural cultural spaces of the contemporary cityscape as engines of regeneration. Promising much to their fading locales, these spaces locate culture in the... -
Weather: Spaces, Mobilities and Affects Kaya Barry (Griffith University, Australia) 9780367678340
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book delves into the everyday spaces, diverse mobilities and affective potency of weather. It presents cutting-edge research into the multiplicity of weather phenomena and analyses the lived... -
Inhabited: Wildness and the Vitality of the Land by Phillip Vannini
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.76People are key elements of wild places. At the same time, human entanglements with wild ecologies involve extractivism, the growth of resource-based economies, and imperial-colonial expansion,... -
The Cultures of Alternative Mobilities: Routes Less Travelled by Professor Phillip Vannini 9781138376540
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £47.24The Cultures of Alternative Mobilities presents a series of ethnographic studies, focusing on the local cultures of mobilities and immobilities, emphasizing the everyday sense of contingency and... -
Urban Marathons: Rhythms, Places, Mobilities Jonas Larsen 9780367645519
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66This original social science text approaches marathon running as an everyday practice and a designed event, to draw upon and contribute to the literature on practice theory, urban events,... -
Dark Skies: Places, Practices, Communities Nick Dunn 9781032528038
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Dark Skies addresses a significant gap in knowledge in relation to perspectives from the arts, humanities, and social sciences. In providing a new multi- and interdisciplinary field of inquiry, this... -
Mediating the Tourist Experience: From Brochures to Virtual Encounters by Caroline Scarles
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.51Traditionally, tourism media has referred to the image of destinations constructed through media texts such as brochures and postcards, with increasing attention towards other mediascapes such as... -
Moral Encounters in Tourism by Mary Mostafanezhad 9781138270374
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.51This first full length treatment of the role of morality in tourism examines how the tourism encounter is also fundamentally a moral encounter. Drawing upon interdisciplinary perspectives, leading... -
Manchester: Something Rich and Strange by Paul Dobraszczyk
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.49What is Manchester? Moving far from the glitzy shopping districts and architectural showpieces, away from cool city-centre living and modish cultural centres, this book shows us the unheralded,... -
Understanding Tourism: A Critical Introduction by Kevin Hannam 9781412922784
Booksplease Price: £57.41This text introduces tourism students to concepts drawn from critical theory, cultural studies and the social sciences. It does so with a light and readable touch, highlighting the ideas that... -
Rhythmanalysis: Research Methods by Dr Dawn Lyon
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.22First published Open Access under a Creative Commons license as What is Rhythmanalysis?, this title is now also available as part of the Bloomsbury Research Methods series. In recent years, there... -
Rural Modernity, Everyday Life and Visual Culture Rosemary Shirley 9781138546738
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Through the lens of the everyday, this book explores 'the countryside' as an inhabited and practised realm with lived rhythms and routines. It relocates the topography of everyday life from its... -
Off the Grid: Re-Assembling Domestic Life Phillip Vannini 9780415854337
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66Off-grid isn't a state of mind. It isn't about someone being out of touch, about a place that is hard to get to, or about a weekend spent offline. Off-grid is the property of a building (generally a... -
Walking Inside Out: Contemporary British Psychogeography by Tina Richardson 9781783480869
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £41.38Walking Inside Out is the first text that attempts to merge the work of literary and artist practitioners with academics to critically explore the state of psychogeography today. The collection...