Books by Tim Edensor

Presents industrial ruins and explains what they can tell about ourselves and our past. It is their fragmentary nature and lack of fixed meaning that render ruins meaningful. This book highlights the danger of eradicating such urban sites through policies that privilege homogeneous new developments.

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

A fascinating and unprecedented look at how illumination and darkness shape our experiences across history and space

How does national identity vary across time and space, how is it contested, and what has been the impact of globalization upon national identity and culture? Attempting to answer such questions, this book examines how national identity is represented, performed, spatialized and materialized through popular culture and in everyday life.

This book presents for the first time a sociological analysis of the cultural phenomenon, the Taj Mahal. It describes many of the tourist practices around the Taj as well as considering the notion of tourism in a wider context.