Prof Tim Edensor

Who am I?

[url= http://www.sci-eng.mmu.ac.uk/industrial_ruins/]Industrial Ruins[/url]
[url= http://www.sci-eng.mmu.ac.uk/british_industrial_ruins/]British Industrial Ruins[/url]
[url= http://www.sci-eng.mmu.ac.uk/manchester_stone/]Manchester Stone[/url]

How I’ll teach you

Theories of identity and spaceGlobalisationLeisure and tourist spaceUrban and rural cultures

Academic collaborations

Spaces of tourismNational identitiesIndustrial ruins and wastelandUrban and rural culturesMaterialityOrdering and notions of disorderCultural memoryGeographies of rhythm and rhythmanalysisLandscapes of Illumination

Publications

• Featured Works

• Books (authored/edited/special issues)

  N. Dunn, T. Edensor Dark Skies. Routledge.

  T. Edensor (2022). Landscape, Materiality and Heritage. Springer Nature Singapore.

  T. Edensor, A. Kalandides, U. Kothari (2020). Introduction. Routledge.

  T. Edensor (2020). The qualities of place.

  T. Edensor (2020). Situating place.

  N. Dunn, T. Edensor (2020). Rethinking darkness: Cultures, histories, practices.

  T. Edensor, A. Kalandides, U. Kothari (2020). The Routledge Handbook of Place. T. Edensor, A. Kalandides, U. Kothari. Routledge.

  T. Edensor (2020). Stone: Stories of urban materiality.

  T. Edensor (2017). From light to dark: Daylight, illumination, and gloom.

  T. Edensor (2016). Foreword.

  T. Edensor (2016). Geographies of Rhythm. T. Edensor. Routledge.

  T. Edensor (2016). Walking through ruins. Ashgate.

  T. Edensor (2012). Geographies of rhythm: Nature, place, mobilities and bodies.

  T. Edensor, D. Leslie, S. Millington, NM. Rantisi (2009). Spaces of vernacular creativity: Rethinking the cultural economy. Routledge.

  T. Edensor (2008). Tourists at the Taj. Routledge.

• Journal articles

  T. Edensor, M. Mundell (2023). Enigmatic objects and playful provocations: the mysterious case of Golden Head. Social and Cultural Geography. 24(6), pp.891-911.

  L. Dickens, T. Edensor (2022). Dreamlands: stories of enchantment and excess in a search for lost sensations. Cultural Geographies. 29(1), pp.23-43.

  L. Dickens, T. Edensor (2021). Entering the Fifth Dimension: modular modernities, psychedelic sensibilities, and the architectures of lived experience. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 46(3), pp.659-674.

  CL. Ebbensgaard, T. Edensor (2021). Walking with light and the discontinuous experience of urban change. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 46(2), pp.378-391.

  M. Duffy, C. Scarles, T. Edensor, G. Waitt, A. Franklin (2021). Twenty years on: Reflections on the journeys travelled and future directions for tourist studies. Tourist Studies: an international journal. 21(1), pp.3-8.

  T. Edensor, TSJ. Smith (2020). Commemorating economic crisis at a liminal site: memory, creativity and dissent at Achill Henge, Ireland. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 38(3), pp.567-584.

  T. Edensor, M. Bille (2019). ‘Always like never before’: learning from the lumitopia of Tivoli Gardens. Social & Cultural Geography. 20(7), pp.938-959.

  V. Zhang, D. Kelly, L. Rodriguez Castro, BL. Iaquinto, A. Hughes, et al. T. Edensor, C. McKay, M. Lobo, M. Kennedy, P. Wolifson, C. Ratnam, C. Buckle, L. Dorignon, E. Adamczyk, K. Barry, D. Bissell. (2019). Experiential Attunements in an Illuminated City at Night: A Pedagogical Writing Experiment. GeoHumanities. 5(2), pp.468-495.

  T. Edensor, J. Andrews (2019). Walking the creek: reconnecting place through light projection. Geographical Research. 57(3), pp.263-274.

  T. Edensor (2018). The more-than-visual experiences of tourism. Tourism Geographies.

  P. Kamstra, B. Cook, T. Edensor, DM. Kennedy Re-casting experience and risk along rocky coasts: A relational analysis using qualitative GIS. Geographical Journal.

  T. Edensor, S. Sumartojo (2018). Geographies of everyday nationhood: experiencing multiculturalism in Melbourne. Nations and Nationalism. 24(3), pp.553-578.

  T. Edensor, U. Kothari (2018). Consuming colonial imaginaries and forging postcolonial networks: on the road with Indian travellers in the 1950s. Mobilities. 13(5), pp.702-716.

  T. Edensor, J. Larsen (2018). Rhythmanalysing marathon running: ‘A drama of rhythms’. Environment and Planning A. 50(3), pp.730-746.

  T. Edensor (2017). Rethinking the landscapes of the Peak District. Landscape Research. 42(6), pp.595-600.

  T. Edensor (2017). Seeing with light and landscape: a walk around Stanton Moor. Landscape Research. 42(6), pp.616-633.

  T. Edensor, H. Lorimer (2015). “landscapism” at the speed of light: darkness and illumination in motion. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography. 97(1), pp.1-16.

  T. Edensor (2015). Introduction to geographies of darkness. Cultural Geographies. 22(4), pp.559-565.

  T. Edensor (2014). Multi-sensual Image and the Archaeological Gaze. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology. 1(1), pp.24-26.

  T. Edensor (2013). Vital urban materiality and its multiple absences: the building stone of central Manchester. cultural geographies. 20(4), pp.447-465.

  T. Edensor (2013). Reconnecting with darkness: Gloomy landscapes, lightless places. Social and Cultural Geography. 14(4), pp.446-465.

  T. Edensor (2013). Reconnecting with darkness: gloomy landscapes, lightless places. SOCIAL & CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY. 14(4), pp.446-465.

  T. Edensor, S. Millington (2013). Blackpool Illuminations: revaluing local cultural production, situated creativity and working-class values. International Journal of Cultural Policy. 19(2), pp.145-161.

  C. DeSilvey, T. Edensor (2013). Reckoning with ruins. Progress in Human Geography. 37(4), pp.465-485.

  T. Edensor (2013). TRAVEL CONNECTIONS: TOURISM, TECHNOLOGY, AND TOGETHERNESS IN A MOBILE WORLD. ANNALS OF TOURISM RESEARCH. 40, pp.442-444.

  T. Edensor (2012). Illuminated atmospheres: Anticipating and reproducing the flow of affective experience in Blackpool. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 30(6), pp.1103-1122.

  T. Edensor, M. Jayne (2012). Afterword: A world of cities. pp.329-331.

  T. Edensor, M. Jayne (2012). Urban theory beyond the west: A world of cities. Urban Theory Beyond the West: A World of Cities. pp.1-391.

  T. Edensor, M. Jayne (2012). Urban Theory Beyond the West. Urban Theory Beyond the West: A World of Cities. pp.1-27.

  T. Edensor (2011). Entangled agencies, material networks and repair in a building assemblage: The mutable stone of St Ann's Church, Manchester. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 36(2), pp.238-252.

  T. Edensor (2010). Aurora landscapes: Affective atmospheres of light and dark. pp.227-240.

  T. Edensor (2010). Introduction: Thinking about rhythm and space. pp.1-18.

  T. Edensor (2010). Commuter: Mobility, rhythm and commuting. pp.189-203.

  T. Edensor (2010). Geographies of rhythm: Nature, place, mobilities and bodies. Geographies of Rhythm: Nature, Place, Mobilities and Bodies. pp.1-241.

  T. Edensor (2010). Walking in rhythms: Place, regulation, style and the flow of experience. Visual Studies. 25(1), pp.69-79.

  T. Edensor (2009). Re-shaping Cities. pp.211-229.

  T. Edensor, S. Millington (2009). Illuminations, class identities and the contested landscapes of christmas. Sociology. 43(1), pp.103-121.

  T. Edensor (2009). Hope and Rust: Reinterpreting the industrial Place in the Late 20th Century. TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE. 50(1), pp.230-232.

  T. Edensor, C. Christie, B. Lloyd (2008). Obliterating informal space: The London Olympics and the Lea Valley: A photo essay. Space and Culture. 11(3), pp.285-293.

  T. Edensor, J. Holloway (2008). Rhythmanalysing the coach tour: The Ring of Kerry, Ireland. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 33(4), pp.483-501.

  T. Edensor, S. Millington (2008). 'This is Our City': Branding football and local embeddedness. Global Networks. 8(2), pp.172-193.

  T. Edensor (2008). Time to destroy: An archaeology of supermodernity - Commentary. Current Anthropology. 49(2), pp.263-264.

  T. Edensor (2008). Mundane hauntings: Commuting through the phantasmagoric working-class spaces of Manchester, England. Cultural Geographies. 15(3), pp.313-333.

  J. Binnie, T. Edensor, J. Holloway, S. Millington, C. Young (2007). Mundane mobilities, banal travels. Social and Cultural Geography. 8(2), pp.165-174.

  T. Edensor (2007). Mundane mobilities, performances and spaces of tourism. Social and Cultural Geography. 8(2), pp.199-215.

  T. Edensor, S. Richards (2007). Snowboarders vs skiers: Contested choreographies of the slopes. Leisure Studies. 26(1), pp.97-114.

  T. Edensor (2006). Space and power: Politics, war and architecture. BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY. 57(4), pp.721-722.

  T. Edensor (2006). Loose Space. pp.234-252.

  T. Edensor (2006). Reconsidering national temporalities: Institutional times, everyday routines, serial spaces and synchronicities. European Journal of Social Theory. 9(4), pp.525-545.

  T. Edensor, U. Kothari (2006). Extending networks and mediating brands: Stallholder strategies in a Mauritian market. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 31(3), pp.323-336.

  D. Bell, M. Jayne (2006). Small Cities. pp.205-216.

  T. Edensor (2006). Real cities. CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES. 13(3), pp.483-484.

  T. Edensor (2006). Performing tourist places. JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES. 22(2), pp.243-244.

  T. Edensor (2006). Space Odysseys: Spatiality and social relations in the 21st century. EUROPEAN URBAN AND REGIONAL STUDIES. 13(2), pp.188-189.

  T. Edensor (2005). The ghosts of industrial ruins: Ordering and disordering memory in excessive space. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 23(6), pp.829-849.

  T. Edensor (2005). Waste matter - The debris of industrial ruins and the disordering of the material world. Journal of Material Culture. 10(3), pp.311-332.

  T. Edensor (2005). Looking for Los Angeles: Architecture, film, photography and the urban landscape. SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW. 53(4), pp.783-785.

  T. Edensor (2005). The Media and the Tourist Imagination. pp.105-118.

  T. Edensor (2004). Automobility and National Identity: Representation, Geography and Driving Practice. Theory, Culture & Society. 21(5), pp.101-120.

  T. Edensor (2003). Defamiliarizing the mundane roadscape. Space and Culture. 6(2), pp.151-168.

  T. Edensor (2001). Performing tourism, staging tourism. Tourist Studies. 1(1), pp.59-81.

  T. Edensor (2000). A Welcome Back to the Working Class. Sociology. 34(4), pp.805-810.

  TIM. EDENSOR (2000). Walking in the British Countryside: Reflexivity, Embodied Practices and Ways to Escape. Body & Society. 6(3-4), pp.81-106.

  T. Edensor (2000). Staging tourism: Tourists as performers. Annals of Tourism Research. 27(2), pp.322-344.

  T. Edensor (1997). Reading Braveheart: Representing and Contesting Scottish Identity. Scottish Affairs. 21 (First Serie(1), pp.135-158.

  T. Edensor (1997). National identity and the politics of memory: Remembering Brace and Wallace in symbolic space. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 15(2), pp.175-194.

• Chapters in books

  N. Dunn, T. Edensor (2023). Under the night. In: Dark Skies. Routledge, pp.251-267.

  T. Edensor, N. Dunn (2023). Dark skies. In: Dark Skies. Routledge, pp.3-31.

  T. Edensor, D. Oakley (2023). Considering festive illuminations in dark sky places. In: Dark Skies. Routledge, pp.105-118.

  T. Edensor (2023). Defamiliarizing the Sensory. In: The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Ethnography. Routledge, pp.320-331.

  T. Edensor (2023). Tourist atmospheres. In: Consuming Atmospheres. Routledge, pp.51-66.

  T. Edensor (2022). Dark designs. In: Lighting Design in Shared Public Spaces. Routledge, pp.195-215.

  T. Edensor (2022). Introduction. In: Landscape, Materiality and Heritage. Springer Nature Singapore, pp.1-7.

  T. Edensor (2022). The Future of the Cross: Continued Absence, Replicas or Something Else?. In: Landscape, Materiality and Heritage. Springer Nature Singapore, pp.109-119.

  T. Edensor (2022). Moving the Cross Uphill: Creating a Romantic Landscape. In: Landscape, Materiality and Heritage. Springer Nature Singapore, pp.51-59.

  T. Edensor (2022). Making Sense of Landscape. In: Landscape, Materiality and Heritage. Springer Nature Singapore, pp.9-28.

  T. Edensor (2022). Mending the Cross: Landscapes of Repair and Maintenance. In: Landscape, Materiality and Heritage. Springer Nature Singapore, pp.87-99.

  T. Edensor (2022). Revaluing the Cross: Its Incorporation into the Heritage Landscape. In: Landscape, Materiality and Heritage. Springer Nature Singapore, pp.73-85.

  T. Edensor (2022). Conclusion: Things, Landscapes, Heritage. In: Landscape, Materiality and Heritage. Springer Nature Singapore, pp.121-131.

  T. Edensor (2022). The Cross and the First World War: Landscapes of Commemoration. In: Landscape, Materiality and Heritage. Springer Nature Singapore, pp.61-71.

  T. Edensor (2022). Relocating the Cross: Re-enrolment into a Christian Landscape. In: Landscape, Materiality and Heritage. Springer Nature Singapore, pp.101-108.

  T. Edensor (2022). Imagining the Early Medieval Landscape. In: Landscape, Materiality and Heritage. Springer Nature Singapore, pp.39-49.

  T. Edensor (2022). Scholarly Interpretations of the Barochan Cross: Religious and Military Landscapes. In: Landscape, Materiality and Heritage. Springer Nature Singapore, pp.29-37.

  T. Edensor (2021). Afterword: Rhythmic Multiplicities – Seeking Order and Excitement. In: Rhythmanalysis. Emerald Publishing Limited, pp.265-276.

  T. Edensor (2021). Illuminating identity: The capacity of light festivalsto enhanceplace?. In: A Research Agenda for Place Branding. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.267-282.

  T. Edensor (2021). The culture of the Indian street. In: Public Space Reader. pp.452-456.

  T. Edensor (2020). The luminosity of place. In: The Routledge Handbook of Place. Routledge, pp.145-154.

  T. Edensor, N. Dunn (2020). Introduction: Venturing into the dark: Gloomy multiplicities. In: Rethinking Darkness: Cultures, Histories, Practices. pp.1-24.

  N. Dunn, T. Edensor (2020). Afterword: Revisiting the dark: Diverse encounters and experiences. In: Rethinking Darkness: Cultures, Histories, Practices. pp.229-240.

  T. Edensor (2020). Seeking sensuous mobilities: Tourist quests for familiarity and alterity. In: Understanding Tourism Mobilities in Japan. pp.13-26.

  T. Edensor (2019). Creativity, labour and Captain Cook's cottage: From great ayton to Fitzroy Gardens. In: Non-Representational Theory and the Creative Arts. pp.195-209.

  B. Michael (2018). The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies. M. Bull. In: The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies. Routledge, pp.158-165.

  T. Edensor (2018). Moving through the city. In: City Visions. Routledge, pp.133-152.

  T. Edensor (2018). The shifting multiplicity of the lighthouse. In: From the Lighthouse: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Light. pp.243-244.

  T. Edensor (2018). The sensory pleasures of the disoriented tourist. In: Mobilities and Complexities. pp.56-63.

  T. Edensor (2016). Aurora Landscapes: Affective Atmospheres of Light and Dark. In: Conversations With Landscape. Routledge, pp.241-254.

  T. Edensor (2016). Immigration Stations: The Regulation and Commemoration of Mobility at Angel Island, San Francisco and Ellis Island, New York. In: Geographies of Mobilities: Practices, Spaces, Subjects. Routledge, pp.163-178.

  T. Edensor (2016). Contemporary pilgrimage: Journeys in time and space. In: Sacred Mobilities: Journeys of Belief and Belonging. pp.201-210.

  T. Edensor (2016). Introduction: Thinking about Rhythm and Space. In: Geographies of Rhythm: Nature, Place, Mobilities and Bodies. pp.1-18.

  T. Edensor (2016). Incipient ruination: Materiality, destructive agencies and repair. In: Elements of Architecture: Assembling Archaeology, Atmosphere and the Performance of Building Spaces. pp.348-364.

  TJ. Edensor, . Edensor, TJ (2014). The social life of the senses: ordering and disordering the modern sensorium. D. Howes. In: The Cultural History of the Senses: The Modern Age: 1920-2000. London: Bloomsbury,

  T. Edensor, P. Hepburn, N. Richards (2014). The enabling qualities of manchester’s open mic network. In: Social Networks and Music Worlds. pp.145-164.

  T. Edensor, M. Jayne (2012). Introduction: Urban theory beyond the West. In: Urban Theory Beyond the West: A World of Cities. pp.1-27.

  T. Edensor (2012). The rhythms of tourism. In: Real Tourism: Practice, Care, and Politics in Contemporary Travel Culture. pp.54-71.

  T. Edensor, E. Falconer (2012). SENSUOUS GEOGRAPHIES OF TOURISM. In: The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Geographies. Routledge, pp.74-81.

  T. Edensor (2012). Introduction: Thinking about rhythm and space. In: Geographies of Rhythm: Nature, Place, Mobilities and Bodies. pp.1-18.

  T. Edensor (2012). Commuter: Mobility, rhythm and commuting. In: Geographies of Mobilities: Practices, Spaces, Subjects. pp.189-203.

  A. Jorgensen (2012). Urban Wildscapes. In: Urban Wildscapes. Routledge, pp.65-79.

  T. Edensor (2011). Materiality, time and the City: The multiple temporalities of building stone. In: Spatialities: The Geographies of Art and Architecture. Intellect Books, pp.35-52.

  T. Edensor, S. Millington (2010). Stadium Worlds. S. Frank, S. Steets. In: Stadium Worlds: Football, Space and the Built Environment. Routledge, pp.146-162.

  T. Edensor (2009). Building Stone in Manchester: Networks of Materiality, Circulating Matter and the Ongoing Constitution of the City. In: Re-shaping Cities. Routledge, pp.219-238.

  T. Edensor, D. Leslie, S. Millington, NM. Rantisi (2009). Introduction: Rethinking creativity: Critiquing the creative class thesis. In: Spaces of Vernacular Creativity: Rethinking the Cultural Economy. Routledge, pp.1-16.

  T. Edensor (2009). Tourism. In: International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Elsevier, pp.313-323.

  T. Edensor (2009). National Spatialities. In: International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Elsevier, pp.242-247.

  T. Edensor (2009). Tourism. In: International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Elsevier, pp.301-312.

  T. Edensor (2009). Tourism and Performance. In: The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Studies. SAGE Publications Ltd, pp.544-558.

  SD. Millington, T. Edensor (2009). Christmas light displays and the creative production of spaces of generosity. In: Spaces of Vernacular Creativity: Rethinking the cultural economy. London: Routledge, pp.170-182.

  T. Edensor (2006). The culture of the Indian Street. In: Images of the Street: Planning, Identity and Control in Public Space. pp.205-221.

  T. Edensor (2006). Performing Rurality. In: The Handbook of Rural Studies. SAGE Publications Ltd, pp.484-495.

  M. Sheller, J. Urry (2004). Tourism Mobilities. In: Tourism Mobilities: Places to Play, Places in Play. Routledge, pp.103-115.