Description: Spatial Anthropology offers a rich tapestry of cultures, landscapes and spatial stories that speaks to both the particularities of place and locality as well as the more delocalised topographies of regional, national and global mobility.
Brief description: Les Roberts is a reader in Cultural and Media Studies at the University of Liverpool, UK and is Co-Director of the Centre for Culture and Everyday Life. The core focus of his work is situated within the interdisciplinary fields of spatial anthropology/spatial humanities, cultural memory and urban cultural studies. He is author/editor of a number of books including Film, Mobility and Urban Space (2012), Mapping Cultures (2012), Sites of Popular Music Heritage (2014), Locating the Moving Image (2014), and Deep Mapping (2016). His most recent monograph, Spatial Anthropology: Excursions in Liminal Space, was published in 2018.
Review Quotes:
"If David Harvey once said that space is too important to be left to geographers alone, here we have precisely the confirmation needed." --Kay Anderson, Professorial Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
"Like Roberts' recent writing this book pursues ideas through crossing land in a flirtive manner; stories, other worldly sightings and readings; [the chapter] 'castaway' being typically wayward. Unusual and in a Sinclairesque manner, he opens up conceptually as he explores often unfamiliar territory, appealing to a wide range of disciplines beyond humanities with a style that works well." --David Crouch, Emeritus Professor of Cultural Geography, University of Derby "Spatial Anthropology expertly defines a new expression of spatial humanities and helpfully positions it as a field in-between disciplines. Drawing upon insights from anthropology, Roberts' rejects space as an abstract container; rather, it is lived, practiced, and performed. Here, space is material and dynamic, replete with meanings and memories that shape who we are and how we navigate the world." --David Bodenhamer, Executive Director of The Polis Center and Professor of History, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis