The affective and sensory potencies of urban stone: textures and colours, commemoration and geologic convivialities

Edensor, Tim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4715-6024 (2022) The affective and sensory potencies of urban stone: textures and colours, commemoration and geologic convivialities. Thesis Eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, 172 (1). pp. 16-35. ISSN 0725-5136

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Abstract

In drawing out how human lives are always already inextricably entangled with the non-human elements of the world, this paper explores how stone, as a constituent of urban materiality, provokes a wealth of emotional, sensory and affective impacts in the experience of place. The paper discusses how the sonic, tactile and visual qualities of stone contribute to the sensory and affective experience of places, shape the symbolic meanings and affective impacts of diverse memorials, and trigger a powerful sense of geological conviviality.