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Les Roberts

Dr Les Roberts
BA (London) PhD (Middlesex)

Contact

Les.Roberts@liverpool.ac.uk

http://www.liminoids.com

+44 (0)151 794 3102 Ext. 43102

Publications

Selected publications

  1. Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self (Book - 2023)
  2. Tracing lines in the Hilbre sands: a spatial anthropology of islandness and other fictions (Journal article - 2023)
  3. Songlines Are for Singing: Un/Mapping the Lived Spaces of Travelling Memory (Journal article - 2023)
  4. Territory Glimpsed Through Lache Eyes A Tale of Non-Euclidean and Symbolically Authentic Excursions in Liminal Space (Chapter - 2022)
  5. Spatial Anthropology: Excursions in Liminal Space (Book - 2018)
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2024

Developing and Managing Film-Related Tourism at Film Studios with the Design of Cultural and Heritage Features

Cui, X., Roberts, L., & Motta, W. (2024). Developing and Managing Film-Related Tourism at Film Studios with the Design of Cultural and Heritage Features. In Media, Place and Tourism (pp. 226-241). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003320586-20

DOI
10.4324/9781003320586-20
Chapter

Spatial Anthropology and Deep Mapping

Roberts, L. (2024). Spatial Anthropology and Deep Mapping. In The Routledge Handbook of Cartographic Humanities. Routledge.

Chapter

2023

Spatial anthropology: Understanding deep mapping as a form of visual ethnography

Roberts, L. (2023). Spatial anthropology. In The Routledge Handbook of Geospatial Technologies and Society (pp. 613-622). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780367855765-51

DOI
10.4324/9780367855765-51
Chapter

Humanities (The Phenomenology of Travel and Tourism)

Roberts, L., & Andrews, H. (Eds.) (2023). Humanities (The Phenomenology of Travel and Tourism) (Vol. .). MDPI AG.

Edited special journal issue

Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self

Roberts, L. (n.d.). Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780429053375

DOI
10.4324/9780429053375
Book

2022

Territory Glimpsed Through Lache Eyes A Tale of Non-Euclidean and Symbolically Authentic Excursions in Liminal Space

Roberts, L. (2022). Territory Glimpsed Through Lache Eyes A Tale of Non-Euclidean and Symbolically Authentic Excursions in Liminal Space. In TERRITORIES ENVIRONMENTS POLITICS (pp. 89-110). doi:10.4324/9781003196365-5

DOI
10.4324/9781003196365-5
Chapter

2020

Liminality and the Stranger: Understanding tourists and their landscapes through True Detective

Roberts, L., & Andrews, H. (2020). Liminality and the Stranger: Understanding tourists and their landscapes through True Detective. In M. Mansson, L. Eskilsson, & A. Buchman (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Media and Tourism. Routledge.

Chapter

Navigating Cinematic Geographies: Reflections on Film as Spatial Practice

Roberts, L. (2020). Navigating Cinematic Geographies: Reflections on Film as Spatial Practice. In T. Edensor, U. Kothari, & A. Kalandides (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Place. Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/

Chapter

2019

2018

Spatial Anthropology: Excursions in Liminal Space

Roberts, L. (2018). Spatial Anthropology: Excursions in Liminal Space. London: Rowman & Littlefield. Retrieved from https://rowman.com/

Book

Humanities (Spatial Bricolage: Methodological Eclecticism & the Poetics of 'Making Do')

Roberts, L. (Ed.) (n.d.). Humanities (Spatial Bricolage: Methodological Eclecticism & the Poetics of 'Making Do') (Vol. 6-7). MDPI AG. Retrieved from http://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/spatial_bricolage

Edited special journal issue

2016

Landscape in the Frame: Exploring the Hinterlands of the British Procedural Drama

Roberts, L. (2016). Landscapes in the frame: exploring the hinterlands of the British procedural drama. NEW REVIEW OF FILM AND TELEVISION STUDIES, 14(3), 364-385. doi:10.1080/17400309.2016.1189712

DOI
10.1080/17400309.2016.1189712
Journal article

The Cestrian Book of the Dead: A Necrogeographic Survey of the Dee Estuary

The Cestrian Book of the Dead: A Necrogeographic Survey of the Dee Estuary (2016). In Literary Mapping in the Digital Age (pp. 200-222). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315592596-21

DOI
10.4324/9781315592596-21
Chapter

Inhabiting the Edge: Tricksterism and Radical Liminality

Roberts, L. (2016). Inhabiting the Edge: Tricksterism and Radical Liminality. The Double Negative. Retrieved from http://www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/

Journal article

'Deep Mapping' - Special Issue edition of Humanities

Roberts, L. (Ed.) (2016). 'Deep Mapping' - Special Issue edition of Humanities. MDPI AG. Retrieved from http://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/DeepMapping

Edited special journal issue

2015

Mapping Cultures: Spatial Anthropology and Popular Cultural Memory

Roberts, L., & Cohen, S. (2015). Mapping Cultures: Spatial Anthropology and Popular Cultural Memory. In Cultural Mapping as Cultural Inquiry (pp. 170-192). New York: Routledge.

Chapter

Cultural Mapping as Cultural Inquiry

Duxbury, N., Garrett-Petts, W. F., & MacLennan, D. (Eds.) (n.d.). Cultural Mapping as Cultural Inquiry. In . Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315743066

DOI
10.4324/9781315743066
Chapter

Liminality

Andrews, H., & Roberts, L. (2015). Liminality. In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (pp. 131-137). Elsevier. doi:10.1016/b978-0-08-097086-8.12102-6

DOI
10.1016/b978-0-08-097086-8.12102-6
Chapter

2014

Introduction: Locating popular music heritage

Cohen, S., Roberts, L., Knifton, R., & Leonard, M. (2014). Introduction: Locating popular music heritage. In Unknown Book (pp. 1-11). doi:10.4324/9780203514528

DOI
10.4324/9780203514528
Chapter

Sites of Popular Music Heritage

Cohen, S., Knifton, R., Leonard, M., & Roberts, L. (Eds.) (n.d.). Sites of Popular Music Heritage. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203514528

DOI
10.4324/9780203514528
Book

Unveiling memory: Blue Plaques as in/tangible markers of popular music heritage

Roberts, L., & Cohen, S. (2014). Unveiling memory: Blue Plaques as in/tangible markers of popular music heritage. In Sites of Popular Music Heritage: Memories, Histories, Places (pp. 221-238). doi:10.4324/9780203514528

DOI
10.4324/9780203514528
Chapter

Popular music heritage, cultural memory and cultural identity

Brandellero, A., Janssen, S., Cohen, S., & Roberts, L. (2014). Popular music heritage, cultural memory and cultural identity. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HERITAGE STUDIES, 20(3), 219-223. doi:10.1080/13527258.2013.821624

DOI
10.1080/13527258.2013.821624
Journal article

Talkin bout my generation: popular music and the culture of heritage

Roberts, L. (2014). Talkin bout my generation: popular music and the culture of heritage. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HERITAGE STUDIES, 20(3), 262-280. doi:10.1080/13527258.2012.740497

DOI
10.1080/13527258.2012.740497
Journal article

Unauthorising popular music heritage: outline of a critical framework

Roberts, L., & Cohen, S. (2014). Unauthorising popular music heritage: outline of a critical framework. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HERITAGE STUDIES, 20(3), 241-261. doi:10.1080/13527258.2012.750619

DOI
10.1080/13527258.2012.750619
Journal article

(Un)Doing Tourism Anthropology: Outline of a Field of Practice

Roberts, L., & Andrews, H. (2014). (Un)Doing Tourism Anthropology: Outline of a Field of Practice. Journal of Tourism Challenges and Trends, VI(2), 13-38.

Journal article

Heritage Rocks! Mapping Spaces of Popular Music Tourism

Cohen, S., & Roberts, L. (2014). Heritage Rocks! Mapping Spaces of Popular Music Tourism. In S. Kruger, & R. Trandafoiu (Eds.), The Globalization of Musics in Transit: Musical Migration and Tourism (pp. 35-58). London: Routledge.

Chapter

Locating the Moving Image: Outline of a New Empiricism

Roberts, L., & Hallam, J. (2014). Locating the Moving Image: Outline of a New Empiricism. In J. Hallam, & L. Roberts (Eds.), Locating the Moving Image: New Approaches to Film and Place (pp. 1-30). Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Chapter

Mapping the city in film

Hallam, J., & Les, R. (2014). Mapping the city in film. In Toward Spatial Humanities: Historical Gis and Spatial History (pp. 143-171).

Chapter

Marketing musicscapes, or the political economy of contagious magic

Roberts, L. (2014). Marketing musicscapes, or the political economy of contagious magic. TOURIST STUDIES, 14(1), 10-29. doi:10.1177/1468797613511683

DOI
10.1177/1468797613511683
Journal article

The Archive City: Film as Critical Spatial Practice

Roberts, L. (2014). The Archive City: Film as Critical Spatial Practice. In B. Fraser (Ed.), Marxism and Urban Culture (pp. 3-22). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books..

Chapter

The Violence of Non Places

Roberts, L. (2014). The Violence of Non Places. In TOURISM AND VIOLENCE (pp. 13-31). Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/

Chapter

2013

Afterword: Toward a spatial history of the moving image

Hallam, J., & Roberts, L. (2013). Afterword: Toward a spatial history of the moving image. In Locating the Moving Image: New Approaches to Film and Place (pp. 245-254).

Chapter

Film and spatiality: Outline of a new empiricism

Roberts, L., & Hallam, J. (2013). Film and spatiality: Outline of a new empiricism. In Locating the Moving Image: New Approaches to Film and Place (pp. 1-30).

Chapter

In Search of Pleasures Past

Roberts, L., & Shand, R. (2013). In Search of Pleasures Past. Screenworks, 4. Retrieved from http://www.jmpscreenworks.com/?pid=vol4

Journal article

Locating the moving image: New approaches to film and place

Hallam, J., & Roberts, L. (2013). Locating the moving image: New approaches to film and place.

Book

The Last of Liverpool: Liminal Journeys Around the Port City

Roberts, L. (2013). The Last of Liverpool: Liminal Journeys Around the Port City. In J. Conolly, & C. Whelan (Eds.), World Film Locations: Liverpool (pp. .). Bristol: Intellect.

Chapter

2012

Cinematic Cartography

Roberts, L. (n.d.). Cinematic Cartography. In Mapping Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/9781137025050.0009

DOI
10.1057/9781137025050.0009
Chapter

Mapping Cultures

Roberts, L. (n.d.). Mapping Cultures. In Mapping Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/9781137025050.0005

DOI
10.1057/9781137025050.0005
Chapter

Walking, Witnessing, Mapping

Cooper, D., & Roberts, L. (n.d.). Walking, Witnessing, Mapping. In Mapping Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/9781137025050.0010

DOI
10.1057/9781137025050.0010
Chapter

Liminal Landscapes

Andrews, H., & Roberts, L. (Eds.) (n.d.). Liminal Landscapes. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203123164

DOI
10.4324/9780203123164
Book

Another Space: Gleaning the Urban Littoral

Roberts, L. (2012). Another Space: Gleaning the Urban Littoral. Journal of Tourism Consumption and Practice, 4(1), 94-100. Retrieved from http://www.tourismconsumption.org/v4n1.htm

Journal article

Cinematic Cartography: Projecting Place Through Film

Roberts, L. (2012). Cinematic Cartography: Projecting Place Through Film. In L. Roberts (Ed.), Mapping Cultures: Place, Practice, Performance (pp. .). Basingstoke: Palgrave. Retrieved from http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=507224

Chapter

Film, Mobility and Urban Space: a Cinematic Geography of Liverpool

Roberts, L. (2012). Film, Mobility and Urban Space: a Cinematic Geography of Liverpool. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. Retrieved from http://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/

Book

Introduction: Remapping Liminality

Roberts, L., & Andrews, H. (2012). Introduction: Remapping Liminality. In L. Roberts, & H. Andrews (Eds.), Liminal Landscapes: Travel, Experience and Spaces In-between (pp. .). London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415668842/

Chapter

Liminal Landscapes: Travel, Experience and Spaces In-between

.. (2012). Liminal Landscapes: Travel, Experience and Spaces In-between. L. Roberts, & H. Andrews (Eds.), London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415668842/

Book

Mapping Cultures

Roberts, L. (Ed.) (2012). Mapping Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan UK. doi:10.1057/9781137025050

DOI
10.1057/9781137025050
Book

Mapping Cultures - A Spatial Anthropology

Roberts, L. (2012). Mapping Cultures - A Spatial Anthropology. In L. Roberts (Ed.), Mapping Cultures: Place, Practice, Performance (pp. .). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=507224

Chapter

Mapping Cultures: Place, Practice, Performance.

.. (2012). Mapping Cultures: Place, Practice, Performance.. L. Roberts (Ed.), Basingstoke: Palgrave. Retrieved from http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=507224

Book

The Sands of Dee: Estuarine Excursions in Liminal Space

Roberts, L. (2012). The Sands of Dee: Estuarine Excursions in Liminal Space. In L. Roberts, & H. Andrews (Eds.), Liminal Landscapes: Travel, Experience and Spaces In-between (pp. .). London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415668842/

Chapter

Walking, Witnessing, Mapping: An Interview with Iain Sinclair

Roberts, L., & Cooper, D. (2012). Walking, Witnessing, Mapping: An Interview with Iain Sinclair. In Mapping Cultures: Place, Practice, Performance (pp. .). Basingstoke: Palgrave. Retrieved from http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=507224

Chapter

2011

Mapping, memory and the city: Archives, databases and film historiography

Hallam, J., & Roberts, L. (2011). Mapping, memory and the city: Archives, databases and film historiography. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 14(3), 355-372. doi:10.1177/1367549411399939

DOI
10.1177/1367549411399939
Journal article

Flirting with Space: Journeys and Creativity', by David Crouch

Roberts, L. (2011). Flirting with Space: Journeys and Creativity', by David Crouch. Unknown Journal, 53-57. Retrieved from http://www.tourismconsumption.org/v3n2.htm

Journal article

Regeneration, Mobility and Contested Space: Cultural Reflections on a City in Transition

Roberts, L. (2011). Regeneration, Mobility and Contested Space: Cultural Reflections on a City in Transition. In J. Harris, & R. Williams (Eds.), Regenerating Culture and Society: Art, Architecture and Urban Style within the Global Politics of City-Branding (pp. .). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.

Chapter

2010

Introduction: Projecting the urban

Koeck, R., & Roberts, L. (2010). Introduction: Projecting the urban. In Unknown Book (pp. 1-17). doi:10.1057/9780230299238

DOI
10.1057/9780230299238
Chapter

Preface

Hallam, J., & Roberts, L. (2010). Preface. In Unknown Book (pp. ix-x). doi:10.1057/9780230299238

DOI
10.1057/9780230299238
Chapter

The City and the Moving Image: Urban Projections

Koeck, R., & Roberts, L. (Eds.) (2010). The City and the Moving Image. Palgrave Macmillan UK. doi:10.1057/9780230299238

Book

Dis/embedded Geographies of Film: Virtual Panoramas and the Touristic Consumption of Liverpool Waterfront

Roberts, L. (2010). Dis/embedded Geographies of Film: Virtual Panoramas and the Touristic Consumption of Liverpool Waterfront. SPACE AND CULTURE, 13(1), 54-74. doi:10.1177/1206331209353691

DOI
10.1177/1206331209353691
Journal article

Introduction: Projecting the Urban

Koeck, R., & Roberts, L. (2010). Introduction: Projecting the Urban. In The City and the Moving Image (pp. 1-17). Palgrave Macmillan UK. doi:10.1057/9780230299238_1

DOI
10.1057/9780230299238_1
Chapter

Making Connections: Crossing Boundaries of Place and Identity in Liverpool and Merseyside Amateur Transport Films

Roberts, L. (2010). Making Connections: Crossing Boundaries of Place and Identity in Liverpool and Merseyside Amateur Transport Films. MOBILITIES, 5(1), 83-109. doi:10.1080/17450100903435052

DOI
10.1080/17450100903435052
Journal article

Mapping, Memory and the City

Roberts, L., Hallam, J., Shand, R., & Kronenburg, R. (Eds.) (2010). Mapping, Memory and the City. In Mapping, Memory and the City (pp. .). Liverpool: School of Architecture, University of Liverpool.

Conference Paper

Projecting Place: Location Mapping, Consumption and Cinematographic Tourism

Roberts, L. (2010). Projecting Place: Location Mapping, Consumption and Cinematographic Tourism. In L. Roberts, & R. Koeck (Eds.), The City and the Moving Image: Urban Projections (pp. .). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=394185

Chapter

World in One City: Surrealist Geography and Time-space Compression in Alex Cox's Liverpool

Roberts, L. (2010). World in One City: Surrealist Geography and Time-space Compression in Alex Cox's Liverpool. In P. Burns, & J. Lester (Eds.), Tourism and Visual Culture Volume 1: Theories and Concepts (pp. .). Wallingford: CABI. doi:10.1079/9781845936099.0200

DOI
10.1079/9781845936099.0200
Chapter

2009

Projecting place: Mapping the city in film

Hallam, J., & Roberts, L. (2009). Projecting place: Mapping the city in film. In 2009 5th IEEE International Conference on E-Science Workshops (pp. 152-157). IEEE. doi:10.1109/esciw.2009.5407972

DOI
10.1109/esciw.2009.5407972
Conference Paper

Review: Cinematic Urbanism: A History of the Modern from Reel to Real, Land Use Change: Science, Policy, and Management

Roberts, L., & Verburg, P. H. (2009). Review: Cinematic Urbanism: A History of the Modern from Reel to Real, Land Use Change: Science, Policy, and Management. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 36(3), 568-570. doi:10.1068/b3603rvw

DOI
10.1068/b3603rvw
Book Review

2008

Liverpool: a city on screen

Roberts, L. (2008). Liverpool: a city on screen. BFI, www.screenonline.org.uk/liverpool/index. Retrieved from http://www.screenonline.org.uk/liverpool/index.html

Internet publication

2007

Hospitality and eroticism

Andrews, H., Roberts, L., & Selwyn, T. (2007). Hospitality and eroticism. International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, 1(3), 247-262. doi:10.1108/17506180710817774

DOI
10.1108/17506180710817774
Journal article

The Archive City: Reading Liverpool's Urban Landscape through Film

Koeck, R., & Roberts, L. (2007). The Archive City: Reading Liverpool's Urban Landscape through Film. In C. Grunenberg, & R. Knifton (Eds.), Centre of the Creative Universe (pp. 83-93). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press in Association with Tate Liverpool.

Chapter

2005

Marc Augés 'Oblivion'

Roberts, L. (2005). Marc Augés 'Oblivion'. Unknown Journal, .. Retrieved from http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk/frm_f1.htm

Journal article

Non-places in the Mist: Mapping the Spatial Turn in Theo Angelopoulos' Peripatetic Modernism

Roberts, L. (2005). Non-places in the Mist: Mapping the Spatial Turn in Theo Angelopoulos' Peripatetic Modernism. In W. Everett, & A. Goodbody (Eds.), Revisiting Space: Space and Place in European Cinema (pp. 325-344). Oxford: Peter Lang.

Chapter

Utopic Horizons: Cinematic Geographies of Travel and Migration

Roberts, L. (2005). Utopic Horizons: Cinematic Geographies of Travel and Migration. (PhD Thesis, Middlesex University).

Thesis / Dissertation

2002

From Sarajevo to Didcot: An interview with Pawel Pawlikowski

Roberts, L. (2002). From Sarajevo to Didcot: An interview with Pawel Pawlikowski. New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 1(2), 91-97. doi:10.1386/ncin.1.2.91

DOI
10.1386/ncin.1.2.91
Journal article

Welcome to Dreamland: From Place to Non-place and Back Again in Pawel Pawlikowski's Last Resort

Roberts, L. (2002). Welcome to Dreamland: From place to non-place and back again in Pawel Pawlikowski's Last Resort. New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 1(2), 78-90. doi:10.1386/ncin.1.2.78

DOI
10.1386/ncin.1.2.78
Journal article