book chapters

Book chapters


‘Spatial Anthropology and Deep Mapping’, in Tania Rossetto and Laura Lo Presti (eds.), The Routledge Companion of Cartographic Humanities. Routledge (in press, 2023).


‘Spatial Anthropology: Understanding Deep Mapping as a Form of Visual Ethnography’, in AJ Kent and D Specht (eds.),Routledge Handbook of Geospatial Technologies and Society. Abingdon: Routledge (2023).


‘Territory Glimpsed Through Lache Eyes: A Tale of Non-Euclidean and Symbolically Authentic Excursions in Liminal Space’, in Andrea Mubi Brighenti and Mattias Kärrholm (eds.), Territories, Environments, Politics: Explorations in Territoriology. Abingdon: Routledge (2022).


‘Liminality and the Stranger: Understanding tourists and their landscapes through True Detective’, (co-authored with Hazel Andrews), in Maria Månsson et al (eds), Routledge Companion to Media and Tourism. Abingdon: Routledge (2020).


‘Navigating Cinematic Geographies: Reflections on Film as Spatial Practice’, in T Edensor, A Kalandides and U Kothari (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Place. Abingdon: Routledge (2020).


‘Oil is the Devil’s Excrement: Hellmouth on the Mersey’, (co-authored with David Jacques), in Elaine Speight (ed.), Practising Place: Creative and Critical Reflections on Place. Manchester: Cornerhouse Publications (2019).


‘The Cestrian Book of the Dead: a Necrogeographic Survey of the Dee Estuary’, in D Cooper, C Donaldson, and P Murrieta-Flores (eds.), Literary Mapping in the Digital Age. Abingdon: Routledge (2016).


‘On Location in Liverpool: Film-related Tourism and the Consumption of Place’, in P Long and ND Morpeth (eds.), Tourism and the Creative Industries: Theories, Policies and Practice. Abingdon: Routledge (2016).


‘Mapping Cultures: Spatial Anthropology and Popular Cultural Memory’, (co-authored with Sara Cohen), in D MacLennan, WF Garrett-Petts, and N Duxbury (eds.), Cultural Mapping as Cultural Inquiry. New York: Routledge (2015).


''Preface',  in L. Roberts (ed.), Mapping Cultures: Place, Practice, Performance. Basingstoke: Palgrave (2015).


‘Mapping Cultures: a Spatial Anthropology’, (revised version in paperback edition) in L Roberts (ed.), Mapping Cultures: Place, Practice, Performance. Basingstoke: Palgrave (2015).


‘Introduction: Locating Popular Music Heritage’, (co-authored with Sara Cohen, Rob Knifton and Marion Leonard), in S Cohen, M Leonard, R Knifton and L Roberts (eds.), Sites of Popular Music Heritage. London: Routledge (2014).


‘Unveiling Memory: Blue Plaques as In/tangible Markers of Popular Music Heritage’, (co-authored with Sara Cohen), in S Cohen, M Leonard, R Knifton and L Roberts (eds.), Sites of Popular Music Heritage. London: Routledge (2014).


‘The Archive City: Film as Critical Spatial Practice’, in B Fraser (ed.), Marxism and Urban Culture. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (2014).


‘Liminality’, (co-authored with Hazel Andrews), in NJ Smelser and PB Baltes (eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Oxford: Elsevier (2014).


‘The Violence of Non Places’, in H Andrews (ed.), Tourism and Violence. London: Ashgate (2014).


‘Mapping the City in Film’, (co-authored with Julia Hallam), in I Gregory and A Geddes (eds.), Towards Spatial Humanities:  Historical GIS and Spatial History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2014).


‘Locating the Moving Image: Outline of a New Empiricism’, (co-authored with Julia Hallam), in L Roberts and J Hallam (eds.), Locating the Moving Image: New Approaches to Film and Place. Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2014).


‘Heritage Rocks! Mapping Spaces of Popular Music Tourism’, (co-authored with Sara Cohen), in S Kruger and R Trandafoiu (eds.), The Globalization of Musics in Transit: Musical Migration and Tourism. London: Routledge (2013).


‘The Last of Liverpool: Liminal Journeys Around the Port City’, in J Conolly and C Whelan (eds.), World Film Locations: Liverpool. Bristol: Intellect (2013).


‘Mapping Cultures: a Spatial Anthropology’, in L. Roberts (ed.), Mapping Cultures: Place, Practice, Performance. Basingstoke: Palgrave (2012). [Access here]


‘Cinematic Cartography: Projecting Place Through Film’, in L Roberts (ed.), Mapping Cultures: Place, Practice, Performance. Basingstoke: Palgrave (2012).


‘Walking, Witnessing, Mapping: An Interview with Iain Sinclair’, (co-authored with David Cooper), in L Roberts (ed.), Mapping Cultures: Place, Practice, Performance. Basingstoke: Palgrave (2012).


‘Introduction: Re-mapping Liminality’, (co-authored with Hazel Andrews), in L Roberts and H Andrews (eds.), Liminal Landscapes: Travel, Experience and Spaces In-between. London: Routledge (2012).


‘The Sands of Dee: Estuarine Excursions in Liminal Space’, in L Roberts and H Andrews (eds.), Liminal Landscapes: Travel, Experience and Spaces In-between. London: Routledge (2012).   [Access here]


‘Regeneration, Mobility and Contested Space: Cultural Reflections on a City in Transition’, in J Harris and R Williams (eds.), Regenerating Culture and Society: Art, Architecture and Urban Style within the Global Politics of City-Branding. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press (2011). [Access here]


‘Projecting Place: Location Mapping, Consumption and Cinematographic Tourism’, in L Roberts and R Koeck (eds.), The City and the Moving Image: Urban Projections. Basingstoke: Palgrave (2010).


‘Introduction: Projecting the Urban’, (co-authored with Richard Koeck), in L Roberts and R Koeck (eds.), The City and the Moving Image: Urban Projections. Basingstoke: Palgrave (2010).


‘World in One City: Surrealist Geography and Time-Space Compression in Alex Cox’s Liverpool’, in P Burns and J Lester (eds.), Tourism and Visual Culture Volume 1: Theories and Concepts. Wallingford: CABI (2010).


‘The Archive City: Reading Liverpool’s Urban Landscape Through Film’, (co-authored with Richard Koeck), in C. Grunenberg and R. Knifton (eds.), Centre of the Creative Universe: Liverpool and the Avant-Garde. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press (2007). [Access here]


‘Non-places in the Mist: Mapping the Spatial Turn in Theo Angelopoulos’ Peripatetic Modernism’, in W Everett and A Goodbody (eds.), Revisiting Space: Space and Place in European Cinema. Oxford: Peter Lang (2005). [Access here]