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Professor

Les Roberts

Professor in Cultural and Media Studies

Communication and Media

Orcid identifier0000-0002-1753-4872
  • Professor in Cultural and Media Studies
    Communication and Media

ABOUT

Personal Statement
My research interests and practice fall within the areas of urban cultural studies, the mediation of cultural memory, and spatial anthropology/spatial humanities. With a background in anthropology and cultural studies my work explores the intersection between space, place, mobility and cultures of everyday life.

I am the author of Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self: the Production of Dwellspace (Routledge, 2023), Spatial Anthropology: Excursions in Liminal Space (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018), and Film, Mobility and Urban Space: a Cinematic Geography of Liverpool (Liverpool University Press, 2012). I have edited/co-edited many books and special issue journal editions, including The Phenomenology of Travel and Tourism (2024-25), Spatial Bricolage (2018), Deep Mapping (2016), Mapping Cultures (2015/2012), Locating the Moving Image (2014), Sites of Popular Music Heritage (2014), Liminal Landscapes (2012), The City and the Moving Image (2010).

Current work-in-progress includes a new monograph titled Poetic-inductive Interventions: Essays in Space, Movement and Imagination and a co-edited collection (with Alyssa Grossman), Post-Pandemic Imaginaries: Space, Culture and Memory After Lockdown (Bloomsbury, 2026).

 

Research Overview
My research interests are interdisciplinary in scope and fall broadly into the following overlapping areas: 1) Spatial anthropology and urban cultural studies; 2) Memory-work and everyday cultures; 3) Liminality and the poetics of movement. I welcome enquiries about collaboration and doctoral supervision relating to any of these research areas.

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  • 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • 15 Life on Land
  • 3 Good Health and Well Being

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