Timespaces in the Debris of Globalisation. (2012)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (2012). Timespaces in the Debris of Globalisation. In J. Rugg, & C. Martin (Eds.), Spatialities: The Geographies of Art and Architecture (25-34). Intellect

A good place to start this chapter is by thinking about Anne Tallentire's Dimora works and how they fit in the overall arc of work that addresses displacement, globalization and so forth. What I think the Dimora series offers is pictures that are spe... Read More about Timespaces in the Debris of Globalisation..

Transient Dwelling: Trains as places of identification for the floating population of China (2012)
Journal Article
Crang, M., & Zhang, J. (2012). Transient Dwelling: Trains as places of identification for the floating population of China. Social and Cultural Geography, 13(8), 895-914. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2012.728617

China has experienced massive rural–urban migration, producing the huge so-called ‘floating population’ (liudong renkou). This article attends to what it means to be thus between places by focusing on the embodied and emotional experience of migrant... Read More about Transient Dwelling: Trains as places of identification for the floating population of China.

The Remembrance of Nostalgias Lost and Future Ruins: photographic journeys from the Coal Coast to the Geordie Shore (2012)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (2012). The Remembrance of Nostalgias Lost and Future Ruins: photographic journeys from the Coal Coast to the Geordie Shore. In L. Wells (Ed.), Futureland now : John Kippin, Chris Wainwright (61-72). University of Plymouth Press

In some way photography seems an improbable medium for examining the future. It has long been associated rather with acts of remembrance and recollection. The photograph is so often the memento mori, the treasured relic of a lost loved one, of a time... Read More about The Remembrance of Nostalgias Lost and Future Ruins: photographic journeys from the Coal Coast to the Geordie Shore.

Tristes Entropique: steel, ships and time images for late modernity (2012)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (2012). Tristes Entropique: steel, ships and time images for late modernity. In G. Rose, & D. Tolia-Kelly (Eds.), Visuality/materiality : images, objects and practices (59-74). Ashgate Publishing

There is a long history of thinking about materiality and temporality through flux and flow. The question then is how do we envision such incessant movement? Michel Serres derives this sort of materiality from the physics of Lucretius that sees the a... Read More about Tristes Entropique: steel, ships and time images for late modernity.

Temporal ecologies: multiple times, multiple spaces, and complicating space times (2012)
Journal Article
Crang, M. (2012). Temporal ecologies: multiple times, multiple spaces, and complicating space times. Environment and Planning A, 44(9), 2119-2123. https://doi.org/10.1068/a45438

It has become rightly de rigeur for critical geography to talk of spacetime as linked together. What the papers gathered here also show is that this handy linking into one term is, if useful and important, also, in some ways, a chaotic conceptualisat... Read More about Temporal ecologies: multiple times, multiple spaces, and complicating space times.

Negative images of consumption: cast offs and casts of self and society (2012)
Journal Article
Crang, M. (2012). Negative images of consumption: cast offs and casts of self and society. Environment and Planning A, 44(4), 763-767. https://doi.org/10.1068/a44682

There has been a recent spate of artistic work focusing on (over)consumption using the lens of disposal and discard. In this brief commentary I will try to sketch out a few common themes across some of this work, showing how it connects with and chal... Read More about Negative images of consumption: cast offs and casts of self and society.

Territorial agglomeration and industrial symbiosis: Sitakunda-Bhatiary, Bangladesh, as a secondary processing complex (2012)
Journal Article
Gregson, N., Crang, M., Ahamed, F., Akter, N., Ferdous, R., Foisal, S., & Hudson, R. (2012). Territorial agglomeration and industrial symbiosis: Sitakunda-Bhatiary, Bangladesh, as a secondary processing complex. Economic Geography, 88(1), 37-58. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1944-8287.2011.01138.x

This article both joins with recent arguments in economic geography that have made connections between work on industrial symbiosis and agglomerative tendencies and recasts this work. Drawing on the case of Sitakunda-Bhatiary, Bangladesh, it shows th... Read More about Territorial agglomeration and industrial symbiosis: Sitakunda-Bhatiary, Bangladesh, as a secondary processing complex.

Death, the Phoenix and Pandora: transforming things and values in Bangladesh (2012)
Book Chapter
Crang, M., Gregson, N., Ahamed, F., Ferdous, R., & Akhter, N. (2012). Death, the Phoenix and Pandora: transforming things and values in Bangladesh. In C. Alexander, & J. Reno (Eds.), Economies of recycling : the global transformation of materials, values and social relations (59-75). Zed Books

Ships are both the glue and grease of the global economy. The merchant vessel of the late twentieth-century and early twenty first-century, combined with the technology of the big box container, is the means by which most commodities move around the... Read More about Death, the Phoenix and Pandora: transforming things and values in Bangladesh.