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Researching virtual communities (2016)
Book Chapter
Crang, M., & Haji Bin Mohamed, S. (2016). Researching virtual communities. In N. Clifford, M. Cope, S. French, & T. Gillespie (Eds.), Key methods in geography (270-284). (3rd ed.). SAGE Publications

This chapter asks what is distinctive about researching virtual communities. In so doing it troubles both those terms – arguing that ‘virtual’ may be an unhelpful descriptor, though it may throw into relief some equally problematic associations with... Read More about Researching virtual communities.

Waste, Resource Recovery and Labour: Recycling Economies in the EU. (2015)
Book Chapter
Gregson, N., & Crang, M. (2015). Waste, Resource Recovery and Labour: Recycling Economies in the EU. In J. Michie, & C. Cooper (Eds.), Why the Social Sciences Matter (60-76). Palgrave Macmillan

This chapter shows that the social sciences are critical to the challenge of turning wastes to resources via materials recovery and recycling. For wastes to become resources they have to become products, bought and sold in markets. Economics and the... Read More about Waste, Resource Recovery and Labour: Recycling Economies in the EU..

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..

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.

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.

Cultural Services. (2011)
Book Chapter
Church, A., Burgess, J., Ravenscroft, N., Bird, W., Brady, E., Crang, M., …Winter, M. (2011). Cultural Services. In UK National Ecosystem Assessment: Technical Report (633-692). United Nations Environment Programme/ DEFRA

Virtual Life (2011)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (2011). Virtual Life. In V. del Casino, M. Thomas, P. Cloke, & R. Panelli (Eds.), A companion to social geography (401-416). Wiley

The social geometries of digital connectivity. At first glance a social geography of virtual connections seems an oxymoron. For many years, one of the claims behind Information and Communication Technologies (hereafter ICTs) and especially (new) medi... Read More about Virtual Life.

Time (2011)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (2011). Time. In J. Agnew, & D. Livingstone (Eds.), The Sage handbook of geographical knowledge (331-343). SAGE Publications

This essay will address how time has been treated in geography and argue the summary answer is too often over-simply if at all. That is of course an overstatement, but this essay will discus the work in a variety of traditions and suggest that geogra... Read More about Time.

Tourist: Moving Places, Becoming Tourist, Becoming Ethnographer (2011)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (2011). Tourist: Moving Places, Becoming Tourist, Becoming Ethnographer. In T. Cresswell, & P. Merriman (Eds.), Geographies of mobilities : practices, spaces, subjects (205-224). Ashgate Publishing

This essay looks at three interwoven mobilisations around travel and tourism. Perhaps the most obvious is the mobilisation of the destination, where it suggests that while tourism is often defined as travelling to somewhere – that sense of "where" is... Read More about Tourist: Moving Places, Becoming Tourist, Becoming Ethnographer.

Cyberspace as the New Public Domain (2010)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (2010). Cyberspace as the New Public Domain. In C. Kihato, M. Massoumi, B. Ruble, P. Subirós, & A. Garland (Eds.), Urban diversity : space, culture and inclusive pluralism in cities worldwide (99-122). Johns Hopkins University Press ; Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

In considering inclusive cities, it is increasingly important to keep in mind the role of the intangible realm of urban digital media. Immediately, however, one might be justified in asking what possibilities for inclusion, and threats of exclusion,... Read More about Cyberspace as the New Public Domain.

Visual Methods and Methodologies (2009)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (2009). Visual Methods and Methodologies. In D. Delyser, S. Herbert, S. Aitken, M. Crang, & L. McDowell (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of qualitative geography (208-225). SAGE Publications

In this chapter my aim is to suggest that an engagement with visuality is worthwhile, may be even necessary, for qualitative methods in geography. In doing this I want to push the case for these methods when despite sometimes warm words there are rel... Read More about Visual Methods and Methodologies.

The Island that was not there: producing Corelli’s island, staging Kefalonia (2009)
Book Chapter
Crang, M., & Travlou, P. (2009). The Island that was not there: producing Corelli’s island, staging Kefalonia. In P. Obrador, M. Crang, & P. Travlou (Eds.), Cultures of mass tourism : doing the Mediterranean in the age of banal mobilities (75-90). Ashgate Publishing

This chapter will focus upon the contested practices and imaginations of one island whose tourist market is markedly divided between an upmarket north and mass market south. In the midst of this tense clash of tastes, the island was the setting for t... Read More about The Island that was not there: producing Corelli’s island, staging Kefalonia.

Corrupted Seas: the Mediterranean in the Age of Mass Mobility (2009)
Book Chapter
Obrador, P., Crang, M., & Travlou, P. (2009). Corrupted Seas: the Mediterranean in the Age of Mass Mobility. In P. Obrador, M. Crang, & P. Travlou (Eds.), Cultures of mass tourism : doing the Mediterranean in the age of banal mobilities (157-174). Ashgate Publishing

As we noted in the introduction we have chosen to produce a book about Mediterranean mass tourism. Not just mass tourism that happens to take place in the Mediterranean, but the Mediterranean variety and inflection of mass tourism. With this choice w... Read More about Corrupted Seas: the Mediterranean in the Age of Mass Mobility.

Spaces in Theory, Spaces in History and Spatial Historiographies (2009)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (2009). Spaces in Theory, Spaces in History and Spatial Historiographies. In B. Kümin (Ed.), Political space in pre-industrial Europe (249-265). Ashgate Publishing

In this essay I want to sketch out a set of spaces, spatial relations and spatial scales as ways of framing some of the issues about premodern political space. This I do in large part to resist the temptation so often evident in the geographic litera... Read More about Spaces in Theory, Spaces in History and Spatial Historiographies.

Taking Mediterranean Tourists Seriously (2009)
Book Chapter
Obrador, P., Crang, M., & Travlou, P. (2009). Taking Mediterranean Tourists Seriously. In P. Obrador, M. Crang, & P. Travlou (Eds.), Cultures of mass tourism : doing the Mediterranean in the age of banal mobilities (1-20). Ashgate Publishing

home@Singapore.world: Spatial Imaginaries of a Mediated World (2009)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (2009). home@Singapore.world: Spatial Imaginaries of a Mediated World. In J. Döring, & T. Thielmann (Eds.), Mediengeographie : Theorie - Analyse - Diskussion (539-564). transcript Verlag

That the world is globalizing has become a shibboleth and that the flows of information and media increasingly render the world into a global village has been a commonplace of commentary and punditry. In this essay, I seek to probe a little bit more... Read More about home@Singapore.world: Spatial Imaginaries of a Mediated World.

Speed= distance/time : chronotopographies of action (2007)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (2007). Speed= distance/time : chronotopographies of action. In R. Hassan, & R. Purser (Eds.), 24/7 : time and temporality in the network society (62-88). Stanford University Press

In this essay I want to begin with some of the grand claims and narratives of changing temporality heralded via information technology. However, I also want to write into these the way changes in time are bound up with changes in space, and that spat... Read More about Speed= distance/time : chronotopographies of action.

Circulation and Emplacement: the hollowed out performance of tourism (2006)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (2006). Circulation and Emplacement: the hollowed out performance of tourism. In C. Minca, & T. Oakes (Eds.), Travels in paradox : remapping tourism (47-64). Rowman & Littlefield

There is a story of tourism geography that begins with measuring flows of people as they go through points. In practice then this means charting of the movement of people as they pass through specific places – a story of “bums on seats”, of number of... Read More about Circulation and Emplacement: the hollowed out performance of tourism.