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Time : space (2005)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (2005). Time : space. In P. Cloke, & R. Johnston (Eds.), Spaces of geographical thought : deconstructing human geography's binaries (199-217). SAGE Publications

Spaces of Geographical Thought examines key ideas like space and place - which inform the geographic imagination. The text: discusses the core conceptual vocabulary of human geography: agency: structure; state: society; culture: economy; space: place... Read More about Time : space.

Travel and tourism (2005)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (2005). Travel and tourism. In D. Sibley, P. Jackson, D. Atkinson, & N. Washbourne (Eds.), Cultural geography : a critical dictionary of key ideas (34-40). I.B. Tauris

Travel is a spatial practice that has been at the heart of geography. In its earliest origins geography was the stuff of travellers tales, mixing accounts of varying degrees of heroism and veracity it long functioned to tell people back here what was... Read More about Travel and tourism.

Fields (2004)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (2004). Fields. In S. Pile, & N. Thrift (Eds.), Patterned Ground (88-91). Reaktion

Urban Morphology and the Shaping of the Transmissible City. (2004)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (2004). Urban Morphology and the Shaping of the Transmissible City. In S. Graham (Ed.), The Cybercities Reader (129-132). Routledge

Some recent work in architecture has begun to think through the implications of an electronically mediated environment—both in terms of new forms of spaces and of changes to existing ones. New possibilities are read as resulting from these new techno... Read More about Urban Morphology and the Shaping of the Transmissible City..

Livestock (2004)
Book Chapter
Crang., M. (2004). Livestock. In S. Pile, & N. Thrift (Eds.), Patterned Ground (247-249). Reaktion

Las regiones culturales y sus usos: la interpretación de paisaje e identidad (2004)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (2004). Las regiones culturales y sus usos: la interpretación de paisaje e identidad. In E. Cortes, & R. Castaneda (Eds.), Regiones culturales Culturas regionales (67-100). Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes

The idea of cultural regions and regional cultures has a long pedigree in several disciplines and traditions, and in different national contexts. Indeed the variation of customs and habits across the face of the world seems one of the most basic elem... Read More about Las regiones culturales y sus usos: la interpretación de paisaje e identidad.

Cultural Geographies of Tourism (2004)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (2004). Cultural Geographies of Tourism. In A. Lew, C. Hall, & A. Williams (Eds.), A companion to tourism (74-84). Wiley

Introduction Cultural geography, with its traditions of studying regional cultures, has tended to position ‘tourism’ as a problem, as something that homogenises local cultures towards one undifferentiated aggregate – an ‘erosion thesis’ where change... Read More about Cultural Geographies of Tourism.

Placing Jane Austen, displacing England : touring between book, history and nation (2003)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (2003). Placing Jane Austen, displacing England : touring between book, history and nation. In S. Pucci, & J. Thompson (Eds.), Jane Austen and Co. : remaking the past in contemporary culture (111-132). SUNY Press

In this essay I want to think through the popularity of Austen by linking her work to two sets of places. The first is the imagined geographies produced through the text, or perhaps more accurately through its reading, which speak of a vanished Engli... Read More about Placing Jane Austen, displacing England : touring between book, history and nation.

Telling materials (2003)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (2003). Telling materials. In M. Pryke, G. Rose, & S. Whatmore (Eds.), Using social theory, thinking through research (127-144). SAGE Publications

This chapter asks us to think carefully about what we do with material we have created out in the field. The way it is going to approach this is by thinking about the actions involved in analysis making sense out of the material you have so painstaki... Read More about Telling materials.

Filed work: making sense of group interviews (2001)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (2001). Filed work: making sense of group interviews. In M. Limb, & C. Dwyer (Eds.), Qualitative Methodologies for Geographers (215-233). Arnold

Rhythms of the city: temporalised space and motion (2001)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (2001). Rhythms of the city: temporalised space and motion. In J. May, & N. Thrift (Eds.), Timespace : geographies of temporality (187-207). Routledge

This essay is concerned with the intersection of lived time, time as represented and urban space - especially around everyday practice. As such it follows in a long pedigree of works addressing time and space in the city. However, what I want to try... Read More about Rhythms of the city: temporalised space and motion.

Playing Nymphs and Swains in a Pastoral Myth? (2000)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (2000). Playing Nymphs and Swains in a Pastoral Myth?. In A. Hughes, C. Morris, & S. Seymour (Eds.), Ethnography & Rural Research (158-78). Countryside and Community Press

Image -- Reality (1999)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (1999). Image -- Reality. In P. Cloke, P. Crang, & M. Goodwin (Eds.), Introducing Human Geographies (54-62). Edward Arnold

Knowing, Tourism and Practices of Vision (1999)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (1999). Knowing, Tourism and Practices of Vision. In D. Crouch (Ed.), Leisure/tourism geographies : practices and geographical knowledge (238-257). Routledge