All Outputs (8)

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.

Cultures of Mass Tourism: Doing the Mediterranean in the Age of Banal Mobilities. (2009)
Book
Obrador, P., Crang, M., & Travlou, P. (Eds.). (2009). Cultures of Mass Tourism: Doing the Mediterranean in the Age of Banal Mobilities. Ashgate Publishing

With more than 230 million international tourists a year, the Mediterranean region is the largest tourist destination in the world. This book outlines that its economic importance is matched by its significance as a cultural and aesthetic phenomenon.... Read More about Cultures of Mass Tourism: Doing the Mediterranean in the Age of Banal Mobilities..

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.

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

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.

International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. (2009)
Book
Kitchin, R., Thrift, N., Castree, N., Crang, M., Domosh, M., Anderson, K., …Yeung, H. (Eds.). (2009). International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Elsevier

The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography provides an authoritative and comprehensive source of information on the discipline of human geography and its constituent, and related, subject areas. The encyclopedia includes over 1,000 detailed en... Read More about International Encyclopedia of Human Geography..

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.