Outputs (5)

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

Souvenir, Salvage and the Death of Great Naval Ships (2011)
Journal Article
Gregson, N., Crang, M., & Watkins, H. (2011). Souvenir, Salvage and the Death of Great Naval Ships. Journal of Material Culture, 16(3), 301-324. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183511412882

This paper examines the social and physical death of naval ships as a form of military material culture. It draws on ethnographic research with veteran’s associations in the UK and US, and in a UK ship breaking yard, to explore the relationship of a... Read More about Souvenir, Salvage and the Death of Great Naval Ships.

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.