Outputs (10)

Bare Life in the Mȳrr, Mēos, and Mire (2015)
Book
Crang, M. (2015). Bare Life in the Mȳrr, Mēos, and Mire

A specially commissioned text by Professor Mike Crang, Head of Department of Geography and member of CVAC (Centre for Visual Arts and Culture) for the exhibition "The Liveliest of Elements, an Ordinary Extraordinary Material" by Laura Harrington. Lau... Read More about Bare Life in the Mȳrr, Mēos, and Mire.

Negotiating the Urban Smart Grid: Socio-Technical Experimentation in the City of Austin (2015)
Journal Article
McLean, A., Bulkeley, H., & Crang, M. (2016). Negotiating the Urban Smart Grid: Socio-Technical Experimentation in the City of Austin. Urban Studies, 53(15), 3246-3263. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098015612984

A growing body of literature has emerged that examines cities as key sites for socio-technical experimentation with a variety of initiatives and interventions to reduce carbon emissions, upgrade ageing infrastructure networks and stimulate economic d... Read More about Negotiating the Urban Smart Grid: Socio-Technical Experimentation in the City of Austin.

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..

Globalizing Ethical Consumption (2015)
Journal Article
Crang, M., & Hughes, A. (2015). Globalizing Ethical Consumption. Geoforum, 67, 131-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.10.005

The papers in this Special Issue point out that the common assumptions of the great majority of work on ethical consumption are that producers are located in poorer countries, in particular those of the global South, and consumers are located in rich... Read More about Globalizing Ethical Consumption.

From Waste to Resource: The Trade in Wastes and Global Recycling Economies (2015)
Journal Article
Gregson, N., & Crang, M. (2015). From Waste to Resource: The Trade in Wastes and Global Recycling Economies. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 40(1), 151-176. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-102014-021105

We outline the frameworks that shape and hold apart waste debates in and about Global North and South and that hinder analysis of flows between them. Typically waste is addressed as municipal waste, resulting in a focus on domestic consumption and ur... Read More about From Waste to Resource: The Trade in Wastes and Global Recycling Economies.

Travelling ethics: Valuing harmony, habitat and heritage while consuming people and places (2015)
Journal Article
Crang, M. (2015). Travelling ethics: Valuing harmony, habitat and heritage while consuming people and places. Geoforum, 67, 194-203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.06.010

A variety of ethical tourism initiatives have arisen which look at the distribution of benefits and costs arising from the movement of western tourists who are consuming places in the Global South. This paper troubles those positions. Taking the case... Read More about Travelling ethics: Valuing harmony, habitat and heritage while consuming people and places.

Making material memories: Kinmen’s bridging objects and fractured places between China and Taiwan (2015)
Journal Article
Zhang, J., & Crang, M. (2016). Making material memories: Kinmen’s bridging objects and fractured places between China and Taiwan. Cultural Geographies, 23(3), 421-439. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474015591488

The post-war material culture of Kinmen, a former military outpost in Taiwan, reveals a biography moving from conflict to hope for rapprochement, from matériel to militaria to souvenir. By experimenting with the concept of sensuous materialism, this... Read More about Making material memories: Kinmen’s bridging objects and fractured places between China and Taiwan.

Limited by imagination alone: research methods in cultural geographies (2015)
Journal Article
Shaw, W., DeLyser, D., & Crang, M. (2015). Limited by imagination alone: research methods in cultural geographies. Cultural Geographies, 22(2), 211-215. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474015572302

The Promises and Perils of a Digital Geohumanities (2015)
Journal Article
Crang, M. (2015). The Promises and Perils of a Digital Geohumanities. Cultural Geographies, 22(2), 351-360. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474015572303

This intervention asks to what extent to developments of digital media offer new objects that demand new methods, and to what extent they create new methods that might be applied to older cultural fields creating a digital humanities. It argues that... Read More about The Promises and Perils of a Digital Geohumanities.

Interrogating the Circular Economy: the Moral Economy of Resource Recovery in the EU (2015)
Journal Article
Gregson, N., Crang, M., Fuller, S., & Holmes, H. (2015). Interrogating the Circular Economy: the Moral Economy of Resource Recovery in the EU. Economy and Society, 44(2), 218-243. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2015.1013353

The concept of the circular economy has gained increasing prominence in academic, practitioner and policy circles and is linked to greening economies and sustainable development. However, the idea is more often celebrated than critically interrogated... Read More about Interrogating the Circular Economy: the Moral Economy of Resource Recovery in the EU.