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Doing the ‘Dirty Work’ of the Green Economy: resource recovery and migrant labour in the EU (2014)
Journal Article
Gregson, N., Crang, M., Botticello, J., Calestani, M., & Krzywoszynska, A. (2016). Doing the ‘Dirty Work’ of the Green Economy: resource recovery and migrant labour in the EU. European Urban and Regional Studies, 24(3), 541-555. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776414554489

Europe has set out its plans to foster a ‘green economy’, focused around recycling, by 2020. This pan-European recycling economy, it is argued, will have the triple virtues of: first, stopping wastes being ‘dumped’ on poor countries; second, reusing... Read More about Doing the ‘Dirty Work’ of the Green Economy: resource recovery and migrant labour in the EU.

Moving up the waste hierarchy: car boot sales, reuse exchange and the challenges of consumer culture to waste prevention (2013)
Journal Article
Gregson, N., Crang, M., Laws, J., Fleetwood, T., & Holmes, H. (2013). Moving up the waste hierarchy: car boot sales, reuse exchange and the challenges of consumer culture to waste prevention. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 77, 97-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2013.06.005

Moving up the waste hierarchy is a key priority for UK waste policy. Waste prevention requires policy interventions to promote reuse. The term ‘reuse exchange’ has been adopted by UK policy makers to describe a variety of second-hand trading outlets... Read More about Moving up the waste hierarchy: car boot sales, reuse exchange and the challenges of consumer culture to waste prevention.

Souvenirs, salvage and storied things: remembering community (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crang, M. (2013, December). Souvenirs, salvage and storied things: remembering community. Presented at I am seeing things, Edinburgh, Scotland

What I am talking about comes from a much larger set of projects with a number of collaborators so I will be ventriloquising along the way today. What effect does it have if we take that supply chain and value chain and take it even further, into the... Read More about Souvenirs, salvage and storied things: remembering community.

Rethinking governance and value in commodity chains through global recycling networks (2013)
Journal Article
Crang, M., Hughes, A., Gregson, N., Norris, L., & Ahamed, F. (2013). Rethinking governance and value in commodity chains through global recycling networks. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 38(1), 12-24. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2012.00515.x

The dominant political-economic approaches to global trade flows known as global value chains and global production networks offer powerful insights into the coordination and location of globally stretched supply chains, in particular from global Sou... Read More about Rethinking governance and value in commodity chains through global recycling networks.

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.

Transient Dwelling: Trains as places of identification for the floating population of China (2012)
Journal Article
Crang, M., & Zhang, J. (2012). Transient Dwelling: Trains as places of identification for the floating population of China. Social and Cultural Geography, 13(8), 895-914. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2012.728617

China has experienced massive rural–urban migration, producing the huge so-called ‘floating population’ (liudong renkou). This article attends to what it means to be thus between places by focusing on the embodied and emotional experience of migrant... Read More about Transient Dwelling: Trains as places of identification for the floating population of China.

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.

Territorial agglomeration and industrial symbiosis: Sitakunda-Bhatiary, Bangladesh, as a secondary processing complex (2012)
Journal Article
Gregson, N., Crang, M., Ahamed, F., Akter, N., Ferdous, R., Foisal, S., & Hudson, R. (2012). Territorial agglomeration and industrial symbiosis: Sitakunda-Bhatiary, Bangladesh, as a secondary processing complex. Economic Geography, 88(1), 37-58. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1944-8287.2011.01138.x

This article both joins with recent arguments in economic geography that have made connections between work on industrial symbiosis and agglomerative tendencies and recasts this work. Drawing on the case of Sitakunda-Bhatiary, Bangladesh, it shows th... Read More about Territorial agglomeration and industrial symbiosis: Sitakunda-Bhatiary, Bangladesh, as a secondary processing complex.

Negative images of consumption: cast offs and casts of self and society (2012)
Journal Article
Crang, M. (2012). Negative images of consumption: cast offs and casts of self and society. Environment and Planning A, 44(4), 763-767. https://doi.org/10.1068/a44682

There has been a recent spate of artistic work focusing on (over)consumption using the lens of disposal and discard. In this brief commentary I will try to sketch out a few common themes across some of this work, showing how it connects with and chal... Read More about Negative images of consumption: cast offs and casts of self and society.

Temporal ecologies: multiple times, multiple spaces, and complicating space times (2012)
Journal Article
Crang, M. (2012). Temporal ecologies: multiple times, multiple spaces, and complicating space times. Environment and Planning A, 44(9), 2119-2123. https://doi.org/10.1068/a45438

It has become rightly de rigeur for critical geography to talk of spacetime as linked together. What the papers gathered here also show is that this handy linking into one term is, if useful and important, also, in some ways, a chaotic conceptualisat... Read More about Temporal ecologies: multiple times, multiple spaces, and complicating space times.

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.

Following things of rubbish value: end-of-life ships, ‘chock-chocky’ furniture and the Bangladeshi middle class consumer (2010)
Journal Article
Gregson, N., Crang, M., Ahamed, F., Akhtar, N., & Ferdous, R. (2010). Following things of rubbish value: end-of-life ships, ‘chock-chocky’ furniture and the Bangladeshi middle class consumer. Geoforum, 41(6), 846-854. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2010.05.007

There has been an upsurge of geographical work tracing globalised flows of commodities in the wake of Appadurai’s (1986) call to ‘follow the things’. This paper engages with calls to follow the thing but argues that work thus far has been concentrate... Read More about Following things of rubbish value: end-of-life ships, ‘chock-chocky’ furniture and the Bangladeshi middle class consumer.