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Nation, Race and Affect: Senses and Sensibilities at National Heritage sites (2010)
Journal Article
Crang, M., Tolia-Kelly, D. P., & Tolia-Kelly, D. (2010). Nation, Race and Affect: Senses and Sensibilities at National Heritage sites. Environment and Planning A, 42(10), 2315-2331. https://doi.org/10.1068/a4346

This paper picks up from extensive literatures that have addressed the relationship of heritage to national identity. Much work focuses upon the symbolic construction of the past through heritage institutions, but in so doing it tends to underplay th... Read More about Nation, Race and Affect: Senses and Sensibilities at National Heritage sites.

Cyberspace as the New Public Domain (2010)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (2010). Cyberspace as the New Public Domain. In C. Kihato, M. Massoumi, B. Ruble, P. Subirós, & A. Garland (Eds.), Urban diversity : space, culture and inclusive pluralism in cities worldwide (99-122). Johns Hopkins University Press ; Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

In considering inclusive cities, it is increasingly important to keep in mind the role of the intangible realm of urban digital media. Immediately, however, one might be justified in asking what possibilities for inclusion, and threats of exclusion,... Read More about Cyberspace as the New Public Domain.

The Death of Great Ships: photography, politics and waste in the global imaginary (2010)
Journal Article
Crang, M. (2010). The Death of Great Ships: photography, politics and waste in the global imaginary. Environment and Planning A, 42(5), 1084-1102. https://doi.org/10.1068/a42414

The iconic images heralding an age of connectivity are the plane and the trace of digital flows bearing information. However, not far behind has been the cumbrous yet essential 'big box' of containerisation, shipping all manner of goods across the pl... Read More about The Death of Great Ships: photography, politics and waste in the global imaginary.

Encyclopedia of Urban Studies. (2010)
Book
Hutchison, R., Aalbers, M., Beauregard, R., & Crang, M. (Eds.). (2010). Encyclopedia of Urban Studies. SAGE Publications

The Handbook of Qualitative Geography. (2010)
Book
Delyser, D., Herbert, S., Aitken, S., Crang, M., & McDowell, L. (Eds.). (2010). The Handbook of Qualitative Geography. SAGE Publications

Exploring the dynamic growth, change, and complexity of qualitative research in human geography, The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Geography brings together leading scholars in the field to examine its history, assess the current state of the art, and... Read More about The Handbook of Qualitative Geography..

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., Cloke, P., Crampton, J., Graham, B., Hadjimichalis, C., Hubbard, P., Kearns, R., Kwan, M.-P., Lees, L., McLafferty, S., Paasi, A., Philo, C., Sidaway, J., Willis, 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.

Placing Stories, Performing Places: spatiality in Joyce and Austen (2008)
Journal Article
Crang, M. (2008). Placing Stories, Performing Places: spatiality in Joyce and Austen. Anglia, 126(2), 312-29. https://doi.org/10.1515/angl.2008.047

This paper examines the role of space in sustaining the action of Austen and Joyce's writings. Using these contrasting textual styles it looks at the different geographies produced and the texts the different geographies enable. It examines the role... Read More about Placing Stories, Performing Places: spatiality in Joyce and Austen.

Technology, timespace and the remediation of neighbourhood life (2007)
Journal Article
Crang, M., Crosbie, T., & Graham, S. (2007). Technology, timespace and the remediation of neighbourhood life. Environment and Planning A, 39(10), 2405-2422. https://doi.org/10.1068/a38353

Much theoretical commentary over the last decade addressed the likely impacts of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on urban life works by opposing ‘virtual’ spaces and mediated activities to ‘real’ places. Drawing on recent theorising... Read More about Technology, timespace and the remediation of neighbourhood life.

Sentient cities : ambient intelligence and the politics of urban space (2007)
Journal Article
Crang, M., & Graham, S. (2007). Sentient cities : ambient intelligence and the politics of urban space. Information, Communication and Society, 10(6), 789-817. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691180701750991

Increasing amounts of information processing capacity are embedded in the environment around us. The informational landscape is both a repository of data and also increasingly communicates and processes information. No longer confined to desk tops, c... Read More about Sentient cities : ambient intelligence and the politics of urban space.

Doing Ethnographies. (2007)
Book
Crang, M., & Cook, I. (2007). Doing Ethnographies. SAGE Publications

"Doing Ethnographies" is an introductory and applied guide to ethnographic methods. It focuses on those methods - participant observation, interviewing, focus groups, and video photographic work - that allow us to understand the lived, everyday world... Read More about Doing Ethnographies..