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Qualitative methods : the new orthodoxy? (2002)
Journal Article
Crang, M. (2002). Qualitative methods : the new orthodoxy?. Progress in Human Geography, 26(5), 647-655. https://doi.org/10.1191/0309132502ph392pr

It is an interesting moment to write Progress in Human Geography’s first report on qualitative methods. In one sense, it suggests these methods have, at long last, arrived and been accepted as established approaches. That this is an overdue recogniti... Read More about Qualitative methods : the new orthodoxy?.

Between places: producing hubs, flows, and networks (2002)
Journal Article
Crang, M. (2002). Between places: producing hubs, flows, and networks. Environment and Planning A, 34(4), 569-574. https://doi.org/10.1068/a34154

Tim Cresswell (2001) recently suggested two causes for an upsurge of interest in `mobility': first, an increase in `empirical' mobility and, second, a new theoretical approach to mobility with a rejection of the metaphysics of sedentarism. Cultural t... Read More about Between places: producing hubs, flows, and networks.

Filed work: making sense of group interviews (2001)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (2001). Filed work: making sense of group interviews. In M. Limb, & C. Dwyer (Eds.), Qualitative Methodologies for Geographers (215-233). Arnold

The city and topologies of memory (2001)
Journal Article
Crang, M., & Travlou, P. (2001). The city and topologies of memory. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 19(2), 161-177. https://doi.org/10.1068/d201t

The relationship of space and time has become a vexed issue in accounts in the postmodern metropolis. Rich and enlivening accounts use spatial categories to describe the interrelationships of elements of the city moving from historicism to geography,... Read More about The city and topologies of memory.

Rhythms of the city: temporalised space and motion (2001)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (2001). Rhythms of the city: temporalised space and motion. In J. May, & N. Thrift (Eds.), Timespace : geographies of temporality (187-207). Routledge

This essay is concerned with the intersection of lived time, time as represented and urban space - especially around everyday practice. As such it follows in a long pedigree of works addressing time and space in the city. However, what I want to try... Read More about Rhythms of the city: temporalised space and motion.

Thinking Space (2000)
Book
Crang, M., & Thrift, N. (Eds.). (2000). Thinking Space. Routledge

As theorists have begun using geographical concepts and metaphors to think about the complex and differentiated world, it is important to reflect on their work, and its impact on our thoughts on space. This revealing book explores the work of a wide... Read More about Thinking Space.

Playing Nymphs and Swains in a Pastoral Myth? (2000)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (2000). Playing Nymphs and Swains in a Pastoral Myth?. In A. Hughes, C. Morris, & S. Seymour (Eds.), Ethnography & Rural Research (158-78). Countryside and Community Press

Urban Morphology and the Shaping of the Transmissable City (2000)
Journal Article
Crang, M. (2000). Urban Morphology and the Shaping of the Transmissable City. City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 4(3), 303-315. https://doi.org/10.1080/713657026

Some recent work in architecture has begun to think through the implications of an electronically mediated environment - both in terms of new forms of spaces and of changes to existing ones. New possibilities are read as resulting from these new tech... Read More about Urban Morphology and the Shaping of the Transmissable City.

Public Space, Urban Space and Electronic Space: Would the real city please stand up? (2000)
Journal Article
Crang, M. (2000). Public Space, Urban Space and Electronic Space: Would the real city please stand up?. Urban Studies, 37(2), 301-317. https://doi.org/10.1080/0042098002203

Commentary around the electronic media has raised issues of political action, community formation and changing identities. This paper explores how the notions of 'public space' can inform this debate over electronic media. It examines the metaphorica... Read More about Public Space, Urban Space and Electronic Space: Would the real city please stand up?.

Image -- Reality (1999)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (1999). Image -- Reality. In P. Cloke, P. Crang, & M. Goodwin (Eds.), Introducing Human Geographies (54-62). Edward Arnold

Nation, region and homeland : history and tradition in Dalarna Sweden (1999)
Journal Article
Crang, M. (1999). Nation, region and homeland : history and tradition in Dalarna Sweden. Ecumene (Sevenoaks), 6(4), 447-470. https://doi.org/10.1191/096746099701556466

This paper looks at how one regional identity has interacted with a national identity, suggesting the relationships are more complex than either simply changing scale or a hierarchical set of affiliations. The paper focuses on one institution which h... Read More about Nation, region and homeland : history and tradition in Dalarna Sweden.

Knowing, Tourism and Practices of Vision (1999)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (1999). Knowing, Tourism and Practices of Vision. In D. Crouch (Ed.), Leisure/tourism geographies : practices and geographical knowledge (238-257). Routledge