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Economic Geography: Fordism (2009)
Book Chapter
Hudson, R. (2009). Economic Geography: Fordism. In N. Thrift, & R. Kitchin (Eds.), International encyclopaedia of human geography (226-231). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-008044910-4.00166-8

The term ‘Fordism’ has many meanings. It originated as a description of the radical new way of organising the mass production of automobiles developed by Henry Ford in the early years of the twentieth century. Later it became used to describe a parti... Read More about Economic Geography: Fordism.

Regional Development: Uneven Regional Development (2009)
Book Chapter
Hudson, R. (2009). Regional Development: Uneven Regional Development. In N. Thrift, & R. Kitchin (Eds.), International encyclopaedia of human geography (18-23). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-008044910-4.00884-1

The concept of uneven development originally developed within Marxian political economy to describe – inter alia – relations between political classes, between the forces and relations of production, and between companies. Subsequently, it became gen... Read More about Regional Development: Uneven Regional Development.

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

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.

Entries for 'Mumbai' and 'Squatter Movements'. (2010)
Book Chapter
McFarlane, C. (2010). Entries for 'Mumbai' and 'Squatter Movements'. In R. Hutchison, M. Aalbers, R. Beauregard, & M. Crang (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Urban Studies. SAGE Publications

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.

Social Surveys, interviews and focus groups (2010)
Book Chapter
Secor, A. J. (2010). Social Surveys, interviews and focus groups. In J. P. Jones III, & B. Gomez (Eds.), Research Methods in Geography: A First CourseResearch methods in geography: A critical introduction (194-205). Wiley

Embodiment and Memory in the Geopolitics of Trauma (2019)
Book Chapter
Ehrkamp, P., Loyd, J., & Secor, A. (2019). Embodiment and Memory in the Geopolitics of Trauma. In J. Fluri, K. Mitchell, & R. Jones (Eds.), Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration (117-129). Edward Elgar Press

Recorded music and Remembering. (2011)
Book Chapter
Anderson, B. (2011). Recorded music and Remembering. In C. Rojek (Ed.), Popular Music. SAGE Publications

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.

China and the geo-political imagination of African ‘development’ (2010)
Book Chapter
Power, M., & Mohan, G. (2010). China and the geo-political imagination of African ‘development’. In C. Dent (Ed.), China and Africa Development Relations (42-67). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203845028

In its pursuit of this growth-oriented model, a number of African countries have come to occupy centrestage in Chinese foreign policy as potential sources of raw materials to fuel China’s growth or as emerging markets for Chinese goods. In this way,... Read More about China and the geo-political imagination of African ‘development’.

Territorio/rete = Territory/network (2009)
Book Chapter
Painter, J. (2009). Territorio/rete = Territory/network. In E. dell'Agnese (Ed.), Geo-grafia : strumenti e parole (137-163). Edizioni Unicopli

Chapter 3: Urban
Book Chapter
Luque-Ayala, A. Chapter 3: Urban. In J. Ash, R. Kitchin, & A. Leszczynski (Eds.), Digital Geographies. SAGE Publications

Mary Kingsley. (2012)
Book Chapter
McEwan, C. (2012). Mary Kingsley. In H. Gates, & E. Akyeampong (Eds.), Dictionary of African Biography. OUP

The Promise of Non-Representational Theories (2010)
Book Chapter
Anderson, B., & Harrison, P. (2010). The Promise of Non-Representational Theories. In B. Anderson, & P. Harrison (Eds.), Taking-place : non-representational theories and geography (1-36). Ashgate Publishing

Emerging over the past ten years from a set of post-structuralist theoretical lineages, non-representational theories are having a major impact within Human Geography. Non-representational theorisation and research has opened up new sets of problemat... Read More about The Promise of Non-Representational Theories.