Tim Cresswell
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Tim Cresswell is a human geographer at the Department of Geography
, Royal Holloway, University of London
. He is the author of four books on the role of space and mobility in cultural life.
, he received his B.A. from University College London
before undertaking his postgraduate education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
, where he was awarded his Ph.D.
in 1992, supervised by the renowned humanistic geographer Yi-Fu Tuan
. He returned to the UK, teaching at the University of Wales, Lampeter
until 1999, and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth until 2006.
, ballroom dance
, and international airports, and their role in shaping cultural
outlooks.
Cresswell's best-known work is In Place/Out of Place (1996) which discusses notions of place and practices of resistance that may shape them, illustrating his arguments with case studies of graffiti in New York City and the protests at Greenham Common in the 1980s among other examples. His book The Tramp in America (2001) describes the intervention of the tramp
as a social type in the United States between 1869 and 1939. Place: A Short Introduction (2004) provides a succinct introduction to the themes that he has researched. His most recent book is On the Move: Mobility in the Modern Western World (2006) which considers mobility in sites such as the workplace, the dancefloor and the international airport.
Cresswell has also edited an Environment and Planning special publication on the influence in human geography of Pierre Bourdieu
(2002) and co-edited, with Deborah Dixon, a book on the geographies of film entitled Engaging Film (2002).
Geography
Geography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...
, Royal Holloway, University of London
Royal Holloway, University of London
Royal Holloway, University of London is a constituent college of the University of London. The college has three faculties, 18 academic departments, and about 8,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students from over 130 different countries...
. He is the author of four books on the role of space and mobility in cultural life.
Education
After attending Woolverstone Hall SchoolWoolverstone Hall School
In the early 1950s the London County Council obtained use of Woolverstone Hall near Ipswich, Suffolk, and some of adjoining land for the purpose of establishing a secondary grammar boarding school for London boys...
, he received his B.A. from University College London
University College London
University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...
before undertaking his postgraduate education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
University of Wisconsin–Madison
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became a land-grant institution in 1866...
, where he was awarded his Ph.D.
Ph.D.
A Ph.D. is a Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree.Ph.D. may also refer to:* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group*Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip*PhD: Phantasy Degree, a Korean comic series* PhD Docbook renderer, an XML renderer...
in 1992, supervised by the renowned humanistic geographer Yi-Fu Tuan
Yi-Fu Tuan
Yi-Fu Tuan is a Chinese-U.S. geographer.Tuan was born in 1930 in Tientsin, China. He was the son of a rich oligarch and was part of the top class in the Republic of China....
. He returned to the UK, teaching at the University of Wales, Lampeter
University of Wales, Lampeter
University of Wales, Lampeter is a university in Lampeter, Wales. Founded in 1822 by royal charter, it is the oldest degree awarding institution in Wales and may be the third oldest in England and Wales after Oxford and Cambridge...
until 1999, and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth until 2006.
Career
His research interests are in social and cultural geography, specifically geographies of mobility, such as walkingWalking
Walking is one of the main gaits of locomotion among legged animals, and is typically slower than running and other gaits. Walking is defined by an 'inverted pendulum' gait in which the body vaults over the stiff limb or limbs with each step...
, ballroom dance
Ballroom dance
Ballroom dance refers to a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world. Because of its performance and entertainment aspects, ballroom dance is also widely enjoyed on stage, film, and television....
, and international airports, and their role in shaping cultural
Culture
Culture is a term that has many different inter-related meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions...
outlooks.
Cresswell's best-known work is In Place/Out of Place (1996) which discusses notions of place and practices of resistance that may shape them, illustrating his arguments with case studies of graffiti in New York City and the protests at Greenham Common in the 1980s among other examples. His book The Tramp in America (2001) describes the intervention of the tramp
Tramp
A tramp is a long term homeless person who travels from place to place as a vagrant, traditionally walking or hiking all year round. In British English meanwhile a tramp simply refers to a homeless person, usually not a travelling one....
as a social type in the United States between 1869 and 1939. Place: A Short Introduction (2004) provides a succinct introduction to the themes that he has researched. His most recent book is On the Move: Mobility in the Modern Western World (2006) which considers mobility in sites such as the workplace, the dancefloor and the international airport.
Cresswell has also edited an Environment and Planning special publication on the influence in human geography of Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher.Starting from the role of economic capital for social positioning, Bourdieu pioneered investigative frameworks and terminologies such as cultural, social, and symbolic capital, and the concepts of habitus, field or location,...
(2002) and co-edited, with Deborah Dixon, a book on the geographies of film entitled Engaging Film (2002).
Publications
- (2006) On the Move: Mobility in the Modern World
- (2004) Place: A Short Introduction
- (2002) Engaging Film: Geographies of Mobility and Identity (co-edited with Deborah Dixon)
- (2001) The Tramp in America
- (2001) Geosophy, Mobility and Other Ways of Knowing in Paul C. AdamsPaul C. AdamsPaul C. Adams is an Associate Professor and Director of Urban Studies at the Department of Geography and the Environment at University of Texas at Austin...
, Steven Hoelscher and Karen Till (eds) "Textures of Place: Essays in Honor of Yi-Fu Tuan" (University of Wisconsin Press). - (1999) Mobility, syphilis and democracy: the pathologization of the tramp in Richard Wrigley, George Reville (eds) "Pathologies of Travel" (Rodepi)
- (1999) Falling Down: Resistance as diagnostic in Chris Philo et al. (eds) "Entanglements of Power: Geographies of Dominance/Resistance" (Routledge)
- (1999) with Hoskin B: The beat which is currently popular: American music in Britain, in Peter Taylor and David Sadler (eds) "The American Century: Consensus and Coercion in the Projection of American Power" (Blackwell).
- (1999) Place in Paul Cloke, Philip, Crang and Mark Goodwin (eds) "Introducing Human Geographies" (London: Arnold) pp 226–234
- (1999) Embodiment, Power and the Politics of Mobility: The Case of Female Tramps and Hobos, in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 24.2: 175-192
- (1998) Night discourse: producing/ consuming meaning on the street in Nick Fyfe (ed) "Images of the Street" (Routledge) pp 268-279
- (1998) The peninsula of submerged hope: Ben Reitman's social geography Geoforum 29.2: 207-216
- (1997) Weeds, plagues and bodily secretion: A geographical analysis of metaphors of displacement in "Annals of the Association of American Geographers" 87.2: 330-345
- (1997) Imagining the nomad: mobility and the postmodern primitive in Ulf Strohmayer and George Benko (eds) "Space and Social Theory: Geographical Interpretations of Post-Modernity" (Oxford, Blackwell): 360-382
- (1996) In Place/Out of Place: Geography, Ideology and Transgression University of Minnesota Press
- (1996) Reading, writing and the problem of resistance: A reply to McDowell, in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 21.4: pp 420-424
External links
- Professor Tim Cresswell at Royal Holloway, University of LondonRoyal Holloway, University of LondonRoyal Holloway, University of London is a constituent college of the University of London. The college has three faculties, 18 academic departments, and about 8,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students from over 130 different countries...
See also
- Human geographyHuman geographyHuman geography is one of the two major sub-fields of the discipline of geography. Human geography is the study of the world, its people, communities, and cultures. Human geography differs from physical geography mainly in that it has a greater focus on studying human activities and is more...
- Lampeter Geography School