Tim Cresswell
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.
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[edit] Education
After attending Woolverstone Hall School, 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.[citation needed]
[edit] Career
His research interests are in social and cultural geography, specifically geographies of mobility, such as walking, 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).
[edit] 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. Adams, 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
