Philip Crang
British cultural and human geographer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Philip Andrew Crang, FAcSS, is a British cultural and human geographer. Since 2005, he has been Professor of Cultural Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. Life Education and career Crang completed his undergraduate degree at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, graduating with a BA in 1986. He remained at the University of Cambridge to carry out his doctoral studies; his PhD was awarded in 1992 for his thesis "'A new service society?': On the geographies of service employment". After finishing his doctorate, Crang lectured at St David's College, Lampeter, and later moved to University College London, where he was Lecturer in Human Geography. He moved to Royal Holloway, University of London, in 2000 and took up the post of Reader in Human Geography. He was promoted to Professor of Cultural Geography in 2005.
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- The World On a Plate (1996) (435)
- It's Showtime: On the Workplace Geographies of Display in a Restaurant in Southeast England (1994) (256)
- Introducing Human Geographies (1999) (214)
- Transnationalism and the spaces of commodity culture (2003) (193)
- Virtual Geographies: Bodies, Space and Relations (1999) (154)
- Displacement, Consumption, and Identity (1996) (151)
- Cultural turns and the (re) constitution of economic geography (1997) (146)
- PERFORMING THE TOURIST PRODUCT (2002) (131)
- Practising Human Geography (2004) (116)
- Consuming Geographies: A Review Essay@@@Consumption and Identity at Work@@@The Time of the Tribes. The Decline of Individualism in Mass Society@@@Acknowledging Consumption. A Review of New Studies@@@Retailing, Consumption and Capital: Towards the New Retail Geography (1996) (97)
- Biographies and geographies: consumer understandings of the origins of foods (1998) (87)
- Introduction: The spaces of transnationality (2004) (66)
- The Politics of Polyphony: Reconfigurations in Geographical Authority (1992) (64)
- Fashioning ethnicities (2002) (51)
- Imagined country: Society, culture and the environment (1992) (47)
- Eating into Britishness: Multicultural Imaginaries and the Identity Politics of Food (1999) (46)
- From City Space to Cyberspace (1999) (41)
- Tropics of consumption: ‘getting with the fetish’ of ‘exotic’ fruit? (2004) (41)
- Mrs Thatcher's Vision of the ‘New Britain’ and the other Sides of the ‘Cambridge Phenomenon’ (1991) (39)
- Placing alternative consumption: commodity fetishism in Borough Fine Foods Market, London (2010) (39)
- Envisioning Human Geographies (2004) (36)
- Cultural geography: after a fashion (2010) (31)
- Introducing Human Geography (1999) (17)
- Teaching economic geography—some thoughts on curriculum content (1994) (15)
- Fashioning ethnicities: the commercial spaces of multiculture (2006) (12)
- The transnational spaces of things: South Asian textiles in Britain and The Grammar of Ornament (2009) (9)
- Author meets critics: a set of reviews and a response (2010) (6)
- Regions to be cheerful (2018) (5)
- Discardscapes of fashion: commodity biography, patch geographies, and preconsumer garment waste in Cambodia (2020) (5)
- Material management in themed restaurants : Inspiring the experience economy / Farah Adibah Che Ishak, Philip Crang and Muhammad Shahrim Ab Karim (2017) (4)
- The convergence of virtual and actual in the Global Matrix: artificial life, geo-economics and psychogeography OTTO IMKEN (2013) (3)
- Chapter 17. It's Showtime: On the Workplace Geographies of Display in a Restaurant in Southeast England (2008) (3)
- Geographies of Comfort (2020) (2)
- Reviewing cultural geographies (2004) (1)
- Towards geographies of comfort (2020) (1)
- The Consumer Society Reader, Martyn J. Lee (ed.), Oxford: Blackwell, 2000, £55.00 (£15.99 pbk), xxvi+325 pp. (ISBN 0-631-20797-X and 0-631-20798-8 pbk) (2001) (1)
- Field cultures (2003) (1)
- 'A new service society?' : on the geographies of service employment (1992) (1)
- Book Review: Space and Place: Theories of Identity and Location (1994) (1)
- Guest Editorial (1996) (1)
- Reading into cultural studies: Martin Barker and Anne Beezer (eds), 200 + vii pp., 1992, Routledge, London (1993) (1)
- Book Reviews : Indifferent boundaries: spatial concepts of human subjectivity. By K. M. Kirby. New York, Guilford Press. 1996. xiv + 170 pp. £16.99, paper. ISBN 0 89862 572 6 (1998) (0)
- Editorial (2007) (0)
- Local–global, Philip Crang (2013) (0)
- British Asian Style (2010) (0)
- Poststructuralist geographies: the essential selection (2014) (0)
- A new North American editor (2003) (0)
- Editorial (2000) (0)
- Book Reviews (1997) (0)
- Self–other, Paul Cloke (2013) (0)
- Fashioning ethnicities: the commerical spaces of multiculture (2012) (0)
- Books Reviewed (2001) (0)
- Transnational spaces in history (2009) (0)
- Commodities Michael Watts (2013) (0)
- Emotional geographies Hester Parr (2013) (0)
- Book Review: An introduction to theories of popular culture (1998) (0)
- SECTION 1 CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES (2013) (0)
- Book Reviews : The field of cultural production. By P. Bourdieu. Cambridge: Polity Press. 1993. viii + 322 pp. £45.00 cloth. ISBN 0 745 60986 4. £12.95 paper. ISBN 0 745 60987 2 (1994) (0)
- cultural geographies: an ecumenical journal (2002) (0)
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