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Overview

Mike Crang is affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields of study including Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, and Social Sciences. Specific subfields within these broader areas include Plant Science, Food Science, Global and Planetary Change, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Political Science and International Relations.

Their work covers a range of topics primarily focused on the intersection of sustainability and socio-environmental issues. These main topics include:

  • Organic Food and Agriculture
  • Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
  • Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Rural development and sustainability
  • China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability

Mike Crang has co-authored research with several colleagues, including:

  • Shuru Zhong
  • Alex Hughes
  • Guojun Zeng
  • Suzanne Hocknell
  • Simon Coleman

Their recent publications appear in journals such as the Journal of Rural Studies, Sustainability, and the Journal of China Tourism Research. Notable papers include:

  • Fragmentary embeddedness: Challenges for alternative food networks in Guangzhou, China (2022), Journal of Rural Studies
  • Exploring the Benefits of Small Catchments on Rural Spatial Governance in Wuling Mountain Area, China (2021), Sustainability
  • The Connectedness with Nature of Chinese Adolescent Tourists: A Q Method Approach (2024), Journal of China Tourism Research

Best Publications

  • The trouble with tourism and travel theory

    Adrian Franklin;Mike Crang

  • Interrogating the circular economy: the moral economy of resource recovery in the EU

    Nicky Gregson;Mike Crang;Sara Fuller;Helen Holmes

  • Qualitative methods: touchy, feely, look-see?:

    Mike Crang

  • Tourism: Between Place and Performance

    Simon Coleman;Mike Crang

  • Picturing practices: research through the tourist gaze

    Mike Crang

  • SENTIENT CITIES Ambient intelligence and the politics of urban space

    Mike Crang;Stephen Graham

  • Qualitative methods: the new orthodoxy?:

    Mike Crang

  • Analysing qualitative materials

    Mike Crang

  • Virtual Geographies: Bodies, Space and Relations

    Mike Crang;Phil Crang;Jon May

  • Qualitative methods: there is nothing outside the text?

    Mike Crang

  • Following things of rubbish value: end-of-life ships, 'chock-chocky' furniture and the Bangladeshi middle class consumer

    N. Gregson;M. Crang;F. Ahamed;F. Ahamed;N. Akhter

  • The City and Topologies of Memory

    Mike Crang;Penny S Travlou

  • The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Geography

    Dydia DeLyser;Steve Herbert;Stuart Aitken;Mike Crang

  • Materiality and Waste: Inorganic Vitality in a Networked World

    Nicky Gregson;Mike Crang

  • Rethinking governance and value in commodity chains through global recycling networks

    Mike Crang;Alex Hughes;Nicky Gregson;Lucy Norris

  • Nation, Race, and Affect: Senses and Sensibilities at National Heritage Sites

    Mike Crang;Divya P Tolia-Kelly

  • Magic kingdom or a quixotic quest for authenticity

    Mike Crang

  • Grounded Tourists, Travelling Theory

    Simon Coleman;Mike Crang

  • Encyclopedia of urban studies

    R. Hutchinson;M.B. Aalbers;R.A. Beauregard;M. Crang

  • Rhythms of the city : temporalised space and motion.

    Mike Crang

  • Spaces of Identity: Global Media, Electronic Landscapes and Cultural Boundaries

    Mike Crang;D. Morley;K. Robins

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicky Gregson
Nicky Gregson Durham University
Stephen Graham
Stephen Graham Newcastle University
Linda McDowell
Linda McDowell University of Oxford
Jules Pretty
Jules Pretty University of Essex
Michael Winter
Michael Winter University of Exeter
Jacquelin Burgess
Jacquelin Burgess University of East Anglia
Clive Barnett
Clive Barnett University of Exeter
Harriet Bulkeley
Harriet Bulkeley Durham University
Susana Mourato
Susana Mourato London School of Economics and Political Science

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