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National Ranking
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Overview

Tim Cresswell is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom and specializes in social sciences with a focus on geography, planning, and development. Their research encompasses interdisciplinary subfields including sociology, political science, surgery, general health professions, and cultural studies.

Their work explores a range of topics, notably:

  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Posthumanist ethics and activism
  • Ecocriticism and environmental literature
  • Shoulder injury and treatment
  • Migration and exile studies
  • Migration, refugees, and integration
  • Homelessness and social issues

Recent scholarly publications by Tim Cresswell include:

  • "Valuing mobility in a post COVID-19 world" (2020), published in Mobilities
  • "Writing (new) worlds: poetry and place in a time of emergency" (2022), published in Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography
  • "The rhythm of place and the place of rhythm: arguments for idiorhythmy" (2023), published in Mobilities
  • "Beyond geopoetics: For hybrid texts" (2021), published in Dialogues in Human Geography

Tim Cresswell has also contributed to collaborative research with frequent co-authors including Amol Tambe, M. Espag, Annmarie Ryan, Susi Geiger, and Helen Haugh.

Academic outlets where their work appears most frequently are:

  • Mobilities
  • Dialogues in Human Geography
  • Journal of Business Ethics
  • Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography
  • Annals of the American Association of Geographers

Their publication record includes book authorship. One notable book is Moving Towards Transition, published in 2021 by Bloomsbury Publishing plc.

Best Publications

  • Place: An Introduction

    Timothy Cresswell

  • On the Move: Mobility in the Modern Western World

    Timothy Cresswell

  • In Place/Out of Place: Geography, Ideology, and Transgression

    Timothy Cresswell

  • Towards a Politics of Mobility

    Tim Cresswell

  • Place: A Short Introduction

    Timothy Cresswell

  • Mobilities I Catching up

    Tim Cresswell

  • Geographies of Mobilities: Practices, Spaces, Subjects

    Tim Cresswell;Peter Merriman

  • Geographic Thought: A Critical Introduction

    Timothy Cresswell

  • Mobilities II: Still

    Tim Cresswell

  • Introduction: Theorizing Place

    Tim Cresswell

  • The Tramp in America

    Timothy Cresswell

  • Landscape and the Obliteration of Practice

    Tim Cresswell

  • Weeds, Plagues, and Bodily Secretions: A Geographical Interpretation of Metaphors of Displacement

    Tim Cresswell

  • Embodiment, Power and the Politics of Mobility: The Case of Female Tramps and Hobos

    Tim Cresswell

  • Gendered Mobilities: Towards an Holistic Understanding

    Tim Cresswell;Tanu Priya Uteng

  • Mobility as resistance: a geographical reading of Kerouac's 'On the road'

    Tim Cresswell

  • Engaging Film: Geographies of Mobility and Identity

    Tim J. Cresswell;Deborah P. Dixon

  • Landscape, mobility, practice

    Peter Merriman;George Revill;Tim J. Cresswell;Hayden Lorimer

  • The Crucial ‘Where’ of Graffiti: A Geographical Analysis of Reactions to Graffiti in New York

    T Cresswell

  • Commoning mobility: Towards a new politics of mobility transitions

    Anna Nikolaeva;Anna Nikolaeva;Peter Adey;Tim Cresswell;Jane Yeonjae Lee

  • The Right to Mobility: The Production of Mobility in the Courtroom

    Tim Cresswell

Frequent Co-Authors

Mimi Sheller
Mimi Sheller Drexel University
John Urry
John Urry Lancaster University
Nigel Thrift
Nigel Thrift University of Bristol
Rob Imrie
Rob Imrie King's College London
Michael Watts
Michael Watts Brunel University London
Sarah Whatmore
Sarah Whatmore University of Oxford
Ben Anderson
Ben Anderson Durham University
Kevin Ward
Kevin Ward University of Manchester
Gillian Rose
Gillian Rose University of Oxford
Tim Schwanen
Tim Schwanen University of Oxford

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