Tim Cresswell (born 1965) is a British human geographer and poet. Cresswell is the

Ogilvie Professor of Human Geography The Ogilvie Professor of Human Geography is the name for the occupant of the Ogilvie Chair of Geography at the University of Edinburgh. It is named in honour of Alan Grant Ogilvie FRSE (1887-1954), the first professor (1931) of their Departme ...

at the

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having formally served as the Dean of the Faculty and Vice President for Academic Affairs at

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, Hartford, Connecticut. He is a human geographer by training and the author of six books on the role of place and mobility in cultural life, co-editor of four collections and an inaugural managing editor of the journal, "GeoHumanities". Cresswell is a leading figure in the

mobilities Mobilities is a contemporary paradigm in the social sciences that explores the movement of people (human migration, individual mobility, travel, transport), ideas (see e.g. meme) and things (transport), as well as the broader social implications of ...

paradigm. Tim Cresswell is also a poet and the author of three collections published by Penned in the Margins "Soil" (2013), "Fence" (2015) and "Plastiglomerate" (2020). "Fence" was a result of Cresswell's participation in the artist Alex Hartley's nowhere island project.Rachel Cooke (2011-11-27). "Alex Hartley: The world is still big , Review , Art and design , The Observer". London: Guardian. Retrieved 2016-05-10

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*(2022) ''Muybridge and Mobility'' (co-written with John Ott and in introduction by Anthony W. Lee) *(2021) ''Moving Towards Transition: Commoning Mobility for a Low Carbon Future'' (co-written with Peter Adey, Jane Yeonjae Lee, Anna Nikolaeva, Andre Novoa, Cristina Temenos) *(2020) ''Plastiglomerate'' (poetry) *(2019) ''Maxwell Street: Thinking and Writing Place'' *(2015) ''"Ne pas dépasser la ligne! Fabrique des identités et contrôle du mouvement dans les lieux de transit'' (with Geraldine Lay and Mikaël Lemarchand) *(2015) ''Fence'' (poetry) *(2014) ''Place: An Introduction'' (Second Edition) *(2013) ''Soil'' (poetry) *(2013) ''Geographic Thought: A Critical Introduction'' *(2012) ''Geographies of Mobilities: Practices, Spaces, Subjects'' (co-edited with Peter Merriman) *(2008) ''Gendered Mobilities'' (co-edited with Tanu Priya Uteng) *(2006) ''On the Move: Mobility in the Modern World'' *(2004) ''Place: A Short Introduction'' *(2002) ''Mobilizing Place, Placing Mobility'' (co-edited with Ginette Verstraete) *(2002) ''Engaging Film: Geographies of Mobility and Identity'' (co-edited with Deborah Dixon) *(2001) ''The Tramp in America'' *(1996) ''In Place/Out of Place: Geography, Ideology and Transgression'' University of Minnesota Press

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cresswell, Tim British expatriate academics in the United States Living people University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni British geographers Academics of Royal Holloway, University of London Northeastern University faculty Alumni of University College London Academics of the University of Wales, Lampeter Academics of Aberystwyth University 1965 births

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