Geographer. Poet.
Tim Cresswell is a geographer and poet based at the University of Edinburgh who writes on themes of place, mobility, and poetics.
A varve is an annual layer of sedimentary rock associated with glacial lakes. The word ‘varve’ is derived from the Swedish word varv which means variously ‘revolution’, ‘in layers’, and ‘circle’.
Plastiglomerate finds our world in the midst of environmental disaster: from plastic pollution and wrecked shipping to fires in the Amazon rainforest. Geographer-poet Tim Cresswell writes with the forensic eye of a professional, bending the hard vocabulary of science into a jagged but compelling lyric that telescopes from the vast to the cellular in the […]
Drawing on an innovative project exploring current mobility transition policies and practices in 14 countries around the world, including key institutions such as the European Union and the United Nations, this book provides a critique of current transitions, mobility and transport policies. The authors consider how our mobility futures have been imagined, what they will […]
A cultural geographer and an art historian offer fresh interpretations of Muybridge’s famous motion studies through the lenses of mobility and race.
Yi-Fu Tuan died on August 10th, 2022 at the age of 91. He was my PhD supervisor and a friend. We remained in touch since I graduated in 1992. My wife Carol (also an Yi-Fu student – for her Masters degree) and I took two of our children, Alice and Maddy, to meet him in 2019 before we left the USA to return to the UK. We had a lovely lunch in the dining room of his retirement home. He was on good form, laughing frequently between stories about the indignities of old age and the lectures he was planning for his fellow retirees – including one on the geopolitics of US – China relations. Yi-Fu meant a lot to me. I was an undergraduate at UCL, sleepwalking through a geography degree I was only mildly interested in. I had really wanted to study literature but, at the time, there was no way I was going to get into a good English programme with my A-level grades. I thought I would take geography and switch if I got the chance. In the second year (1984-1985) I had the good fortune of taking … [Read More...] about Reflections on Yi-Fu Tuan
(This an extended version of an essay that appears in the journal Transfers Tim Cresswell (2016) ‘Black Moves: Moments in the History of African American Masculine Mobilities’ Transfers 6/1: 12-25) Photo. Scott Olson/Getty Images One of the most striking images of 2015 was this photograph taken by the Getty photographer, Scott Olson, of a black body in Ferguson, Missouri confronted with a line of heavily armed, militarized, apparently white, policemen. The image quickly became part of the iconography of the Black Lives Matter movement and can be directly linked to the use of the term “hands up, don’t shoot” by protestors around the United States in the months following the killing of a black man, Michael Brown, by a white police officer in Ferguson. The image captures both the increasingly absurd militarization of a disproportionately white police force and the attempted immobilization of black bodies. In the months that followed there were repeated instances of black men being … [Read More...] about Black Moves
Many thanks to Tom Chivers at Penned in the Margins, the designer Matthew Young and the artist Julia Barton for providing the plastiglomerate on the cover. See Matthew’s wonderful designs at https://matthewyoung.design and Julia’s art practice at http://www.julia-barton.co.uk. Support her wonderful “Littoral Art Project" at www.littoralartproject.com … [Read More...] about Cover for new poetry collection, Plastiglomerate as well as reissues of previous collections, Soil (2013) and Fence (2015).
Tim Cresswell is Ogilvie Professor of Geography at the University of Edinburgh. He is a cultural geographer by training, and the author or editor of a dozen books and over a 100 articles on the role … Read More about About Tim Cresswell
