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Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · 4d

New substack post open.substack.com/pub/timcress...

Belonging to Place

Indigenous Place-Thought, National Conservatism, and the Ethnostate Debate”

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Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thanks! I like it too.

Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · Aug 19

Coming soon. The Citizen and the Vagabond. A Politics of Mobility.

Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · Jul 18

So honoured to join this list!

The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · Jul 18

The British Academy has elected 92 new Fellows in 2025 – a higher number than in previous years due to new Fellowship places for candidates whose research spans more than one discipline www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/agm-wel...

The British Academy welcomes 92 new Fellows in 2025

92 distinguished scholars have today been elected to the British Academy’s Fellowship, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences.

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Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · Jul 18

So honoured to join such a list of intellectual heroes!

The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · Jul 18

The British Academy has elected 92 new Fellows in 2025 – a higher number than in previous years due to new Fellowship places for candidates whose research spans more than one discipline www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/agm-wel...

The British Academy welcomes 92 new Fellows in 2025

92 distinguished scholars have today been elected to the British Academy’s Fellowship, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · Jul 7

Colorado clouds

Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · Jul 3

White King Bolete, Colorado

Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · May 24

Some thoughts on the use of "globalist"
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The World Turned Upside Down

Versions of Globalism

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Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · Apr 12

New substack post. Searching for Satoyama in Kyoto open.substack.com/pub/timcress...

Searching for the Local in Kyoto

Last month I spent some time in the area around Kyoto, Japan.

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Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · Dec 26

A substack about Local (place-based) knowledge
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The Value of Local Knowledge

One of the ways that the value of place and the local have been highlighted in recent decades has been through the notion of place-based, or local, knowledge.

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Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · Dec 24

Christmas Eve on Calgary Beach

Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · Dec 4

Back in old stomping grounds. Aberystwyth at night.

Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · Nov 23

Enjoyed this!

Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · Nov 22

Been thinking about the process of writing lately, partly as a result of chats with different people about how they write. So, apropos of nothing, & on the off chance that this may be of use to someone, here’s three quick things I’ve learnt about writing:
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Three things I’ve learned about writing

I’ve thinking about the process of writing lately, partly as a result of conversations with different people about how they write. So, apropos of nothing, and on the off chance that this may …

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Nov 22

Please allow me to re-share my rough sketch of some advanced carbon capture technology

a cartoon with two panels

panel one is a stick figure saying "oh! a fossil fuel!!" standing above a crudely drawn black lump under a brown ground

Panel two is them walking away and saying "I'll just leave it there"

The head of the person is not a drawn circle but the letter O, because the random software I used to draw it did that for unexplained reasons

Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · Nov 22

Been thinking about the process of writing lately, partly as a result of chats with different people about how they write. So, apropos of nothing, & on the off chance that this may be of use to someone, here’s three quick things I’ve learnt about writing:
cityfragment.wordpress.com/2024/11/22/t...

Three things I’ve learned about writing

I’ve thinking about the process of writing lately, partly as a result of conversations with different people about how they write. So, apropos of nothing, and on the off chance that this may …

cityfragment.wordpress.com

Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · Nov 16

When to see Laurie Anderson. United States V. What an inspiration!

Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · Nov 7

Some thoughts on the roles of routes and routing in the construction of kinetic hierarchies.
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On the Poetry and Politics of Routes and Routing

Midway upon the journey of our life

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Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · Oct 26

Looking forward to a day of thinking about place!

Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · Oct 15

Thank you Alison. I realize that the end of next year will mark seven years in Edinburgh… and from there I will be entering unknown territory!

Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · Oct 11

Some early words for a new book project on the idea of the local in different global contexts.
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Local - A Global Search for an Idea.

I am in the early stages of writing a book about the idea of the local and the associated agenda of localism. The book will be a mixture of travelogue, memoir, and thinking alongside others about what...

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Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · Oct 4

Abundance and houses. Problems with the Abundance Agenda open.substack.com/pub/timcress...

The Abundance Agenda goes Trans-Atlantic

In an age of environmental crisis, war-ridden global hotspots, and massively corrosive inequality it is surely surprising that perhaps the best-known policies of both the new Labour government in the ...

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Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · Sep 22

Geographic Thought, Second Edition, now in Korean!

Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · Sep 7

I have a substack! Latest - some thoughts on speed and slowness. open.substack.com/pub/timcress...

Speed, Slowness, and Values.

Speed is typically thought of as a measurement – unit of distance per unit of time.

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Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · Sep 7

More chanterelles

Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · Sep 7

Chanterelles

Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · Aug 26

NEW: My latest round-up of listening and reading recommendations from the past week. All reposts (and subscriptions) much appreciated. X
#skystorians 🗃️ #polisky #filmsky #lit #polrel

Stop, Look, and Listen #31

A round-up of what I have been reading and listening to this past week.

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Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · Aug 20

Got mine…it looks great. Thanks for putting it together.

David Cooper @drdavidcooper.bsky.social · Aug 20

It’s arrived! It’s great to be able to hold a copy of ‘The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies’ I’ve edited with Neal Alexander. An enormous thank you to the 41 contributors & the editorial team at Routledge for making it happen.

David Cooper @drdavidcooper.bsky.social · Aug 20

It’s arrived! It’s great to be able to hold a copy of ‘The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies’ I’ve edited with Neal Alexander. An enormous thank you to the 41 contributors & the editorial team at Routledge for making it happen.

Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · Aug 17

This beauty has arrived. Can’t wait to dig in!

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