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Professor Tim Cresswell

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• Professor of Human Geography
• Editor of cultural geographies
• Member of editorial board for Mobilities
• Director of Graduate Studies

My research considers the role of geographical ways of thinking in the constitution of social and cultural life. By geographical ways of thinking I mean modes of thought that utilise notions of place, space and mobility to give the world ideological value. I am interested in how these modes of thought inform various kinds of practice from the practice of ordering and domination to the practice of disorder and resistance. I might call this project “critical geosophy”. Concrete instances of critical geosophy include the way in which notions of place and notions of mobility are enacted and represented in film, law, medicine, planning, social justice movements, literature, photography and music. The sites for the mobilisation of geosophy are potentially endless. Geography courses through the conduits of knowledge that continually produce and reproduce everyday life. This makes geography a dynamic and consistently critical exercise in the world we inhabit.

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