All Welcome To Professor's Book Launch
6 December 2010
Professor David Crouch who will be launching his new book on December 8
The University's Professor David Crouch will be launching his new book this Wednesday 8 December from 6pm in the Atrium of the Kedleston Road Site.
Everyone is invited to join Professor Crouch FRGS (Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society) for a short introduction to his book; Flirting with space: journeys and creativity (published by Ashgate), with wine and refreshments.
Professor Crouch is a member of the University's Identity, Conflict and Representation Research Centre. "My research and writing crosses a number of fields of cultural geography, social anthropology, cultural and visual studies, art theory."
'Flirting with Space speaks of David's intense and passionate interest in how it feels to feel. His spatial theories on life as it's lived are spry and vital, asserting the generative and creative power held by people, trusting in the ordinariness of emotion and common experience, and seeking out practices of humane value.' - Hayden Lorimer, University of Glasgow, UK
Space is conceptualized as being in constant flux as we make our way through contexts in our daily lives, considered in relation to encounters with complexities and flows of materiality.
Through considerations of dynamic processes of contemporary life-spaces, this book builds new critical syntheses of the intertwining of space and life: the mundane and exotic, 'lay' and 'artistic'. The book creates a fascinating and original view of our interaction with space.
Sample pages for published titles are available to view online at: www.ashgate.com
