Professor David Crouch FRGS

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Job title: Professor of Cultural Geography

Email: d.c.crouch@derby.ac.uk
Personal website: davidcrouch.co.uk/

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Recent publications

Books

Flirting with space: journeys and creativity, Ashgate, Nov. 2010.
The Media and the tourist imagination, Routledge 2005

Journal articles

Flirting with Space: thinking landscape relationally; Cultural Geographies 22 [1, 1.] January 2010.

Book chapters

Gardens and gardening, in N.Thrift and R.Kitchin eds. Encyclopaedia of Human Geography, Elsevier 2009
The perpetual performance and emergence of heritage in E. Waterton et al eds Heritage and Visual Representation Ashgate 2010
Creativity, space and performance: Community Gardens in T. Edensor et al eds Spaces of Vernacular Creativity Routledge 2009
The Diverse Dynamics of Cultural Studies and Tourism in T.Jamal and M.Robinson eds. The Sage Handbook of Tourism Studies Sage, 2009
Constructing feelings of wellness in Tourist Performance, in R.Bushell and P.Sheldon P., eds, Wellness Tourism; Nurturing Mind, Body, Spirit and Place Routledge 2009
Revisiting the street and everyday geographical knowledge, in: A. García ed. Espacio público, ciudad y conjuntos históricos. IAPH, Andaluscia (translated in Spanish with new Introduction and Afterword) 2009 (first published 1998)

Invited chapters for publication

A performative approach to Land and identity, in C. Berberich, N. Campbell, R. Hudson eds. Land and Identity Rodolpi Press 2010
Meaning, encounter, performance: threads and moments of spacetimes; in E. Waterton ed, The tourism moment Ashgate 2011

Painting

Cover image `Walk`, Visual Studies Special Issue Walking, April 2010

Recent Art shows

Solo

University of Derby March 2010
Bull Yard Gallery, Southwell Fall, 2010
Southwell Minster, late 2010
The George Gallery, Newnham-on-Severn, Gloucestershire March-May 2009

Mixed shows

Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham July, 2009
Gallerie, Newark, Fall, 2010
Invited work for mixed show, Richard Attenborough Gallery, University of Leicester, Spring 2011

Faculty: Arts, Design and Technology

Professional interests

Doctoral student direction and external examination internationally (5 completed, 5 externally examined 2009-2010)
Research
Engaging wider than academic audiences in ideas in cultural geography
Previously, visiting professorships, Universities of Karlstad and Kalmar, Sweden.

Research interests

My research and writing crosses a number of fields of cultural geography, social anthropology, cultural and visual studies, art theory. These are connected through an attention to life and space that includes landscape, everyday life and its tourism, community involvement and the work of artists. This work includes an interest in gentle politics, belonging, disorientation and cultural identity, and human poetic expression in diverse forms of creativity. I'm also an exhibiting artist.

Research centre and groups

Identity, conflict and representation Research Centre
Open Studio
Culture and Lifestyle research group, previously Director.

See article in University Research Review.

Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees

Journal editorial board memberships

International Journal of Heritage Studies; Leisure Studies; Tourism Geographies
Tourism and Cultural Change.

Media experience

Wide range of experience in BBC film work, including film production and programme consultancy; writing for and interviewed by national broadsheets and specialist press; national, regional and international television and radio, reflecting range of research and writing expertise. Most recently, BBC Radio 4 Questions, Questions; BBC online.

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