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Tim Cresswell
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Poet. Geographer.
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In case anyone is in Edinburgh and loves eco poetry come and see the totally fabulous Karen Solie (and me) on November 22nd

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Takeover: The Shore Poets - Buy tickets
The Shore Poets are an informal but durable collective who have been providing a platform for poets since 1991. Each month, they showcase two poets alongside musicians, and of course, the night is alw...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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New substack post on social and spatial mobility

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Moving On, Moving Out, and Moving Up?: How Spatial Mobility Became a Stand-in for Success
Moving On, Moving Out, and Moving Up?: How Spatial Mobility Became a Stand-in for Success
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November 12, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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New substack post connecting social and spatial mobility
November 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Belonging to Place
Indigenous Place-Thought, National Conservatism, and the Ethnostate Debate”
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November 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Coming soon. The Citizen and the Vagabond. A Politics of Mobility.
August 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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So honoured to join this list!
July 18, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Colorado clouds
July 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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July 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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White King Bolete, Colorado
July 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Some thoughts on the use of "globalist"
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The World Turned Upside Down
Versions of Globalism
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May 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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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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April 12, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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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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December 26, 2024 at 10:23 AM
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Christmas Eve on Calgary Beach
December 24, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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Back in old stomping grounds. Aberystwyth at night.
December 4, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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Enjoyed this!
colinmcfarlane.bsky.social 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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November 23, 2024 at 9:23 AM
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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
November 22, 2024 at 11:20 AM
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When to see Laurie Anderson. United States V. What an inspiration!
November 16, 2024 at 11:06 PM
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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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November 7, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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Looking forward to a day of thinking about place!
October 26, 2024 at 1:01 PM
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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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October 11, 2024 at 1:33 PM
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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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October 4, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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Geographic Thought, Second Edition, now in Korean!
September 22, 2024 at 11:20 AM
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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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September 7, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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More chanterelles
September 7, 2024 at 3:18 PM
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Chanterelles
September 7, 2024 at 10:29 AM