Nicholas Jon Crane
Biographic Data
| ID | 259184 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Jon Crane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas Jon |
| FAMILY NAME | Crane |
| SIGNATURE | CRANE N J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wyoming |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5470-747X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Antimonumentos and other aesthetic interventions amidst generalized violence: Seeds in the “political subsoil” of central Mexico
Mexico faces a situation of generalized violence, expressed in diverse forms of violence that facilitate and intensify the exploitation of productive and reproductive labor. The government of the “Fourth Transformation” (4T) has made insufficient efforts to deliver justice to sectors of Mexican society made most vulnerable by this situation. In this sense, the 4T does not represent a radical change in the situation of generalized violence that Me…
"Conceptualizando lugares de devastación ambiental, hacia una geografía política de "regiones de emergencia sanitaria y ambiental
El texto expuesto a continuación se divide en 3 partes. La primera busca dar cuenta de una discusión conceptual. Para ello hacemos un breve recorrido por cuatro conceptos. Creamos una conversación entre "zonas de sacrificio", "infiernos ambientales" y "Regiones de Emergencia Sanitaria y Ambiental" (resas), que actualmente en México se encuentran en tensión para denominar regionalmente la problemática ambiental, sus causas, efectos y posibles resp…
Whose geography do we review
In the context of discipline‐wide efforts to produce more inclusive, just, and equitable norms of geographical knowledge production, section editors for Geography Compass identify five concrete practices by which to address systemic inequities, injustices, and exclusions through their editorial work
Elitización del espacio y materialización de la lucha en Toluca. De la escenificación de paisajes de desaparición al despliegue de dispositivos de memoria
El objetivo del presente artículo es dar cuenta del despliegue de procesos de antagonismo social detonados a partir de algunas de las dinámicas más recientes de territorialización del capital en la ciudad de Toluca, capital del Estado de México. Ello implica situarnos en coyunturas específicas que han proyectado a la ciudad hacia una forma específica, una ciudad global en un proceso de metropolización e interconexión con distintas regiones del pa…
Questioning the exceptionality of the exception: Annabel Castro's 'Outside in: exile at home' (2018) in Cuernavaca
Annabel Castro's art installation 'Outside in: exile at home' (2018) problematizes indefinite detention at the Hacienda de Temixco, in Morelos, Mexico, a facility which functioned as a concentration camp for Japanese immigrants and their descendants between 1942 and 1945. The Hacienda de Temixco, like other sites for indefinite detention of Japanese-descended people in the Americas, was contingent upon making detainees' lives intelligible for sec…
Liberation” as a political horizon amidst the coronavirus pandemic in the United States
Participants in diverging US-based protest waves during the coronavirus pandemic are invoking “liberation” as a political horizon. Especially visible are superficially libertarian protests against government “stay-at-home” orders, on the one hand, and, on the other, racial and economic justice organizing around uneven exposure to the deadly effects of the pandemic. Beginning in May 2020, the latter articulation of liberation was amplified by wide…
To see things in an objective light”: The Dakota Access Pipeline and the ongoing construction of settler colonial landscapes
This paper examines the discourses used by proponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) as claims of universality to which the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and allied activists mounted a movement of opposition in 2014–2017. We position our analysis within the historical context of Lakota and Dakota resistance to settler colonialism, which has endured since the nineteenth century. From publicly available texts circulated by key actors in the confl…
Politicizing disappearance after Mexico's "historic" election
An active role for political geography in our current conjuncture
Recent electoral victories of right-wing populist, ethno-nationalist, and authoritarian candidates or platforms provide Anglophone commentators with evidence of fundamental challenges to liberal international order, norms of multicultural ‘tolerance,’ and neoliberal modes of regulation. The apparent demise of liberal order is not only found in European and North American contexts (the victories of Brexit in the UK, Trump in the US, Orbán in Hunga…
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Medals and Awards celebration 2018
The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) annual Medals and Awards recognise achievements in researching, communicating and teaching a wide range of geographical knowledge. The speeches and citations are a record of the 2018 celebration, with contributions from Professors Wendy Larner, Mark Macklin, Yadvinder Malhi, Bhaskar Vira, and Paul Rose. The speeches include comments on: the importance of geography for solving the most pressing of societal…
Presidential Address and record of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) AGM 2018
In his third and final Address as President of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), Nicholas Crane located our "inner geographer". He argued that geography is with all of us from birth and should be fostered and celebrated through primary and secondary education. Noting that every major global issue is geographical at root, the President argued that redeployment of our inner geographer is key to encouraging …
The Anarchist Roots of Geography: Toward Spatial Emancipation
In 1882, conservative Parisian journalist Abert Delpit commented on the endorsing speech Élisée Reclus pronounced at the “free union” ceremony of his daughters Magali and Jeannie, who publicly celebrated the fact they went to live with two young men without any legal sanction from a mayor or a priest. Given that this event raised a huge scandal in French mainstream press, Delpit tried to explain the contradiction between the generalized praise of…
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Medals and Awards celebration 2017
The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) annual Medals and Awards recognise achievements in researching, communicating and teaching a wide range of geographical knowledge. The speeches and citations are a record of the 2017 celebration, with contributions by Sir Gordon Conway and Lindsey Hilsum, and Professors Andrew Cliff, David J A Evans and Henry Wai-chung Yeung. The speeches include comments on the importance of geography for mapping extreme…
Presidential Address and record of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) AGM 2017
In his second address as President of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), Nicholas Crane illustrated the role geography can play in a shared, popular narrative. He argued that we should consider devoting more attention to promoting accessible geographical narratives with their long-term emphases on people, places and environment, and less attention to historical narratives with their emphases on documented …
The great age of geography: Presidential Address and record of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) AGM 2016
In his first address as President of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), Nicholas Crane discussed how the themes of exploration, technology and education have influenced and inspired geographical thinking from the 1500s to the present day. The President also emphasised that geography - as a united discipline that reaches the wider population - makes, and can continue to make, important contributions to issu…
Addressing global challenges: Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Medals and Awards ceremony 2016
The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)'s annual Medals and Awards recognise achievements in researching, communicating and teaching a wide range of geographical knowledge. The speeches and citations are a record of the 2016 ceremony, with contributions by Bob Geldof KBE, and Professors Ron Martin, Parvati Raghuram, Jo Sharp and Michael Storper. The speeches include comments on the importance of geography for understanding and tackling global c…
Space, politics and aesthetics
Mustafa Dikec's new book, Space, Politics and Aesthetics, lends momentum to a now frequent accommodation of aesthetics in political–geographical analyses of spaces of politics. To date, the relevan
Politics squeezed through a police state: Policing and vinculación in post-1968 Mexico City
The down-deep delight of democracy
Embracing dissensus: Reflections on contemporary research strategies in cultural geography
This introductory essay situates this edited collection on “contemporary research strategies in cultural geography” in relation to relevant scholarly debates, e.g., around positionality in feminist geography, reflexivity in critical human geography, and world-making in cultural geography. We claim that, taken together, the essays in this collection represent an “embrace” of dissensus, which is to say they stage encounters between often-irreconcil…
A Movement Returning Home? Occupy Wall Street After the Evictions
This article investigates the possible geographies generated in Occupy Wall Street's emergence and subsequent evictions from multiple sites of occupation. As Occupy Wall Street (OWS) moves into other spaces, most notably the home, we counter the application of a priori analytics of traditional social movement studies, through which OWS would be seen as unified (with leaders, corresponding constituencies, and clearly crafted demands). Instead, we …
Young People, Place and Identity
Shorter notices
The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought. By John Block Friedman. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000. Original edition, 1981. ISBN 0 8156 2826 9. Pp. xiii, 308, illus. US $29.95 (paper). A Guide to English Illustrated Books, 1536–1603. By Ruth Samson Luborsky and Elizabeth Morley Ingram. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, vol. 166. Tempe: Arizona State University, 1998. ISBN 0 86698 207 8. Two volumes. Pp. (xxxii), (754), […
An active role for political geography in our current conjuncture
Recent electoral victories of right-wing populist, ethno-nationalist, and authoritarian candidates or platforms provide Anglophone commentators with evidence of fundamental challenges to liberal international order, norms of multicultural ‘tolerance,’ and neoliberal modes of regulation. The apparent demise of liberal order is not only found in European and North American contexts (the victories of Brexit in the UK, Trump in the US, Orbán in Hunga…
The Anarchist Roots of Geography: Toward Spatial Emancipation
In 1882, conservative Parisian journalist Abert Delpit commented on the endorsing speech Élisée Reclus pronounced at the “free union” ceremony of his daughters Magali and Jeannie, who publicly celebrated the fact they went to live with two young men without any legal sanction from a mayor or a priest. Given that this event raised a huge scandal in French mainstream press, Delpit tried to explain the contradiction between the generalized praise of…
To see things in an objective light”: The Dakota Access Pipeline and the ongoing construction of settler colonial landscapes
This paper examines the discourses used by proponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) as claims of universality to which the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and allied activists mounted a movement of opposition in 2014–2017. We position our analysis within the historical context of Lakota and Dakota resistance to settler colonialism, which has endured since the nineteenth century. From publicly available texts circulated by key actors in the confl…
Space, politics and aesthetics
Mustafa Dikec's new book, Space, Politics and Aesthetics, lends momentum to a now frequent accommodation of aesthetics in political–geographical analyses of spaces of politics. To date, the relevan
Politics squeezed through a police state: Policing and vinculación in post-1968 Mexico City
Politicizing disappearance after Mexico's "historic" election
The great age of geography: Presidential Address and record of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) AGM 2016
In his first address as President of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), Nicholas Crane discussed how the themes of exploration, technology and education have influenced and inspired geographical thinking from the 1500s to the present day. The President also emphasised that geography - as a united discipline that reaches the wider population - makes, and can continue to make, important contributions to issu…
The down-deep delight of democracy
A Movement Returning Home? Occupy Wall Street After the Evictions
This article investigates the possible geographies generated in Occupy Wall Street's emergence and subsequent evictions from multiple sites of occupation. As Occupy Wall Street (OWS) moves into other spaces, most notably the home, we counter the application of a priori analytics of traditional social movement studies, through which OWS would be seen as unified (with leaders, corresponding constituencies, and clearly crafted demands). Instead, we …
Antimonumentos and other aesthetic interventions amidst generalized violence: Seeds in the “political subsoil” of central Mexico
Mexico faces a situation of generalized violence, expressed in diverse forms of violence that facilitate and intensify the exploitation of productive and reproductive labor. The government of the “Fourth Transformation” (4T) has made insufficient efforts to deliver justice to sectors of Mexican society made most vulnerable by this situation. In this sense, the 4T does not represent a radical change in the situation of generalized violence that Me…
"Conceptualizando lugares de devastación ambiental, hacia una geografía política de "regiones de emergencia sanitaria y ambiental
El texto expuesto a continuación se divide en 3 partes. La primera busca dar cuenta de una discusión conceptual. Para ello hacemos un breve recorrido por cuatro conceptos. Creamos una conversación entre "zonas de sacrificio", "infiernos ambientales" y "Regiones de Emergencia Sanitaria y Ambiental" (resas), que actualmente en México se encuentran en tensión para denominar regionalmente la problemática ambiental, sus causas, efectos y posibles resp…
Elitización del espacio y materialización de la lucha en Toluca. De la escenificación de paisajes de desaparición al despliegue de dispositivos de memoria
El objetivo del presente artículo es dar cuenta del despliegue de procesos de antagonismo social detonados a partir de algunas de las dinámicas más recientes de territorialización del capital en la ciudad de Toluca, capital del Estado de México. Ello implica situarnos en coyunturas específicas que han proyectado a la ciudad hacia una forma específica, una ciudad global en un proceso de metropolización e interconexión con distintas regiones del pa…
Presidential Address and record of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) AGM 2017
In his second address as President of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), Nicholas Crane illustrated the role geography can play in a shared, popular narrative. He argued that we should consider devoting more attention to promoting accessible geographical narratives with their long-term emphases on people, places and environment, and less attention to historical narratives with their emphases on documented …
Shorter notices
The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought. By John Block Friedman. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000. Original edition, 1981. ISBN 0 8156 2826 9. Pp. xiii, 308, illus. US $29.95 (paper). A Guide to English Illustrated Books, 1536–1603. By Ruth Samson Luborsky and Elizabeth Morley Ingram. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, vol. 166. Tempe: Arizona State University, 1998. ISBN 0 86698 207 8. Two volumes. Pp. (xxxii), (754), […
Young People, Place and Identity
A Movement Returning Home? Occupy Wall Street After the Evictions
This article investigates the possible geographies generated in Occupy Wall Street's emergence and subsequent evictions from multiple sites of occupation. As Occupy Wall Street (OWS) moves into other spaces, most notably the home, we counter the application of a priori analytics of traditional social movement studies, through which OWS would be seen as unified (with leaders, corresponding constituencies, and clearly crafted demands). Instead, we …
Embracing dissensus: Reflections on contemporary research strategies in cultural geography
This introductory essay situates this edited collection on “contemporary research strategies in cultural geography” in relation to relevant scholarly debates, e.g., around positionality in feminist geography, reflexivity in critical human geography, and world-making in cultural geography. We claim that, taken together, the essays in this collection represent an “embrace” of dissensus, which is to say they stage encounters between often-irreconcil…
Space, politics and aesthetics
Mustafa Dikec's new book, Space, Politics and Aesthetics, lends momentum to a now frequent accommodation of aesthetics in political–geographical analyses of spaces of politics. To date, the relevan
Politics squeezed through a police state: Policing and vinculación in post-1968 Mexico City
The down-deep delight of democracy
The great age of geography: Presidential Address and record of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) AGM 2016
In his first address as President of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), Nicholas Crane discussed how the themes of exploration, technology and education have influenced and inspired geographical thinking from the 1500s to the present day. The President also emphasised that geography - as a united discipline that reaches the wider population - makes, and can continue to make, important contributions to issu…
Addressing global challenges: Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Medals and Awards ceremony 2016
The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)'s annual Medals and Awards recognise achievements in researching, communicating and teaching a wide range of geographical knowledge. The speeches and citations are a record of the 2016 ceremony, with contributions by Bob Geldof KBE, and Professors Ron Martin, Parvati Raghuram, Jo Sharp and Michael Storper. The speeches include comments on the importance of geography for understanding and tackling global c…
The Anarchist Roots of Geography: Toward Spatial Emancipation
In 1882, conservative Parisian journalist Abert Delpit commented on the endorsing speech Élisée Reclus pronounced at the “free union” ceremony of his daughters Magali and Jeannie, who publicly celebrated the fact they went to live with two young men without any legal sanction from a mayor or a priest. Given that this event raised a huge scandal in French mainstream press, Delpit tried to explain the contradiction between the generalized praise of…
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Medals and Awards celebration 2017
The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) annual Medals and Awards recognise achievements in researching, communicating and teaching a wide range of geographical knowledge. The speeches and citations are a record of the 2017 celebration, with contributions by Sir Gordon Conway and Lindsey Hilsum, and Professors Andrew Cliff, David J A Evans and Henry Wai-chung Yeung. The speeches include comments on the importance of geography for mapping extreme…
Presidential Address and record of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) AGM 2017
In his second address as President of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), Nicholas Crane illustrated the role geography can play in a shared, popular narrative. He argued that we should consider devoting more attention to promoting accessible geographical narratives with their long-term emphases on people, places and environment, and less attention to historical narratives with their emphases on documented …
An active role for political geography in our current conjuncture
Recent electoral victories of right-wing populist, ethno-nationalist, and authoritarian candidates or platforms provide Anglophone commentators with evidence of fundamental challenges to liberal international order, norms of multicultural ‘tolerance,’ and neoliberal modes of regulation. The apparent demise of liberal order is not only found in European and North American contexts (the victories of Brexit in the UK, Trump in the US, Orbán in Hunga…
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Medals and Awards celebration 2018
The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) annual Medals and Awards recognise achievements in researching, communicating and teaching a wide range of geographical knowledge. The speeches and citations are a record of the 2018 celebration, with contributions from Professors Wendy Larner, Mark Macklin, Yadvinder Malhi, Bhaskar Vira, and Paul Rose. The speeches include comments on: the importance of geography for solving the most pressing of societal…
Presidential Address and record of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) AGM 2018
In his third and final Address as President of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), Nicholas Crane located our "inner geographer". He argued that geography is with all of us from birth and should be fostered and celebrated through primary and secondary education. Noting that every major global issue is geographical at root, the President argued that redeployment of our inner geographer is key to encouraging …
To see things in an objective light”: The Dakota Access Pipeline and the ongoing construction of settler colonial landscapes
This paper examines the discourses used by proponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) as claims of universality to which the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and allied activists mounted a movement of opposition in 2014–2017. We position our analysis within the historical context of Lakota and Dakota resistance to settler colonialism, which has endured since the nineteenth century. From publicly available texts circulated by key actors in the confl…
Politicizing disappearance after Mexico's "historic" election
Liberation” as a political horizon amidst the coronavirus pandemic in the United States
Participants in diverging US-based protest waves during the coronavirus pandemic are invoking “liberation” as a political horizon. Especially visible are superficially libertarian protests against government “stay-at-home” orders, on the one hand, and, on the other, racial and economic justice organizing around uneven exposure to the deadly effects of the pandemic. Beginning in May 2020, the latter articulation of liberation was amplified by wide…
Questioning the exceptionality of the exception: Annabel Castro's 'Outside in: exile at home' (2018) in Cuernavaca
Annabel Castro's art installation 'Outside in: exile at home' (2018) problematizes indefinite detention at the Hacienda de Temixco, in Morelos, Mexico, a facility which functioned as a concentration camp for Japanese immigrants and their descendants between 1942 and 1945. The Hacienda de Temixco, like other sites for indefinite detention of Japanese-descended people in the Americas, was contingent upon making detainees' lives intelligible for sec…
Whose geography do we review
In the context of discipline‐wide efforts to produce more inclusive, just, and equitable norms of geographical knowledge production, section editors for Geography Compass identify five concrete practices by which to address systemic inequities, injustices, and exclusions through their editorial work
Elitización del espacio y materialización de la lucha en Toluca. De la escenificación de paisajes de desaparición al despliegue de dispositivos de memoria
El objetivo del presente artículo es dar cuenta del despliegue de procesos de antagonismo social detonados a partir de algunas de las dinámicas más recientes de territorialización del capital en la ciudad de Toluca, capital del Estado de México. Ello implica situarnos en coyunturas específicas que han proyectado a la ciudad hacia una forma específica, una ciudad global en un proceso de metropolización e interconexión con distintas regiones del pa…
"Conceptualizando lugares de devastación ambiental, hacia una geografía política de "regiones de emergencia sanitaria y ambiental
El texto expuesto a continuación se divide en 3 partes. La primera busca dar cuenta de una discusión conceptual. Para ello hacemos un breve recorrido por cuatro conceptos. Creamos una conversación entre "zonas de sacrificio", "infiernos ambientales" y "Regiones de Emergencia Sanitaria y Ambiental" (resas), que actualmente en México se encuentran en tensión para denominar regionalmente la problemática ambiental, sus causas, efectos y posibles resp…
Antimonumentos and other aesthetic interventions amidst generalized violence: Seeds in the “political subsoil” of central Mexico
Mexico faces a situation of generalized violence, expressed in diverse forms of violence that facilitate and intensify the exploitation of productive and reproductive labor. The government of the “Fourth Transformation” (4T) has made insufficient efforts to deliver justice to sectors of Mexican society made most vulnerable by this situation. In this sense, the 4T does not represent a radical change in the situation of generalized violence that Me…
Sociology (19 works) · Political science (16 works) · Law (12 works) · Geography (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Art (7 works) · History (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Archaeology (5 works)