The Editors

Roger Lee is Emeritus Professor of Geography at Queen Mary University of London, UK. He is an economic geographer interested in the connections and apparent contradictions between the presumed hard logics of economy and their socio-cultural formation and practice, and in the possibilities for progressive change that might ensue from the latter.

Noel Castree is a Professor of Geography at Manchester University, UK. His main research interest is in the political economy of environmental change, and the role that representations of nature and its collateral concepts play in modern life. He’s the author of making Sense of Nature (Routledge, 2013) and Nature (Routledge, 2004), and co-editor of Social Nature: Theory, practice, and politics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2001) and Remaking Reality: Nature at the millennium (Routledge, 1998).

Rob Kitchin is Director of the National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He has published widely across the social sciences, including 22 books and over 130 articles and book chapters. He is Editor of Dialogues in Human Geography and was the Co-editor-in-Chief of the 12-volume, International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Elsevier, 2009).

Victoria Lawson is Professor of Geography and former chair at the University of Washington Geography Department. Her work engages with feminist care ethics, relational poverty studies and comparative qualitative methodologies. She served as North American Editor for Progress in Human Geography (2008–2012) and is an editorial board member of Economic Geography.

Anssi Paasi is Professor of Geography at the University of Oulu, Finland. He has published widely on the socio-cultural construction of political borders, spatial identities, new regional geography and on region-/territory-building processes. His books include Territories, Boundaries and Consciousness (Wiley, 1996).

Chris Philo was a Lecturer at the University of Wales, Lampeter, before becoming, in 1995, Professor of Geography at the University of Glasgow, UK. He specialises in the history and theory of geographical thought, as well as the historical and social geographies of ‘madness’, ‘outsiders’ of all kinds and human–animal relations.

Sarah A. Radcliffe is Professor of Latin American Geography at the University of Cambridge, UK. She has interests in development geography, gender and geography, and postcolonial approaches. She has published widely on these themes in English and Spanish, including Indigenous Development in the Andes: culture, power and transnationalism (Duke University Press, 2009, co-author).

Susan M. Roberts is Professor of Geography and member of the Committee on Social Theory at the University of Kentucky, USA. Her interests include political and economic geography, and the political economy of inequality and development.

[Page xxiv]Charles W.J. Withers is Ogilvie Chair of Geography and Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He has research interests in the historical geographies of science, and in the history of cartography.

The Authors

Louise Amoore is a Professor of Geography at Durham University UK. She researches and teaches in the areas of global geopolitics, security and political theory. She has particular interests in how contemporary forms of data, analytics and risk management are changing the techniques of border control and security. Her book, The Politics of Possibility: Risk and security beyond probability (2013) is published by Duke University Press.

Anna Barford is a Research Associate working on infectious diseases amongst forcedmigrants. Anna works in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge and at Homerton College. She previously worked on the Worldmapper project, making UN data sets more publicly accessible. Anna’s PhD focused on attitudes towards world socio-economic inequality.

Trevor J. Barnes is a Professor and Distinguished University Scholar at the Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Canada. His research is in economic geography and the history of human geography, particularly from the Second World War. With Jamie Peck and Eric Sheppard, he edited The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography (2012).

Jean-François Bissonnette is Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine, King’s College, London. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Ottawa, Canada, in 2012. He specializes in political thought and social theory. His thesis deals with the genealogy of vulnerability conceived as a defining trait of modern subjectivity and as a major feature of the political rationality of liberalism.

Alastair Bonnett is Professor of Social Geography in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, UK. His most recent book is Left in the Past: Radicalism and the politics of nostalgia (Continuum, New York).

Meghan Brooks completed a BAH at Carleton University Ottawa, Canada, and a MA at Queen’s University, Ontano, Canada. She recently completed doctoral research at Queen’s University. Meghan’s research interests lie within the fields of social, cultural and political geography and cover a range of topics including racism and anti-racism, institutional geographies, geopolitics, and equity and human rights.

Daniel Clayton is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of St Andrews, UK. He has written widely on the relations between geography and empire, and the history of geography.

Meghan Cope is Professor of Geography at the University of Vermont, USA. She is an urban geographer with a focus on social/spatial processes of marginalisation. Her most recent project looks at teen mobility and access in suburban landscapes. She uses ethnography, participatory research and qualitative GIS to learn about the geographic meanings and processes that matter to diverse social groups.

[Page xxv]Tim Cresswell is Professor of History and International Affairs at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. He is the author or editor of nine books including Geographic Thought: A critical introduction (2013) and On the Move: Mobility in the modern Western world (2006).

Robyn Dowling is Associate Professor of Geography at Macquarie University, Australia. She is an urban cultural geographer with a particular focus on the geographies of everyday life. Her research has examined the links between gendered identities and suburban spaces, including cars. She is currently exploring the way identities support and challenge sustainable transitions.

Sarah Elwood is Professor of Geography at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. Her recent research has bridged critical GIS/geoweb studies, urban political geography, qualitative methods and participatory action research.

Juliet J. Fall is an Anglo/Swiss political and environmental geographer working on spaces and politics of knowledge production, and on the history of geography in anglophone and francophone contexts. She is a Full Professor at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

David Featherstone is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow, UK. He is the author of Resistance, Space and Political Identities: The making of counter-global networks and Solidarity: Hidden histories and geographies of internationalism and co-editor (with Joe Painter) of Spatial Politics: Essays for Doreen Massey.

Elspeth Graham is Professor of Geography at the University of St Andrews, UK, and Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Population Change. Her research focuses on population and health in the United Kingdom, Europe and South-East Asia and also includes work on theory and methods in the social sciences.

Mia Gray is an economic Geographer at Cambridge University, UK, and a Fellow at Girton College. She explores the changing political economy of work and labour markets. This includes the organisation and regulation of labour and the social and organisational dynamics of work.

Beth Greenhough is Senior Lecturer in Geography at Queen Mary University of London, UK. Her work draws on a combination of political–economic geography, cultural geography and science studies to explore the social implications of scientific innovations in the areas of health, biomedicine and the environment.

Jennifer Hill is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. A National Teaching Fellow, Jenny’s pedagogic research interests focus on enhancing the student voice and student empowerment, effective integration of technology into the student learning experience and the transition between school and university geographies.

Audrey Kobayashi is a Professor and Queen’s Research Chair in the Department of Geography, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada. She has published extensively in the field of geography and human rights, including issues of racism, migration, employment equity and the history of geography.

Eric Laurier is Senior Lecturer in Geography and Interaction at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Across a range of projects, from cafés to film production, he has utilised video recordings to provide access to the methodical ways that members of particular settings accomplish their actions with the resources they have at hand.

[Page xxvi]Sarah de Leeuw lives in northern British Columbia where she is an Associate Professor with UNBC’s Northern Medical Program, the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Northern British Columbia Prince George, Canada. She is an award-winning poet and currently holds a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) Partnered Scholar’s Award, which funds her research in the areas of health inequalities, colonial geographies, and the medical humanities.

Jacques Lévy is a Geographer and Professor at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. He is the Head of Chôros Laboratory and a Co-director of the EspacesTemps.net online journal of social sciences. His major concerns are political spaces, urbanity, globalisation, cartography and social theory.

Nathaniel Lewis is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham, UK. He previously completed his PhD in social and health geography at Queen’s University, as well as a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. His work, which focuses on the health, migration patterns and livelihoods of gay men and other sexual minorities, can be found in journals such as Health & Place, Gender, Place & Culture, Social & Cultural Geography and Annals of the Association of American Geographers.

Avril Maddrell is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. She is a social and cultural geographer with research interests in gender; the spaces and practices of death, remembrance and pilgrimage; charity shops as social spaces; the histories and epistemologies of geographical knowledge and practice, including educational policy and pedagogy. She is an editor of the journal Gender, Place & Culture and author of Complex Locations: Women’s geographical work in the UK 1850-1970 (RGS/Wiley-Blackwell, 2009); Deathscapes: Spaces for death, dying, mourning and remembrance (Ashgate, 2010, with James Sidaway); and joint editor of Memory, Mourning, Landscape (Rodopi, 2010).

Cheryl McGeachan is a University teacher in the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK. Her research interests concern historical and cultural geographies of mental ill health and asylum spaces, history of psychiatry, biography and psychotherapeutic practices. Methodologically, she is interested in investigating the practices of the ‘archive’ and using visual methods to capture situated memories.

Katharine McKinnon is Senior Lecturer in Geography at Macquarie University, Australia. She is a social geographer whose research interests coalesce around themes of subjectivity and social transformation. Her ethnographic work has focused on community development practice, gender, indigeneity and, most recently, the transformative moment of birth.

Katharyne Mitchell is Professor of Geography at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. Her research focuses on the socio-cultural effects of migration and capital flows on urban areas and institutions. She has authored or co-edited five books, including Crossing the Neoliberal Line: Pacific Rim migration and the metropolis.

Andrea J. Nightingale works in the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her academic interests include socio-natures, critical development studies, feminist theory, and the methodological challenges of mixing methods across the social and natural sciences.

[Page xxvii]Catherine Nolin is an Associate Professor of Geography and the Graduate Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia. Catherine’s research and graduate supervision focuses on issues of human rights, social justice and critical development studies in Guatemala, Andean Peru, and British Columbia, Canada.

Elizabeth Olson is Associate Professor of Geography and Global Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Newyork, USA. In addition to her work on ethics, her research employs participatory visual methods, ethnography and oral history to explore dynamics related to religion, inequalities and youth subjectivities.

Marianna Pavlovskaya is an Associate Professor of Geography at Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA. She gained her PhD from Clark University in 1998 and her research focuses on urban geography, feminist geography, post-socialism and critical perspectives on geospatial technologies.

Chris Philo was a Lecturer at the University of Wales, Lampeter, before becoming, in 1995, Professor of Geography at the University of Glasgow, UK. He specialises in the history and theory of geographical thought, as well as the historical and social geographies of ‘madness’, ‘outsiders’ of all kinds and human–animal relations.

Patricia L. Price is a Professor of Geography at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, USA. She identifies primarily as a cultural geographer. Her research interests encompass critical geographies of race and ethnicity, Latinos/as in the United States, borders and immigration. She is currently researching Cuban exile landscapes in Miami.

Rachel Silvey is Assistant Professor of Geography in the University of Toronto, Canada. Her research interests include migration, feminist theory, critical development studies and the politics of transnationalism and Indonesia. She is co-editor of Beyond States and Markets: The challenges of social reproduction (Routledge, 2008).

Matthew Sparke is a Professor of Geography and International Studies, and Director of Integrated Social Sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. He is the author of Introducing Globalization: Ties, tensions and uneven integration (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), and In the Space of Theory: Postfoundational geographies of the nation-state (University of Minnesota Press, 2005).

Kevin St. Martin works in the Department of Geography at Rutgers University, USA His research concerns the development and institutionalisation of economic and environmental discourse. His current work examines the regulation and remapping of the marine environment and its relationship to the sustainability of community economies and local environments.

Cheryl Sutherland completed her MA at Queen’s University, Ontana, Canada, where she is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography. Her research interests include: social geographies of race and gender; geographies of social justice, citizenship and human rights; place and the construction of community; emotional geographies; activist geographies; and smaller city geographies. She is particularly interested in the ways in which racialized women experience smaller Canadian cities and her PhD research explores how racialized women negotiate and contest their identity(ies) within this geographic location.

[Page xxviii]Johanna Waters is a University Lecturer in Human Geography in both the Department for Continuing Education and the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK. Previously she worked at the universities of Birmingham and Liverpool. She researches aspects of transnational migration and education.

Katie Willis is Professor of Human Geography and Director of the Politics, Development and Sustainability Group at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Her publications include Theories and Practices of Development (Routledge, 2011) and Geographies of Developing Areas (with Glyn Williams and Paula Meth, Routledge, 2014).

Jane Wills is Professor of Human Geography at Queen Mary University of London, UK. She works on geo-political-economy with particular interests in low-waged work, the living wage and community organising.

Matthew W. Wilson is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Kentucky, USA, and Visiting Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Design and Visiting Scholar, Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. His research examines the social and political implications of geographic technologies.

Jamie Winders is Associate Professor of Geography at Syracuse University, USA. She is the author of Nashville in the New Millennium (Russell Sage, 2013) and co-editor of The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Cultural Geography (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013). Much of her research focuses on international migration, race and social belonging, especially in cities.

Sarah Wright is a Senior Lecturer in geography and convenor of the Program in Development Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is a scholar, practitioner and activist with particular interest in geographies of food and intellectual property and working with Yolŋu co-researchers to explore the implications of indigenous ontologies for development.