Notes on Contributors
John Agnewis Professor and Chair in the Department of Geography at UCLA, Los
Angeles, USA. He is the author of Place and Politics(1987),Geopolitics: Re-visioning
World Politics(1998) and Place and Politics in Modern Italy(2002). He is the co-editor of
The Power of Place(1989),American Space/American Place(2002) and the Companion
to Political Geography(2002).Kay Andersonis Professor of Geography at Durham University where she teaches various
threads of cultural geography, including colonial cultures of nature, race and identity
politics. She has a long history of intellectual engagement with these issues in Australia
and Canada, signalled by her book Vancouver’s Chinatown(1991) and numerous other
publications, as well as the genealogy of the culture concept and the subdiscipline Cultural
Geographies(1999). She is also an editor of Progress in Human Geography.Trevor J. Barnesis Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, Canada, where he has been since 1983. He writes primarily on economic
geography, and most recently about its history. He is the author or editor of seven books
including Logics of Dislocation(1996), The New Industrial Geography(with Meric
Gertler, 1999) and A Companion to Economic Geography(with Eric Sheppard, 2000).Liz Bondiis Professor of Social Geography at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. She
is currently conducting research on voluntary sector counselling services in Scotland,
which develops out of her long-standing concern with gender dimensions of urban social
change. She has published extensively in feminist geography and is founding editor of
Gender, Place and Culture.Alastair Bonnettis Reader in Social Geography in the Department of Geography at the
University of Newcastle. He is the author of Anti-racism(2000),White Identities(2000)
and How to Argue(2001) and is currently researching the construction of the idea of ‘the
west’ within the Soviet Union.Michael Brownis Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Washington,
Seattle, USA. His interests include urban political and health geographies. His work has
considered issues of sexuality through research on AIDS politics, the spatial metaphor of
the closet and questions of care.Noel Castreeis Reader in Geography at Manchester University. Co-editor (with Bruce
Braun) of Remaking Reality(1998) and Social Nature(2001), his interests are in the political
economy of environmental change. His current research focuses on the ‘dematerialization’
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