Cultural Geography

Daniel Claytonis Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of St Andrews, where

he teaches courses on the geographies of colonialism and postcolonialism. He is the author

of Islands of Truth: The Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island(2000), and is currently

working on a book entitled Colonialism’s Geographiesand a funded research project

entitled ‘Tropicality in decolonisation: Pierre Gourou and French Indochina, 1926–1972’.

Denis Cosgroveis currently Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Geography at the

University of California Los Angeles. His work focuses on the roles of vision and graphic

images in the western geographical imagination and he has published widely on these

issues. His books include Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape(1984; 1997),The

Palladian Landscape(1993),Mappings(1999) and Apollo’s Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy

of the Earth in the Western Imagination(2001).

Tim Cresswell teaches Social and Cultural Geography at the University of Wales,

Aberystwyth. He is the author of In Place/Out of Place: Geography, Ideology and

Transgression(1996) and The Tramp in America(2001). He is co-editor (with Ginette

Verstraete) of The Politics of Place(2002) and (with Deborah Dixon) Engaging Film

(2002). His current research focuses on the politics of mobility from the body to the globe.

Simon Dalbyis Professor of Geography and Political Economy at Carleton University in

Ottawa. His research interests include political ecology, critical geopolitics, sustainability

and environmental security. He is author of Creating the Second Cold War(1990) and

Environmental Security(2002). He is also co-editor of Rethinking Geopolitics(1998) and

The Geopolitics Reader(second edition, 2003).

Joyce Davidsonis currently conducting postdoctoral research on experience and mean-

ings of ‘biophobias’ at the Institute for Health Research, Lancaster University, UK. Her

previous work on agoraphobia has been published in journals such as Areaand Sociology

of Health and Illness, and she has contributed chapters to The Ethics of Placeand

Geographies of Women’s Health.

Mona Domoshis Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College. Her research lies at the

intersection of cultural, feminist and historical geography. She is the author of Invented

Cities: The Creation of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century New York and Boston(1996), and

the co-author of Putting Women in Place: Feminist Geographers Make Sense of the World

(1999), and The Human Mosaic: A Thematic Introduction to Cultural Geography (2001).

Isabel Dyckis Associate Professor in the School of Rehabilitation Sciences at the

University of British Columbia. Her research and teaching focus on geographies of dis-

ability, feminist analyses of body and identity, resettlement and healthcare access issues

for immigrant families, and qualitative methodology. Recent research explores the experi-

ences of women with chronic illness; family and femininity in the lives of immigrant moth-

ers and daughters; and the home as a site of long-term care.

Jody Emelis Associate Professor of Geography at Clark University. She teaches courses

in resource geography, water resource management and materialist ecofeminism. Her

research projects focus on the political economy of natural resource development and

social activism, and corporate responsibility in the animal cloning industry. She and

Jennifer Wolch are co-editors of Animal Geographies: Place, Politics and Identity in the

Nature–Culture Borderlands(1998).

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