Cultural Geography

Meric S. Gertleris Professor of Geography, Goldring Chair in Canadian Studies and a

member of the Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto. He studies

industrial practices, institutions and cultures in North America and Europe. Among his

recent publications are The New Industrial Geography: Regions, Regulation and

Institutions (1999, with Trevor Barnes) and The Oxford Handbook of Economic

Geography(2000, with Gordon Clark and Maryann Feldman).

Nicky Gregsonis Reader in Geography at Sheffield University. She has research interests

in consumption and material culture and is the co-author of Second Hand Worlds(2002,

with Louise Crewe) and Servicing the Middle Classes(1994, with Michelle Lowe) and was

a member of the WGSG Feminist Geographiescollective (1997).

Francis Harveyis Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota and teaches

Geography and GIScience at the University of Minnesota. His recent work emphasizes the

political dimensions of local government bodies’ geographic information practices.

Working with grassroots groups, he is seeking ways to facilitate decision making processes

in communities that engender learning from diverse forms of knowledge while respecting

sensitive local knowledges. This work specifically addresses the political problems of

knowledge representation.

Steve Hinchliffeworks in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University, England.

He is co-editor of a number of texts including The Natural and the Social(2000),

Understanding Environmental Issues (2003) and Environmental Responses(2003). He has

published a range of papers on the place of nature in contemporary western society and is

currently working on a project entitled ‘Living Cities’.

Richard Howittteaches Human Geography at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

He works closely with indigenous peoples throughout Australia on issues of the social and

environmental impacts of mining, infrastructure projects and regional development. He is

currently working with native title claimants in South Australia on negotiations with the

state. In 1999, he was awarded the Australian Award for University Teaching (Social

Science).

Peter Jacksonis Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield. His

research focuses on the cultural politics of identity and the geographies of contemporary

consumption. Recent projects include studies of men’s ‘lifestyle’ magazines, domestic con-

sumption and transnational commodity cultures. Publications include Maps of Meaning

(reprinted 1992),Constructions of Race, Place and Nation(1993),Shopping, Place and

Identity(1998),Commercial Cultures(2000) and Making Sense of Men’s Magazines

(2001).

Jane M. Jacobsis a Lecturer with the Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh.

She has published widely in the area of cultural geography, especially in the cultural

politics of cities, contested heritage and postcolonial spaces. She is the author of Edge of

Empire(1996); co-author, with Ken Gelder, of Uncanny Australia(1988); and co-editor,

with Ruth Fincher, of Cities of Difference(1998).

John Paul Jones IIIis Professor of Geography and Co-director of the Committee on

Social Theory at the University of Kentucky. His theoretical research has examined

spatial epistemology, whiteness, objectivity, anti-essentialist identity theory, theories of

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