Cultural Geography

space and representation, and poststructuralist geography, among other topics. He also

writes widely on geographic methodology. He served as editor of the Annals of the

Association of American Geographersfrom 1997 to 2002.

Anthony D. King is Professor of Art History and of Sociology at the State University of

New York at Binghamton. He has recently published essays in Global Futures(edited by

J.N. Pietersee, 2000) and China and Postmodernism(edited by A. Dirlik and X. Zhang,

2000). With Tom Markus, he co-edits the Routledge ArchiTex tseries on architecture and

social/cultural theory, for which he is preparing Spaces of Global Cultures.

Larry Knoppis Professor and Head of Geography at the University of Minnesota, Duluth,

USA. His interests cross many of geography’s subfields but have tended to coalesce

around questions of power as they relate to the spatiality of sexuality, gender and class.

Audrey Kobayashi is Professor of Geography and Women’s Studies at Queen’s

University, Kingston, Ontario. Her research interests include human geography theories,

racism, gender, immigration, geography and law, and employment equity. She has

published widely on these themes in a range of journals and popular articles. She also

works as an anti-racist activist, and as a consultant in the areas of employment equity and

anti-racism.

Robyn Longhurst is Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Waikato,

Hamilton, New Zealand. She is author of Bodies: Exploring Fluid Boundaries(2001) and

a co-author of Pleasure Zones: Bodies, Cities, Spaces(2001). She is interested in feminist

cultural geography and is currently researching spatial aspects of body size.

Linda McDowellis Professor of Economic Geography at University College London. She

is the author of numerous papers and books about economic change, class and gender rela-

tions in the UK including Capital Culture(1997),Gender, Identity and Place(1999) and

Young Men Leaving School: White Working Class Masculinity(2001). She is currently

investigating the working lives of European migrant women in Britain in the late 1940s

and 1950s using oral histories.

Cheryl McEwanis Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Birmingham, UK.

She is the author of Gender, Geography and Empire(2000) and numerous articles that

draw on postcolonial and feminist theories in both contemporary and historical contexts.

She is also co-editor (with Alison Blunt) of Postcolonial Geographies(2002).

David Matless is Reader in Cultural Geography at the University of Nottingham. He is the

author of Landscape and Englishness(1998) and co-editor of The Place of Music (1998)

and Geographies of British Modernity(2003). His current research focuses on cultures of

nature in mid-twentieth-century England, relations of science and landscape, and the work

of ecologist and artist Marietta Pallis.

Don Mitchell is Professor in the Department of Geography at Syracuse University. He is

the author of The Lie of the Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape(1996)

and Cultural Geography: A Critical Introduction (2000). He is the Director of the People’s

Geography Project. His research focuses on labour, landscape, homelessness and public

space.

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