Cultural Geography

Katharyne Mitchellis Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the

University of Washington. She has published extensively in the area of migration, urban

geography and transnational studies. Her co-edited book (with Gerard Toal and John

Agnew) A Companion Guide to Political Geography, is to be published in 2002. Mitchell’s

current work centres on the impact of transnational migration on conceptions of education,

with a particular focus on how children are educated to become citizens of a particular

nation-state.

Pamela Mossis Professor in the Studies in Policy and Practice Program at the University

of Victoria, Canada. Her research coalesces around themes of power and body emerging

from women’s experiences of changing environments – women with chronic illness,

women’s collective autobiographies, and organization of support services for women in

crisis. She edited Placing Autobiography in Geography(2001) and Feminist Geography

in Practice(2002). She is also active in feminist community politics around issues in

women’s housing.

Anoop Nayakis Lecturer in Social and Cultural Geography in the Department of Geography

at the University of Newcastle. He is the editor of Invisible Europeans(1993, with Les Back)

and has published papers on racialization and masculinity in Body and Society,Gender and

Education,International Journal of Sociology in Educationand many other journals.

Clare Newsteadis a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography at the University of

Washington. She is currently completing her dissertation on the political implications of

regional economic intergration in the Caribbean. In particular she is interested in the strug-

gles of regional social movements to negotiate a public political space at the supranational

level.

Anssi Paasiis Professor of Geography at the University of Oulu in Finland. He has writ-

ten numerous articles on the problems of region and territory building and the social and

cultural construction of boundaries and spatial identities. His recent books include

Territories, Boundaries and Consciousness: The Changing Geographies of the

Finnish–Russian Border(1996) and J.G. Granö: Pure Geography(editor, with Olavi

Granö, 1997).

Steve Pileis Senior Lecturer in Human Geography in the Faculty of Social Sciences,

The Open University. He is author of The Body and the City(1996) and has co-edited a

number of books, including City A–Z(2000, with Nigel Thrift) and Social Change(2002,

with Tim Jordan). He is currently researching a book on affect and city life.

Elspeth Probynis Associate Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at the

University of Sydney. Her publications include Carnal Appetites: FoodSexIdentity(2000),

Outside Belongings(1996),Sexy Bodies: The Strange Carnalities of Feminism(co-editor

with Elizabeth Grosz, 1995), and Sexing the Self: Gendered Positions in Cultural Studies

(1993). She is currently working on a book entitled Dis/connect: Bodies Affect Writing

about forms of writing and theories of affect.

Carolina K. Reidis a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of Washington. She

is interested in the interlinkages between welfare and urban housing policy in the United

States. Her dissertation focuses on the home ownership experiences of low-income and

immigrant families.

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