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Jennifer Robinsonis Lecturer in Geography at the Open University. Her book The Power

of Apartheid(1996) explored the relations between space and power in the construction of

apartheid cities, and in the emergence of a post-apartheid urban form. More recently, her

work aims to develop a postcolonial critique of urban theory and urban development policy.

Other interests include feminist political theory. Jenny is also joint editor of Geoforum.

Joanne P. Sharpis Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Glasgow. Her

research interests are in political, cultural and feminist geography with a particular inter-

est in popular geopolitics. She recently published a monograph on the role of the media in

the construction of US political culture as Condensing the Cold War: Reader’s Digest and

American Identity(2000).

David Slateris Professor of Social and Political Geography at Loughborough University,

England. He is author of Territory and State Power in Latin America(1989), editor of

Social Movements and Political Change in Latin America(1994) and co-editor of The

American Century(1999). He is also an editor of Political Geography.

Don Slateris Reader in Sociology at the London School of Economics. His main research

concerns are consumption and consumer culture; the relation between culture and eco-

nomy; and ethnographies of new media. Recent publications include Consumer Culture

and Modernity(1997),The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach(with Daniel Miller,

2000) and Market Society: Markets and Modern Social Theory(with Fran Tonkiss, 2001).

Matthew Sparkeis an Associate Professor at the University of Washington. He is the

author of Hyphen-Nation-States: Critical Geographies of Displacement and Disjuncture

(forthcoming), and is currently working on a National Science Foundation CAREER

project to integrate his research on the transnationalization of civil society with a series of

educational outreach initiatives to schools in minority neighbourhoods of Seattle.

Ulf Strohmayeris Professor of Geography at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He

has studied and worked in his native Germany, Sweden, France, the United States and Wales

before moving to the west of Ireland. In addition to being a passionate geographer, he is inter-

ested in social philosophies and architecture. Combining all three interests, he is currently

finishing a book entitled Modernity and the Urban Geography of Paris, 1550–2000.

Sandra Suchet-Pearsonis a Lecturer in Human Geography, Macquarie University,

Sydney, Australia. She has worked closely with indigenous and local communities in

Australia, Canada and southern Africa. Her recent doctoral work considered the nature and

implications of indigenous involvement in wildlife management and involved fieldwork in

several areas.

Nigel Thriftis Professor in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of

Bristol. His main interests are in social and cultural theory (especially the development of

non-representational theories), the cultural impacts of science and technology, cultural

economy and the joys of performance. His most recent publications include Thinking

Space(2000, co-edited with Mike Crang),TimeSpace(2001, co-edited with Jon May) and

Cities(2002, with Ash Amin).

Adam Tickellis Professor of Human Geography at the University of Bristol and has

worked at Leeds, Manchester and Southampton. His main research interests lie in the

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