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cultural and political economies of finance and the seemingly endless restructuring of the

state, and he is currently exploring the transformative capacities of neoliberalism.

Gerard Toal (Gearóid Ó Tuathail)is Director of the Masters of Public and International

Affairs at Virginia Tech. He is the author of Critical Geopolitics(1996) and a co-editor of

A Companion to Political Geography(2002) and The Geopolitics Reader(second edition,

2003) among other works. He is Associate Editor of the journal Geopolitics. His current

research interests are in the critical geopolitics of world risk society, and US foreign policy

towards the Balkans in the 1990s.

Michael Wattsis Chancellor’s Professor of Geography and Director of the Institute of

International Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught for over

20 years. He has published widely in development and geography and on Nigerian history

and politics. He is currently working on a book on oil and politics in Nigeria.

Sarah Whatmoreis Professor of Geography at the Open University. She has written

widely on the labours of division that mark nature off from society, particularly in relation

to the socio-material complications of agriculture and food, biodiversity and biotechnology.

Her most recent book on these issues is Hybrid Geographies(2002).

Chris Wilbertis Lecturer in Geography at Anglia Polytechnic University, England. He is

the co-editor (with Chris Philo) of Animal Spaces, Beastly Places: New Geographies of

Human–Animal Interactions. Other publications focus on non-human animals and agency,

leisure practices in virtual spaces, and environmental politics. He is also a member of the

Animal Studies Group in England, which promotes cultural and social studies of animals.

Jennifer Wolchis Professor of Geography at the University of Southern California, where

she co-directs the Sustainable Cities Program and conducts research on cultural diversity

and attitudes toward animals, and the impacts of urbanization and urban design on animal

life. With Jody Emel, she is co-editor of Animal Geographies: Place, Politics and Identity

in the Nature–Culture Borderlands(1998).

Brenda S.A. Yeohis Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the National

University of Singapore. She teaches social and historical geography and her research foci

include the politics of space in colonial and postcolonial cities, and gender, migration and

transnational communities. She has published a number of scholarly journal papers and

books in these areas, including Contesting Space: Power Relations and the Urban Built

Environment in Colonial Singapore(1996).

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