Editorial Board
Managing Editor
Wendy Larner, University of Bristol, United Kingdom. w.larner@bristol.ac.uk
Website: http://www.ggy.bris.ac.uk/staff/staff_larner.html
Wendy's research aims to challenge conventional understandings of globalisation as an inevitable 'new reality' by showing that it is a contested and contradictory process in the making. Relatedly, she has a long standing research interest in theorising neo-liberalism and 'post-welfarist' governance. Her empirical projects include research on economic and social policies, industry restructuring, and community developmen.
Editor and Website Editor
Paul Chatterton, University of Leeds, UK p.chatterton@leeds.ac.uk
Website: http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/p.chatterton/
Paul’s recent work considers the possibilities and practicalities of autonomous politics. His work focuses on self-managed movements against neo-liberalism focusing on the Zapatista’s in Mexico, autonomous groups in Argentina, and radical social centres and housing collectives in Europe.
Editor and Book Reviews Editor
Vinay Gidwani, CUNY Graduate Center & University of Minnesota, USA, vgidwani@gc.cuny.edu
Website: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Ees/pages/current_faculty.asp
I am interested in capitalist transformations of agriculture and agroecologies, and their inter-connections with cities through labor and capital flows. In attempting to understand various spatial resolutions of the 'agrarian question' I foreground two areas of research: first, the cultural politics and geographies of work; second, the more-than-human constitution of social relations. I am presently working on urban and regional circuits of waste, and the labor processes that emerged around these, in the growth of metropolitan Delhi post-1930. My political economy approach builds on a range of intellectual currents, most prominently agrarian studies, economics, ecology, postcolonial criticism and various strands of Marxism, including Marxist geography.
Editor and Interventions Editor
Nik Heynen, University of Georgia, USA, nheynen@uga.edu
Website: http://www.ggy.uga.edu/directory/details.php?i=220&group
Nik's research utilizes a combined urban political ecology/urban political economy framework to investigate how economic, political and cultural processes contribute to the production of material inequality and uneven urban environments. His three main research foci relate to the analysis of how social power relationships, including class, race and gender are inscribed in the transformation of urban nature, and how in turn these processes contribute to interrelated and interdependent connections between nature, space and social reproduction.
Editor and Book Series Editor
Rachel Pain, University of Durham, UK, rachel.pain@durham.ac.uk
Website: http://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/research/researchclusters/?mode=staff&id=352
My research interests are in social geography, informed by feminist and participatory theory and practice: I work on fear, violence and community safety; emotions and geopolitics; the wellbeing and safekeeping of young refugees; gender, youth, old age and intergenerational relations; and participatory geographies, politics, theory and activism.
Amita Baviskar, India
Solomon Benjamin, India
Patrick Bond, School of Development Studies and Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Email: bondp@ukzn.ac.za
Website: http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs/default.asp?10,24,8,55
Patrick Bond is based at the University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Development Studies and Centre for Civil Society in Durban, South Africa. His work presently covers political ecology (especially energy, water and climate change), political economy and capitalist crisis, social mobilization, public policy and geopolitics. Patrick received his training in economic geography at Johns Hopkins.
Jenny Cameron, University of Newcastle, Australia
Email: jenny.cameron@newcastle.edu.au
Website: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/staff/profile/jenny.cameron.html
Jenny is interested in the ways people are taking back the economy, and developing ethical economic practices in response to concerns about economic and social inequalities and environmental degradation. Jenny's current work is with food-based community initiatives including community supported agriculture and community gardens. Her work is characterised by a participatory action research approach, and the production of resources that communicate to a wide audience. She is a member of the Community Economies Collective.
Sharad Chari, Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics, UK
Email: s.chari@lse.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/geographyAndEnvironment/whosWho/profiles/schari@lseacuk.aspx
Sharad works at the interface of human geography and historical anthropology, with interests in changing forms of social justice struggle and the possibility of a broadly intelligible 'narrative geography'. He has written on agrarian transition in one of India's main industrial districts as a product of shifting hegemonies and gendered class struggles, and is now writing on how people living next to oil refineries in Durban, South Africa, engage with various remains of a dialectical history of progress and segregation.
Julie Cupples, University of Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Email: julie.cupples@canterbury.ac.nz
Website: http://www.geog.canterbury.ac.nz/department/staff/juliec.shtml
Julie Cupples has a long-standing political and scholarly involvement working with civil society organizations in Central America. Her research deals primarily with the relationship between political culture and popular culture, focusing in particular on development/postdevelopment, media and new technologies, critical geopolitical imaginaries and the construction of cultural citizenship.
Bettina van Hoven, Netherlands.
Sara Koopman, University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada.
Email: sara.koopman@gmail.com
Website: http://decolonizingsolidarity.blogspot.com/
Sara is a critical collaborator in international solidarity movements, particularly those in North America who work for peace and justice alongside Latin American movements. Her focus is on colonial patterns in these relationships, and how activists with privilege might work to decolonize them. Her past work looked at these dynamics in the movement to close the U.S. Army’s School of the Americas and the World Social Forum. Her current work focuses on international protective accompaniment in Colombia and the paradoxes involved the way this tactic uses passport privilege to ‘make space for peace.’
Hille Koskela, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Email: hille.koskela@helsinki.fi
Website: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/hkoskela/
Hille’s research interests include fear of violence in cities, urban security politics, culture of fear, video surveillance and the politics of control, the emotional experience of being watched, and most recently, webcams as voluntary visual representations on the Internet.
Marcelo Lopes de Souza, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
Email: mlopesdesouza@terra.com.br
Website: http://www.geografia.ufrj.br/nuped
Marcelo is interested in spatial theory, social movements theory (focusing especially the spatial dimension of urban social movements dynamic), urban ‘utopias’/alternative visions, urban problems, and the ‘spatiality of libertarian thought’ (classical anarchism, neo-anarchism, autonomism). His research projects cover themes such as urban violence and the ‘militarisation of the urban question’ in different countries, potentialities and limits of ‘participative urban planning’, and the spatial practices of urban social movements in Brazil, Argentina and South Africa.
Peter North, University of Liverpool, UK.
Email: p.j.north@liverpool.ac.uk
Website: http://www.liv.ac.uk/geography/staff/north
Pete has a long standing interest in social movements, utopias and alternative economic experiments. He is the author of two books on alternative currency movements, focussing on radical financial experiments in the UK, New Zealand, Hungary and Argentina. His current research focuses on radical local economic development strategies as a response to climate change and peak oil, and on local climate change activism.
Mario Novelli, University of Sussex, United Kingdom.
Email: M.Novelli@sussex.ac.uk
I am interested in critical political economy approaches that explore the intersection between processes of globalisation and international development. I'm currently working on two areas. The first explores the new geopolitics of international development assistance and particularly the merging of security and development in the education sector and its implications. The second explores globalisation and labour movement strategies in the South, with a particular focus on how trade unions are learning to operate on a range of scales from the local to the global. I also have a strong interest in ethnographic research methods, Michael Burawoy's extended case method and different forms of politically engaged research.
Katherine McKittrick, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.
Email: k.mckittrick@queensu.ca
Website: http://www.queensu.ca/genderstudies/facultyresearch/kmckittrick.html
Katherine researches in the areas of Black Studies, Critical Race Theory, Cultural Geographies and Migratory Histories. Her work focuses on the links between black creative texts (music, poetry, fiction, film, and visual art) and social justice, with specific emphasis on the ways in which black communities have envisioned geography and produced their surroundings within the contexts of racial violence. Katherine authored Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle and co-edited Black Geographies and the Politics of Place. Other interests and projects include researching black intellectual histories and scientific technologies of racial emancipation.
David Naguib Pellow, University of Minnesota, USA.
Email: dpellow@umn.edu
Website: http://www.soc.umn.edu/people/pellow_d.html
David has three substantive research interests: environmental justice studies, race and ethnic studies, and social movement theory. Most of his research focuses on the intersections of social inequalities and environmental politics in communities of color and among aggrieved and/or despised social groups.
Jenny Pickerill, OUniversity of Leicester, UK.
Email: j.pickerill@le.ac.uk
Jenny Pickerill is interested in how collective action, participation, spaces for dialogue, autonomy and anarchism can create pathways towards environmental and social justice. In particular she has written about the use of internet technologies for (environmental and anti-war) campaigning, Indigenous politics in Australia, and autonomous geographies through the case example of eco-building projects across Britain.
Mary Roche, University of Southern California, USA.
Email: mproche@ireland.com
Nathan Sayre, Department of Geography, University of California-Berkeley, USA.
Email: nsayre@berkeley.edu
Website: http://geography.berkeley.edu/people/person_detail.php?person=18
Nathan Sayre works at the interface of political economy, ecology and history, exploring the relations between capital, the state, and biophysical environments from the industrial revolution to the present. He focuses on arid and semiarid rangelands, especially in the southwestern USA, combining ethnographic, historical, and ecological methods. Additional research interests include urbanization, climate change, and scale. Nathan was trained as a social anthropologist at the University of Chicago, did postdoctoral research with the US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, and is presently an affiliated researcher with the Jornada Experimental Range Long-Term Ecological Research site in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Tatiana Schor, Geography Department, Federal University of Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil.
Email: tschor@ufam.edu.br
In recent years I have been curious about urbanization in the Brazilian Amazon, so I have focused my empirical and theoretical work trying to understand the urban dynamics in the western section of the Amazon basin, looking at the impacts of urbanization-modernization in small cities; questioning the impacts and consequences to local-urban populations of economic-development programs, of scientific research agendas on climate change and biodiversity conservation and consequent changes in alimentary habits. I have also focused much of my work in increasing critical capabilities under-graduate geography students in the region, introducing them into critical empirical and theoretical research.
Nik Theodore, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.
Email: theodore@uic.edu
Oren Yiftachel, Israel.
Wendy Wolford, Development Sociology, Cornell University.
Email: www43@cornell.edu
Website: http://devsoc.cals.cornell.edu/cals/devsoc/people/faculty.cfm?netId=www43
Wendy's interests include: the political economy of state power and development; agrarian studies; social movements; political ecology; land tenure; and social and economic geography.
Fulong Wu, Cardiff University, UK.
Email: WuF@cardiff.ac.uk
Fulong has the following research interests: China's marketization and 'neoliberal' urban transformation; urban poverty in China; housing and land development, urban and regional governance with reference to 'entrepreneurialism' and critiques in China.
Kevin Ward, University of Manchester, UK.
Email: kevin.ward@manchester.ac.uk
Website: http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/geography/staff/ward_kevin.htm
Kevin has four substantive research interests (i) policy transfer and the assembling of urban politics; (ii) state restructuring and urban and regional political economy; (iii) the changing nature and regulation of work and employment and (iv) the urban and regional politics of economic development and social reproduction.
