Sallie A. Marston is Professor of Geography at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Her work focuses on space, difference and politics. She is the author of numerous articles on urban space and political questions of gender, ethnicity, race and sexuality published in, among others, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Progress in Human Geography, Society and Space, Political Geography, Urban Geography. She is on the editorial board of several journals and the author of two textbooks Places and Regions in Global Context: Human Geography and World Regions in Global Context: Peoples, Places, and Environments. She is co-editor of Making Worlds: Gender, Metaphor, Materiality with Susan Aiken, Ann Brigham and Penny Waterstone. She is currently working on a monograph that explores identity politics and new state practices around the spaces of discourse and representation entitled Acting Out in Public: The St. Patrick's Day Parade and Struggles over the Production of Meaning and Identity in the Streets of New York.
Cindi Katz is Professor of Geography in Environmental Psychology and Women's Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her work concerns social reproduction and the production of space, place and nature; children and the environment, and the consequences of global economic restructuring for everyday life. She has published widely on these themes as well as on social theory and the politics of knowledge in edited collections and in journals such as Society and Space, Social Text, Signs, Feminist Studies, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Social Justice, and Antipode. She is the editor (with Janice Monk) of Full Circles: Geographies of Gender over the Life Course (Routledge 1993) and recently completed Disintegrating Developments: Global Economic Restructuring and Children's Everyday Lives forthcoming in 2004 (University of Minnesota Press). She is currently working on a project called Retheorizing Childhood and another on the Social Wage.
Notes on Contributors | |
LifeâÇÖs Work: An Introductionm Review and Critique | |
Education and the Making of the Modern (Trans)national Subject | |
Imagined Country: National Environmental Ideologies in School Geography Textbooks | |
Indigenous Professionalization: Transnational Social Reproduction in the Andes | |
Producing the Future: Getting To Be British | |
Domesticity and Other Homely Spaces of Modernity | |
Domesticating Birth in the Hospital: âÇ£FamilyâÇôCenteredâÇ Birth and the Emergence of âÇ£HomelikeâÇ Birthing Rooms | |
Adolescent Latina Bodyspaces: Making Homegirls, Homebodies and Homeplaces | |
Of Fictional Cities and âÇ£DiasporicâÇ Aesthetics | |
Modern Migrants/Flexible Citizens: Cultural Constructions of Belonging and Alienation | |
Valuing Childcare: Troubles in Suburbia | |
Toque una Ranchera, Por Favor | |
Human Smuggling, the Transnational Imaginary, and Everyday Geographies of the NationâÇôState | |
Index | |
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