Notes on Contributors

Paul C. Adams is professor of geography at University of Texas at Austin. His visiting appointments have included associate professor II at the University of Bergen (2015-2020), and Ander Visiting Professor in Global Media Studies, Karlstad University (2016-2017). He has also held Fulbright Fellowships to University of Bergen (2010), and McGill University and University of Montreal (2001). His books include Geographies of Media and Communication (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) and Disentangling: The Geographies of Digital Disconnection (Oxford University Press, 2021, with André Jansson). He is founder of the Media and Communication Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers and currently serves as the Human Geography Editor for Annals of the American Association of Geographers. His research interests lie in communication processes as revealed through various geographical frameworks.

John Agnew is Distinguished Professor of Geography and Italian at UCLA. He was a co-editor of two previous editions of this Companion. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a former president of the American Association of Geographers and the Regional Studies Association. In 2019 he received the Vautrin Lud Prize in Geography. His most recent book is Hidden Geopolitics: Governance in a Globalized World (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022).

Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary is a full professor at Grenoble-Alpes University and honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France. A political geographer dedicated to border studies, her research questions the interrelations between art and culture in and about contested places. She is a founding member of the antiAtlas of borders collective (http://www.antiatlas.net/en/), an art-science project.

Joshua Barkan is an associate professor of geography at the University of Georgia, where he studies the role of law in shaping geographical political economy. His first book, Corporate Sovereignty: Law and Government under Capitalism (University of Minnesota Press, 2013), examined corporations as political institutions. His current research explores the long history of concession agreements in the transformation of political space.

Silvia Binenti is a PhD student in the Department of Geography at University College London and a teaching assistant at Ghent University. Her research combines geographical and anthropological insights to look at the geopolitics of everyday objects. Her current research focuses on political T-shirts in Italy.

Fabien Cante is lecturer in urban and development geography at University College London. His ethnographic research in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, examines the politics of peace-building from the perspective of everyday life, urban atmospheres, and the media infrastructures that shape them. He writes and teaches across geography, anthropology, and cultural studies, centering the Black Atlantic as a comparative frame and space of critical theory.

Amaël Cattaruzza is a professor at the Institut Français de Géopolitique, Université Vincennes-Saint-Denis Paris 8. He studies contemporary conflictuality from various perspectives (including borders and conflicts, postconflict, military geography) and is currently particularly interested in the geopolitics of digital space as part of the GEODE (Geopolitics of the Datasphere) research group and the IFGLab laboratory. From 2020 to 2024, he was President of the French Geography Committee.

Karen Culcasi is associate professor of geography at West Virginia University. Her recent book, Displacing Territory: Syrian and Palestinian Refugees in Jordan (University of Chicago Press, 2023), won the 2023 Meridian Book Prize for Outstanding Scholarship. She is currently working on a project on anti-Muslim discrimination in rural West Virginia. She teaches courses on Political Geography, Geographies of the "Middle East" (though she prefers the term "Southwest Asia and North Africa"), Digital Cartography, Geopolitical Theories, and Geographic Thought.

Cristina Del Biaggio, affiliated to the Pacte research center, is assistant professor in geography at the Université Grenoble Alpes. She analyzes the geographical, political, and social dimensions of migration. Her research currently focuses on the conditions under which migrants cross the Alpine borders. Adopting a forensic architecture approach, she co-investigated on the death of a migrant woman at the French-Italian border. She is co-leading a project aiming at building a unified database of deaths at Europe's external and internal borders.

Jason Dittmer is professor of political geography at University College London. His research focuses on the everyday dimensions of geopolitics, from popular culture to diplomacy. His current research focuses on heritage in Gibraltar.

Patricia Ehrkamp is Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky. Her research examines contemporary processes of refugee geopolitics, trauma, immigration, citizenship, and democracy in the United States and Europe.

Hilary Faxon is an assistant professor of environmental social science at the W.A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation at the University of Montana. Her research interests include struggles for land and democracy in Myanmar and environment, development, and technology in Southeast Asia.

Md Azmeary Ferdoush is lecturer in geography and environment at Loughborough University. He is the author of Sovereign Atonement: Citizenship, Territory and the State at the Bangladesh-India Border (Cambridge University Press, 2024) and co-editor of Borders and Mobility in South Asia and Beyond (Amsterdam University Press, 2018). He was named Stanley D. Brunn Early Career Scholar by the Political Geography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers in 2023.

Jennifer L. Fluri is a professor of geography at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is a feminist political geographer whose research has focused on gender, geopolitics, and economic development in Afghanistan during the nearly 20-year US occupation. With the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, her research transitioned to an examination of the gendered experiences of Afghan evacuees, refugees, and asylum seekers in the United States and Canada, and the continuation of women-led enterprises in Afghanistan. She has authored over 40 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, is co-author of three books, and has co-edited two books. She is the co-founder and co-director of the Housing Research and Education Center, which works to inform political policy, amplify community voices, support agencies working on housing access and affordability, and build relationships with community stakeholders and residents to strengthen housing access for all.

Benjamin Forest is an associate professor of geography at McGill University and is affiliated with the Department of Political Science, Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship, and McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. He received his PhD from UCLA in 1997 and taught at Dartmouth College from 1998 to 2006. His current research examines redistricting and political community, the political representation of ethnic minority groups and women, the politics of memory and identity, and various issues of governance.

Coleen Fox is a senior lecturer in the Geography Department at Dartmouth College. Her research examines transnational environmental governance, the political ecology of river restoration, and conservation politics.

Po-Yi Hung is a professor of geography at National Taiwan University. He uses food, agriculture, and fisheries as lenses to look into border and territoriality, mobility and infrastructure, nature and society. He has conducted research in Taiwan, China, the Highlands of Southeast Asia, and Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. He is the author of Tea Production, Land Use Politics, and Ethnic Minorities: Struggling over Dilemmas in China's Southwest Frontier (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

Alex Jeffrey is professor of political and legal geography at the University of Cambridge. His latest is book is The Edge of Law: Legal Geographies of a War Crimes Court (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Shaun Johnson is a PhD student in geography at the University of Kansas. He earned his BS in Geography and Political Science from Illinois State University and his MA in Geography from the University of Kansas. His research interests include electoral and political geographies and the study of digital networks of care.

Andrew E.G. Jonas is professor of human geography at the University of Hull. His PhD is from The Ohio State University under the supervision of Kevin R. Cox. His co-authored and edited books include The Urban Growth Machine: Critical Perspectives Two Decades Later (SUNY Press, 1999), Interrogating Alterity (Ashgate, 2010), Territory, State and Urban Politics (Ashgate, 2012), Urban Geography: A Critical Introduction (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015), Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics (Routledge, 2018), and Handbook on Changing Geographies of the State (Edward Elgar, 2020).

Halie Kampman is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Geography at the Pennsylvania State University....