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Anna Tsalapatanis Editor & Author

Anna Tsalapatanis is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford. She received her PhD in Sociology from the Australian National University and her research interests include citizenship as status, bureaucracy and identity.

Miranda Bruceis a PhD candidate in the School of Sociology at the Australian National University, writing on the 'Internet of Things: its history, discourse, logic, and implications for how we understand time, technology and the future'. She has published in the Australian Humanities Review and developed and convened advanced university courses.

David Bissell is an Associate Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne. He is author of Transit Life: How Commuting is Transforming our Cities (2018), and co-editor of Stillness in a Mobile World (2011) and the Routledge Handbook of Mobilities (2014).

Helen Keane is an Associate Professor in the School of Sociology at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. Her research focuses on drug and alcohol use, including pharmaceutical, recreational and illicit drugs (and the relationships between these categories and forms of use). She is the co-author of Habits: Remaking Addiction (2014) with Suzanne Fraser and David Moore.