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Deborah Stevenson Author & Editor

Deborah Stevenson is Research Professor at the Institute of Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney. She has published extensively on cities and urban cultures – with a particular emphasis on urban cultural policy and place and identity – and her work has been translated into several languages, including Chinese. Amie Matthews is a lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Western Sydney. Amie has conducted extensive research into the backpacking culture, focusing in particular on travel as a contemporary rite of passage, youth travel and cosmopolitanism, and the tourist imaginary.