Mustafa Dikec Editor & Author

Mustafa Dikec is Lecturer in Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research interests include space and politics, histories of space and time, and hospitality. His current research focuses on policies and geographies of asylum in Europe. He is the author of Badlands of the Republic: Space, Politics and Urban Policy (Blackwell, 2007). Nigel Clark is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at The Open University. His research focuses on the ethical and political implications of inhabiting a physically turbulent planet, and he has recently published articles on natural catastrophes, inter-species encounters, climate change, complexity and cosmopolitanism. He is the co-editor of Material Geographies (Sage, 2008). Clive Barnett is Reader in Human Geography at The Open University. He is author of Culture and Democracy (Edinburgh University Press, 2003), and co-editor of Spaces of Democracy (Sage, 2004) and Geographies of Globalisation (Sage, 2008).