Nasya S Razavi Editor

Linda Peake, FRSC, is a professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York
University, Toronto, Canada where she was also Director of the City Institute (2013–2023). She is
PI on the SSHRC Partnership Grant, Urbanisation, gender and the global south: a transformative
knowledge network (GenUrb), a Trustee of the Urban Studies Foundation, and an Associate Editor on
the AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography. Her latest publications include the books
Urbanisation in a Global Context (2nd edition, edited with Alison Bain, 2022), A Feminist Urban
Theory for Our Time: Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban (edited with Elsa Koleth, Gökbörü
Tanyildiz, Raj Narayanareddy, and darren patrick, 2021), and the forthcoming Elgar Handbook on
Gender and Cities (edited with Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin and Anindita
Datta).

Nasya S. Razavi was a postdoctoral fellow with GenUrb (2019–2024) and is lead researcher on the Cochabamba City Research Team (CRT). She is currently the Latin America Program Manager at Inter Pares, a feminist social justice organisation based in Ottawa. Nasya completed her PhD at the Department of Geography and Planning at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, in 2019, which she has published with Routledge as Water Governance in Bolivia: Cochabamba since the Water War. Nasya adopts a feminist decolonial approach to her work in international development, gender, and environmental and social justice.

Araby Smyth was a postdoctoral fellow with GenUrb (2021–2024), researching place ecologies of fnance and debt. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at Mount Allison University. Her research has been funded by the Antipode Foundation,National Science Foundation (USA), and Society of Woman Geographers. She has published in geography journals such as Antipode, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. She is an editor on the Editorial Collective of the journal ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies.