Contributors
- Contributors
Gavin M. Hilson received his Bachelor and Masters degrees from the University of Toronto, and his Ph.D. from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine. Dr. Hilson has published over thirty journal articles on the community and environmental impacts of mining, and is editor of The Socio-Economic Impacts of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Developing Countries, A.A Balkema Publications (A Division of the Taylor & Francis Group). He is currently carrying out research on the socioeconomic impacts of artisanal gold mining in West Africa.
Krista M. Johnson is an assistant professor of International Studies at DePaul University in Chicago. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University in 2002. She has published journal articles and book chapters on state/society relations in South Africa, human rights and racism in the media in South Africa, nationalist and post-nationalist politics in southern Africa, and neoliberalism and post-liberation ideologies in southern Africa. Her current research on the politics of AIDS policymaking in South Africa has been funded with a postdoctoral fellowship from the Ford Foundation.
ANN MAY is a social anthropologist who has conducted research in Tanzania since 1992. Her research has focused on the circumstances of rural-urban migrant youth known as wamachinga, the effects on Maasai culture for pastoralists engaged in tourism in northern Tanzania, and the recent large-scale migration of Maasai to cities for wage labor. The latter work led to further research on the links and risks between migration and HIV/AIDS. Dr. May works in the consultancy group, and coordinates the Civil Society and Grassroots Programme at Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA), a non-profit research organization in Dar es Salaam. She serves on the NGO Policy Forum's HIV/AIDS Public Expenditure Review Working Group.
J. Terrence McCabe is an Associate Professor in the Department Anthropology, and on the Professional Staff at the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His book Cattle Bring Us to Our Enemies: Turkana Ecology, History, and Raiding in a Disequilibrium System will be published in fall 2004 by the University of Michigan Press. He has been conducting research and publishing about East African pastoral peoples for more than 20 years, and was guest editor for the journal Human Organization in the summer of 2003. He has recently been funded by the National Science Foundation to conduct research on the impact of [End Page 149] land-use decisions among Maasai pastoralists on parks and protected areas in northern Tanzania.
Carolyn Martin Shaw is professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Michigan State University in 1975 and has done research in Kenya and Zimbabwe. Her book Colonial Inscriptions: Race, Sex, and Class in Kenya explores the intersections of ethnography, history, and literature. She has published works on Zimbabwe in the anthologies Feminism and Antiracism: International Struggles for Justice and Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis, and Poetics. Her current research includes the study of gender, civil society, and popular culture in Zimbabwe.
A. Graham Tipple is a chartered town planner and Reader in Housing Policy and Development, in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He received his PhD from Newcastle University in 1984. He is the author of Extending Themselves: User-initiated Transformation of Government-built Housing in Developing Countries (Liverpool University Press, 2000) and joint editor with Ken Willis of Housing the Poor in the Developing World: Methods of Analysis, Case Studies and Policy (Routledge, 1991). He has over 25 years experience in housing and urban development issues in developing countries at the national and regional (city) level, including consultancies with UN-Habitat, ILO, the European Union, and the World Bank.
