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  • Contributors

Anthony Burke is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at UNSW, Sydney. His most recent books are Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence: War Against The Other (Routledge, 2007) and (co-edited with Matt McDonald) Critical Security in the Asia-Pacific (Manchester University Press, 2007). This essay forms part of an Australian Research Council funded project on the politics and ethics of the use of force.

Daniel Bertrand Monk is George R. and Myra T. Cooley Professor of Peace & Conflict Studies Colgate University (dmonk@mail.colgate.edu).

David Campbell is Professor of Cultural and Political Geography, Durham University (david.campbell@durham.ac.uk).

Martin Coward is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex. He is the author of ‘Against Anthropocentrism: The Destruction Of The Built Environment As A Distinct Form Of Political Violence’ in Review of International Studies, Vol.32 No.3, 2006, pp.419–437 and ‘Urbicide in Bosnia’ in Graham S, ed., Cities, War and Terrorism: Towards an Urban Geopolitics, Oxford: Blackwell, 2004, pp.154–171. His research focuses on the nexus of identity, violence and territory. Currently he is investigating the manner in which this nexus is exhibited in the contemporary relationship between the city and war. His email address is M.P.Coward@sussex.ac.uk

Deborah Cowen is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Military Workfare: The Soldier and Social Citizenship in Canada (forthcoming with the University of Toronto Press) and co-editor (with Emily Gilbert) of War, Citizenship, Territory (forthcoming with Routledge). Her email is deb.cowen@utoronto.ca

Caroline Croser is a PhD student at the University of Lancaster, where she is supervised by Professors Mick Dillon and John Law. She is the author of a number of essays on issues of US military force transformation. This essay forms part of her dissertation, due for submission in 2007. Her email is c.croser@lancaster.ac.uk.

Michael Dudley is a research associate and librarian with the Institute of Urban Studies at the University of Winnipeg, and teaches city history and environmental psychology at the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Architecture.

Steven Gerencser is Associate Professor of Political Science at Indiana University South Bend. He has published a monograph The Skeptic’s Oakeshott and other articles and reviews on Michael Oakeshott. Recently a scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society and the University of California, Berkeley, he currently studies the implications of the legal rights of corporations as persons for democratic theory and practice. He can be contacted at sgerencs@iusb.edu

Kanishka Goonewardena is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Director of the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. His research on marxism, urbanism and postcolonial theory has been published in books and journals such as Antipode, Planning Theory, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Radical History Review, New Formations, and the University of Toronto Quarterly. He is currently completing a monograph on critical theory and planning theory and, with Stefan Kipfer, Richard Milgrom, and Christian Schmid, an edited book on Henri Lefebvre entitled Space, Difference and Everyday Life (Routledge). His e-mail address is kanishka.goonewardena@rogers.com.

Stephen Graham is Professor of Human Geography, Durham University (s.d.n.graham@durham.ac.uk).

Stefano Harney is Reader in Strategy in the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary College in the University of London. His most recent book is Business World: The General Intellect at Work forthcoming from Routledge.

Andrew Herscher teaches at the University of Michigan in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Department of Art History. This essay is part of larger project on architecture and political violence in Kosovo. His email is herscher@umich.edu

Stefan Kipfer is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto. His research on urban social theory and comparative urban-regional politics has appeared in books and journals like Antipode, Society and Space, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, New Formations, and Studies in Political Economy. Together with Kanishka Goonewardena, Richard Milgrom, and...

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