The SAGE Handbook of Social Geographies (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781412935593)

Susan J Smith was appointed to the Ogilvie Chair of Geography at the University of Edinburgh in 1990, and moved to the University of Durham in 2004. She is a social geographer whose work is concerned with all kinds of injustice and inequality. She has contributed to debates on citizenship and social policy, the problems of racism and gender inequality, the indignity of victimisation and fear of crime, and the intractable link between housing and health. She has published 8 books and more than 80 articles on these themes. Currently she is interested in the diverse moral economies caught between the neo-liberal performance of markets and an emergent ethics of care.

Rachel Pain began her career at the University of Northumbria and moved to the University of Durham in 2000, where she is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography. Her research interests include crime, community safety and fear; gender, old age, youth and intergenerationality; qualitative and participatory methods. Her research has been funded by a wide range of organisations and she has published widely in these areas.

Sallie A. Marston is Professor of Geography and Regional Development at the University of Arizona. Her research interests centre on socio-spatial theory and particularly on the construction of social difference, the state, and access to political resources in U.S. cities. She is an award-winning author of two undergraduate textbooks in human and world regional geography and has published 5 co-edited books and more than 60 articles on the themes of citizenship, urban politics, scale, and social reproduction. She is currently working on a book that explores the construction of legal frameworks that exclude lesbian, gays, bisexual and transgendered people from access to public space during national day celebrations.