CONTRIBUTORS

MICHELLE DAIGLE is Assistant Professor of Geography and Indigenous Studies at the University of Toronto. She is Mushkegowuk (Cree), a member of Constance Lake First Nation in Treaty 9, and of French ancestry. Broadly, her research examines colonial capitalist dispossession and violence on Indigenous lands and bodies, as well as Indigenous practices of resurgence and freedom. Her current research project examines the relational and embodied impacts of state-sanctioned environmental violence reproduced through mining extraction in Treaty 9.

SARAH ELWOOD is Professor of Geography at the University of Washington and cofounder of the Relational Poverty Network with Victoria Lawson. She teaches GIS and digital geographies. Her research contributes to relational poverty studies, critical GIScience and digital geographies, visual politics and mixed methods, and urban geography. She is coeditor of Relational Poverty Politics: Forms, Struggles, and Possibilities (2018), Crowdsourcing Geographic Knowledge (2012), and Qualitative GIS (2009).

YOLANDA GONZÁLEZ MENDOZA is Assistant Professor of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. She is a Latinx feminist geographer whose teaching and research interests include migration, race, borders, communality, and theories from the South. Her most recent research focuses on understanding how those made illegal by the law—undocumented Mexican immigrants and Mexican immigrants in general—experience risk and produce safe spaces as they navigate displacement in Mexico and segregation and multiple borders in the United States. More specifically, her work asks, how do undocumented Latinx immigrants thrive in places made for their failure in the United States?

ANA P. GUTIÉRREZ GARZA is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St. Andrews. She is an economic anthropologist who specializes in migration, gender, race and ethnicity, care, and labor. Her first book explores the lives of Latin American women who exchange care and intimacy for money while working as domestic and sex workers in London. It examines the role that care as a labor practice as well as an ethical practice has in the lives of migrant women. In 2014, 2015, and 2016 she developed stints of fieldwork in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she has analyzed networks of care and cooperation among undocumented migrants from Mexico. Her interest in care continued with her second long-term research project (2015–2018) among a housing social movement in Madrid, where she analyzed the role that collective forms of care and advice have as a mechanism to counteract the lack of empathy and welfare cuts implemented by the neoliberal austerity policies in Europe.

JUAN HERRERA is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a human geographer who specializes in social movements, spatial theory, race, queer of color critique, and women of color feminisms. His first book explores how social movements produce spaces of resistance anchored by institutions that care for racialized poor. He teaches courses on space and power, race, Latinx geographies, and transnational migration.

ELLEN KOHL is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. She is a human geographer whose primary research and teaching interests are at the intersections of race, environmental policy, and place. Her research examines how compounding sociospatial processes, developed and perpetuated by urban and environmental policies, contribute to places of persistent environmental injustice in the United States.

VICTORIA LAWSON is Professor of Geography at the University of Washington, Director of the UW Honors Program, and cofounder of the Relational Poverty Network with Sarah Elwood. She teaches critical poverty studies and feminist care ethics. Her research focuses on relational poverty analysis and feminist theorizations of politics to explore pluriverse forms of politics that refuse liberal poverty governance. She is most recently coeditor of Relational Poverty Politics: Forms, Struggles, and Possibilities (2018).

JOVAN SCOTT LEWIS is Assistant Professor of Geography and African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also coleads the Economic Disparities research cluster at the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society. Jovan’s research focuses on the qualitative experience and histories of raced poverty through the framework of repair in the Caribbean and the United States.

AARON MALLORY is Assistant Professor of Geography at Florida State University. A child of Detroit auto workers and southern raised, he has an inherent commitment to positive social change that led him to pursue a BA in political economy at the Evergreen State College. Prior to pursuing graduate school, Aaron worked as a community organizer for a public health care and prevention organization in Inglewood, California. This experience working to address health disparities in low-income communities of color led Aaron to pursue a PhD in geography, where he combines his research in health, HIV/AIDS prevention, and Black LGBTQ communities together in an interdisciplinary setting. His research interests are health geography, feminist knowledge production, Black studies, and queer theory.

PRISCILLA MCCUTCHEON is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Kentucky. Priscilla is also affiliated with the African American and Africana Studies Institute at UK. Priscilla’s research focuses on Black faith-based food and sustainable agricultural programs in the U.S. South. She is currently conducting archival research into food programs of the Black Power and Civil Rights movements that include Fannie Lou Hamer’s Freedom Farms and the National Council of Negro Women Hunger Campaign.

MARGARET MARIETTA RAMÍREZ is Assistant Professor of Geography at Simon Fraser University. Her work explores how the creative cultural practices of people of color produce urban space, how they are policed and co-opted as cities gentrify, and how these same creative geographies are taken up to resist urban redevelopment.

CHANDAN REDDY is Associate Professor in the departments of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies and the Comparative History of Ideas at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is coeditor (with Jodi Byrd, Alyosha Goldstein, and Jodi Melamed) of the special issue “Economies of Dispossession: Indigeneity, Race, Capitalism,” Social Text (Spring 2018). His book Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality and the U.S. State (2011) won the Alan Bray Memorial Award for queer studies from the MLA as well as the Best Book in Cultural Studies from the Asian American Studies Association, both in 2013. He is currently at work on a new book project titled Administrating Racial Capitalism.