Roger Lee is Professor of Geography at Queen Mary, University of London, and is a former editor of the journal Progress in Human Geography.

Andrew Leyshon is Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Nottingham. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of Geoforum, a member of the editorial board of Environment and Planning A, and of the editorial advisory board of Economy and Society.

Linda McDowell is Professor of Human Geography at Oxford University. She has published widely in geographical journals, as well as in feminist journals including Signs and Women¿s History Review. She is the author or editor of numerous books, including Capital Culture (Blackwell, 1997), Gender, Identity and Place (Polity, 1999), Redundant Masculinities? (Blackwell, 2003) and Hard Labour: the forgotten voices of Latvian volunteer workers (UCL Press, 2005).