On the Translators and Editors of both volumes

Lucas Melgaço is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium where he combines his background in geography with his specialization in security, surveillance and policing studies. He holds a doctorate degree in Geography from a partnership between the University of São Paulo (USP) and the University of Paris 1—Panthéon Sorbonne with a thesis entitled ‘Urban securitization: from the psychosphere of fear to the technosphere of security’. Lucas is a former post-doctoral researcher at the Crime and Society Research Group (CRiS) at the VUB, at the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen’s University, Canada and at the Department of Geography of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). His main scientific interests are in the domains of urban security, urban conflicts, surveillance, public order, social movements and protests, and in the relationships between information and communication technologies and security. He has also worked on translating and introducing the theories of Milton Santos to the English-speaking community. Lucas is editor-in-chief of the journal Criminological Encounters.

Carolyn Prouse is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada. She holds a Master’s degree and bachelor’s degree from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. Carolyn has spent time at the University of São Paulo and at the cultural and research institute Barraco #55 in Complexo do Alemão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her research interests are in urban studies, critical development studies and critical health geographies. She operates conceptually at the nexus of postcolonial/decolonial and anti-racist feminist approaches.

Tim Clarke is a PhD candidate and part-time instructor in the Department of English at the University of Ottawa, Canada, where he is completing a dissertation on the genealogy of Spinozist thought in the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson and a range of American modernist literature. His research interests include American literature, literary modernisms, the philosophies of Baruch Spinoza and Gilles Deleuze, and the intersections between philosophical and literary discourses.

On the Contributors to volume 11

Sarita Albagli is a sociologist with a Ph.D. in Geography. She is a Senior Researcher at the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT), and Senior Lecturer in the Post-Graduate Program in Information Science, developed by IBICT and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She coordinates the Interdisciplinary Laboratory on Information and Knowledge Studies (Liinc) and she is Editor of the scientific journal Liinc em Revista. Her research interests include the following topics: information, knowledge and social innova- tion; open and collaborative science and technology; network and territorial informational dynamics.

Aurélien Reys is a geographer who specializes in Development Geography. He wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on the Brazilian gemstones industry. He is currently a Post-doctoral Researcher at the Centre de Coopération International en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD). His current research focuses on the impacts of agricultural investment on household livelihoods and food security in East Africa.

Eliza Pinto de Almeida holds bachelor, Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Geography from the University of São Paulo (USP). She is Associate Professor in the Institute of Geography, Development and Environment at the Federal University of Alagoas. Her scientific interests include the relationships between territory and health with an emphasis on the organization of public health services.

Samuel Frederico has graduate (2002) and Master’s (2004) degrees in Geography from the State University of Campinas, and a Ph.D. (2009) in Human Geography from the University of São Paulo, with a doctoral internship (2007/08) held at the Université de Toulouse II Le Mirail, France. He is currently Assistant Professor at the São Paulo State University (UNESP—Rio Claro) and Assistant Professor of the Graduate Program in Geography at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp). Samuel’s research is in Economic and Regional Geography, and focuses on the following themes: modernization and expansion of Brazilian agriculture; competitive regions; urban-rural relationships; agro-logistics; the sugarcane industry; coffee production; soybeans; and financial capital and agribusiness.

Marina Castro de Almeida has a graduate (2002) degree in Geography from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, a Master’s (2005) in Geography from the State University of Campinas, and Ph.D. (2013) in Human Geography from the University of São Paulo, with a doctoral internship (2012) held at the City University of New York (CUNY). She is currently Assistant Professor at the Minas Gerais Triangle Federal University (UFTM). Her research in Geography has an emphasis in Economic Geography, focusing on the following themes: globaliza- tion; uneven geographical development; territorial distribution of business services; and precarious work.

Luís Angelo dos S. Aracri holds bachelor, Master’s and doctoral degrees in Geography from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Since 2011 he has been Associate Professor at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). His scientific interests include: technological transformations and their impacts on the organization of territory; dynamics of regional productive structures; and the political economy of the territory.

Fabrício Gallo holds bachelor, Master’s and doctoral degrees in Geography from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Territorial Planning and Geoprocessing (DEPLAN) of Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). His scientific interests include Brazilian territorial integration with emphases on federalism; intergovernmental transfers of public resources; and territorial politics.

Júlia Adão Bernardes is a Professor in the Department of Geography at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), where she also completed her bachelor (1974), and Master’s (1983) degrees. She holds a Ph.D. (1993) in Human Geography from the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. Julia’s interests include economic geography; regional geography; and modernization of Brazilian agriculture.

Roberta Carvalho Arruzzo holds bachelor (2002), Master’s (2004) and doctoral (2009) degrees in Geography from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). In 2011 and 2012 she engaged in teaching and research activities at the same university. She is currently Assistant Professor at the Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Coordinator of the Research Group of Territorial Resistance (COLETIVO), and a researcher with the research group Geography and Indigenous Peoples (Geopovos) at the same institution. She has experience in the fields of Human Geography and Agricultural Geography and for more than ten years has been studying the territorial relations between the modernization of agriculture and indigenous peoples.

Maria Tereza Duarte Paes graduated (1985) from Geography at the Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). At the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) she concluded a Master’s (1992) degree in Sociology and a Ph.D. (1999) in Social Sciences. She has been Professor at UNICAMP since 1994: first in the Sociology Department and, from 1999 onwards, in the Geography Department. In 2007 she concluded a Post-doc in Geography at the Université de Pau et des Pays de L’Adour in France. Her research is focused on cultural heritage, tourism and the urban environment, and she coordinates the research group Geography, Tourism and Cultural Heritage.

Claudia Levy holds a Master’s (2006) in Geography from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). She completed a Joint International M.Sc. (2008) on Regional Development Planning and Management at the University of Dortmund in Germany and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Kumasi in Ghana under a DAAD scholarship. From 2009 to 2013 she was a Researcher associated with the German Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture (DITSL), joining the International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD) at the University of Kassel in Germany. Within this international network her Ph.D. was completed in 2016 with her project on rural livelihoods and farmer groups in Mozambique.

Francisco J. Toro is an Associate Professor in the Department of Regional Geographical Analysis and Physical Geography. His doctoral dissertation, com- pleted in 2011, was entitled ‘Crisis ecológica y geografía: Planteamientos y prop- uestas en torno al paradigma ecológico-ambiental’. The main foci of his research publications are theoretical and critical approaches to sustainability and degrowth; the relationship between environmental identity and urban space; and environ- mentalism within anarchist geographic thinking. He has recently contributed a chapter to The Radicalization of Pedagogy: Anarchism, Geography, and the Spirit of Revolt (2016) and is Co-editor of Historical Geographies of Anarchism: Early Critical Geographers and Contemporary Challenges.