In an effort to keep pace with the growing demand for open access publishing in Human Geography and a corresponding increase in submissions to the journal, the editorial collective at ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies is thrilled to announce the addition of 6 new editors to the collective.
We are delighted to be joined by Elia Apostolopoulou, Laura Bisaillon, Esther Danso-Wiredu, Cesare di Feliciantonio, Sophie Sapp Moore, and Vanessa Sloan Morgan. More details on each of these talented and dedicated new editors can be found below.
Elia Apostolopoulou is a political ecologist and her main research interest is the investigation of nature–society relationships in capitalism. She is a lecturer in the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. Elia’s research is guided by radical geographical research on the neoliberalization of nature, on the historical-geographic conception of neoliberalism, on uneven development and the capitalist production of nature and space, as well as by Marxist political economy and especially the Marxian theory of value and rent. At present, her research mainly focuses on neoliberal conservation in post-crisis Europe with an emphasis on free market environmentalism, on the links between biodiversity offsetting and extended urbanization, and on the exploration of environmental movements in the post-crisis era with an emphasis on the right to the city and how it can be linked to the right to nature.
Laura Bisaillon’s research agenda contributes to the sociology of health and illness, and also socio-legal and migration studies. She uses the social organization of knowledge approach and institutional ethnography as a mode of inquiry. To date, the bulk of Laura’s work has explored how policy, law and various forms of regulation shape the lives of people with illness, disease, and disability, with a focus on HIV. She has a monograph entitled Screening and Screaming in Exile: Medical Examination and the Immigration Health Work of People with HIV/AIDS currently under review with UBC Press. Since joining the University of Toronto 2013, she has done fieldwork in Eritrea, Ethiopia and Iran. Laura is assistant professor with undergraduate appointment in Political Science and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Health and Society, and graduate appointment in Social Justice Education and the Centre de recherches en éducation franco-ontarienne at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
Esther Danso-Wiredu is a social and urban geographer, specializing in housing typologies, with an emphasis on the challenges facing the urban poor. She is a Senior Lecturer in the department of Geography Education, at the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana. Esther obtained a Bachelor’s of Education in Geography at the University of Ghana, Legon-Accra and received a Master of Philosophy in Social Change at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Higher Education at the University of Education, Winneba and was awarded her PhD from the Social Geography Unit of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven (KULeuven).
Cesare Di Feliciantonio has a double PhD in Geography from Sapienza- University of Rome and KU Leuven. His PhD research focused on ‘alternatives’ to the process of subjectification shaped by indebted homeownership in times of austerity urbanism in Rome and Barcelona. In March 2018 he joined the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment of the University of Leicester with a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship. His main research interests include: urban social geography and political economy; geographies of sexualities and housing studies.
Sophie Sapp Moore is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow for Research on the Plantationocene (2018-2020), affiliated with the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconson-Madison. Sophie earned her PhD from UC Davis in 2018, in Cultural Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory. Sophie is an interdisciplinary political ecologist, with a background in literary studies and a grounding in the anticolonial political thought of the Americas. Sophie's research addresses the intersection between processes of political and environmental transformation in the agrarian socio-ecologies of the Caribbean. Her current book project, Futures Otherwise: Radical Life in the Counterplantation, focuses an ethnographic and historical lens on the emergence and contestation of radical Black geographies in Haiti's central borderlands since the early 19th century. Sophie is conducting ongoing ethnographic and archival research on agrarian political ecologies of Haiti’s high Central Plateau.
Vanessa grew up on unceded Coast Salish territories on Vancouver Island, Canada, and situates herself as a queer white settler of primarily Irish and Scottish ancestry. Vanessa’s research explores how dispossession operates interpersonally and through structures of power. They draw inspiration from the communities with whom they work to highlight how alternatives are being enacted and different worlds are being created. Vanessa currently works with youth to explore environmentally, economically, and socially desirable futures in light of large-scale resource extraction in northern British Columbia, Canada, and in partnership with communities to highlight how implementing modern treaties in British Columbia impacts signatories’ lives. Vanessa is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Geography Program and the Health Arts Research Centre at the University of Northern British Columbia.
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