Neil Smith is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography and the Director, Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Email: nsmith@gc.cuny.edu

Curriculum Vitae: (PDF)

Selected Publications:

Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space
by Neil Smith
Basil Blackwell, 1984. Second Edition, 1990.

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• Preface
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Introduction
• 1 THE IDEOLOGY OF NATURE
• I Nature in Science
• II Poetic Nature - American Landscape
• III Marx and Nature
• IV The Domination of Nature? 2 THE PRODUCTION OF NATURE
• I Production in General
• II Production for Exchange
• III Capitalist Production
• IV Conclusion

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• 3 THE PRODUCTION OF SPACE
• I Space and Nature
• II Space and History
• III Space and Capital
• IV The Production of Space and Marxist Theory
• 4 TOWARD A THEORY OF UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT I: THE DIALECTIC OF GEOGRAPHICAL DIFFERENTIATION AND EQUALIZATION
• I The Tendency toward Differentiation
• II The Tendency toward Equalization
• III The Accumulation, Concentration and Centralization of Capital
• IV The Rhythm of Accumulation

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• 5 TOWARD A THEORY OF UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT II: SPATIAL SCALE AND THE SEE-SAW OF CAPITAL
• I The Possibility of Spatial Equilibrium
• II The Spatial Scales of Capital
• III A See-saw Theory of Uneven Development
• IV Conclusion
• 6 CONCLUSION: THE RESTRUCTURING OF CAPITAL?
• 7 AFTERWORD: THE BEGINNING OF GEOGRAPHY
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

(Translated and published as Desenvolvimento Desigual, Editora Bertrand Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, 1988)

Heather Gautney, PhD is an Assistant Professor at Fordham University, Lincoln Center in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, where she teaches courses on Social Movements, Social Theory and Inequality. She is co-author (with Stanley Aronowitz) of Implicating Empire: Globalization and Resistance in the 21st Century (Basic Books). She is also a co-editor of Altered States (forthcoming on Routledge), a compilation of essays on democracy and the state that were a presented as part of the “Democracy Shrugged” seminar at the PCP. Heather has written articles on various movements, including the Global Justice Movement, World Social Forum, U.S. anti-war Movement and the anti-militarism struggle in Vieques. She is on the editorial board of Situations: A Project of Radical Imagination and the Advisory Board of the Left Forum.

Email: hgautney@gc.cuny.edu

Selected Publications:

• “Becoming Political: The U.S. Anti-War Movement.” (with Michael Hardt) in Subversive Affinities: U.S. Social Movements. Rome: Derive Approdi (in Italian).
  
• “The Debate about Globalization.” (with Stanley Aronowitz) in Implicating Empire: Globalization and Resistance in the 21st Century World Order. NY: Basic Books.
  
• “The Globalization of Violence in the 21st Century: Israel, Palestine, and the War on Terror.” in Implicating Empire: Globalization and Resistance in the 21st Century World Order. NY: Basic Books.
  
• 2007. “Political Organization on the Global Left.” Berkeley Journal of Sociology, v51 (forthcoming).
  
• 2003. “Regulating Affective Labor: Communications Skills Training in the Health Care Industry.” (with Ariel Ducey and Dominic Wetzel) Research in the Sociology of Work, v12. http://www.sociology.ohio-state.edu/work/volume12-training.htm.
  
• 2007. “The Imperial Coin.” (with Akim D. Reinhardt). La Pensee. Word Doc
  
• 4/2005. “The World Social Forum: From Protest to Politics?” Situations: A Project of Radical Imagination. New York: Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work. http://ojs.gc.cuny.edu/index.php/situations/article/viewFile/5/2.
  
• 11/2003. “Vieques O Muerte: Transnational Movement and the Politics of Diaspora.” (with Franco Barchiesi) DeriveApprodi (in Italian). http://www.deriveapprodi.org/estesa_rivista.php?id=35.
  
• 4/2003. “An Underground River: America is Opposed.” (with Michael Hardt) Global Magazine (in Italian). http://www.globalproject.info/art-659.html.
  

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Setha Low received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. She started her career as an Assistant and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, City and Regional Planning, and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Low is currently Professor of Environmental Psychology, Anthropology, and Women’s Studies, and Director of the Public Space Research Group at The Graduate Center, City University of New York where she teach courses and trains Ph.D. students in the anthropology of space and place, urban anthropology, culture and environment, and cultural values in historic preservation. She has been awarded a Getty Fellowship, a NEH fellowship, and a Guggenheim for her ethnographic research on public space in Latin America and the United states. She is widely published and lectures internationally on these issues.

Email: slow@gc.cuny.edu

Her most recent books include: Politics of Public Space (2006 Routledge with Neil Smith, Rethinking Urban Parks: Public Space and Cultural Diversity (2005, University of Texas Press with S. Scheld and D. Taplin), Behind the Gates: Life, Security and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America (2003, Routledge), The Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture (2003, Blackwell with D. Lawrence-Zuniga), On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture (2000, University of Texas), Theorizing the City: The New Urban Anthropology Reader (1999, Rutgers University Press), Place Attachment (1992, Plenum with I. Altman).

Dr. Low is currently President-elect of the American Anthropological Association and will take office November 2007. Her current research is on the impact of private governance on New York City coop residents, and she is writing a book on An Anthropological Theory of Space and Place.

Selected Publications:

• New Emotions of Home: Fear and Insecurity in Residential Communities (PDF)
  

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Saadia Toor got her PhD in Development Sociology from Cornell University. She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work at the College of Staten Island. Her research interests coalesce around exploring the relationship between political economy and culture broadly speaking, and specifically around issues of gender/sexuality, nationalism and state formation, and the cultural politics of neoliberal globalization. Her current research is on exploring the links between neoliberalism and ‘natural’ disasters, particularly the South Asian earthquake of 2005. She is also working on a book manuscript titled Being Modern, Being Muslim: Nationalism, State Formation and Cold War Politics in Pakistan, 1947 – 1971.

Email: toor@mail.csi.cuny.edu

Selected Publications:

• ‘Moral Regulation in a Postcolonial Nation-State: Gender and the Politics of Islamization in Pakistan’. Special issue of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, v. 9, n. 2 (July 2007), pp 255 – 275.
  
• "A National Culture for Pakistan: The Political Economy of a Debate". Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. v. 6, n. 3, 2005.

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