Contributors

Adam McKeown

Experimental Scientist in Ecology, CSIRO

Experimental Scientist in Ecology, CSIRO Adam is primarily a Wildlife ecologist working on the popualtion and movement ecology of a range of species from Seals to Cassowaries and Flying-foxes. He also applies his movement modelling skills to various projects around transport and supply chain analysis.

Amelia Johns

Associate Professor, Digital and Social Media, School of Communication, University of Technology Sydney

Associate Professor, Digital and Social Media, School of Communication, University of Technology Sydney Amelia Johns is an Associate Professor in Digital and Social Media at University of Technology Sydney. Her work spans the fields of digital media and digital citizenship studies, with a focus on young people’s negotiation of digital rights, safety and trust in networked publics and on private messaging platforms. Her most recent projects have examined diaspora youth and digital citizenship education in and beyond school, misinformation and hate speech on social media and WhatsApp as a platform for private and public communication. She is the author of three books: 'Battle for the Flag' (2015), 'Negotiating Digital Citizenship: Control, Contest, Culture' (2016) and WhatsApp: from a one-to-one messaging app to a global communication platform (2024).

Alison Blair

Teaching Fellow in Music, University of Otago

Teaching Fellow in Music, University of Otago Alison Blair is a Teaching Fellow in Music at the University of Otago. She recently submitted her doctoral thesis on 1970s British glam rock.

Arjun Guneratne

Professor of Anthropology, Macalester College

Professor of Anthropology, Macalester College Arjun Guneratne is Professor of Anthropology at Macalester College. He was born in Sri Lanka and studied law for a year at the University of Colombo, before enrolling at Dartmouth College to study anthropology. He developed a keen interest in development problems while a student at Dartmouth, and spent his senior year in Dartmouth’s Senior Fellows program where, excused from completing his anthropology major, he could devote his time and energy to studying development problems in Sri Lanka’s peasant resettlement projects. This work resulted in a thesis, Water, Rice and People: Problems and Constraints of Peasant Colonization in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka. After Dartmouth, he entered the PhD program in anthropology at the University of Chicago, intending to continue his interest in development. However, ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka between the Sinhala-dominated state and Tamil separatist rebels kindled an interest in how ethnic identities emerge. He pursued this interest in Nepal, a country where the literature about ethnicity suggested it was a fluid process rather than a fixed identity derived from the past. He focused on the Tarai, the narrow strip of once malarial land abutting the mountains; not many foreign scholars had worked there and the main ethnic group inhabiting the region, the Tharu, had been little described. His dissertation was a study of the development of ethnic consciousness among the Tharu of Nepal and its relation to class stratification, processes of state building and the cultural and socio-economic transformation of the Tarai that followed on the success of the Malaria Eradication Program in Nepal. The dissertation became the basis of his first book, Many Tongues, One People: The Making of Tharu identity in Nepal (Cornell 2002).

Andrew L. Liu

Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University

Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University My research interests are energy and environmental markets; systems and policy modeling and analysis; decentralized algorithms of game theory and their applications in smart grid; and optimization, complementarity problems, and variational inequalities, with applications to game theory and industrial organization. I started at Purdue University in August 2009 as an assistant professor, and was promoted to associate professor in August of 2016. Before coming to Purdue Industrial Engineering, I was a Senior Associate at ICF International in Fairfax, VA, from September 2005 to August 2009. I hold a PhD in Applied Mathematics and Statistics (2009) from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Johns Hopkins University; an MS in Mathematical Sciences (2002) from the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Johns Hopkins University; and a BS in Applied Mathematics (2000) from the Department of Applied Mathematics, Beijing Institute of Technology.

Alastair Bonnett

Professor of Geography, Newcastle University

Professor of Geography, Newcastle University Alastair Bonnett is a professor of social geography at Newcastle University and has been researching and teaching the international politics and geography of anti-racism, white identities, and racism for over thirty years. His books include: 'Radicalism, Anti-racism and Representation' (Routledge, 1993); 'White Identities: Historical and International Perspectives' (Pearson Education, 2000); 'Anti-racism' (Routledge, 2000); 'The Idea of the West: Culture, Politics and History' (London, Palgrave, 2004) (Arabic translation, 2017). His most recent book on racism is ‘Multiracism: Rethinking Racism in Global Context’ (Polity, 2022). He also writes about the politics of nostalgia and 'off the map' places, such as in 'The Geography of Nostalgia: Global and Local Perspectives on Modernity and Loss' (Routledge, 2017) and ‘Left in the Past: Radicalism and the Politics of Nostalgia’ (Continuum, 2010), Of his travel books the most is 'The Age of Islands: In Search of New and Disappearing Islands' (Atlantic, 2021). Alastair’s books have been widely translated (19 languages).