Anoop Nayak is Professor in Social and Cultural Geography at Newcastle University, UK. His research interests lie in youth transitions and social inequalities; geographies of race and ethnicity; and masculinities and social change. He has taught widely on geographical theory, race and modernity, as well as globalisation and social transformations.

Alex Jeffrey is Professor of Political and Legal Geography at the University of Cambridge. He has researched the geographies of state formation after conflict, with a particular interest in the role of legal institutions and practices. He has written and taught on a wide range of related geographical fields, including geopolitics, citizenship and legal geography.