Joost Jongerden is a rural sociologist by training, with a PhD in social sciences. He has a special interest in socio-spatial and socio-political analysis of development and conflict. He looks at the ways people, politics, and place amalgate. He is an assistant professor of Sociology and Anthropology of Development, Wageningen University, the Netherlands. For an overview of publications see here.
Bahar Şimşek is a PhD candidate in social sciences. She has a special interest in politics of desire and representation in cultural studies. In this context, she looks at the ways desire, subject, and ethics associate. She is a research assistant at Radio Television and Cinema, Ankara University, Ankara.
The congruence IS seeks to create between culture and geography resembles the development of a modern nation-state more than many might be willing to admit.
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