Auteur: Katarina Schough Mekonnen Tesfahuney

Mekonnen Tesfahuney is Associate Professor of Human Geography, at the University of Karlstad, Sweden. His doctoral thesis “Imag(in)ing the other(s). Migration, Racism, and the Discursive Constructions of Migrants” dealt with spaces of circulation, mobility control and uneven access to space. He is the co-editor of the two volume anthology Education in Multicultural Societies (2001). His publications include The Best of All Possible Worlds? Reflections on the Post-Political Contemporary (2008), which is concerned with states of exception, territory, citizenship and biopolitics, and The Post-Political City, a forthcoming anthology on space, urban politics and neoliberalism in Sweden. His teaching and research interests are mobility space and power, geo-philosophy and postcolonial theory.Katarina Schough is an Associated Professor in Human Geography. Her publications include works on the geography of knowledge, such as Lake Duortnus, Royal Science, and Nomadic practice (2007), and Hyperboré (2008). Her most recent book is an anthology for the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency on environmental politics and the transformation of society, titled The Generational Goal (2013). She is currently working on an biography of the anthropologist and author Kerstin Eidlitz Kuoljok.