This collection offers a new way of looking at neoliberalisation and new understandings of contemporary processes of professionalisation.

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• This collection offers a new way of looking at neoliberalisation.
  
• Presents new understandings of contemporary processes of professionalisation.
  
• Draws on new, original research.
  
• Features studies from the Global North and the Global South.

Nina Laurie is Senior Lecturer in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at the University of Newcastle, UK. She works collaboratively with colleagues at CESU, San Simón University, Bolivia. Together with Robert Andolina and Sarah Radcliffe she is author of Multi-ethnic Transnationalism: Indigenous Development in the Andes (forthcoming). She is also co-author of Geographies of ‘New’ Femininities? (1999).

Liz Bondi is Professor of Social Geography at the University of Edinburgh. She is founding editor of the journal Gender, Place and Culture, the co-author of Subjectivities, Knowledges and Feminist Geographies (2002) and co-editor of Emotional Geographies (2005).