ALASTAIR BONNETTis Professor of Social Geography at Newcastle University. Previous books include Off the Map,What is Geography?andHow to Argue. He has also contributed to history and current affairs magazines on a wide variety of topics, such as world population and radical nostalgia.Alastair was editor of the avant-garde, psychogeographical, magazineTransgressions: A Journal of Urban Explorationbetween 1994-2000. Alastair lives in Newcastle.