Career: Stuart Corbridge joined the Department of Geography and Environment in 2001, having taught previously at Huddersfield, London (Royal Holloway), Syracuse, Cambridge and Miami Universities. His research interests and areas of supervision include governance, participation and empowerment in eastern India, forest policies and politics in eastern India, traumatic spaces: Ayodhya and Bhuj, India, and development theory. He is Joint Managing Editor of the Journal of Development Studies (see url below).

Publications include: Capitalist World Development 1986, Debt and Development 1993, Mastering Space (co-author) 1995, Reinventing India (co-author) 2000, Jharkhand: Environment, Development, Ethnicity (co-author) 2004, Seeing the State: Governance and Governmentality in Rural India (co-author) 2007; numerous articles in professional journals

Contact details: Address: Room S407, St Clements Building, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE, England; Tel: +44 (0)20 7955-7903; Fax: +44 (0)20 7955-7412; Email: s.e.corbridge@lse.ac.uk ; Website: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/geographyAndEnvironment/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00220388.asp/ .