Geographies of Globalized Education Privatization: International Perspectives

David Giband is Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Perpignan. He works within the field of Urban Studies, focusing his research and teaching on Urban Planning issues in underprivileged neighborhoods both in the United States and France. Most recently, he explored the role of Education in urban development and public policies, local ethnic communities in France, highlighting the issues and stakes surrounding school enrollment for poor local communities.

Kevin Mary is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Perpignan, France. His research interests include social geography, the geography of education as well as migrations studies, focusing on student migration. He is particularly interested in the meaning that education has for different social groups and how it can reflect spatial and social inequalities. Kevin Mary has used his studies of geography, French, and English to teach and carry out research in several countries such as in Mali, Senegal, Canada, The United States, Lebanon and France.

Nora Nafaa is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Geography and Associate Researcher at the University of Strasbourg, France. Her main research interests are focused on the urban geography of education, and the various dimension of neoliberalization. Her fieldworks are Atlanta and Philadelphia. She works within the scientific field of social geography, inspired by radical geography and is attached to fieldwork anchored approaches. More recently, she conducted fieldwork in France in more rural areas looking at education alternatives.

大衛·吉班德（David Giband）是法國佩皮尼昂大學的城市規劃教授。他在城市研究領域工作，專注於美國和法國弱勢社區的城市規劃問題的研究和教學。最近，他探討了教育在城市發展和公共政策中的角色，以及法國當地族裔社區，突顯了貧困社區在學校入學方面所面臨的問題和挑戰。

凱文·瑪麗（Kevin Mary）是法國佩皮尼昂大學的地理學副教授。他的研究興趣包括社會地理學、教育地理學以及移民研究，特別專注於學生移民。他對教育對不同社會群體的意義以及如何反映空間和社會不平等特別感興趣。凱文·瑪麗曾在馬利、塞內加爾、加拿大、美國、黎巴嫩和法國等多個國家進行地理、法語和英語的教學和研究。

諾拉·納法（Nora Nafaa）是法國斯特拉斯堡大學的地理學博士後研究員及副研究員。她的主要研究興趣集中在教育的城市地理學以及新自由主義的各種面向。她的實地研究地點包括亞特蘭大和費城。她在社會地理學的科學領域工作，受到激進地理學的啟發，並致力於以實地研究為基礎的方法。最近，她在法國的更鄉村地區進行了實地研究，探討教育替代方案。