Andrea Fischer-Tahir is a social anthropologist and research fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. She works on memory, gender, media, knowledge production as well as rural-urban dynamics in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.  Matthias Naumann is a human geographer and a research fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning in Erkner (near Berlin). He also works as a visiting lecturer at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus. His research interests include urban and regional development, infrastructure governance and critical geography.

From the book reviews: "In compiling 14 articles all dealing with processes of spatial differentiation but differing in regional focus and theoretical approach, the editors want to highlight the conceptual potential of peripheralization, its applicability in different regional contexts and the highly political issues it influences. ... the volume can be recommended to anyone interested in diverse approaches concerning the critical empirical analysis of processes of peripheralization." (S. Rettberg, Geographica Helvetica, Vol. 69, 2014)

• With contributions by Andrea Fischer-Tahir.- Matthias Naumann.- Eren Düzgün.- Benjamin Zachariah.- Thilo Lang.- Tim Leibert.- Alexandru Banica.- Marinela Istrate.- Daniel Tudora.- Anja Reichert-Schick.- Sabine Beisswenger.- Thomas Bürk.- Dolarice Sátyro Maia.- Arian Mahzouni.- Antía Mato Bouzas.