Filippo Menga is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Bergamo and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Political Geography. Before returning to Italy, he worked at several institutions, including the University of Reading (where he is currently a Visiting Research Fellow) and the University of Manchester. He has authored numerous articles published in leading international journals in the fields of geography and political ecology. He is also the author of Thirst (Verso Books, 2024), Power and Water in Central Asia (Routledge, 2018), and co-editor of Political Geography in Practice: Theories, Approaches and Methodologies (Palgrave) and Water, Technology and the Nation-State (Earthscan). Since 2024, he has been editor-in-chief of Political Geography, the most authoritative international magazine in the field.
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