Kirsten Simonsen is Professor in Social and Cultural Geography at Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University, Denmark. Her research concerns issues of philosophy of geography, Nordic geography, spatial conceptualizations, urban theory and everyday practices, and the living of racialized Others in contemporary European Cities.    Lasse Koefoed is Associate Professor at the Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University, Denmark, and is well known within Critical Geography.  His research interests relate to urban geographies, cities and ethnic minorities, nation and nationalism, postcolonialism, cross-cultural encounters and everyday life.