1. Lionel Gauthier is a research and teaching assistant in the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Geneva. His research focuses on the construction and the circulation of exoticism. For his current doctoral research, he is working with the photographic collection of Alfred Bertrand, a Swiss traveler at the end of the nineteenth century.
2. Jean-François Staszak is a full Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Geneva. His early research focused on the history and epistemology of geography, and then with economic and cultural geography. His most recent work addresses geographical imaginaries in the fields of art (painting, photography, dance, cinema) and tourism, analyzing the geographical othering process and especially the eroticization of the Exotic. His understanding of the articulation of...