Winners of the Ashby prizes

摘要

The editors of Environment and Planning A are delighted to announce that the Ashby Prizes for the most innovative papers published in the journal in the calendar year 2015 have been awarded to Alex Hughes (Newcastle University), Cheryl McEwan (Durham University), and David Bek (Coventry University), for their paper "Postcolonial perspectives on global production networks: insights from Flower Valley in South Africa," and Ariel Handel (Ben Gurion University), Galit Rand (independent researcher), and Marco Allegra (Instituto Universitario de Lisboa) for their paper, "Wine-washing: colonization, normalization, and the geopolitics of terroir in the West Bank's settlements." The editors also wish to recognize, in the category of honorable mentions, Chris Muellerleile (Swansea University), for his paper "Speculative boundaries: Chicago and the regulatory history of US financial derivative markets," and Leigh Johnson (University of Oregon), for her paper "Catastrophic fixes: cyclical devaluation and accumulation through climate change impacts." All four papers have been made free to access.