Ulf Strohmayer is a graduate of Munich Technical University and The Pennsylvania State University. Currently, he is Professor of Geography at the National University of Ireland, Galway, after teaching previously at the University of Wales at Lampeter. Educated in Germany, Sweden, USA and France, he has also held visiting teaching and research posts at the Universite de Pau et des Pays de L Adour, Dresden Technical University, Binghamton University and the Maison des Sciences de l Homme in Paris. His interest in social theory and philosophy is matched by an equal curiosity about the conditions