STEVE MATTHEWMAN is Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is an established writer and teacher in Sociology, with specific interests in science and technology, social theory, cultural studies and modernity and its discontents. His most recent publication, with Bell, is Cultural Studies in Aotearoa New Zealand: Identity, Space and Place (Oxford University Press, 2004).

CATHERINE LANE WEST-NEWMAN is Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of a wealth of books and articles in the field of sociological studies, with specific interests in the connections between law and social justice, the sociology of emotions and visual culture.

BRUCE CURTIS is Senior Lecturer and Head of Department in Sociology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His particular research interests include work, technology and careers. He is the editor of Gambling in New Zealand (2002).