Marko Krevs - Hidden Geographies

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A book is always a collective endeavour, but with 51 authors, 23 reviewers, and 24 chapters, it becomes a real challenge. Corona times added about half a year delaynot so much directly, but due to resulting adjustments in our professional and private lives, which have taken up so much of the time needed to focus on preparing the book. The greatest thanks are due to the authors, their original contributions and their patient and constructive cooperation in improving the materials. A bigalthough anonymousthank you goes to all the reviewers who have made an important contribution to the quality of the texts. In addition, I would like to thank at least a few who played crucial roles, by highlighting their contributions. First, to my colleagues on the organising team for the Hidden Geographies conference in Ljubljana, in August 2019, especially Tatjana Resnik Planinc and Mojca Ilc Klunfor their support of the idea of focusing the conference on hidden geographies. Thanks also for the financial support of the team for the technical preparation of the texts before they could be delivered to the publisher. Thanks to the Department of Geography at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, for including the conference in the programme of activities related to the centenary of the Department. Without this occasion, a conference with such international participation would probably not take place. Thanks to EUROGEO, the co-organiser of the above-mentioned conference, for the proposal to publish the book in the Springer series they are editing. Especially to Rafael de Miguel Gonzlez, the President of EUROGEO, who also helped in the first steps of the implementation of this idea. Special thanks are due to Kostis C. Koutsopoulos, one of the editors of the series, who meticulously read all the chapters and provided critical and honest commentswhich contributed to several improvements in the focus and argumentation of the chapters. Once the materials for the chapters were collected, Vinja Jerman patiently helped with the final technical and linguistic improvements to the texts and with the preparation of the package that was sent to the publisher. Finally, I thank the Springer team, especially Doris Bleier, Carmen Spelbos, Sanjiev Kumar Mathiyazhagan and Madanagopal Deenadayalan, for their patient explanations and support of procedures that were new and uncomfortable for me, including extreme patience due to the aforementioned delay caused by the Corona situation.