Andrew Anastasi is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the editor and translator of The Weapon of Organization: Mario Tronti's Political Revolution in Marxism (Common Notions, 2020), which collects seventeen original translations of texts composed by Tronti in the 1960s. He is also a member of the Viewpoint Magazine editorial collective.
Alexei Anisin, Ph.D., is a Research Associate in the Institute of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University Prague. His research has appeared in the Journal of Historical Sociology, Journal of Cultural Geography, Homicide Studies, the International Journal of Human Rights, Journal of Civil Society, among other outlets. His current project focus is geared towards the national as well as cross-national study of mass shootings on one hand, and on state repression and civil resistance on the other.
Ahmet Bekmen is an Associate Professor at the Political Science and International Relations Department in the Faculty of Political Science, Istanbul University. His research interests involves neoliberalism, state formation and Turkish politics. He is the author of the book titled The Ethical Manufacturing of Capital (in Turkish, Boğaziçi University Press, 2014) and one of the co-authors of Turkey Reframed: Constituting Neoliberal Hegemony (Pluto Press, 2016).
Terressa A. Benz lives in Detroit, Michigan and is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Oakland University. Terressa is an urban ethnographer whose work lies at the intersection of law and society, urban sociology, and criminology. Her current research explores self-protection strategies in Detroit, the decision to carry a concealed firearm.
Tom Brass formerly lectured in the Social and Political Sciences Faculty at Cambridge University, and directed studies in SPS for Queens' College. He carried out fieldwork research in Latin America and India during the 1970s and 1980s and is the second-longest serving editor of The Journal of Peasant Studies (1990-2008). His books include New Farmers' Movements in India (1995), Free and Unfree Labour: The Debate Continues (1997), Towards a Comparative Political Economy of Unfree Labour (1999), Peasants, Populism and Postmodernism (2000), Latin American Peasants (2003), Labour Regime Change in the Twenty-First Century (2011), Class, Culture and the Agrarian Myth (2014), Labour Markets, Identities, Controversies (2017), and Revolution and Its Alternatives (2019).
John Brown is a lecturer in Latin American politics and state-society relations at Maynooth University, Ireland. His research interests include social-movements and radical-substantive democratization processes. His recent publications include “Party-base linkages and contestatory mobilization in Bolivia’s El Alto: Subduing the Ciudad Rebelde,” Latin American Perspectives 47, no. 4 (2020): 40-57; and “Escaping the confines of market democracy: Lessons from Venezuela," Socialism and Democracy 32, no. 2 (2018): 14-31.
Loris Caruso completed his PhD in Comparative Social Research at the University of Turin in 2008, taking up a research fellowship in Political Science at the University of Turin in 2009. From 2012 to 2016 he was on a four-year research fellowship in the Department of Sociology and Social research of the University of Milan-Bicocca. He is currently assistant professor in political sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, Italy. His research fields are social movements and collective action; labor movements; political theory. His articles have been published in European Journal of Social Theory, Thesis Eleven, Capital & Class, Participation & Conflict and Sociologica.
Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer, an Assistant Professor at Koźmiński University, is author of Reshaping Poland’s Community after Communism: Ordinary Celebrations (Palgrave, 2019) and Marxism and Sociology: A Selection of Writings by Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz (Brill, 2018). Her research interests include post-1989 democratic transformation and the public sphere, everyday practices, as well as media in political and cultural change. Her current project focuses on politics in online tabloids in Poland, the United Kingdom and the United States in the context of 2015-16 elections and the role of emotions in the online public sphere. She received her PhD in Sociology from The New School for Social Research and has worked as a Visiting Scholar at NYU Institute for Public Knowledge (2016) and NYU Department of Media, Culture & Communication (2019), and as a Visiting Fellow at LSE Department for Media & Communications (2017-2019). Her research has been published in Media, Culture & Society, International Journal for Politics, Culture, and Society, Polish Sociological Review, and Studia Polityczne [Political Studies].
Lorenzo Cini is a postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, where he is a member of the research group of COSMOS (Center on Social Movement Studies). His main research interests are social movements and conflicts in the current transformations of the work's world. On these topics, he has published several chapters in edited volumes (for, Cambridge University Press, Brill and Routledge), scientific articles in journals (Work, Employment and Society, Current Sociology, Social Movement Studies, Italian Review of Political Science, Anthropological Theory, Labour&LawIssues, and PACO) and monographs (The Contentious Politics of Higher Education. Struggles and Power Relations within Italian and English Universities, for Routledge’s Mobilization Series, 2019). His last publication is a monograph co-authored with Donatella della Porta and Cesar Guzman-Concha (Contesting Higher Education. Student Movements against Neoliberal Universities, for Bristol University Press, 2020).
Rodney D. Coates born in East St. Louis, Ill., received his B.A. from Southern Illinois University, a M.A. in sociology and anthropology from the University of Illinois, a second M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago. Coates is Professor of Global and Intercultural Studies. He has published extensively in the area of critical race and ethnic relations.
Gaël Curty is senior researcher at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He works on practical philosophy, social theory and economic sociology. His publications include Contemporary Critiques of Capitalism: An Introduction to the Interviews of Honneth, Fraser and Wallerstein (La Découverte, 2018), Capitalism, Structural Crisis and Contemporary Social Movements. An Interview with Immanuel Wallerstein (Sage, 2017); Les critiques sociologiques du capitalisme en Suisse: socialisations plurielles et normativité discursive (ACSALF; 2014); Towards a Global Perspective on Social Inequalities: An Introduction (World Society Studies; 2010); and Informal Work and the Penalization of Individual Responsibility: The Swiss Case (World Society Studies, 2010).
Raju J. Das is a Professor at York University, Toronto. His teaching and research interests are in political economy, globalization, and the capitalist state and international development. His recent books include Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World (Brill, 2017). He has published journal articles on topics such as uneven development, dispossession, agrarian change, child labour, identity politics, state-society relations, and social capital. He is currently completing a two-volume manuscript on Marx’s Capital volume 1, and engaged in a multi-year research project on capitalist industrialization and class relations in India. He serves on the editorial board and on the manuscript collective of Science and Society: A Journal of Marxist Thought and Analysis.
Nikhil Deb is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Murray State University, formerly a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Tennessee- Knoxville. Deb’s research broadly focuses on how political and economic activities typically favor some human groups at the expense of other existing or future human groups and the environment, with particular attention to the global South. He published articles and book chapters in various outlets, including the Routledge International Edition of Green Criminology, Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, and Social Problems (forthcoming).
Chamsy el-Ojeili, Senior lecturer in sociology at Victoria University of Wellington, has published in journals such as Capital & Class, Sociological Enquiry, Thesis Eleven, and Rethinking Marxism. His most recent books are The Utopian Constellation: Future-Oriented Social and Political Thought Today (Palgrave Pivot, 2020) and Beyond Post-Socialism: Dialogues with the Far-Left (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
M. Omar Faruque is SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Global Development Studies at Queen’s University. He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Toronto. Earlier, he was Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Dhaka and Research Associate (Agriculture and Rural Development Division) at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies. His main areas of research interest are political sociology, global & transnational sociology, and environmental sociology. He has published articles in Social Movement Studies, Asian Journal of Political Science, The Extractive Industries and Society, Journal of Contemporary Asia, and Asian Journal of Social Science.
Gil Felix is a social scientist and professor at the Latin American Institute of Economics, Society and Politics at the Federal University for Latin American Integration (UNILA) and at the Western Paraná State University (Brazil). Research focused on working class, mobility, circulation, reserve army and super-exploitation of labour, based on various studies conducted with Brazilian workers and peasants in the 2000s and 2010s. Author of O caminho do mundo: mobilidade espacial e condição camponesa em uma região da Amazônia Oriental and Mobilidade e superexploração do trabalho: o enigma da circulação.
Érica Fernández is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at Miami University. Dr. Fernández’s research focuses on the educational engagement experiences of Parents of Color, particularly Spanish-speaking Latinx immigrant parents living in hostile anti-immigrant environments. Other research interests include family-community partnerships and family engagement policies (local, state, and federal).
Nancy Fraser is the Henry and Louise A. Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Her areas of specialization are social and political theory, feminist theory, and contemporary French and German thought. Her books include Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto (Verso, 2019); Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory (Polity, 2018); Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis (Verso, 2013); Scales of Justice: Reimagining Political Space in a Globalizing World (Polity, 2008); Adding Insult to Injury: Nancy Fraser Debates Her Critics (Verso, 2008) and Redistribution or Recognition? A Political-Philosophical Exchange (Verso, 2003).
Ryan Gunderson, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Justice Studies in the Department of Sociology and Gerontology at Miami University. His current research projects concern the potential effectiveness of proposed solutions to environmental problems; the social dimensions and environmental impacts of technology; and the renewal of classical and mid-twentieth century sociological theory.
Vedi R. Hadiz is Director and Professor of Asian Studies at the Asia Institute and an Assistant Deputy Vice-Chancellor International, University of Melbourne. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and a former Australian Research Council Future Fellow. His research interests revolve around political sociology and political economy issues related to the contradictions of development in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. He is the author of Islamic Populism in Indonesia and the Middle East (Cambridge University Press 2016); Localising Power in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia: A Southeast Asia Perspective (Stanford University Press 2010); Workers and the State in New Order Indonesia (Routledge 1997); and (with Richard Robison) Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets (RoutledgeCurzon 2004). He edited or co-edited, among others, Between Dissent and Power: The Transformation of Islamic Politics in the Middle East and Asia (Palgrave Macmillan 2014).
Axel Honneth is Director of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, as well as Professor of Social Philosophy at the Goethe University in Frankfurt and Jack C. Weinstein Professor for the Humanities at Columbia University in New York City. His areas of specialization are social and political philosophy, ethics and social theory. His books include The Idea of Socialism: Toward a Renewal (Polity, 2016); Freedom’s Right: The Social Foundations of Democratic Life (Columbia University Press, 2014); The I in WE: Studies in the Theory of Recognition (Polity, 2014); Disrespect: The Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (Polity, 2014); Reification: A New Look at an Old Idea (Oxford University Press, 2008); and The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts (MIT press, 1996).
Kimberly LeChasseur is a Research and Evaluation Associate with the Morgan Center for Teaching and Learning and the Center for Project-Based Learning at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She received her PhD in Urban Education from the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Department at Temple University
Charles D.T. Macaulay is a Ph.D. candidate in the Learning, Leadership, and Educational Policy Program at the University of Connecticut's Neag School of Education. Charles' research interests include institutional logics, organizational power, organizational change, sensemaking, and continuing to expand his methodological toolbelt.
Cody R. Melcher is a PhD student in the department of sociology at The Graduate Center, CUNY. His research focuses broadly on the intersection of race and class. His most recent project uses public opinion data to explore the effect of economic insecurity on xenophobia, racial animus, and redistributive attitudes.
John Eustace O’Brien works as Independent Scholar in Monaco. He has contributed two volumes for the series, Studies in Critical Social Sciences: Critical Practice (Brill 2014) and Critique of Rationality (Brill 2016). Coauthored with Josiane Martin-O'Brien two recent contributions in Critical Management Studies include: “The Limits of Managerialism for the International Enterprise in India” (V-fr in Les Defis culturels et sociétaux du management international, Paris: Vuibert 2019), with English version to appear in Cross-Cultural Challenges in International Management, (London: Routledge 2021); and, “The Role of History in the Future of International Management: Perspective, Cases, Critique”, as chapter in Recherche en Management International: Continuité et Ruptures (Paris: Vuibert, 2020).
Ferit Serkan Öngel is an Associate Professor of Public Administration at Islahiye Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, University of Gaziantep. From 2002 to 2015 he had worked in the research departments of DISK (Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey), KESK (the Confederation of Public Employees' Trade Unions) and United Metalworkers' Union (Birleşik Metal-İş) as a senior researcher. His research interests focus on industrial geography, urbanization, labour history and social policy. He is the author of City and Labour (in Turkish, NotaBene, 2013) and the co-editor (with Uygar Dursun Yıldırım) of a recent volume titled Cooperatives against the Crisis: Experiences, Discussions, Alternatives (in Turkish, Notabene 2019). He wrote numerous research reports on the social and economic conditions of the working class in Turkey.
Brian Petersen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Recreation at Northern Arizona University. His research and published work focus on climate change adaptation and landscape level conservation. His work draws on both social and natural science perspectives to interrogate contemporary natural resource and environmental challenges.
César “che” Rodríguez is son of Bertha Chávez-Cisneros & Miguel Rodríguez-Morales, brother of Miguel & Carlos Ladislao, husband to Emma L. Gutierrez-Macias, uncle of Miguel Angel, Ladislao Jesus, and Nayeli Yasmin. He came to live as a guest on traditional, unceded Urebure Ohlone land by way of Guadalajara, Jalisco and Los Chapiles, Michoacan. Generally, his work focuses on race, class, hegemony, and social movements. In particular, he examines whiteness as a US tradition of fascism archived into the racial regimes of the prison and the border. He works as an Assistant Professor in the Criminal Justice Studies Department at San Francisco State University.
Sharron Shatil has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from University College London and is currently working at the Israeli Open university in a range of courses at the departments of philosophy, political science and management. Sharron's academic interests and publication ranges from philosophy and social theory to Jewish thought. He is currently engaged in a wide-ranging project of sociocultural analysis and criticism.
Oliver Simpson is a PhD Researcher at Lancaster University where he teaches Sociology. His research interests include populism, nihilism and terrorism.
Blakely Stewart is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Politics at York University, Toronto, Canada. The focus of his dissertation is the transnational dimensions of the contemporary far-right in North America and Europe. His research is primarily concerned with the role of intellectuals and elite actors in contributing to the rise of reactionary politics in the West.
Diana Stuart, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Sustainable Communities Program and in the School of Earth and Sustainability at Northern Arizona University. Her research focuses on responses to climate change, climate change mitigation in agriculture, environmental sociology, animal studies, and social-ecological systems.
Dylan Taylor, lecturer in sociology at Victoria University of Wellington. His most recent book is Social Movements and Democracy in the 21st Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). He is a researcher for Economic and Social Research Aotearoa, and a member of the Counterfutures editorial board.
