Kelly F. Austin is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at North Carolina State University. Her research interests center on issues related to primary sector production, globalization, the environment, and the cross-national determinants of human well-being. Her dissertation research explores the structural and environmental causes of infectious disease and decreases in life expectancy in less-developed nations. She has published articles in Rural Sociology, Sociological Quarterly, and International Journal of Comparative Sociology.
William K. Carroll is a member of the Sociology Department at the University of Victoria since 1981, and a founding participant in the Graduate Program in Cultural, Social and Political Thought. He currently directs UVic’s Interdisciplinary Program in Social Justice Studies. His research interests are in the areas of the political economy of corporate capitalism, social movements and social change, and critical social theory and method. Recent books include The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class (Zed, 2010), Corporate Power in a Globalizing World (Oxford University Press, revised edition, 2010) and Remaking Media: The Struggle to Democratize Public Communication (Routledge, 2006, with Bob Hackett).
Brett Clark is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at North Carolina State University. His areas of interest are ecology, political economy, and the sociology of science. He has published articles in Social Problems, Social Science Research, Theory and Society, Sociological Inquiry, Sociological Quarterly, Organization & Environment, Population & Environment, Global Environmental Politics, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, and other scholarly publications. His most recent books include The Science and Humanism of Stephen Jay Gould (Monthly Review Press, 2011, with Richard York) and The Ecological Rift (Monthly Review Press, 2011, with John Bellamy Foster and Richard York).
Ximena de la Barra is a Spanish/Chilean social scientist initially trained as an architect. She was part of the Allende Popular Unity Government and of the first democratically elected Madrid local government, both in a technical capacity and as a community activist. In New York she was adjunct associate professor at Columbia University in the fields of urban and social policy planning. She later worked with the United Nations at UN Habitat and at UNICEF, serving in high-level positions including UNICEF Representative in El Salvador, regional advisor for public policy for Latin America, and senior global advisor for public policy and urban affairs. She is currently an independent consultant and author. Her latest publications include Refundación Constitucional en América Latina (with Richard Dello Buono), and Neoliberalism’s Fractured Showcase: Another Chile is Possible (Brill Academic, 2010).
R.A. Dello Buono is Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at Manhattan College. He is co-author (with Ximena de la Barra) of Latin America after the Neoliberal Debacle: Another Region is Possible (2009, Rowman and Littlefield); co-editor (with Graham Cassano) of Crisis, Politics and Critical Sociology (2010, Brill Academic); and co-editor (with José Bell Lara) of Imperialism, Neoliberalism and Social Struggles in Latin America (2009, Haymarket).
Stefano B. Longo was formally Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Illinois, Springfield. In the fall of 2011 he joined the faculty of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, East Tennessee State University. His areas of research include environmental sociology and political economy with a focus on sustainability and the global food system. He has published in the Journal of World-Systems Research, Rural Sociology, and Human Ecology Review.
Sebastián Madrid is a Chilean sociologist. Currently he is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney. His thesis examines the role of elite private schools in the lives of contemporary Chilean ruling class men and women. Previously, he has worked as a researcher in different institutions including FLACSO and the Ministry of Education, Chile. He has taught and published in the fields of men and masculinities, gender relations and education, and youth political culture and participation. He is the author of Trayectoria y eficacia política de los militantes en juventudes políticas. Estudio de la elite política emergente (2010, with Vicente Espinoza) and Sexualidad, fecundidad y paternidad en varones adolescentes en América Latina y el Caribe (2005, with José Olavarría).
Georgina Murray is an Associate Professor at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. She has written Capitalist Networks and Social Power in Australia and New Zealand (2006, Ashgate) and is recently working on projects associated with the miners’ union – the CFMEU – doing a country-wide sample of miners’ well-being and she has finished a book, Women of the Coal Rushes (2010, UNSW Press, with David Peetz).
Vijay Prashad is the George and Martha Kellner Chair of South Asian history and the Director of International Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. He is the author of 11 books, including two that were chosen by the Village Voice among the top 25 books of the year: Karma of Brown Folk (2000, University of Minnesota Press) and Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity (2001, Beacon). His most recent book, The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World (2008, New Press) won the Muzaffar Ahmad Book Award of 2009. In 2012, he will release five books: Uncle Swami (New Press), The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (Verso), Arab Spring, Libyan Winter (AK Press), [edited with Qalandar Memon and Madiha Tahir] Dispatches from Pakistan (LeftWord) and [edited with Paul Amar] Dispatches from the Arab Revolt (LeftWord). The last two are part of a series, the first volume of which was Dispatches from Latin America, edited with Teo Ballvé.
William I. Robinson is Professor of Sociology, Global and International Studies, and Latin American and Iberian studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His latest book Latin America and Global Capitalism (2008, Johns Hopkins University Press) was awarded the International Political Economy Book Prize for 2009 by the British International Studies Association.
