Kristen Barber is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Her research focuses on gender inequality, work and occupations, sociology of the body, and qualitative research methods.
Michel Chauvière is Research Director, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, and member of the Centre d’Études et de Recherche de Sciences Administratives et Politiques, Paris, France. He is a well-known expert and activist in France on social safety nets, social work, and the changing relationship between not-for-profit associations that have traditionally provided most of these services, for-profit organizations that are moving into this arena, and the State. His latest book has just appeared: L’Intelligence Sociale en Danger. Chemins de Résistance et Propositions (Social Intelligence in Danger. Pathways of Resistance and Proposals), Paris: La Découverte, 2011.
Amelia Curran is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Carleton University in Ottawa. Her research interests include youth culture and resistance.
Valerie Francisco is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at City University of New York, The Graduate Center. Francisco’s academic interests include transnationalism and diaspora with a special interest on the Philippine migration, family, gender and labor, and globalization. Currently, she is working on her dissertation research with Filipino migrant women working as domestic workers in New York City and their families in the Philippines.
Saroj Giri, Assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, India, writes on ecological Marxism, social movements, the World Social Form, the Maoist movement, and secularism in India. He has written on contemporary issues like the Tahrir square demonstrations, WikiLeaks, and the recent London riots. He is primarily interested in radical social theory and in particular the Marxist notion of political subjectivity for revolutionary change.
Timothy J. Haney is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta. His research focuses on inequalities, poverty and labor markets, neighborhood networks and processes, environmental sociology, and the sociology of disaster.
Rumy Hasan is a senior lecturer at the University of Sussex, UK. After specializing in the transition of the former Eastern bloc countries, he has in recent years focused on various other research interests, including the political economy of East Asia, and China in particular.
Maria Markantonatou is a lecturer in Political Sociology at the Faculty of Sociology at University of the Aegean in Lesvos, Greece. She studied Sociology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens and she obtained her PhD in Sociology from Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg. Her work examines a series of aspects of the transformation of the modern state caused by processes such as the deregulation of the welfare state, the implementation of New Public Management in social policy, and the internationalization and privatization of formerly state tasks.
Stephen S. Mick is Professor, Department of Health Administration, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA. His work has focused on the American and French health care systems. He is an Invited Professor on the faculty of the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, and he teaches regularly at the École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique, France’s school of public health. He is editing his third book on organization theory in health care (Advances in Health Care Organization Theory, 2nd edition, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, to appear in 2012–13).
Mi Park is an assistant professor in the department of sociology and social anthropology at Dalhousie University, Canada. She is author of Democracy and Social Change: A History of South Korean Student Movements, 1980–2000 (Peter Lang, 2008).
Christopher Powell is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Manitoba. His work is concerned with the sociological theorization of state violence and social transformation. He is the author of ‘What do genocides kill? A relational conception of genocide’, Journal of Genocide Research, 2006 and ‘Four concepts of morality’ in Hitlin and Vaisey, eds, Handbook of the Sociology of Morality (Springer, 2010). His first book is Barbaric Civilization: A Critical Sociology of Genocide (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011).
Brandon Tozzo is a PhD candidate at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. His thesis explores the condition of empire under the presidency of Barack Obama, with a major focus on the international economic system after the financial crisis. He has previously written on prospects for Marxism in the 21st century, and the economic rise of China vis-à-vis the United States. His other research interests include methodology, economics, and critical pedagogy.
Andrew Woolford is Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Social Justice Research Coordinator at the University of Manitoba. He is author of The Politics of Restorative Justice: A Critical Introduction (Fernwood, 2009), Between Justice and Certainty: Treaty Making in British Columbia (UBC Press, 2005), and co-author of Informal Reckonings: Conflict Resolution in Mediation, Restorative Justice, and Reparations (Routledge-Cavendish, 2008).
