Jorge Arzate Salgado is a professor and researcher in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México. He has a Doctorate in Sociology from the Universidad de Salamanca and a Masters in Educational Research and Development from the Universidad Iberoamericana. His work has focused on social inequality and political and public policies in Mexico and Iberoamerica. Recent publications include Compensatory Policies of the State and Social Control in Latin America (Ruris, 2013) and ‘Mexican and Portuguese Students when Confronted with Disability: Social Representational Systems’ (with Carlos Veiga; in Convergencia: Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 2013). He has also edited two books: Social Policies in Iberoamerica: Between Social Precariousness and Political Change (Red Iberoamericana para el Estudio de Políticas Sociales-UAEMex-U de Colima, 2013) and Debates for a Reconstruction of the Public Sphere in Education: From Liberal Universalism to Neo-liberal ‘Peculiarities’ (Red Iberoamericana para el Estudio de Políticas Sociales-UNGS-UAEMex, 2013).
Bob Cannon teaches in the School of Social Sciences, East London University, and is author of Rethinking the Normative Content of Critical Theory: Marx, Habermas and Beyond (Palgrave, 2001). His research interests include modernity, postmodernism, the Holocaust, ethics and Marxism. He is concerned to defend the normative content of modernity from its postmodern, neo-Aristotelian and Marxist detractors and place the critique of capitalism on a modern normative foundation.
Dídimo Castillo Fernández is currently a professor and researcher in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México. He studied sociology at the Universidad de Panamá before doing his Masters degree at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, México, and his Doctorate of Population Studies at the Colegio de México. In addition, he was coordinator of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) Working Group on United States Studies. Some of his recent publications include: The United States: The Systemic Crisis and the New Condition of Legitimation (Siglo XXI Editores, México, D.F., 2010 [edited with Marco A. Gandásegui, Jr]); ‘Hegemony and the U.S. Working Class’, Latin American Perspectives 38(2): March 2011; and The United States: Beyond the Crisis (CLACSO-Siglo XXI Editores-Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, México, D.F., 2012 [edited with Marco A. Gandásegui, Jr]).
Maike J. Drebes (formerly Maike J. Schölmerich) is a PhD student at the Institute for Business Ethics of the University St. Gallen in Switzerland. Her research focuses on the linkages between Corporate Social Responsibility, power and postcolonialism, with empirical excursions to codes of conduct and multi-stakeholder initiatives. She is in receipt of a postgraduate scholarship from the German Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation and has published her work in several journals and edited volumes.
Vasilis Grollios was trained at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece, writing a thesis on liberty and equality in J.S. Mill. On completion he undertook postdoctoral research on Karl Marx’s political philosophy in the Department of Politics at the University of York, UK. His main research interests are democracy and dialectics in the early critical/ Frankfurt school theory tradition. He currently works on a book contract on the theme. He is an independent postdoctoral researcher in political philosophy based in Greece. He has published abour radical democracy in journals such as Capital and Class, Journal of Political Ideologies, Rethinking Marxism and Critique: A Journal of Socialist Theory. His publication list can be read in https://independent.academia.edu/VasiliosGrollios.
Josée Johnston is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Her major substantive interest is the sociological study of food, which is a lens for investigating questions relating to consumer culture, politics, gender and the environment. She is also interested in the study of ethical consumption, and how consumers seek to make social change within the constraints of contemporary markets. She is the co-authorof Foodies (Routledge, 2015[2010]) with Shyon Baumann, and has a book project with Kate Cairns entitled, Food and Femininity (Bloomsbury 2015). She has published articles in, among others, American Journal of Sociology, Theory and Society, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, and Gender and Society.
Daniel Krier (Ph.D. University of Kansas) teaches sociological theory at Iowa State University. His research specializations include political economy and critical theory in the continental tradition. Recent articles have appeared in the Journal of Rural Social Sciences, Critical Sociology, Current Perspectives on Social Theory and Fast Capitalism. Books include Speculative Capitalism: Stock Market Power and Corporate Change (2005: SUNY Press), Capitalism’s Future: Alienation, Emancipation and Critique (co-edited with Mark Worrell, forthcoming: Brill), NASCAR, Sturgis and the New Economy of Spectacle (co-authored with William Swart, forthcoming: Brill) and The Social Ontology of Capitalism (co-edited with Mark Worrell, forthcoming: Palgrave Macmillan.
D.W. Livingstone is Canada Research Chair in Lifelong Learning and Work and Professor Emeritus at OISE/University of Toronto. His recent books include: Education and Jobs: Exploring the Gaps (2009), Lifelong Learning in Paid and Unpaid Work (2010), Manufacturing Meltdown: Reshaping Steel Work (2011), The Knowledge Economy and Lifelong Learning: A Critical Reader (2012), Teacher Learning and Power in the Knowledge Society (2012) and Restacking the Deck: Streaming by Class, Race and Gender in Ontario (2014).
John Eustice O’Brien, former Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies at Portland State University, Oregon; now independent researcher in Paris, with current research on institutional systems in the global political economy, including field work in India on caste and class. His recent book, Critical Practice from Voltaire to Foucault (ed. Brill, 2014), opened a major investigation of historical-materialist method for cultural critical studies; continued and deepened in a next manuscript, Critical Judgment from Water Benjamin to Maurice Merleau-Ponty; forthcoming (ed. Brill, 2016).
Katina Pollock is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Western Ontario. She is also co-director of the Knowledge Network for Applied Educational Research (KNAER). Her research interests include educational leadership, policy and contingent teacher workforces. Recent publications include Access, engagement and community connections (2012) and School success in a publicly-funded, Catholic school (2013).
Milosh Raykov is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of Malta. He is currently involved in studies of lifelong learning, learning in labour organizations, quality of work life and the long-term outcomes of community service-learning. His recent publications include Underemployment and Quality of Life (2012) and co-authored studies of Adult Learning Trends in Canada (2013), The Long-Term Outcomes of Community Service-Learning (2014) and Early School Leaving and Wellbeing in Malta and Beyond (2015).
George Sanders is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Oakland University. He has published work on the commodity spectacle of funerals and his current research examines the intersections of popular American religion and consumerism.
Ferdinand Sutterlüty is a Professor of Sociology at Goethe University and member of the board at the Institute of Social Research in Frankfurt am Main (Germany). He earned his PhD from Free University Berlin and his habilitation from University of Vienna. He has published mainly on sociology of violence, family and youth sociology, symbolic orders of social inequality, ethnic conflicts, sociology of religion, and critical theory.
William J. Swart, Professor of Sociology, teaches courses in sociological theory, deviance and Native American Studies at Augustana University in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. His work considers the broad influence of globalization on local politics, economics, and identities. His most recent research explores the commodification of the Sturgis, South Dakota, Motorcycle Rally and the shifting economic and cultural dynamics of spectacle from pre-modernity to post-modernity. His other research examines the role of globalization in Irish national identity and the influence of the European Union on European food politics.
Judith Taylor is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, jointly appointed in the Women and Gender Studies Institute and the Department of Sociology. She writes on contemporary feminist activism, political consciousness, corporate cooptation of movements, feminist memoir, intergenerational relations and professionalization in movement organizations, and community organizing, publishing in journals such as Feminist Formations, SIGNS, Social Movement Studies, and Gender and Society. She is currently working on a project concerning the meaningful (and disconcerting) aspects of everyday community engagement.
Krista Whitehead is contract faculty member at Mount Royal University in Calgary, AB, and teaches in the Department of General Education. Both her teaching and research interests explore feminist theory, feminist activism, qualitative methods, sociology of gender and the family, embodiment and collective identity. She completed her PhD in 2013 from the University of Toronto; her dissertation is titled ‘Great Expectations: Maternal Ideation, Injustice and Entitlement in the Online Infertility Community.’
