Werner Bonefeld teaches in Politics at the University of York. He is a member of the Critical Theories of Antisemitism network; an associated researcher of the research network ‘Right, History and Memory’ and serves on the Advisory Board of The Cooperative Institute of Transnational Studies. Recent publications have included Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy (2014) and Notes from Tomorrow (2015).
Damien Cahill is an Associate Professor of political economy at the University of Sydney. His research focuses primarily on the nature and dynamics of neoliberalism. He is particularly interested in the relationship between neoliberal theory and practice, reasons for the durability of neoliberalism, and the ways it is being re-shaped by crisis. More broadly his research focuses on the economy-society nexus and the theoretical tools scholars use to understand this relationship.
Uday Chandra is Assistant Professor of Government in Georgetown University, Qatar. His research lies at the intersection between critical agrarian studies, theories of power and resistance, political anthropology, postcolonial theory, and South Asian history. He has published articles in work has been published in the Law & Society Review, Social Movement Studies, New Political Science, The Journal of Contemporary Asia, Contemporary South Asia and the Indian Economic & Social History Review. He has also the co-edited journal special issues on the ethics of self-making in modern South Asia and subaltern politics and the state in contemporary India as well as two volumes on caste and social movements in contemporary India.
Neil Davidson lectures in Sociology in the School of Political and Social Science at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of several books, including The Origins of Scottish Nationhood (2000), the Deutscher Prize-winning Discovering the Scottish Revolution (2003), How Revolutionary were the Bourgeois Revolutions? (2012), Holding Fast to an Image of the Past (2014), We Cannot Escape History (2015) and Nation-States: Consciousness and Competition (2016). Neil has also co-edited and contributed to Alasdair MacIntyre’s Engagement with Marxism (2008), Neoliberal Scotland (2010) and The Long Durée of the Far-Right (2015).
Ben Fine is Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, holding honorary positions at the University of Johannesburg (Senior Research Fellow attached to the South African Research Chair in Social Change) and Rhodes University (Visiting Professor, Institute of Social and Economic Research). He has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme for research on Financialisation, Economy, Society and Sustainable Development (FESSUD). He is Chair of the International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy, IIPPE, and is a member of the Social Science Research Committee of the UK’s Food Standards Agency.
Stephen Gill is Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science, Culture and Communications at York University, Toronto, Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His main fields are Global Political Economy, International Relations, and Social and Political Theory. His books include: The Global Political Economy with David Law (John Hopkins University Press, 1988); American Hegemony and the Trilateral Commission (Cambridge University Press, 1991); Gramsci, Historical Materialism and International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 1993); and Power, Production and Social Reproduction: Human In/security in the Global Political Economy with Isabella Bakker (Palgrave, 2003). His Power and Resistance in the New World Order (Palgrave, 2003; 2008) won the Choice, Outstanding Academic Title Award of the American Library Association. Globalization, Democratization and Multilateralism (Palgrave, 1997) was republished in an expanded edition as a Palgrave Classic in International Political Economy in 2013. Other recent volumes are Critical Perspectives on the Crisis of Global Governance: Reimagining the Future (Palgrave, 2015); New Constitutionalism and World Order with Claire Cutler (Cambridge University Press, 2014); Global Crises and the Crisis of Global Leadership (Cambridge University Press, 2012).
Elizabeth Humphrys is a political economist at the University of Technology Sydney. Her latest research is on the phenomena of ‘anti-politics’—the crisis of representation that leads people to increasingly see politics as detached from their lives—and its relationship to neoliberal economic reform. Elizabeth’s previous research has examined the implementation of neoliberalism in Australia, and its relationship to the 1983–1996 social contract between the Labor Party and the trade unions.
Ray Kiely is Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of numerous books, including The Rise and Fall of Emerging Powers (2016), The BRICs, US ‘Decline’ and Global Transformations (2015) and Rethinking Imperialism (2010). He is currently working on a book called The Neoliberal Paradox.
Stephen Maher is a PhD candidate at York University in Toronto, Canada. His work focuses on the relationship between state and corporate power. He is currently interested in the causes and impact of the financialization of ‘non-financial’ firms, especially the case of the General Electric Company. He has also received an MA from American University in International Relations.
Johnna Montgomerie is a Senior Lecturer in Economics and Deputy Director of the Political Economy Research Centre (perc.org.uk) at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she teaches on the Politics, Philosophy and Economics degree. She co-convenes the International Political Economy Working Group (IPEG) and her latest publications include, ‘Austerity and the Household: The Politics of Economic Storytelling’ published in British Politics; and ‘A Feminist Moral-Political Economy of Uneven Reform in Austerity Britain’ with Daniela Tepe-Belfrage, published in Globalizations.
Alf Gunvald Nilsen is of Global Development Studies and Planning at the University of Agder and a Research Associate at the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand. His research focuses on social movements and the political economy of capitalist development in the global South. He is the author of Dispossession and Resistance in India: The River and the Rage (Routledge, 2010) and We Make Our Own History: Marxism and Social Movements in the Twilight of Neoliberalism (Pluto, 2014).
Lucia Pradella is a Lecturer in International Political Economy at King’s College London. She previously taught at SOAS, Brunel, and Ca’ Foscari University. Her research is concerned with globalisation and the changing nature of labour and poverty. Her latest monograph Globalization and the Critique of Political Economy (Routledge, 2015) analyses the international foundations of political economy. She has also published on migration and the working poor in Western Europe, and co-edited a collection Polarizing Development (Pluto, 2014) on alternatives to neoliberalism and the global economic crisis.
Rahul Rao is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London. He is the author of Third World Protest: Between Home and the World (Oxford University Press, 2010), and of numerous articles in the fields of critical international relations theory, and gender and sexuality. He is currently working on a book on queer postcolonial temporality.
Alfredo Saad-Filho is Professor of Political Economy at SOAS, University of London, and was a senior economic affairs officer at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. He has published extensively on the political economy of development, industrial policy, neoliberalism, democracy, alternative economic policies, Latin American political and economic development, inflation and stabilisation, and the labour theory of value and its applications.
Richard Saull is Senior Lecturer in International Politics in the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of two books on the Cold War and co-editor of the War and Terror and the American ‘Empire’ after the Cold War (2005) and The Longue Durée of the Far-Right: An International Historical Sociology (2015).
Nicola Short is Associate Professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto, Canada. Her research interests include the social relations of neoliberalism, psychoanalysis and historical materialism and Gramscian IPE / political theory. She is the author The International Politics of Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Guatemala.
Subir Sinha teaches in the Department of Development Studies at SOAS, University of London. He has published essays on Indian environmentalism, Indian social movements, politics of the poor, and common property in India.
Daniela Tepe-Belfrage is a Lecturer in Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool. She co-convenes the International Political Economy Working Group (IPEG) and is a member of the PSA Research Commission on the future of care in Austerity Britain. Her latest publications include Handbook of Gender in World Politics with Jill Steans (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016), and ‘Austerity and the hidden costs of recovery: Inequality and insecurity in the UK households’ with Sara Wallin in British Politics.
Rashmi Varma teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She is the author of The Postcolonial City and its Subjects (2011) and the forthcoming Modern Tribal: Representing Indigeneity in Postcolonial India.
