Samir Amin was born in Cairo and educated in France; he is an Egyptian-French Marxist economist, introducing the concept of Eurocentrism in 1988. Since 1980 he is director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal; and he is the President of the World Forum for Alternatives since 1997. Recent books, published by Monthly Review Press, include The Liberal Virus, The World We Wish to See, The Law of Worldwide Value, The Implosion of Contemporary Capitalism, Three Essays on Marx’s Value Theory and most recently (2018) Modern Imperialism, Monopoly Finance Capital and Marx’s Law of Value.
Terressa A. Benz is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Oakland University. She is an urban ethnographer whose work lies at the intersection of urban sociology, planning, criminology, and law and society, placing particular focus on the exclusion of various groups, including communities of color, through the use of law, policing, politics, and design.
Graham Cassano is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Oakland University, outside Detroit, Michigan. He is author of A New Kind of Public: Community, Solidarity, And Political Economy in New Deal Cinema, 1935–1948 (Haymarket, 2016) and the forthcoming edited volume Eleanor Smith’s Hull-House Songs: The Music of Protest and Hope in Jane Addams’s Chicago (Brill).
Magnus Dahlstedt is Professor in Social Work at the Department of Social and Welfare Studies, Linköping University, Sweden. He has an academic background in political science and cultural studies. Among his primary research interests are the politics of inclusion/exclusion, citizenship and democracy. Currently, his research is mainly oriented towards the formation of citizenship and the struggles for defining citizenship, in the context of the multi-ethnic city. Recent publications include The Confessing Society: Foucault, Confession and Practices of Lifelong Learning, co-authored with Andreas Fejes (Routledge, 2013) and International Migration and Ethnic Relations: Critical Perspectives, co-edited with Anders Neergaard (Routledge, 2015).
Massimo D’Alema was born in Rome, Italy, in 1949. He is a professional journalist and was chief editor of the daily newspaper l’Unità from 1988 to 1990. His political activities began in 1963, when he joined the Italian Young Communists’ Federation (FGCI). In 1975 he was elected General Secretary of the organization, until 1980. In 1987 he was elected member of the Italian Parliament (Chamber of Deputies). In 1989 he was actively engaged in the process which transformed the Italian Communist Party into the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS). In 1992 he became President of the PDS parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies. He was re-elected MP both in 1994 and 1996. In July 1994 he was elected General Secretary of the PDS. On 5 February 1997 he was elected Chair of the parliamentary Committee on Constitutional reform. In October 1998 Mr. D’Alema became Prime Minister of Italy. He was in office until April 2000. In December 2000 he was elected President of the Democrats of the Left. In October 2003, at the 22nd Congress of the Socialist International in Sao Paulo, Brazil, he was elected Vice President of the S.I. In June 2004 Mr D’Alema became a Member of the European Parliament. On 17 May 2006 he was appointed deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary in the Prodi government. On 22 April 2008 he was elected MP for Apulia representing the Democratic Party. From January 2010 to March 2013 he has been President of the Parliamentary Commission for the Security of the Republic (COPASIR). From June 2010 to June 2017 he has been President of the Foundation of European Progressive Studies (FEPS). He is President of the Fondazione Italianieuropei and has published several books.
Michael D. Doan is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Eastern Michigan University. His research is in social epistemology, social and political philosophy, and moral psychology. He is the author of “Responsibility for Collective Inaction and the Knowledge Condition”, Social Epistemology 30(5–6): 532–554. He lives in Detroit, where he has been involved in struggles around education and access to safe, clean, affordable water.
David Fasenfest is Associate Professor of Sociology and Urban Affairs, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Wayne State University since 1998 and is Visiting Professor, Institute for Global Studies, Shanghai University. He is an economist and sociologist who has written numerous articles on regional and urban economic development, labor market analysis, work force development, and income inequality. His work has appeared in Economic Development Quarterly, Urban Affairs Review, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and the International Journal of Sociology. His most recent edited publications include Engaging Social Justice: Critical Studies of 21st Century Social Transformation (Haymarket, 2010), and Social Change, Resistance and Social Practice (Haymarket, 2011). In addition, he is currently the book series editor of Brill’s Studies in Critical Social Science.
Peter J. Hammer is Professor and, since the Fall of 2018, the A. Alfred Taubman Endowed Chair at Wayne State University Law School. Hammer has taught at Wayne Law since 2003 and is the Director of the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights at Wayne Law. The Keith Center is dedicated to promoting the educational, economic and political empowerment of under-represented communities in urban areas and to ensuring that the phrase “equal justice under law” applies to all members of society. Hammer was instrumental in editing and compiling Judge Damon J. Keith’s biography, Crusader for Justice: Federal Judge Damon J. Keith (2013).
Ami Harbin is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women & Gender Studies at Oakland University. Her research is in feminist philosophy, ethics, moral psychology, bioethics, and social philosophy. She is the author of Disorientation and Moral Life (Oxford University Press, 2016). She lives in Detroit, where she has been involved in struggles around education and access to safe, clean, affordable water.
Sharon “Shea” Howell is a Professor of Communications at Oakland University. She lives in Detroit, where she has been an activist for more than three decades. She works with youth, artists and community-based development. She is a co-founder of the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership and Detroit Summer.
Jacob Lederman is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan-Flint. He has published widely on economic crisis and urban reinvestment in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His current research interests explore governance, community participation, and the role of austerity in urban restructuring in Flint and Detroit.
Anders Neergaard is Professor of Sociology at REMESO, The Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society at Linköping University, Sweden. His research and publications span issues such as labour migration, racialized discrimination, trade union organisation and extreme right-wing/racist parties. Recent publications include “Racist Dreams and Municipal Budgets: Women Representing a Culturally Racist Party in Local Politics”, Social Identities (2015), co-authored with Diana Mulinari; International Migration and Ethnic Relations: Critical Perspectives, co-edited with Magnus Dahlstedt (Routledge, 2015); Migration, Precarity, and Global Governance: Challenges and Opportunities for Labour, co-edited with Schierup, Munck and Likic-Brboric (Oxford University Press, 2015); and Reimagineering the Nation: Essays on Twenty-First Century Sweden, co-edited with Ålund and Schierup (Peter Lang, 2016).
Shawn Nichols is a lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research interests are rooted in International Political Economy, with a focus on critical approaches to understanding emerging transnational class formation. Her current work is concerned with the development and expansion of investor–state dispute settlement for institutionalizing neoliberal discipline.
William K. Tabb is Professor Emeritus, Queens College and of Sociology, Political Science and Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is completing a book tentatively titled: Interregnum; Why the Center Does Not Hold, Economics and Politics Beyond Populism and Liberalism. His other books are listed on his Amazon Author’s Page and many of his articles can be downloaded from his Academia.edu page.
