James Aho is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Idaho State University. His latest book is Far-Right Fantasy: A Sociology of American Religion and Politics (Routledge, 2016).
Pascal Buggs is a doctoral student in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University at Buffalo. He received a Master’s in City and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. His research focuses on affordable housing policy and community development in the USA.
Lucas Cifuentes is an Adjunct Researcher at FLACSO, Chile. Between 2011 and 2016, he was a researcher in two projects on unionism and collective action in Chile, funded by FONDECYT (projects N°1131018 and N°1110973). His research focuses on labor process, trade unions, and occupational health.
Tim Christiaens is a PhD-researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Belgium. His research concerns the use of French and Italian philosophy in the critique of neoliberalism. He has published in journals like Theory, Culture & Society, Rethinking Marxism, and Philosophy & Social Criticism.
Mona Khneisser is a PhD Student in Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She graduate with an MA in Sociology from the American University of Beirut (AUB) and have worked as an Instructor and Researcher at the Sociology Department, the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy & International Affairs & the Asfari Institute for Civil Society & Citizenship at AUB, Lebanon. Her research interests are mainly centered on the Arab world and in the fields of social movements studies, sectarianism, and political economy.
Lena Martinsson is a Professor in Gender Studies at the University of Gothenburg. Her research interests are on feminism, post-Marxism, post- and decolonial studies, and intersectionality. Together with Eva Reimers, they have developed and introduced norm critical perspectives in education and have edited several books, including Education and Political Subjectivities in Neoliberal Times and Places: Emergence of Norms and Possibilities (Reimers and Martinsson 2017), School in Norms [Skola i normer] (Martinsson and Reimers 2009), reprinted several times, with a new extended edition published in 2020; Norm-Struggles (Martinsson and Reimers 2010); and Norms at Work (2007). Martinsson’s recent publications include Dreaming Global Change, Doing Local Feminisms: Visions of Feminism. Global North/Global South Encounters, Conversations and Disagreements (2018).
Camden Miller is a doctoral student in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University at Buffalo. She received a Master’s in Urban Planning from the University at Buffalo and a Bachelor of Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on affordable housing with an emphasis on inner-city rental markets.
Pablo Pérez Ahumada is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile and Adjunct Researcher at the Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES). His research focuses on social class, labor, and political conflict. Currently he leads a research project on industrial conflict in Argentina and Chile (FONDECYT N°11190229). He has published articles in journals such as Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Current Sociology, and Journal of Latin American Studies.
Francisco Quintana Castelló has received PhD in both Psychology and Sociology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain. He has been a Professor and Researcher at the University of Barcelona and the University College London, as well as a Researcher at the London School of Economics. He is currently a member of the Consolidated PsychoSao Research Group (University of Barcelona). He is co-author of Assault on the Factory (2002) and Barcelona, Registered Trademark (2004). He is the author, among other articles, of “Socio-cognitive activity and post-Fordist contexts” (2009) and “The power struggle in Catalonia” (2018).
Eva Reimers is a Professor of Educational Practice at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her background is in Religious Studies and Education, and she has received a PhD in Communication Studies. These fields are brought together in her research, which focuses not only on norms and diversity in education but also in other contexts, such as Church, Media, and Death Practices. With Lena Martinsson, they have developed and introduced norm critical perspectives in education. They have edited several books, including Education and Political Subjectivities in Neoliberal Times and Places: Emergence of Norms and Possibilities (Reimers and Martinsson 2017), School in Norms [Skola i normer] (Martinsson and Reimers 2009), reprinted several times, with a new extended edition published in 2020; Norm-Struggles (Martinsson and Reimers 2010); and Norms at Work (2007). Reimers’ recent publications include the article “Homonationalism in teacher education – productions of schools as heteronormative national places” published in Irish Journal of Education (2017).
Kim Scipes is a Professor of Sociology at Purdue University Northwest in Westville, Indiana. A global labor scholar, with three books and over 200 articles and book reviews published, his writings are listed online—many with links to original articles—at https://www.pnw.edu/faculty/kim-scipes-ph-d/publications/. His latest book, Building Global Labor Solidarity: Lessons from the Philippines, South Africa, Northwestern Europe and the United States, will be published this summer.
Robert Mark Silverman is a Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University at Buffalo. His research focuses on fair and affordable housing, community development, the non-profit sector, and education reform. Some of his recent publications include: the 2016 co-authored book Affordable Housing in US Shrinking Cities: From Neighborhoods of Despair to Neighborhoods of Opportunity? and the 2015 co-authored book Qualitative Research Methods for Community Development.
Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. is a Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University at Buffalo. His research focuses on the historical and contemporary analysis of underdeveloped urban neighborhoods, race-based health disparities, Cuban Studies, and race and class issues among people of color, especially African Americans and Latinos. Some of his recent publications include the 2009 book Inside El Barrio: A Bottom-Up View of Neighborhood Life in Castro’s Cuba and the 2000 book Historical Roots of the Urban Crisis: African Americans in the Industrial City, 1900–1950.
Cihan Tuğal, a Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley, works on politics, economic change, and religion. His first book Passive Revolution (Stanford, 2009) studied pro-capitalist Islam and its popularization among the poor. In his second book The Fall of the Turkish Model (Verso, 2016), Tuğal analyzed Islamic movements and regimes in Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia, and Iran. His most recent book Caring for the Poor (2017, Routledge) discusses liberalism’s uneasy relations with charitable ethics. He now explores populism and revolution in the contemporary world system.
Li Yin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University at Buffalo. Her research focuses on applications of GIS, spatial modeling, and simulation methods. Her work has a particular focus on housing and neighborhood conditions in shrinking cities in the USA. One of her recent publications is the 2016 co-authored book Affordable Housing in US Shrinking Cities: From Neighborhoods of Despair to Neighborhoods of Opportunity?
