Eduardo Enríquez Arévalo has a Phd in Latin American Studies from Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar-Ecuador and has a Master’s degree in Sociology by the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences-Ecuador (FLACSO Ecuador). His main subjects of investigation are democracy, social movements, populism and the national-popular, ideology, left wing politics, Latin American and Ecuadorian politics, Latin American social thought, critical international and global studies and post-colonial issues.
Carlotta Caciagli is a research fellow at Dastu, Department of Urban Studies, Polytechnic of Milan. She works on social movements. In particular, she studies urban transformations and urban mobilizations. She is working on socio-spatial segregation in European cities. In her latest publications there are: Chesta, R.E., L. Zamponi and C. Caciagli (2019) “Labour activism and social movement unionism in the gig economy: Food delivery workers’struggles in Italy”. Partecipazione e Conflitto 12.3: 819-844 and Caciagli, C. (2019) “Housing squats as “Educational Sites of Resistance”: The Process of Movement Social Base Formation in the Struggle for the House”. Antipode –A Journal of Radical Geography. 51.3: 730-749.
Donatella Della Porta is professor of political science, dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences and Director of the PhD program in Political Science and Sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, where she also leads the Center on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos). In 2011, she was the recipient of the Mattei Dogan Prize for distinguished achievements in the field of political sociology. She is Honorary Doctor of the universities of Lausanne, Bucharest, Goteborg, Jyvaskyla and the University of Peloponnese. Among her very recent publications are: Social Movements: An introduction, 3rd edition (Blackwell, 2020); Can Social Movements Save Democracy? (Polity, 2020), Die schöne neue Demokratie. Über das Potenzial sozialer Bewegungen (Campus Verlag, 2020), Contesting Higher Education (Bristol University Press, 2020), Discoursive Turns and Critical Junctures (Oxford University Press, 2020), Legacies and Memories in Movements (Oxford University Press, 2018)
Larissa Fleischmann is a Postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Human Geography at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. In early 2019, she completed her PhD on the contested solidarities of the German summer of welcome at the University of Konstanz, where she was a member of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology as well as the Centre of Excellence “Cultural Foundations of Social Integration” from 2014 to 2018. Her research interests include solidarity and political mobilisations in migration societies, refugee activism, and the anthropology of humanitarianism, amongst others.
Vassilis K. Fouskas is a Professor of international relations and the director of the Centre for the Study of States, Markets & People (STAMP) at the University of East London. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies (Routledge since 1998) and, most recently, the co-author of The Disintegration of Euro-Atlanticism and New Authoritarianism (Palgrave, 2019). He has co-edited the Symposium on neo-liberalism and ordoliberalism, published in Critical Sociology, v.45, n.7-8.
William Jefferies is a lecturer at SOAS University of London. He has developed an original critique of Sraffa’s physical price system, Piero Sraffa and the Production of Commodities by Means of Magic (Critical Sociology 2015), and Piero Sraffa’s Physical Price System and Reproduction without Production (Capital and Class, 2019). In addition, he has published articles on the measure of the transition period of centrally planned economies to capitalism and the impact of these issues on assessments of globalisation in the Review of Radical Political Economics and the Journal of International Critical Thought.
Jan Lust has a PhD. in Development Studies. He is a researcher and professor at the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences of the University Ricardo Palma in Peru and forms part of the Board of Directors of the University’s Research Center. He is the author of Capitalism, Class and Revolution in Peru, 1980-2016, a book that analyzes the political, economic and social reasons why the Peruvian socialist left has not been able to carry out its revolutionary project of social transformation. His academic interests encompass international political economy, Peruvian political, economic and social development, labor issues, class, social movements and guerrilla struggle.
Susi Meret is an Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. Her main interest is within radical right-wing parties and populism in Europe, political extremism and violence, civil society reactions and mobilizations. Among her latest publications: (forthcoming) Duties first, rights next! The Danish Social Democrats’ right turn on migration politics. In: Brandal N, Bratberg Ø and Einar TD (eds), Social Democracy in the 21st century, Comparative Social Research; (2021) Populism in Denmark. In: Albertazzi D and Vampa D (eds) Populism and New Patterns of Political Competition in Western Europe. (2019) What Can We Learn from Gramsci Today? Migrant Subalternity and the Refugee Movements: Perspectives from the Lampedusa in Hamburg. In: Antonini F, Fusaro L, Bernstein A and Jackson R (eds) Revisiting Gramsci’s Notebooks. Brill. For more publications: https://vbn.aau.dk/en/persons/100658/publications/
Sonja Moghaddari is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern. Her research is situated at the nexus between migration, inequality and social movement studies, and focusses on transnationalism, postcolonialism, systems of value, affect theory, temporalities and futures. Her recent book Internal Diversity: Iranian Germans between Local Boundaries and Transnational Capital (2020) explains how relations between migrants reflect the way they engage with the interconnection of local and global inequalities.
Helge Schwiertz is a researcher at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) as well as at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Osnabrück in Germany. He recently completed his PhD on the radical democracy of migratory youth struggles in Germany and the United States. He was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of Vienna and he is a founding editor of movements. Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies. His research interests include migration and border studies, anti-migrant movements and racism, (pro-)migrant organizing, citizenship studies, radical democracy and political theory.
Clement Sefa-Nyarko has over seven years of experience in critical social assessments in sub-Saharan Africa. His research has focused on social determinants of political stability and is currently undertaking a study to reframe the natural resource curse discourse in Ghana using political theory analyses. It assesses political behaviour and institutions that inform options for natural resource exploration in sub-Saharan Africa. He is a Doctoral Candidate at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, with two previous Master of Arts degrees obtained from Kings College London and the University of Ghana on the broad areas of history, demography, politics, and development.
Birte Siim is Professor Emerita, Aalborg University, Denmark. Recent publications include: The Politics and Act of Solidarity: The Case of Trampoline House in Copenhagen. In: Baban, F and Rykiel K (eds) Fostering Pluralism through Solidarity Activism in Europe: Everyday Encounters with Newcomers (2021 with S. Meret). Inclusive Political Intersections of Migration, Race, Gender and Sexuality – The Cases of Austria and Denmark NORA. Nordic Journal of Gender and Feminist Research, 2020 (with B. Sauer); Citizens’ Activism and Solidarity Movements: Contending with Populism, 2018 (ed. with A. Saarinen and A. Krasteva); Diversity and Contestation over Nationalism in Europe and Canada, 2018 (ed. with J-E. Fossum and R. Kastoryano); ‘Gendering European welfare states and citizenship - revisioning inequalities’, in P. Kennett and N. Lendvai-Benton (eds.). Handbook of European Social Policy, 2017 (with A. Borchorst); ‘Political Intersectionality and Democratic Politics in the European Public Sphere’, Politics & Gender, 2014; Negotiation Gender and Diversity in an Emergent European Public Sphere (ed. with M. Mokre) 2013. See: https://vbn.aau.dk/en/persons/104482/publications/
Elias Steinhilper is a postdoctoral researcher at the German Centre for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) in Berlin and a member of the Centre on Social Movements Studies (Cosmos) in Florence. Trained as a political sociologist in Berlin, Freiburg and Florence, he has a particular interest in migration, political conflict, civil society and social movements. His research has been published in various peer-reviewed journals including Sociology, Social Movement Studies, International Migration and in the recent monograph Migration Protest: Interactive Dynamics in Precarious Mobilizations (2021 Amsterdam University Press).
Robin Vandevoordt is an assistant professor in Migration and Refugee Studies at CESSMIR (Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees), Ghent University. Since 2017, he has been conducting ethnographic fieldwork with solidarity initiatives in Belgium, focusing on the political ambivalences of grassroots humanitarian action. Before that, he has worked with Syrians on their experiences of Belgian citizenship policies and social work practices. His main research interests are in forced migration, solidarity movements, grassroots humanitarian action, asylum and migration policies, and critical theory.
Mengyang Zhao is a PhD candidate at University of Pennsylvania. She studies transnational social movements and digital labor. Her dissertation analyzes the rise of platform game work in China.
