Josep Maria Antentas is a professor of sociology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). His research and writing focus on social movements, labor, and political sociology. josepmaria.antentas@pangea.org
Anne Dufresne Anne Dufresne, PhD in sociology (University of Paris X and ULB) is a researcher at the Research Group for an Alternative Economic Strategy (GRESEA), and an associate researcher at CIRTES (Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Work, State and Society - UCL) in Brussels. Specialized in European trade unionism, her research today focuses on atypical and/or transnational social mobilization. Her publications include “Riders of the world, unite!”. anne.dufresne@gresea.be
Verónica Gago teaches political science at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and is professor of sociology at the Instituto de Altos Estudios, Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM). As a researcher at the National Council of Research (CONICET), she is also part of GIIF (Group for Feminist Research and Intervention). Gago is the author of Neoliberalism from Below: Popular Pragmatics and Baroque Economies (2017), Feminist International (2020), is co-author with Luci Cavallero of A Feminist Reading of Debt (2021), and of numerous articles published in journals and books throughout Latin America, Europe, and the United States. She is a member of the independent radical collective press Tinta Limón. She is on the board of several academic journals: Critical Times, Hypatia. A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Scripta Nova, Revista Electrónica de Geografía y Ciencias Sociales, Dialogues in Human Geography, and Revista Bajo el Volcán. She was visiting professor and lecturer at different universities in the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, United States, Germany, Chile, Brazil, Colombia, Perú, and México. verogago76@gmail.com
Jordi G. Guzmán is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Leeds (UK). His research focuses on the contentious politics deployed by tenants against corporate landlords in Barcelona following the 2008 financial crisis. He is leading the tenant survey in Barcelona under the project Contested Territories (H-2020, Marie Sklodowska-Curie). He also teaches urban criminology as an associate lecturer at the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). jgonzalezguzman94@gmail.com
Marta Ill-Raga is a PhD candidate at the University of Ghent, Department of Conflict and Development Studies. Her thesis is nested in the ERC research project “Property and Democratic Citizenship” by Dr Marianne Maeckelbergh (PI). The project explores the tensions between private property rights, the right to equality, and shelter in different Western democracies. In particular, the thesis investigates contested residential rent relations in Barcelona with a double aim: on the one hand, to make an empirical contribution to the understanding of the recent transformation of the Spanish property regime, in which the private rental market became a prominent ground for speculation after the collapse of the mortgage system in 2008; and, on the other, to incorporate an ethnographic perspective of rent relations to the growing scholarly debate around rent theory. As a militant and founding member of the Tenants’ Union of Barcelona, the research is based on tenants’ experiences of their residential conditions and the resistances articulated against them. marta.illraga@gmail.com
Larry W. Isaac is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Sociology & Political Economy at Vanderbilt University. He is past editor of the American Sociological Review and past president of the Southern Sociological Society. Specializing in anti-racist civil rights movements, labor movements, political economy of inequality, and historical sociology, he is an award-winning author of numerous scholarly articles. larry.isaac@vanderbilt.edu
Aaron Jaffe is a faculty member in Liberal Arts at The Julliard School. He specializes in Kant and German idealism, critical theory, social and political philosophy, and the history of philosophy. His research investigates the historical sources and structures of norms and critique, and current research includes the intersection of Kant’s political critique and forms of property. In addition to tutoring in the Writing and Communications Center, he teaches the core (Ethics; Society, Politics, and Culture; Citizenship, Arts and Politics), and his recent elective courses include Philosophy of Black Liberation, 19th-Century Philosophy, Marx as Philosopher, and Feminist Philosophy. He is the author of Social Reproduction Theory and the Socialist Horizon: Work, Power and Political Strategy. ajaffe@juilliard.edu
Elias Koenig writes about social movements and climate justice and is involved in the Shell Must Fall alliance. His essays have appeared in The Ecologist, Truthout, New Bloom, analyse & kritik - Zeitung für linke Debatten, der Freitag, and Klimareporter.de, among others. Most recently, he conducted research on environmental philosophy from a Chinese perspective as a Yenching Scholar at Peking University. eliaskoenig@protonmail.com
Paul F. Lipold earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from Florida State University in 2003. His primary research interests include the history and dynamics of labor management conflict and workplace violence. plipold@att.net
Rodrigo M. Medel is a researcher and a professor of Sociology in Faculty of Education and Social Sciences at Universidad Andres Bello in Chile. His research interests revolve around non-electoral political participation, labor strikes, and social movements. His work has been published in Acta Politica, Latin American Politics and Society, Social Science Quarterly, Critical Sociology, Social Movement Studies, Cahiers des Amériques latines, among others. His current research focuses on political strikes and labor movements in Latin America. rmmedel@uc.cl
Jörg Nowak is an Assistant Professor of International Political Economy at the Institute for International Relations at University of Brasília, Brazil. He has published on strikes and social movements, labor geography and logistics and infrastructure in journals such as Review of International Political Economy, Globalizations, and Tempo Social. He is the author of Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India (Palgrave, 2019). His current research focuses on racial capitalism and on the digitalization of labor in transportation and logistics. joerg.nowak@gmx.de
Margherita Sabrina Perra is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Sciences of the University of Cagliari (Italy). Her research interests include capitalism and inequalities, industrial relations and labor movement in Europe and China and, migration. She is editor in chief of the journal Notebooks: The Journal for Studies on Power. She is a member of the Editorial Board of national scientific journals. Her work appeared in international journals including International Review of Sociology and West European Politics. mperra@unica.it
Katia Pilati is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Research (DSRS) of the University of Trento (Italy). Her research interests include social and labor movements, immigration, civic and political participation. Her work appeared in international journals including Ethnic and Racial Studies, European Journal of Political Research, Global Networks, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Mobilization, Social Movement Studies, West European Politics. She is the author of three books and a member of the Editorial Board of Mobilization and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. katia.pilati@unitn.it
Brittney Rose is a Ph.D. student at Vanderbilt University. Her primary research interests reside in the political economy of military power, especially discourse on “collateral damage.” brittney.a.rose@vanderbilt.edu
Marco Aurélio Santana is a professor of sociology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He coordinates the Work and Society research group at the Philosophy and Social Science Institute (IFCS-UFRJ). He has published widely about work and labor movement in Brazil in journals such as Work and Occupations, Latin American Perspectives, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research and Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios del Trabajo. msantana@ifcs.ufrj
