| Kum-Kum Bhavnani is professor of sociology, global studies and feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. John Foran is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Priya A. Kurian is professor of political science and public policy at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Debashish Munshi is Professor of Management Communication at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. AMY LIND is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at Arizona State University, Tempe. Her research has focused on gender, development, and women's political participation in Latin America, particularly in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru. Ifi Amadiume is a award-winning poet and a political activist as well as an academic. She has lived in Nigeria and the UK and is currently a professor at Dartmouth College, USA. There, she teaches both in the Department of Religion and on the African-American Studies Programme. Professor Amadiume is author of the influential Male Daughters, Female Husbands (Zed Books, 1988) which won the Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year award in 1989. Jan Nederveen Pieterse is Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies and Sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His previous publications include Ethnicities and Global Multiculture (2007) and Globalization and Empire (2004). He has previously edited two Zed books Global Futures and The Decolonization of Imagination. Arturo Escobar is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. His main interests are political ecology, ontological design, and the anthropology of globalization, social movements, and technoscience. He is the author of Designs for the Pluriverse (2018), and is engaged in transition design projects in Colombia. Wendy Harcourt is Professor of Gender, Diversity and Sustainable Development at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands. |
