Peter Beyer
is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. His work has focused principally on the relation between religion and globalization, on religion and migration in Canada, on religious diversity and more recently on nonreligion and the transmission of religion across generations in the contemporary era. He is the author of Religion and Globalization (sage Publications Ltd, 1994), Religions in Global Society (Routledge, 2006), Religion in the Context of Globalization (Routledge, 2013), and Growing Up Canadian: Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists (with R. Ramji, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013).
John Boli
is Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, Emory University. His research topics include global structures and processes, education, state expansion, organizations, and culture. His main contribution to sociology has been analyses of the role of international nongovernmental organizations (ingos) in the construction and propagation of world culture, as well as studies of world culture’s effects on states, organizations, and individuals. He is author or co-author of many articles, chapters, and books, among which are Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations Since 1875 (Stanford University Press, 1999), World Culture: Origins and Consequences (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005), and The Globalization Reader (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015), now in its sixth edition (2020).
Didem Buhari Gulmez
is an Associate Professor of International Relations at Izmir Katip Celebi University, Turkey. Her research focuses on globalization, world society and Europe. She is the author of Europeanization in a Global Context: Integrating Turkey into the World Polity (Palgrave, 2017), and co-edited Global Culture: Consciousness and Connectivity (Routledge, 2016, with Roland Robertson), Rethinking Ideology in the Age of Global Discontent (Routledge, 2018, with Barrie Axford and B. Gulmez), and Crisis and Change in Post-Cold War International Relations (Palgrave, 2018, with Dovile Budryte and Erica Resende).
Rebecca Catto
is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Kent State University. Her research is qualitative in approach and framed by an overarching interest in
Richard Giulianotti
is Professor of Sociology at Loughborough University and Professor ii at the University of South-Eastern Norway. He has researched and published widely on sport, globalization, development and peace, policing and security, youth, crime and deviance, mega-events, and migration. His substantial collaborative work with Roland Robertson has included the co-authored book, Globalization and Football (Sage, 2009) and the co-edited book, Globalization and Sport (John Wiley & Sons, 2007). His other publications include Football: A Sociology of the Global Game (Polity Press, 1999), Sport: A Critical Sociology (Polity Press, 2005), Ethics, Money and Sport (with A.J. Walsh; Routledge,, 2007), and Policing the London 2012 Olympics (with G. Armstrong and D. Hobbs; Routledge, 2016). He is currently undertaking researching alcohol consumption in football contexts in the UK.
Ulf Hannerz
is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, Sweden. His research has been especially in urban anthropology, media anthropology and transnational cultural processes, with field studies in West Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. Among his books are Soulside (Columbia University Press, 1969), Exploring the City (Columbia University Press, 1980), Cultural Complexity (Columbia University Press, 1992), Transnational Connections (Routledge,1996), Foreign News (The University of Chicago Press, 2004), Anthropology’s World (Pluto Press, 2010), Writing Future Worlds (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and World Watching (Routledge, 2019). He was the Anthropology editor for the International Enyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2001). In 2005 he was awarded an honorary doctorate at the University of Oslo.
David Inglis
is Professor of Sociology at the University of Helsinki. He writes in the areas of cultural sociology, historical sociology, and social theory, both modern and classical. He has written and edited various books in these areas, most recently An Invitation to Social Theory (Wiley, 2018, second edition), The Sage Handbook of Cultural Sociology (Sage, 2016), The Routledge International Handbook of Veils
Paul James
is Professor of Globalization and Cultural Diversity in the Institute for Culture and Society at the Western Sydney University. He is author and editor of over 30 books, including Globalization Matters (with Manfred Steger; Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Urban Sustainability in Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2015). He is Scientific Advisor to the Mayor of Berlin, and has been an advisor to a number of agencies and governments including the Papua New Guinea Minister for Community Development. From 2007 till 2014 he was Director of the United Nations agency, the Global Compact Cities Programme.
Habibul Haque Khondker
is Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, uae, He is the author of Globalization East and West (with Bryan Turner; Sage, 2010). He is co-editor of Covid-19 and Governance: Crisis Reveals (with Jan Nederveen Pieterse and Haeran Lim; Routledge, 2021). He also co-edited Twenty-first Century Globalization: Perspectives from the Gulf (with Jan Nederveen Pieterse; Zayed University Press, 2010), and Asia and Europe in Globalization: Continents, Regions, and Nations (with Goran Therborn; Brill, 2006). His current research interests include Asian Globalization, social sciences and social change in the Gulf region and South Asia, democratization and gender role transformation and sociology of migration and diaspora.
Anne Sophie Krossa
is Professor of Social Sciences in Mainz, Germany. Her research focuses on social theory, with a strong interest in glocalization and conflict theory. Together with Roland Robertson, she edited European Cosmopolitanism in Question (Springer, 2019), She is author of Theorizing Society in a Global Context (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and Analysing Society in a Global Context (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Her current research focuses on glocalization in the context of sport, difference and practices of inclusion and exclusion; and on glocal circulations of the material ‘clothing’, related imaginaries and practices, and their impacts on social relations and structures.
is Professor of Sociology at Emory University. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, where Roland Robertson was his main mentor. In addition to publishing papers on religion, sports, and theory, and co-editing The Globalization Reader (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015, sixth edition 2019; with John Boli), he has written several books, the very titles of which show Robertson’s influence: World Culture: Origins and Consequences (Stanford University Press, 2004; with John Boli), The Netherlands: Globalization and National Identity (Routledge, 2008), Globalization: The Making of World Society (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), and The American Exception (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
Kristian Naglo
is Senior Researcher in Cultural Sociology and Social Sciences at the Institute for European Sport Development and Leisure Studies, German Sports University Cologne. His research interests encompass themes such as the culture of the everyday, the construction of knowledge and concepts of diversity. Recent publications include ‘Social Change, Astro-Turfs, and Entrepreneurial Activities in the Context of German Non-Elite Football’, International Journal of the History of Sport 35, 7–8 (2018); ‘Steffi Graf and Boris Becker: German Tennis, National Identity and the Mash of Media Images’, in R. J. Lake (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Tennis: History, Culture and Politics (Routledge, 2019); and ‘Core Activity, Event and Crisis: Making the Small Worlds of Amateur Football’ (with Dariuš Zifonun), in K. Naglo, D. Porter, Dilwyn and J. Mittag (eds.), Small Worlds: Football at the Grassroots in Europe (Moving the Social 61, 2019). His current book project (forthcoming 2021) is concerned with the construction of knowledge in the social worlds of organised non-elite football.
John H. Simpson
is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Toronto. At the University of Toronto, he served two terms as the chair of the Department of Sociology. Prior to that he was the director of the university’s graduate programme in religion administered by the Centre for Religion. He has published articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and book reviews on a variety of topics. These include the role of the Protestant parish minister, high gods in pre-literate societies, evangelical politics, deviance, war and religion, and social evolution. He co-edited a book on Jews in Canada. He served a term as president of the Association for the Sociology of Religion.
is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawai’i-Manoa and Global Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. He has served as an academic consultant on globalization for the US State Department and as an advisor to the pbs television series, Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism. He is the author of twenty-eight books on globalization and social theory, including the bestselling Globalization: A Very Short Introduction, fifth edition (Oxford University Press, 2020); the award-winning Globalisms: Facing the Populist Challenge, fifth edition (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020); The Rise of the Global Imaginary: Political Ideologies from the French Revolution to the Global War on Terror (Oxford University Press, 2008) and, most recently, Globalization Matters: Engaging the Global in Unsettled Times (with Paul James; Cambridge University Press, 2019).
George M. Thomas
is Professor of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. He researches world cultural processes, their constitutive effects on authority and identity, and how religious groups engage these processes. He has published on globalization, world culture, nation-state authority and policies in world society, international non-state actors, and religious rights, including studies of Protestant engagements of individualistic capitalism and nationalism in the nineteenth-century United States (Revivalism and Cultural Change, The University of Chicago Press, 1989), global civil society (Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations Since 1875, co-editor John Boli, Stanford University Press, 1999), and contentions surrounding religious rights especially as they are formulated in international human rights arenas and discourse. Recent work uses sociological institutionalism and world culture theory to develop a critique of the modern sovereign subject by drawing implications for thinking about human personhood and about the locations of sovereignty and the sacred in world society.