Hideo Aoki
is the Director of Institute of Social Theory and Dynamics in Japan. His research interests include homelessness, state and informality in Japan and the Philippines, and Japanese Marxism. Recent publications related to these interests are: Japan’s Underclass: Day Laborers and the Homeless, (Trans Pacific Press, 2000); “The Global City Hypothesis” Social Theory and Dynamics 1 (2016); “Marxism and the Debate on the Transition to Capitalism in Prewar Japan,” Critical Sociology (2020); “Marxism and the Debate on the Transition to Capitalism in Prewar Japan,” Critical Sociology (2020); and “Urban Space of Exception and Urban Homo Sacer: Toward Embodying Critical Informality Theory,” Social Theory and Dynamics 4 (2023).
Tom Brass
formerly lectured in the Social and Political Sciences Faculty at Cambridge University and directed studies in sps for Queens’ College. He carried out fieldwork research in Latin America and India during the 1970s and 1980s and is the second-longest serving editor of The Journal of Peasant Studies (1990–2008). His books include New Farmers’ Movements in India (1995), Free and Unfree Labour: The Debate Continues (1997), Towards a Comparative Political Economy of Unfree Labour (1999), Peasants, Populism and Postmodernism (2000), Latin American Peasants (2003), Labour Regime Change in the Twenty-First Century (2011), Class, Culture and the Agrarian Myth (2014), Labour Markets, Identities, Controversies (2017), Revolution and Its Alternatives (2019), Marxism Missing, Missing Marxism (2021), and Transitions (2022).
Michael Burawoy
now Emeritus Professor, taught Marxism and sociology at the University of California, Berkeley for nearly 50 years. He has been an ethnographer of workplaces in the United States, Zambia, Hungary and Russia, developing theories of advanced capitalism, postcolonialism, state socialism and the transition from socialism to capitalism. His latest work tries to come to terms with the genius of W.E.B. Du Bois.
is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Gerontology at Miami University (Ohio) and Director of the university’s Black World Studies program. He specializes in the study of race and ethnic relations, inequality, critical race theory, and social justice. He has served on the editorial boards of the American Sociological Review; Social Forces; and Race, Class and Gender; on the executive boards of the Southern Sociological Society and Sociologists without Borders; and as Chair of the American Sociological Association’s section on Race and Ethnic Minorities. He has published dozens of articles and several edited books, and frequently writes on issues of race and ethnicity, education and public policy, civil rights and social justice. His 2004 edited book, Race and Ethnicity: Across Time, Space and Discipline won the Choice award from the American Library Association. He is also a recipient of the Joseph Himes Career Award in Scholarship and Activism from the Association of Black Sociologists.
Kevin R. Cox
is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Geography at The Ohio State University in Columbus. He is the author of numerous books, including Making Human Geography (2014), The Politics of Urban and Regional Development and the American Exception (2016), Marxism and Human Geography (2021), Boomtown Columbus (2021), and Geography Indivisible (2023). He has been a Guggenheim Fellow.
Raju J. Das
is Professor at York University, Toronto. He is on the Graduate Programmes in Social and Political Thought, Geography, Environmental Studies, and Development Studies. His teaching and research interests are in political economy, class relations, the state, uneven development, poverty, and politics of the Right and the Left. His recent books include Marxist Class Theory for a Sceptical World (2017), Marx’s Capital, Capitalism, and Limits to the State (2022), Contradictions of Capitalist Society and Culture (2023), and The Challenges of the New Social Democracy (2023). He is currently working on a book titled, A Marxist Theory of Dispossession: from Primitive Accumulation to Accumulation by Dispossession.
Ricardo A. Dello Buono
is Professor of Sociology at Manhattan College in New York City. His work has spanned across a broad range of social problems and the sociology of development, with a regional emphasis on Latin America. He is active in the
Mahito Hayashi
teaches urban studies and comparative Japanese studies in the Department of Global and Media Studies at Kinjo Gakuin University, Japan. His research focuses on poverty, labour, social movements, urban theory, and socio-spatial approaches to Marxist political economy. He is the author of Rescaling Urban Poverty (2023, Wiley) and Homelessness and Urban Space (2014, Akashi shoten, in Japanese), and has published widely in social science journals including Critical Sociology, Antipode, and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
Lauren Langman
is emeritus professor of sociology at Loyola University of Chicago. He has long worked in the Marxist tradition of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, especially nationalism and reactionary movements, relationships between culture, identity and politics/political movements. He is the past Chair of Marxist Sociology of the American Sociological Association, where he recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award, and past President of Alienation Research and Theory Committee of the International Sociological Association, also a founding member of the Global Studies Association, and the International Herbert Marcuse Society. Recent publications include Trauma Promise and Millennium: The Evolution of Alienation (with Devorah Kalekin), Alienation and Carnivalization (with Jerome Braun), and a special issue of Current Sociology on the Arab Spring. His latest books are: American Character (with George Lundskow); God, Guns, Gold and Glory (Brill/Haymarket); and Inequality in the 21st Century – Marx, Piketty and Beyond (with David Alan Smith). He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Critical Sociology, Current Perspectives in Social Theory, and Populism.
teaches in the Department of Politics at York University, Toronto. His recent publications include: “Organizing Anti-Capitalist Internationalism in Contemporary and Historical Perspective” (in Rethinking Marxism); Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left: Recasting Leftist Imagination (co-edited); “Neoliberalism’s Zeitgeist: The Untethered Disposition of Capitalism,” (in New Political Science); “Contemporary Capitalism, Uneven Development, and the Arc of Anti-capitalism” (in Global Discourse); The Radical Left and Social Transformation: Strategies of Augmentation and Reorganization (co-edited); and “From Duty to Impulsion: Obstacles to Organising Future Revolutions” (in Duty to Revolt: Transnational and Commemorative Aspects of Revolution).
Ngai Pun
is Chair/Professor in Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. She obtained her Ph.D. from soas, University of London. She was honoured as the winner of the C. Wright Mills Award for her first book Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace (2005), which has been translated into French and Chinese. Her co-authored book Dying for iPhone: Foxconn and the Lives of Chinese Workers (2020) has also been translated into German, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish and Chinese. She is the author of Migrant Labor in China: Post Socialist Transformation (2016, Polity Press), and editor of seven volumes in Chinese and English.
Alfredo Saad-Filho
is Professor of Political Economy and International Development at King’s College London; Distinguished Visiting Professor at the College of Business and Economics, University of Johannesburg, and Visiting Professor at the Department of Social Sciences, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology. Previously, he was Professor of Political Economy at soas University of London, and Senior Economic Affairs Officer at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. He has taught in universities and research institutions in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mozambique, South Africa, Switzerland and the UK. His publications include 17 books, 80 journal articles, 60 book chapters, and 30 reports for the UN and other international agencies. His most recent books include The Age of Crisis: Neoliberalism, the Collapse of Democracy, and the Pandemic (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) and Progressive Policies for Economic Development: Economic Diversification and Social Inclusion after Climate Change (London: Routledge, 2022).