Notes on Contributors
Mads Barbesgaard
is Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Human Geography, Lund University, Sweden and associate with the Transnational Institute, Netherlands. He works on agrarian change and resource extraction with a particular interest in the understanding of “classes of capital” and various strategies of accumulation amidst crises. His work has been published in Antipode, Journal of Peasant Studies, Journal of Agrarian Change, Journal of Rural Studies, Geoforum, and Marine Policy.
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), Transitions (2022), Interrogating the Future (2024), and Critiques: In Defence of Development (2025).
Toba Bryant
PhD, is Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, Ontario. She is author of Health Policy in Canada, and co-author with Dennis Raphael of The Politics of Health in the Canadian Welfare State. Dr Bryant is co-editor of Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care. She has published numerous book chapters and articles on policy change, housing as a social determinant of health, health within a population health perspective, the welfare state, health equity, and community quality of life. Her most recent work is concerned with the effects of plant closures on the health and well-being of laid-off workers and their communities in Oshawa and how these communities respond to these threats in an age of economic globalization.
Ronald W. Cox
is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University in Miami. He has written seven books on the global economy and U.S. foreign policy. Most recently, he authored Corporate Power, Class Conflict and the Crisis of the New Globalization (Lexington Books, 2019) and edited Capitalism and Class Power (Brill, 2023). In 2013, he became the founding editor of an online academic journal, Class, Race and Corporate Power, which continues to publish two issues per year.
Raju J Das
is Professor at York University, Toronto. His teaching and research interests are in political economy, class theory, the capitalist state, climate change and workers’ health, and international development. His recent books include: Marxist class theory for a skeptical world; Marx’s Capital, Capitalism, and Limits to the State; Contradictions of capitalist society and culture; The challenges of the new social democracy; and Theories for Radical Change. He serves on the editorial board and on the manuscript review committee of Science & Society. He edits (with Salvatore Engel-Dimauro) the Contentions section of Human Geography. He edits (with Robert Latham) the Theory and class struggle section of Race, Class and Corporate Power. He is also associated with Dialectical Anthropology and Critical Sociology. More information about his work is available at:
Ilia Farahani
is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of Human Geography, Lund University, Sweden. He defended his PhD in 2021, titled: Land Rent, Capital, Rate of Profit: A Critique of Harvey’s Model of Urban Land Rent. His research interests include Marxist geography, political economy of land and housing in urban contexts, and implications of de-globalization for essential urban services. His works include studies on spatial inequality, gentrification, land rent, and public housing in Iran, and land policy, capital switching, and land rent in Sweden.
David Fasenfest
has recently retired as an Associate Professor at Wayne State University in the U.S., and is currently an Adjunct Professor at York University, Toronto. He is by training a sociologist and economist with an interest in urban sociology and Marxist theory. His research interests centre on urban sociology, race/class/gender, labour markets, income inequality and community economic development. He has produced five edited volumes and written numerous book chapters and refereed journal articles. His most recent publication, Marx Matters received the 2022 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Publication. He edited the journal Critical Sociology for 25 years. He is the founding editor for the book series, Studies in Critical Social Sciences, and in July 2019, he became the founding co-editor (with Alfredo Saad Filho) of the series New Scholarship in Political Economy to promote innovative scholarship by new PhDs and early career scholars. An edited collection, Interrogating the Future: Essays in Honour of David Fasenfest (
Patrick Galba de Paula
holds a PhD in Economics from the Federal Fluminense University (Niterói, Brazil), and degrees in economics, and in legal and social sciences from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). He currently teaches political economy at the UFRJ Economics Institute.
Martha E. Gimenez
(PhD Sociology, UCLA 1973), has written in the areas of population theory, Marxist feminist theory, teaching, inequality and identity politics. Her work has been published in Latin American Perspectives, Gender & Society, Critical Sociology, Science & Society, Teaching Sociology and other journals. Her book, Marx, Women and Capitalist Social Reproduction was published by Brill in 2018.
Tim Hayslip
is a PhD student in sociology at York University, Canada. His research focuses on the intersection of the sociology of knowledge and economic sociology, seeking to explain the popularity of the Austrian School of Economics and its remedies for economic malaise. He is the co-author with Murray Smith of Thinking Systematics (2025).
Jostein Jakobsen
is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo. He works in agrarian studies, global agro-food systems, emerging infectious diseases, critical development studies, and political economy. He has recently authored Capital’s Food Regime: Class Struggle, the State and Corporate Agriculture in India (Brill, 2025), in which he analyses how India is being integrated into the global food regime at the current conjuncture, and with what consequences for the country’s classes of labor.
Robert Latham
is Professor in the Department of Politics at York University, Toronto. His recent publications include The Politics of Evasion: A Post-Globalization Dialogue Along the Edge of the State; “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).
Joshua Lew McDermott
is Assistant professor of sociology at Southeastern Louisiana University. He is a sociologist, poet, and political economist originally from the U.S. State of Idaho. His work explores the political economy of underdevelopment, urbanization, the state, informality, and labor in the Global South. He conducts fieldwork in Mexico and Sierra Leone. He has published numerous articles including “Understanding West Africa’s Informal Workers as Working Class” in Review of African Political Economy”, “The Dilemma of Consumerist Masculinity in Capitalist West Africa: Men Navigating Gender, Class, and Romance in Sierra Leone’s Informal Economy” in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, and other articles in publications such as Urban Studies, Jacobin, and Cosmonaut Magazine. His book of poetry, Codex, was published in 2019.
Tarique Niazi
is Professor of Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, WI. He teaches courses in Environmental Sociology, Sociology of the Middle East, Sociology of Food and Agriculture, and Contemporary Social Problems. His research interests include resource-based conflicts, environmental security, sociology of ethnic violence, and sociology of social change. He has published numerous articles and book chapters in his area of specialization. He has been founding Director of the Sustainable Management Degree Program at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. In 2018–19, he was elected Chair of the American Sociological Association (ASA)-Marxist Sociology. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) named him Jefferson Scholar for his graduate studies.
Joe Pateman
is Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at York University, Canada. His main research interests are Marxism-Leninism, Black Politics, and North Korean Politics. Joe is the co-author of Public Libraries and Marxism (Routledge, 2021), as well as the author of several articles in academic journals, including International Critical Thought, Science & Society, and Critique.
Dennis Raphael
PhD, is Professor at the School of Health Policy and Management at York University in Toronto. He is editor of Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives, Tackling Health Inequalities: Lessons from International Experiences, and Immigration, Public Policy, and Health: Newcomer Experiences in Developed Nations. He is author of Poverty in Canada: Implications for Health and Quality of Life and About Canada: Health and Illness, and co-author of The Politics of Health in the Canadian Welfare State, and co-editor of Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness and Health Care.
Alfredo Saad-Filho
is Professor of International Political Economy at Queen’s University Belfast, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa), Visiting Professor at LUT University (Finland), Visiting Professor at Università degli Studi della Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’ (Italy), Senior Associate Researcher at the University of Brasília (Brazil) and Professorial Research Associate at SOAS University of London (UK). He was Senior Economic Affairs Officer at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), in Geneva. 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 18 books, 80 journal articles, 60 book chapters, and 30 reports for 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).
Murray E.G. Smith
is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Brock University, Canada. He is the author, co-author or editor of many books including Invisible Leviathan (1994 and 2019), Early Modern Social Theory (1998), Culture of Prejudice (2003), Global Capitalism in Crisis (2010), Marxist Phoenix (2014), Twilight Capitalism (2021) and Thinking Systematics (2025). Some of his writings can be found at