Board



The editorial board consists of the following people:

Edme Domingues, School of Global Studies, Göteborg University

Jörgen Johansen, Centre for Peace and Reconciliation
Studies, Coventry University

Ananta K. Giri, Madras Institute of Development Studies

Frédéric Mégret is an Assistant-Professor at the Faculty of Law of McGill University and the Canada Research Chair in Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. His current research focuses on the legitimization by international law of diverse forms of resistance, with a particular interest in the jurisprudence of civil disobedience.

George Katsiaficas, Wentworth Institute of Technology, is writing a book about East Asian uprisings in the 1980s and 1990s as part of the international effort to produce a globally synchronized set of uprisings to overthrow the neoliberal system and its
imperatives for war and poverty.

Wei Liu, University of Amsterdam

Mathias Klang, IT-University, Göteborg

Jeffrey S. Juris is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in May 2004, and has also served as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the USC Annenberg School for Communication

Sulaiman Al Hamri, Combatants for Peace

Lisa B. Sharlach, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. Dr. Sharlach’s research addresses the sometimes violent intersection of gender and ethnicity in the developing world. She is the author of several articles on gender and ethnic warfare and is at present researching issues of women’s health and human rights. Her doctoral dissertation, “Sexual Violence as Political Terror” (2001), was on state rape policy in South Africa, Eritrea, Rwanda, Pakistan, Peru, and the former Yugoslavia.

Paul Routledge, University of Glascow. Research interests: social movements; cultural activism; resistance strategies and tactics; nonviolence; geopolitics; India and South Asia in general; environmentalism; anti-globalisation movement; Previous projects:
working on and with social movements and peasant movements; global justice networks; anti-dam movements; land rights movements; environmental movements and anti-globalisation movements

Sean Chabot is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Eastern Washington University (Cheney, U.S.A.). Most of his work focuses on transnational diffusion between social movements, especially between the Indian independence movement and U.S. civil rights movement. More recently, he has started a project that introduces the concept of oppositional love and applies it to various struggles for social justice.

Jenny Pickerill is a lecturer in Human Geography at Leicester University, UK. She is interested in how collective action, participation, spaces for dialogue, autonomy and anarchism can create pathways towards environmental and social justice. Her most recent projects explore anti-war activism, anti-capitalist activism, eco-architectures and Indigenous politics in Australia.

Kathy E. Ferguson is Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies at the University of Hawai’i.  With co-author Phyllis Turnbull she wrote a book about militarism in Hawai’i entitled Oh, Say, Can You See? The Semiotics of the Military in Hawai’i (University of Minnesota Press, 1999) and with co-editor Monique Mironesco she edited a volume of essays entitled Gender and Globalization in Asia and the Pacific (University of Hawai’i Press, 2008). She is currently writing a book about Emma Goldman entitled Goldman: Political Thinking in the Streets (Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming) and an essay about the 2008 elections and the war on terrorism entitled “Bush in Drag: Sarah Palin, John McCain, and Endless War.”

Leonidas K. Cheliotis is a Lecturer in Criminology and Deputy Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice at the School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London. His research interests are in the sociology and psychoanalysis of punishment, the role of public criminology, and prison abolitionism. His forthcoming publications include a monograph on the symbolic roots of contemporary penality, as these relate to the psychological vicissitudes of life in neoliberal societies on both sides of the Atlantic; an edited volume on the roots, rites, and sites of resistance; an edited volume on arts in and about prisons; and a co-edited volume on crime and punishment in contemporary Greece.

Lennart Bergfeldt, Department of Social Sciences,Växjö University

Peter Waterman (London, 1936) worked at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague (1972-98. He has long specialised on labour and other internationalisms and (computerised) communications in relation to such. Since 2002 he has written extensively on labour and the World Social Forum. Having started the debate on ’social movement unionism’ in the later-1980s, he is now promoting a ‘global labour charter movement’.

Magid Shihade had pursued his academic studies in Israel, Germany, and the United States He has completed his B.A. in Political Science, German and West European Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, M.A. in International Studies at the University of Washington, and Ph.D. at the University of Washington in Interdisciplinary Middle Eastern Studies. His research interests are violence, modernity, sectarianism, nationalism, colonialism, and the individual’s daily forms of resistance.

Justin Kenrick, University of Glascow