Corresponding Editors

Sam Ashman is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Corporate Strategy and Industrial Development Research Programme in the School of Economics and Business Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is currently researching a number of dimensions of neoliberalism and financialisation both in general theoretical terms and with specific reference to the evolution of South African political economy.  She is interested in value theory, uneven and combined development and systems of accumulation, as well as the connection between the three. She has taught political economy and the political economy of development at the Universities of East London and Birmingham where she also completed her PhD.

Paul Blackledge is a Reader in Political Theory at Leeds Metropolitan University. He is the author ofReflections on the Marxist Theory of History (Manchester University Press, 2006), and Perry Anderson, Marxism and the New Left (Merlin, 2004). He also co-editedAlasdair MacIntyre's Engagement with Marxism: Essays and Articles 1953-1974  (Brill, 2007), and Historical Materialism and Social Evolution (Palgrave, 2002).

Liam Campling is Lecturer in Work and Organisation at the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London. His research is on commodity production-consumption relations in contemporary capitalism; his current empirical work focuses on the historical formation and contemporary political economy of commodity chains in tuna. More generally, his research interests are in the areas of the political economy and political sociology of development, transnational corporations, the politics of international trade, and the political economy of food. He has published academic articles on development in small island states, the politics of international economic relations, and commodity studies. He has also published on the political economy of the global tuna industry. He is also Reviews Editor for the Journal of Agrarian Change. He has worked on trade policy and its politics for, among others, the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), COMESA, Commonwealth Secretariat, European Parliament, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), and several developing country governments. 

Giorgio Cesarale is Research Fellow at the La Sapienza, University of Rome. He is the author of La mediazione che sparisce. La società  civile in Hegel (Carocci, 2009) and Hegel nella filosofia pratico-politica anglosassone dal secondo dopoguerra ai giorni nostri (Mimesis, 2011). He recently co-edited, with Mario Pianta, a collection of Giovanni Arrighi's essays entitled Capitalismo e (dis)ordine mondiale (Manifestolibri, 2010).

Angela Dimitrakaki teaches contemporary art history and theory at the University of Edinburgh. She is currently working on the book Gender,  Art/Work and the Global Imperative: A Materialist Feminist Critique for Manchester University Press and recently completed the volume Art and Globalisation in her native Greek (Hestia 2012). She is co-editor with Lara Perry of Politics in A Glass Case: Exhibiting Women's and Feminist Art, forthcoming from Liverpool University Press in 2012. She has contributed many articles to edited volumes and academic journals. Her fiction writing is published in Greek.

Demet S. Dinler was trained in political science and sociology in Turkey (Middle East Technical University, Ankara). She is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, currently completing her PhD thesis on a multi-sited ethnography of the global recycling and metal markets, entitled 'The Making of the Invisible Hand: Workers, Traders and Financial Brokers in the Global Recycling Market'. Her research interests include political economy of neoliberalism, working class formation, anthropology of the markets. She runs a blog at http://nightsoflabour.wordpress.com/.

Adam Fabry is a PhD candidate at the Department of Politics and History, Brunel University, London. His thesis explores the origins and reformation of the neoliberal consensus in post-transition Hungary from the theoretical perspective of Marixst Political Economy. His research interests include: International Relations (IR) and International Political Economy (IPE) theory; Marxism (with a particular fascination for the notion of Uneven and Combined Development); the modern history of Central and Eastern Europe (Hungary in particular); and the history of Fascism. His most recent publications include ‘From Poster Boy of Neoliberal Transformation to Basket Case: Hungary and the Global Economic Crisis’ in Gareth Dale (ed) First the Transition, Then the Crash (Pluto, 2011) and End of the Liberal Dream: Hungary since 1989 in International Socialism (2009). For further information, please visit: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/sss/politics/phd-students/adam-balazs-fabry

Sara R. Farris is a sociologist and political theorist. She has held a research fellowship at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, the Humboldt University in Berlin, the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Konstanz. From December 2009 until December 2011 she was also European coordinator of the sociological section of the EC funded project Daphne III "Combating Violence and Discrimination Against Second Generation Migrant Women". She currently teaches in the European Studies Department at King’s College London and in the Politics and History Department at Brunel University, London. She has published widely in social and political theory, international migrations and gender studies. Her publications include Politics Enchanted: Religion, Subjectivity and Nationalism in Max Weber (forthcoming in 2012 with Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden/Boston); La Straniera. Riflessioni, sitobibliografie e ragionamenti su razzismo e sessismo (with C. Bonfiglioli, L. Cirillo, L. Corradi, B. De Vivo, V. Perilli, 2009, Alegre, Roma); Critica del cielo, critica della terra by Roland Boer (ed. and with an introduction by Sara R. Farris, postface by Antonio Negri, 2011, Ombrecorte, Verona); Encountering Althusser. Politics and Materialism in Contemporary Radical Thought (with K. Diefenbach, G. Kirn, P. D. Thomas, forthcoming in 2012 with Continuum, New York).

James Furner holds a BA in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge, and a MA and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Sussex. His research interests include Marx's political philosophy, the philosophy of law, interpretive sociology and phenomenology. Recent publications: 'Marx’s Sketch of Communist Society'. Philosophy & Social Criticism, 2011, 37, 189-215. 'Schütz and Marx on Action'. South African Journal of Philosophy, 2011, 30, 2, 15-27.

Saroj Giri is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Delhi, Delhi.

Dhruv Jain is currently a doctoral student in the Social and Political Thought programme at York University (Canada) and a Theory researcher at the Jan Van Eyck Academie (Netherlands). His research examines the problem of freedom and democracy French intellectual Maoism from 1966 to 1980, especially in the work of the UJCML and UFCML, and Charles Bettelheim. I am also currently working on a book-length manuscript which details the ideological history of the Indian Maoist from 1971-1991 and try to provide an account that examines the ideology that undergirds the different Maoist formations in India with a particular focus on violence, mass organizations and mobilization, electoral politics and democracy. 

Jim Kincaid taught sociology at Aberdeen and Leeds Universities.  Then senior lecturer in social policy at Bradford University until early retirement to spend more time with Marx.  Occasional contributor to Historical Materialism, and member of the Editorial Board 2002-06.  Recent work focuses on the reshaping of Marxist political economy to capture current patterns of financialisation and global uneven development.   Other fascinations include:  the challenges posed for materialist thought by recent advances in natural science research on life, complexity and emergence.  Also the writings of Adorno, Althusser, and Deleuze  ̶  and the range and richness of the literature which their work has inspired. 

Gal Kirn is finishing his dissertation in philosophy at the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences, where he combines the research on the contemporary French philosophy (especially on Louis Althusser) with the history of the emergence of revolutionary Yugoslavia and its tragic break-up. He was an editor of the journal Agregat (2005-2008) and a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht (2008-10), where he organized a series of international conferences on Yugoslavia and self-management urbanism, Yugoslavian black wave cinema and Althusser. In his hometown Ljubljana he participates in the Workers'-Punks' University, which sets up a platform of events: lectures, film seminars and reading groups. He is co-editing the book Encountering Althusser (Continuum, 2012), an editor of the book Postfordism and its discontents (JvE Academie, B-Books and Mirovni Inštitut, 2010) and a co-editor of New public spaces. Dissensual political and artistic practices in the post-Yugoslav context (JvE Academie and Moderna Galerija, 2009). He  comments on politics in the Slovenian weekly Objektiv and and researches on socialist modernist memorial sites in Berlin, at Institut of Cultural Inquiry.

Alex Levant holds a PhD in Social and Political Thought from York University, Canada. Hisresearch interests focus on forms of subjectivity produced by contemporary social movements.He has published on various themes, including collective memory, signification, spontaneity, and cultural objects, among other phenomena, drawing on various schools of thought, including Critical Theory, Italian /Operaismo/, Soviet/Activity Theory/, Critical "Race" Theory, and Social Movement Theory. In recent years, he has written on the Soviet philosopher E.V. Ilyenkov -- leader of a subterranean tradition that developed in the post-Stalin period as a challenge to official /Diamat/, and which produced an anti-reductionist and anti-dualist conception of subjectivity. For more information, including links to his publications, please visit his staff page:http://www.wlu.ca/homepage.php?f_id=35&grp_id=2120

Benjamin Noys is Reader in English at the University of Chichester, and the author of Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction (Pluto 2000), The Culture of Death (Berg 2005), The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique Contemporary Theory (Edinburgh University Press 2010, 2012), and editor of Communization and its Discontents (Minor Compositions 2011). Workplace page:http://www.chi.ac.uk/english/benjamin.cfm Blog:  http://leniency.blogspot.com/

Gonzalo Pozo is a research student at the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, UCL. His research interests include: War and International Conflict, Russian Politics, Political Geography, and Biography. He has published on Imperialism in the Cambridge Review of International Affairsand on Marxism and Geopolitics in Geopolitics (with Alejandro Colas). His forthcoming book The Geopolitics of Capitalism will be published by Pluto. He is currently working on a biography of Isaac Deutscher.

Alfredo Saad-Filho is Professor of Political Economy at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has published widely on Marxian value theory, neoliberalism, the political economy of development, industrial policy, alternative economic policies and Latin America.

Greg Sharzer holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from York University, Toronto. His research interests include heterodox political economy, socialist history and socialist strategy.