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Notes on Contributors

Franco Barchiesi is Assistant Professor of African Studies in the Dept of Politics, University of Bologna, and a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. His latest book (co-edited with Tom Bramble) is Rethinking the Labour Movement in the ‘New South Africa’ (Ashgate, 2003). [email protected]

Henry Bernstein teaches development studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has written widely on theories of development and agrarian political economy, with special reference to East and South Africa, most recently, with Philip Woodhouse and David Hulme, African Enclosures? (James Currey, 2000). He was co-editor, with T.J. Byres, of the Journal of Peasant Studies for fifteen years, and is co-editor, again with T.J. Byres, of the new Journal of Agrarian Change from Blackwell. [email protected]

Patrick Bond is director of the University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society (http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs). He has authored several recent books on neoliberalism in South Africa and Zimbabwe, and writes monthly ZNet Commentaries (http://www.zmag.org). [email protected]

Ray Bush teaches politics in the School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds. He is also an editor of Review of African Political Economy. [email protected]

Liam Campling is studying for a PhD in development studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His research is on global commodity chains. He previously taught international politics and history at the University of Manchester Twinning Programme, Seychelles Polytechnic. He is editor of a forthcoming book Seychelles and the Indian Ocean: A Small Island Developing State in a Globalising World. [email protected]

Alejandro Colás teaches international relations at the School of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College, University of London. He is author of International Civil Society: Social Movements and World Politics (Polity Press, 2002). [email protected]

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Paresh Chattopadhyay teaches political economy in the Faculty of Human Sciences of the University of Quebec at Montreal. He is the author of The Marxian Concept of Capital and the Soviet Experience: Essay in the Critique of Political Economy (Praeger Series in Political Economy, Greenwood Press, 1994). [email protected]

Ashwin Desai is Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu Natal, and author of We Are the Poors: Community Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Monthly Review Press, 2002).

Nick Dyer-Witheford teaches in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario, in Canada. He is the author of Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High Technology Capitalism (Urbana: University of Illinois, 1999), and, with Stephen Kline and Greig de Peuter, of Digital Play: The Interaction of Technology, Culture and Marketing (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2003). [email protected]

Nigel Harris is Professor Emeritus of the Economics of the City at University College London and Senior Policy Consultant at the European Policy Centre, Brussels. He specialises in the economics of migration. His latest work is The Return of Cosmopolitan Capital: Globalisation, the State and War (I.B. Tauris). [email protected]

Pablo (Paul) L.E. Idahosa is Associate Professor at York University, Toronto, Canada, where he teaches development and African studies, and directs the African studies programme. He is author of The Populist Dimension of African Political Thought, co- editor of The Somali Diaspora and co-editor of the forthcoming Development’s Displacements. [email protected]

Surinder S. Jodhka is Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has also taught at the University of Hyderabad and the Panjab University in India. Among other things, his is currently working on agrarian change and caste in contemporary rural Punjab. [email protected]

Marcel van der Linden is Research Director of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, Professor of the History of Social Movements at the University of Amsterdam, and Editor of the International Review of Social History (Cambridge). His most recent book is Transnational Labour History: Explorations (Aldershot, 2003). [email protected]

David Moore teaches historical political economy at the University of Kwazulu-Natal