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Roland Atzmüller is Associate Professor at the Department for the Theory of Society and Social Analyses, Institute of , Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. He works on critical social theories, transformation of (welfare) states, social policies and work. Recent publications include: Krisenbearbeitung durch Subjektivierung: Kritische Theorie der Veränderung des Staates im Kontext humankapitalzentrierter Sozialpolitik, Westfälisches Dampfboot 2019; Empowering Young People in Disempowering Times: Fighting Inequality through Capability Oriented Policy, Edward Elgar 2017 (co-edited with Hans-Uwe Otto, Valerie Egdell and Jean Michel Bonvin). Brigitte Aulenbacher is Professor of Sociological Theory and Social Analysis, heads the Department for the Theory of Society and Social Analyses at the Institute of Sociology at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, and is vice-president of the International Karl Polanyi Society. She co-chairs (with Helma Lutz and Karin Schwiter) the project “Decent Care Work? Transnational Home Care Arrangements” and co-edits (with Klaus Dörre) Global Dialogue – Magazine of the International Sociological Association. Recent publications include: ‘Global Sociology of Care and Care Work’, Current Sociology, 66 (4) 2018 (co-edited with Helma Lutz and Birgit Riegraf); Special Issue: ‘Care and Care Work: A Question of Economy, Justice and Democracy’, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 37 (4) 2018 (co-edited with Birgit Riegraf); ‘Karl Polanyi, “The Great Transformation”, and Contemporary ’, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 44 (2) 2019, 105–13 (co-edited with Richard Bärnthaler and Andreas Novy). Richard Bärnthaler, MSc, works at the Institute for Multilevel Governance and Development (WU Vienna) and the Department of Development Studies (University of Vienna) on questions concerning philosophy of science, science studies, transdisciplinarity, and (Polanyi-related) transformation research. Recent publications include: ‘The Fallacy of Naturalism as a Response to the Relativist’, Organon F: International Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 25 (3) 2018, 316–38; ‘Karl Polanyi, “The Great Transformation”, and Contemporary Capitalism’, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 44 (2) 2019, 105–13 (co-edited with Brigitte Aulenbacher and Andreas Novy).

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Karina Becker is the scientific director of the Centre of Advanced Research “Post Growth Societies” at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena (Germany). Her research areas include right-wing populism, care work, solidarity, and industrial relations. Recent publications include: ‘Live-in and Burn-out? Migrantische Pflegekräfte in deutschen Haushalten’, Arbeit: Zeitschrift für Arbeitsforschung, Arbeitsgestaltung und Arbeitspolitik, 25 (1–2) 2016, 21–46; Arbeiterbewegung von rechts? Ungleichheit – Verteilungskämpfe – pop- ulistische Revolte, Campus 2018 (co-edited with Klaus Dörre and Peter Reif-Spirek); ‘Temporary Workforce Under Pressure: Poor Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) as a Dimension of Precarity?’, Management Revue, 29 (1) 2018, 32–54 (co-authored with Thomas Engel). Dorothee Bohle holds a Chair in Social and Political Change at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the European University Institute, Florence. Her research is at the intersection of comparative politics and political economy with a special focus on East Central Europe. Her most recent book, Capitalist Diversity on Europe’s Periphery (Cornell University Press 2012, co-authored with Béla Greskovits), won the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Research. Her publications have also appeared in Comparative Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, West European Politics, Journal of Democracy, European Journal of Sociology, and Review of International Political Economy. Recent publications include: ‘European Integration, Capitalist Diversity and Crises Trajectories on Europe’s Eastern Periphery’, New Political Economy, 23 (2) 2018, 239–53. Ulrich Brand is since 2007 Professor of International Politics at the University of Vienna. Since 2017 he is member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam. His research areas are: imperial mode of living, multiple crises of liberal globalization, social-ecological transformation, political ecology, state and regulation theory, and Latin America. Recent publications include: The Limits to Capitalist Nature: Theorizing and Overcoming the Imperial Mode of Living, Rowman & Littlefield 2018 (co-edited with Markus Wissen); ‘The Double Materiality of Democracy in Capitalist Societies: Challenges for Social-Ecological Transformations’, Environmental Politics (online), 2018 (co-authored with Melanie Pichler and Christoph Görg); ‘Growth and Domination: Shortcomings of the (De-)Growth Debate’, in Stefan G. Jacobsen (ed.), Climate Justice and the Economy: Social Mobilization, Knowledge and the Political, Routledge 2018, 148–67. Michael Brie, Dr. habil., is senior fellow at the Institute for Critical Social Analysis of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Berlin in the field of history and theory of socialism and communism. He is chief-editor of the series

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Contribution to Critical Transformation Research. His most recent books are: Das Kommunistische: Oder: Ein Gespenst kommt nicht zur Ruhe, VSA 2016 (edited with Lutz Brangsch); Karl Polanyi in Dialogue: A Socialist Thinker for our Time, Black Rose Books 2017; Lenin neu entdecken: das hellblaue Bandchen zur Dialektik der Revolution & Metaphysik der Herrschaft, VSA 2017; Karl Polanyi’s Vision of a Socialist Transformation, Black Rose Books 2018 (co-edited with Claus Thomasberger); Rosa Luxemburg neu ent- decken: ein hellblaues Bandchen zu “Freiheit fur den Feind! Demokratie und Sozialismus”, VSA 2019. Ayşe Buğra is Emerita Professor at Bogazici University and an affiliate of the Bogazici University Research Center Social Policy Forum which she co-founded in 2004. She has taught and published in the areas of develop- ment studies, social policy, state–business relations, and the socio-economic history of modern Turkey. She is currently working on questions of equality and politics of social policy. Recent publications include: New Capitalism in Turkey: The Relationship between Politics, and Business, Edward Elgar 2014 (co-authored with Osman Savaskan); ‘Revisiting “Freedom in a Complex Society”: A View from the Periphery’, in Michael Brie and Claus Thomasberger (eds), Karl Polanyi’s Vision of a Socialist Transformation, Black Rose Books 2018. She is the translator of Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation into Turkish (Büyük Dönüşüm, Alan Yayıncılık 1986). Michele Cangiani is Associate Professor of Economic Sociology; he has taught at the Università di Bologna and Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Karl Polanyi Institute (Montréal) and of the Editorial Board of the Forum for Social . His main fields of research are: the history and method of economic theories and political philosophy. Recent publications include: ‘Economic Knowledge and Value Judgements’, in Monika Poettinger and Gianfranco Tusset (eds), Economic Thought and History: An Unresolved Relationship, Routledge 2016, 58–72; ‘“Social Freedom” in the Twenty-First Century: Rereading Polanyi’, Journal of Economic Issues, 51 (4) 2017, 915–38; Karl Polanyi, Economy and Society: Selected Writings, Polity Press 2018 (co-edited with Claus Thomasberger). Fabienne Décieux is a PhD candidate at the Department for the Theory of Society and Social Analyses, Institute of Sociology, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. Her fields of interest and research are: critical social theories, gender studies, sociology of work and research on care. Recent publications include: ‘The Economic Shift and Beyond: Care as a Contested Terrain in Contemporary Capitalism’, Current Sociology, 66 (4) 2018, 517–30 (co-authored with Brigitte Aulenbacher and Birgit Riegraf); ‘Capitalism Goes Care: Elder and Child Care between Market, State, Profession, and Family

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and Questions of Justice and Inequality’, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 37 (4) 2018, 347–60 (co-authored with Brigitte Aulenbacher and Birgit Riegraf). Christoph Deutschmann is Professor (emeritus) of Sociology at the University of Tübingen, Germany. His research interests and publications are in the fields of economic sociology, the sociology of work, and social theory. Recent publications include: Disembedded Markets: Economic Theology and Global Capitalism, Routledge 2019; ‘Disembedded Markets as a Mirror of Society: Blind Spots of Social Theory’, European Journal of Social Theory, 18 (4) 2015, 368–89; ‘Entzauberung des Geldes: Max Weber und der heutige Finanzmarkt-Kapitalismus’, in Thomas Schwinn and Gert Albert (eds), Alte Begriffe – Neue Probleme: Max Webers Soziologie im Lichte aktueller Problemstellungen, Mohr Siebeck 2016, 149–70. Klaus Dörre is Professor of Sociology at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena (Germany) where he chairs the Department of Labour, Industrial and Economic Sociology. His areas of research include the theory of capitalism, flexible and precarious employment, and labour relations, among others. He is spokesman of the German Research Foundation (DFG) research group “Post-Growth Societies” (with Hartmut Rosa), research associate at the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and co-editor (with Brigitte Aulenbacher) of Global Dialogue – Magazine of the International Sociological Association. Recent publications include: Capitalism and Labor: Towards Critical Perspectives, Campus 2018 (co-edited with Nicole Mayer-Ahuja, Dieter Sauer and Volker Wittke); ‘Social Capitalism is a Thing of the Past: Competition-driven “Landnahme” and the Metamorphosis of the German Model’, in Paolo Chiocchetti and Frédéric Allemand (eds), Competitiveness and Solidarity in the European Union: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Routledge 2019, 149–81; ‘A Right-Wing Workers’ Movement? Impressions from Germany’, Global Labour Journal, 9 (3) 2018, 339–47. Karin Fischer is Senior Lecturer and teaches global sociology at the Institute of Sociology at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. Her research focuses on neoliberal transformation, global commodity chains and uneven develop- ment in historical and transnational perspective. Recent publications include: Handbuch Entwicklungsforschung, Springer 2016 (co-edited with Gerhard Hauck and Manuela Boatcă); Clases dominantes y desarrollo desigual: Chile entre 1830 y 2010, Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado 2017; Globale Ungleichheit (co-edited with Margarete Grandner), Mandelbaum 2019. She coordinated the section on Neoliberal Think Tank Networks in Global

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Dialogue – Magazine of the International Sociological Association (online), 8 (2) 2018. Christoph Görg is since 2015 Professor of Social Ecology at the Institute of Social Ecology at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. His research areas are: critical theory of societal nature rela- tions, social-ecological transformation, political and social ecology, state theory, and landscape governance. Recent publications include: ‘Challenges for Social-Ecological Transformations: Contributions from Social and Political Ecology’, Sustainability, 9 (7) 2017, 1–21 (co-authored with Ulrich Brand, Helmut Haberl, Diana Hummel, Thomas Jahn and Stefan Liehr); ‘Die Historisierung der Staatsform: Regulationstheorie, radikaler Reformismus und die Herausforderungen einer Großen Transformation’, in Ulrich Brand and Christoph Görg (eds), Zur Aktualität der Staatsform: Die Materialistische Staatstheorie von Joachim Hirsch, Nomos 2018, 21–38; ‘The Double Materiality of Democracy in Capitalist Societies: Challenges for Social-Ecological Transformations’, Environmental Politics (online), 2018, 1–21 (co-authored with Melanie Pichler and Ulrich Brand). Béla Greskovits is University Professor at the Department of International Relations at Central European University, Budapest. His research interests are the political economy of East-Central European capitalism, comparative economic development, social movements, and democratization. His arti- cles appeared in Studies in Comparative and International Development, Labor History, Orbis, West European Politics, Competition and Change, Journal of Democracy, European Journal of Sociology, Global Policy, and Transfer – European Review of Labor and Research. Recent publications include: ‘Politicising Embedded Neoliberalism: Continuity and Change in Hungary’s Development Model’, West European Politics (online), 2018, 1–25 (co-authored with Dorothee Bohle); ‘Civic Activism, Economic Nationalism, and Welfare for the Better Off: Pillars of Hungary’s Illiberal State’, in Michael Ignatieff and Stephan Roch (eds), Rethinking Open Society: New Adversaries and New Opportunities, Central European University Press 2018, 295–310. Bob Jessop is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University, UK. He is best known for his contributions to state theory, critical political economy, critical social theory, and critical governance studies. Recent pub- lications include: Towards a Cultural Political Economy: Putting Culture in its Place in Political Economy, Edward Elgar 2013 (with Ngai-Ling Sum); The State: Past, Present, Future, Polity Press 2015. An extended research project on financial crises and crises of crisis-management led to two co-edited volumes: Financial Cultures and Crisis Dynamics, Routledge 2014 (co-edited with Brigitte Young and Christoph Scherrer); The Pedagogy of Economic,

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Political and Social Crises: Dynamics, Construals, and Lessons, Routledge 2018 (co-edited with Karim Knio). He is currently writing a new monograph on Civil Society as a Mode of Governance: Between Self-Emancipation and Self-Responsibilization (forthcoming 2020). Ernst Langthaler is Professor and the head of the Department of Social and Economic History at Johannes Kepler University Linz and of the Institute of Rural History in St. Pölten, Austria. His current research focuses on commodity history in the age of globalization. Recent publications include: Agro-Food Studies: eine Einführung, Böhlau 2018 (co-edited with Ulrich Ermann, Marianne Penker and Markus Schermer); ‘The Soy Paradox: The Western Nutrition Transition Revisited, 1950–2010’, Global Environment, 11 (1) 2018, 79–104; ‘Food Regimes and their Trade Links: A Socio-ecological Perspective’, Ecological Economics, 160 (June) 2019, 87–95 (co-authored with Fridolin Krausmann). Michael Leiblfinger is a researcher within the project “Decent Care Work? Transnational Home Care Arrangements” at the Department of the Theory of the Society and Social Analyses at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. Recent publications are: ‘Völlig legal!? Rechtliche Rahmung und Legalitätsnarrative in der 24h-Betreuung in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz’, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 44 (1) 2019, 1–19 (co-authored with Jennifer Steiner, Veronika Prieler and Aranka Benazha); Elf Jahre 24-Stunden-Betreuung in Österreich: Eine Policy- und Regime-Analyse, KU Linz 2018 (with Veronika Prieler). Maria Markantonatou is an Assistant Professor in Political Sociology at the Department of Sociology of the University of the Aegean in Lesvos, Greece. She was a fellow at the Kolleg Postwachstumsgesellschaften (Research Group on Post-Growth Societies) at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany. Her research interests focus on the transformations of democracy under neoliberalism and especially in the framework of the crisis in Greece. Her recent publications on the Greek crisis include: ‘State-Imposed Austerity in Greece’, Global Dialogue – Magazine of the International Sociological Association (online), 6 (4) 2016; ‘The “Politics of Fulfillment” as Preliminary for the Making of a Precarious State in Greece’, in Vassilis K. Fouskas and Constantine Dimoulas (eds), Greece in the 21st Century: The Politics and Economics of a Crisis, Routledge 2018, 142–62. She is also working on Karl Polanyi and she is currently co-editing a book on Polanyi together with Gareth Dale and Christopher Holmes: Karl Polanyi’s Political and Economic Thought, Agenda Publications 2019. Andreas Novy is Associate Professor and head of the Institute for Multi-Level Governance and Development at the Department of Socioeconomics at WU

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Vienna and president of the International Karl Polanyi Society. He works in the field of urban development, international political economy, social innovation and social-ecological transformation. Recent publications include: ‘Karl Polanyi, “The Great Transformation”, and Contemporary Capitalism’, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 44 (2) 2019, 105–13 (co-edited with Brigitte Aulenbacher and Richard Bärnthaler); Die Finanzialisierung der Welt: Karl Polanyi und die neoliberale Transformation der Weltwirtschaft, Beltz Juventa 2019 (authored by Karl Polanyi-Levitt, co-edited with Claus Thomasberger and Michael Brie); Local Social Innovation to Combat Poverty and Exclusion: A Critical Appraisal, Policy Press 2019 (together with Stijn Oosterlynck and Yuri Kazepov). Antonino Palumbo is an Associate Professor in Political Philosophy at Palermo University (Italy). His research is on globalization, the transformation of governance and the implications of changes in state steering for modern representative democracies. His most recent works in English are: Situating Governance: Context, Content, Critique, ECPR Press 2015; Remaking Market Society: A Critique of Social Theory and Political Economy in Neoliberal Times, Routledge 2018 (co-authored with Alan Scott). He is also co-editor of the Routledge Library of Contemporary Essays in Political Theory and Public Policy. Kari Polanyi-Levitt is Emerita Professor at McGill University, Montreal, and Honorary PhD of the University of the West Indies, Jamaica; recipient of the Order of Canada. She is the author and editor of (amongst others) Silent Surrender: The Multinational Corporation in Canada, Macmillan 1970; The Life and Work of Karl Polanyi: A Celebration, Black Rose Books 1990; Karl Polanyi in Vienna: The Contemporary Significance of “The Great Transformation”, Black Rose Books 2000 (co-edited with Kenneth McRobbie), Reclaiming Development: Independent Thought and Caribbean Community, Ian Randle 2005; Essays on the Theory of Plantation Economy: A Historical and Institutional Approach to Caribbean Economic Development, University of the West Indies Press 2009 (co-edited with Lloyd Best); From the Great Transformation to the Great Financialization: On Karl Polanyi and Other Essays, Fernwood 2013. Vishwas Satgar is Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) and chairper- son on the board of the Cooperative and Policy Alternative Centre (COPAC). He is the principal investigator for the Emancipatory Futures Studies project at Wits and is a board member of the Wits Food Sovereignty Centre. He is the series editor of the Democratic Marxism series (Wits University Press) and has published widely on systemic alternatives, Africa’s political

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economy, South African politics, and Marxism. Recent publications include: Racisms after Apartheid: Challenges for Marxism and Anti-Racism, Wits University Press 2019; Climate Crisis: South African and Global Democratic Eco-Socialist Alternatives, Wits University Press 2018; Capitalism’s Crises: Class Struggles in South Africa and the World, Wits University Press 2015; The Solidarity Economy Alternative: Emerging Theory and Practice, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press 2014; Marxisms in the 21st Century: Crisis, Critique & Struggle, Wits University Press 2013 (co-edited with Michelle Williams). Birgit Sauer is since 2006 Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna. She has published on gender, governance and democracy, on gender equality policies, on gender and right-wing pop- ulism and on affective labour and state transformation. Recent publications include: ‘Intersections and Inconsistencies: Framing Gender in Right-Wing Populist Discourses in Austria’, NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 22 (4) 2014, 250–266 (together with Edma Ajanovic and Stefanie Mayer); Unaccompanied Children in European Migration and Asylum Practices: In Whose Best Interests?, Routledge 2017 (co-edited with Mateja Sedmak and Barbara Gornik); Populism and the Web: Communicative Practices of Parties and Movements in Europe, Routledge 2017 (co-edited with Mojca Pajnik). Alan Scott is Professor of Sociology in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, University of New England (Australia) and an adjunct in the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Innsbruck (Austria). His research interests are in political sociology and social theory. He is co-author – with Antonino Palumbo – of Remaking Market Society: A Critique of Social Theory and Political Economy in Neoliberal Times, Routledge 2018; ‘(Plebiscitary) Leader Democracy: The Return of an Illusion?’, Thesis Eleven, 148 (1) 2018, 3–20; ‘Shifting Repertoires of Populism and Neo-Nationalism: Austria and Brexit Britain’, in Bligh J. Grant, Tod W. Moore and Tony Lynch, The Rise of Right-Populism, Springer 2019, 217–35. Beverly J. Silver is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Arrighi Center for Global Studies at the Johns Hopkins University (USA). Her best-known book is Forces of Labor: Workers’ Movements and Globalization since 1870, Cambridge University Press 2003. Her ongoing research focuses on the histor- ical dynamics of global capitalism, including a revisiting of the arguments put forward in Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System, University of Minnesota Press 1999 (co-authored with Giovanni Arrighi) in light of the current period of systemic chaos. Basil Stadelmann, MSc, is a research assistant at the Institute for Multilevel Governance and Development at the Department of Socioeconomics at WU

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Vienna. His research topics are housing, gentrification, financialization, and urban development. He recently graduated from the interdisciplinary Master Programme Socio-Ecological Economics and Policy with a thesis on the finan- cialization of housing in Vienna. Claus Thomasberger is Professor (emeritus) at the University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany. His research interests are: European integration, history of economic thought, economic history, and political philosophy. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including: Chronik der großen Transformation (3 vols), Metropolis 2002–2005 (co-edited with Michele Cangiani); From Crisis to Growth? The Challenge of Debt and Imbalances, Metropolis 2012 (co-edited with Hansjorg Herr and Torsten Niechoj); Das neoliberale Credo: Ursprunge, Entwicklung und Kritik, Metropolis 2012; Auf der Suche nach dem Ökonomischen – Karl Marx zum 200. Geburtstag, Metropolis 2018 (co-edited with Rainer Lucas and Reinhard Pfriem); Karl Polanyi’s Vision of a Socialist Transformation, Black Rose Books 2018 (co-edited with Michael Brie); Economy and Society: Selected Writings, Polity Press 2018 (co-edited with Michele Cangiani). Hans-Jürgen Urban, Dr. phil. habil., is a member of the Executive Committee IG Metall, lecturer at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, and Permanent Fellow at the Kolleg Postwachstumsgesellschaften (Research Group on Post-Growth Societies) at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. His research interests are: theory of capitalism, political economy of the welfare state, union revitalization, and labour policy. Recent publications include: ‘Ausbruch aus dem Gehäuse der European Governance: Überlegungen zu einer Soziologie der Wirtschaftsdemokratie in transformatorischer Absicht’, Berliner Journal für Soziologie, 28 (1–2) 2018, 91–122; ‘Social Critique and Trade Unions – Outlines of a Troubled Relationship’, in Klaus Dörre, Nicole Mayer-Ahuja, Dieter Sauer and Volker Wittke (eds), Capitalism and Labor: Towards Critical Perspectives, Campus 2018, 378–99; ‘Ökologie der Arbeit: Ein noch offenes Feld der Gewerkschaften?’, in Lothar Schröder and Hans-Jürgen Urban (eds), Gute Arbeit: Ökologie der Arbeit – Impulse für einen nachhaltigen Umbau, Bund Verlag 2018, 329–49. Bernhard Weicht, Dr. habil, works at the Department of Sociology at the University of Innsbruck. He has studied economics in Vienna and social policy in Nottingham. He holds a PhD from the University of Nottingham where he researched the construction of care. Prior to joining the University of Innsbruck he held positions at Utrecht University and Leiden University College. Bernhard has published on ageing, care, dependency, migrant care workers and the intersection of regimes. He is the author of The Meaning of Care: The Social Construction of Care for Elderly People, Palgrave

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Macmillan 2015; The Commonalities of Global Crises: Markets, Communities and Nostalgia, Palgrave Macmillan 2016 (co-edited with Christian Karner). Michelle Williams is Professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg. She is chairperson of the Global Labour University Programme (GLU) at Wits (2010 to present), chairperson of the International GLU Steering Committee (2017–18), and a member of the board of the Wits Development Studies programme. She has published widely on democracy, development, Marxism, gender, and South–South comparisons. Her publications include: The Roots of Participatory Democracy: Democratic Communists in South Africa and Kerala, India, Palgrave Macmillan 2008; Building Alternatives: The Story of India’s Oldest Construction Workers’ Cooperative, LeftWord 2017 (co-authored with Thomas Isaac); South Africa and India: Shaping the Global South, Wits University Press 2011 (co-edited with Isabel Hofmeyr); Labour in the Global South: Challenges and Alternatives for Workers, International Labour Office 2012 (co-edited with Sarah Mosoetsa); Marxisms in the 21st Century: Crisis, Critique, and Struggle, Wits University Press 2013 (co-edited with Vishwas Satgar); The End of the Developmental State?, Routledge 2014. Markus Wissen works since 2012 as Professor for Social Sciences at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR). Since 2014 he is a member of the editorial board of PROKLA: Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft. His research areas are: imperial mode of living, social-ecological transfor- mation, (auto)mobility, labour and ecology. Recent publications include: The Limits to Capitalist Nature: Theorizing and Overcoming the Imperial Mode of Living, Rowman & Littlefield 2018 (co-edited with Ulrich Brand); Imperiale Lebensweise: Zur Ausbeutung von Mensch und Natur im globalen Kapitalismus, Oekom 2017 (co-edited with Ulrich Brand); ‘Territory and Historicity: Time and Space in Nicos Poulantzas’s State Theory’, in Lars Bretthauer, Alexander Gallas, John Kannankulam and Ingo Stützle (eds), Reading Poulantzas, Merlin Press 2011, 186–200.

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