Contributors
Gökhan
Bacik is a lecturer at Fatih University (Turkey). He is the author of
several articles including “The
Rise of the Turkish Nationalist Action Party and Turkish Politics”, Nationalism
& Ethnic Politics; “The Kurdish Question” (Book Review on Robert
Olson’s Book), Turkish Studies Journal;
“The End of Turkish Modernization”, Revista de Humanidades;
“The
Questions of Muslim Political Discourse: Muslims and the Concepts of West and
Science””, Journal of Economic and Social Research (forthcoming).
Sharon Beder is an associate professor and head of the Science,
Technology and Society program at the University of Wollongong. She is author of
Selling the Work Ethic: From Puritan
Pulpit to Corporate PR (Zed Books, London, 2000),
Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism (Green Books,
Devon, 1997), The New Engineer
(Macmillan, Melbourne, 1998), The Nature
of Sustainable Development (Scribe, Melbourne, 1996)
and Toxic Fish and Sewer Surfing
(Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1989). She is a member of the International Advisory
Board of Democracy and Nature.
Steven
Best is Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University
of Texas, El Paso.
He
is the co-author with Douglas Kellner of
Postmodern
Theory: Critical Interrogations, The Postmodern Turn, and The Postmodern
Adventure , as well as The Politics of Historical Vision.
Carl Boggs is the author
of numerous books in the fields of contemporary social and political theory,
European politics, and popular movements, including The Impasse of European
Communism (1982), The Two Revolutions: Gramsci and the Dilemmas of
Western Marxism (1984), Social Movements and Political Power (1986),
Intellectuals
and the Crisis of Modernity (1993), The Socialist Tradition: from Crisis
to Decline (1996), and The LEnd of Politics: Corporate Power and the
Decline of the Public Sphere (2000). With Tom Pollard, he is
completing a book titled Postmodern Cinema. He has taught at
Washington University in St. Louis, UCLA, USC, UC, Irvine, and Carleton
University in Ottawa. For the past 13 years has has been professor of
social sciences at National University in Los Angeles.
Takis Fotopoulos is
a
writer and the editor of Democracy and
Nature; he is also a columnist for
the Athens Daily Eleftherotypia. He
was previously (1969-1989) Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of
North London. He is the author of Towards
An Inclusive Democracy (London
& New York: Cassell, 1997) which was also published in Italian
and Greek and will shortly appear in Gerrman, French and Spanish.
He is also the author of several
books in Greek (Dependent
Development, The Gulf War,
The Neo-Liberal Consensus, The
New World Order, Drugs, The New Order
in the Balkans, Religion, Autonomy and
Democracy, From the Athenian Democracy to Inclusive Democracy). Apart from his numerous writings in D&N and other journals, he
has also made several contributions to French, German, Dutch and Norwegian
publications.
Timothy W. Luke is
University Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia.
He has just completed a new critical study of ideological politics at a
number of major museums in the United States, which is entitled
Μuseum pieces: probing the powerplays at
culture, history, nature, and
technology museums (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming).
His most recent books are
Capitalism,
democracy, and ecology: departing from Marx
(University of Illinois Press, 1999), and Ecocritique:
contesting the politics of nature, economy, and culture
(University of Minnesota Press, 1997).
He also is the author of Shows of force: politics, power, and ideology
in art exhibitions (Duke
University Press, 1992).
Brian
Morris is professor in Social
Anthropology at Goldsmith's College. He has written books and published articles
on a wide range of topics and issues, in the fields of botany, ecology,
ethnobiology, religion, history, philosophy, as well as anthropology, His books
include: Forest Traders: A Socio-Econamic
Life of the Hill Pandaram
(Athlone Press, 1982), Common Mushrooms of Malawi (Oslo University,
1987), Anthropological Studies of Religion (Cambridge University Press,
1987), Western Coceptions of the Individual (Berg, 1991), Bakunin:
Philosopher of Freedom (Montreal, Black Rose, 1993), Anthropology
of
the Self (Pluto Press, 1994) and Power of Animals (Berg, 1998)
Ariel
Salleh is
a community activist and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Inquiry at
the University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury. Between 1990-92, she was Adjunct
Professor and visiting scholar in the Environmental Conservation Education
program at New York University. She is author of Ecofeminism as Politics:
nature, Marx and the postmodern (London: Zed Books, 1997) and some 70
articles in journals including Environmental Values and Environmental Politics
(UK). Her gender critique of deep ecology resulted in a decade long controversy
in the pages of Environmental Ethics (US).
Jasmin Sydee is a research assistant with the Science, Technology
and Society program at the University of Wollongong. She is also currently
engaged in actions concerning youth empowerment in environmental decision
making, and community education through waste management practices.