DEMOCRACY & NATURE: The International Journal of INCLUSIVE
DEMOCRACY
vol.8, no.2,
(July 2002)
Contributors
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 End 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
translated in German, Italian and Greek and will shortly appear in 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 and
Globalisationn, the Left and Inclusive Democracy).
Apart from his numerous writings in D&N and other journals, he has also made
several contributions to French, German, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian and Greek
publications.
Guido Galafassi
is teaching Social Theory at the Universtity
of Quilmes, Argentina, and works as a Researcher at CONICET (National Council of
Scientific and Techniques Research). He is the coordinator of an International
Researcher Network on Development, Nature and Society, and the editor
of
“Theomai Journal, Society, Nature and Development Studies”. He is also
member of the International Advisory Board of “Democracy
& Nature” and “Problemas del
Desarrollo”. He has published numerous articles and two books (in Spanish)
on the ecological and social problems in Latin America and on Social Theory. He
is currently deepening his critique of the social and economic thought in a book
on the ideas of progress and nature in the modernity.
Arran Gare
is
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Cultural Inquiry, Swinburne University,
Australia. His research focusses on the problem of how to transform culture to
create a radically new, environmentally sustainable, social order. He has
published widely on Bogdanov, Needham, the metaphysical foundations of the
sciences, human ecology, social and cultural theory and political philosophy,
and is the author of a number of books, including “Postmodernism and the
Environmental Crisis” (London: Routledge, 1995) and “Nihilism Inc.:
Environmental Destruction and the Metaphysics of Sustainability” (Sydney:
Eco-Logical Press, 1996).
Alexandros
Gezerlis
is assistant editor of Democracy & Nature and
editor of the Greek journal Inclusive Democracy. He is currently studying
Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of
Athens, while his main research interests lie in the field of theoretical
Physics. He is a political activist and has contributed to D&N and also to
various Greek libertarian journals.
Wolfgang
Haug
is a publisher of
Trotzdem-Verlagsgenossenschaft, editor of the libertarian quarterly Schwarzer
Faden and Teacher of German, English and History at different schools. He is the
editor of “Angriff auf die Freiheit?
Die Anschläge in den
USA und die Neue Weltordnung” (Attack on Liberty?
The
terrorist attacks in the US and the New World Order), author of “Malstrom.
Perspectives of anarchist state criticism” and of several books about
anarchist and expressionist writers of the early 20th century.
Ted Trainer
is a lecturer in the School of Social Work, University
of New South Wales. His main interests have been global problems, sustainability
issues, radical critiques of the economy, alternative social forms and the
transition to them. He has written numerous books and articles on these topics,
including ,The Conserver Society; Alternatives for Sustainability,
London, Zed, 1995, Saving the Environment; What It Will Take, Sydney,
University of N.S.W Press, 1998, and What Should We Do?, (In press). He
is also developing Pigface Point, an alternative lifestyle educational site near
Sydney, and a website,
http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/.