DEMOCRACY & NATURE: The International Journal of INCLUSIVE
DEMOCRACY
vol.9, no.2,
(July 2003)
Contributors
Ömer Çaha
is Assoc. Prof. of Political Science and Chairman of the Department of Public
Administration at Fatih University, İstanbul, Turkey. He is the author of
the following books: Women and Civil Society in Turkey, (Italy: European
Press, 2003), (forthcoming); Political Behavior and Parties, (İstanbul: Gendaş, 2003), (Forthcoming); Selected Writings on Open Society,(Istanbul: Gendaş,
2003); Four Movements,
Four Politics, (İstanbul:
Zaman, 2001 From
Transcendental State to Civil Society, (İstanbul:
Gendaş,
2000 Civil Society);
Intellectuals and Democracy, (İstanbul:
İz, 1999);
Civil Women: Civil Society and Feminism in Turkey, (Ankara: Vadi, 1996.
Takis
Fotopoulos is a writer and the editor of
Democracy
& 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 has been
translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian and Greek. He is also the author of
several books in Greek (Dependent
Development; The Gulf War;
The
Neo-Liberal Consensus; The New World
Order; Drugs: Beyond the demonology of
penalisation and the ‘progressive’ mythology of liberalisation; ; The New
Order in the Balkans; Religion, Autonomy and Democracy; From the Athenian Democracy to
Inclusive Democracy; Globalisation, the Left
and Inclusive Democracy; and The War Against
‘Terrorism’: the Elites’ Generalised Attack). Apart from his numerous
writings in D&N and other international journals, he has also made several
contributions to French, German, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian and Greek
publications.
John Gerassi is
Professor of Political Science at Queens College of the City University of New
York and author of 14 books including The American Way of Crime (in
France: Le Crime a l’Americaine, Fayard, 1980) and Jean-Paul
Sartre: Hated Conscience of His Century (Sartre, Conscience haie de son
siecle, Edition du Rocher, 1992).
Alexandros Gezerlis is assistant editor
of Democracy & Nature and editor of the Greek journal Inclusive
Democracy. He has graduated in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the
National Technical University of Athens and is a Ph.D. student in the Department
of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a political
activist and has contributed to Democracy & Nature and also to Greek
libertarian journals.
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).
Yorgos Oikonomou
works as a teacher in an Athens high school and has studied in Athens and
Paris (DEA of philosophy). He has published texts in newspapers and reviews and
was the editor of a special issue of the Greek review “Nea Koinoniologia” in
honour of Cornelius Castoriadis on the 3rd anniversary after his death.
George Skoulas
teaches sociology and European politics at the Technological Educational
Institute of Crete. He has previously taught at York University of Toronto
Canada, University of Wilfrid Laurier at Waterloo Ontario and University of
Crete. He is the Author of Social Classes
and State: Forms of State & Class
practices in Modern Europe (Athens: Publications Papazisi, 1996) and a
forthcoming book Contemporary Society and
Critical Theory (Athens: Publications Papazisi). His main interests are the
political ideas and democratic theory in 19th and 20th
centuries, class & power analyses with an emphasis on the sociological and
critical theoretical research.
Damon A. Young is a Ph.D. student in the Department of
Philosophy and Cultural Inquiry, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne,
Australia, and has a background in philosophy, literature, and media studies. He
is also a participant in the Joseph Needham Centre for Complex Processes
Research. His work has appeared in Democracy
and Nature, Disability and Society,
and Philosophy Today. Every now and
then, he tries to resurrect the idea of an anthology of short stories by
Australian and New Zealand philosophers.