The International Journal of INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY, Vol. 1, No. 3 (May 2005)
Contributors to the ID debate (Parts I & II)
Takis Fotopoulos is a writer, editor of Society & Nature/Democracy and Nature/The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy; 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 numerous books in Greek on development, the Gulf war, the neo-liberal consensus, the New World Order, the drug culture, the New Order in the Balkans, the new irrationalism, globalisation and the left, the war against ‘terrorism’, Chomsky and Albert, and the present multi-dimentional crisis. Apart from his numerous writings in S&N/D&N and other international journals, he has also made several contributions to French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian, Hungarian, Turkish, Arabic and Greek publications.
David Freeman works in the School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Australia. His research interests include empirical and conceptual developments in citizenship, democracy, social inclusion and the public sphere.
Guido Galafassi is teaching Social Theory at the University of Quilmes, Argentina, and works as a Researcher at CONICET (National Council of Scientific and Techniques Research). He is the co-ordinator of an International Research 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, nature and social movements in modernity.
Arran Gare is Reader in Philosophy and Cultural Inquiry, Swinburne University, Australia and editor of Process Metaphysics: A Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy. His research focuses on transforming culture to create an environmentally sustainable social order. He has published widely on process metaphysics, the metaphysical foundations of the sciences, complexity theory, human ecology, the emergent theory of mind, 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).
Serge Latouche is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Paris–Sud (XI Sceaux/Orsay). He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the journals Ecologia politica (Rome), L’homme et la société (Paris), la Revue du MAUSS (Paris) and Democracy and Nature (Oxford). He is the author of many books and articles some of which have been translated into foreign languages: Justice sans limites. Le défi de l’éthique dans une économie mondialisée (Fayard, 2003); La déraison de la raison économique (Albin Michel, 2001); La planète uniforme (Climats, 2000); L’autre Afrique. Entre don et marche (Paris: Albin Michel, 1998); Les dangers du marche planétaire (Presses de sciences po, 1997); La megamachine, (La Découverte, 1995); La Planète des Naufrages (La Découverte, 1991); L’occidentalisation du Monde (La Découverte, 1989); Faut-il refuser le développement? (Paris: PUF, col, Economie en liberté, 1986).
Michael Levin teaches political theory at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London. He has previously taught at the Universities of Leicester, Leeds and Wales, and has twice been a Visiting Professor in Sociology at San Diego State University, California, USA. He is the author of Marx, Engels and Liberal Democracy (Macmillan, 1989), The Spectre of Democracy. The Rise of Modern Democracy as seen by its Critics (Macmillan, 1992), The Condition of England Question. Carlyle, Mill, Engels (Macmillan, 1998) and J.S. Mill on Civilization and Barbarism (Cass, forthcoming 2003). His main interests are in 19th century political ideas, particularly in respect of democracy and imperialism.
Takis Nikolopoulos is a professor of European and Environmental Law at the Technological Educational Institute of Messologhi, Greece, and a Visiting Professor at Patras University teaching Environmental Law and Politics at a postgraduate level. He was previously a Visiting Professor at the University of Nancy II (France) where he taught European Law for many years. He has written more than 30 articles on European and Environmental Law and Social Economy, which have been published in several learned journals and conference proceedings. He is also a contributor to the Greek newspaper Sunday Vima writing book reviews.
Rafael Sposito is a sociologist who worked as a university Professor until 1999.He was born and still lives in Villa del Cerro, one of working districts of libertarian tradition of Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. A militant anarchist since his adolescence, he has engaged in diverse organizational action as a member of the student movement and later as a trade unionist. Among other experiences of communitarian social management, he took part in the administration of a university experiment on education and service in a popular district, as well as in representing the Union of Professors.