John Holloway
Born in Dublin, Ireland, is considered in the academia as a Marxist autonomous sociologist and philosopher. However, he has never defined himself as a sociologist nor a philosopher nor a historian, but strictly as an autonomist. He has considered his theory not as a component of an academic discipline, but as a contribution to social change theory, which is for him constituted majorly in Marxism. His thoughts are much related with the Mexican Zapatista communities, where he lives since 1991. BA in Modern Languages and Law from the University of Cambridge, UK; Diploma in High European Studies from the European College, Bruges, Belgium; Barrister-at-Law from Lincoln´s Inn, London, UK; PhD from the University of Edinburgh with the thesis “The Harmonization and Coordination of Social Security in the European Communities: The law and its Social Function”.
He has been lecturer in the University of Edinburgh, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the Metropolitan Autonomous University of Mexico, the Social Sciencies Faculty of Latin America (FLACSO) in Mexico City and currently at the Social Sciences and Humanities Institute of the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP). Is member of the National Institute of Sciences and Technology, researcher level 3. His articles had been translated to 19 languages.
Enrique
Dussel
Argentinean philosopher, exiled in Mexico since 1975. Has gained
international recognition for his work in the fields of ethics, political
philosophy and Latin-American philosophy. Founder and architect of the
Liberation Philosophy; critique of modernity and theorist of a new moment
denominated “transmodernity”.
BA in
Philosophy from the University of Mendoza, Argentina; PhD in Philosophy from
the Complutense University of Madrid; BA in Sciences of Religion from the
Catholic Institute of Paris, France; PhD in History from Paris Sorbonne,
France; Honoris Causa PhD from the University of Freiburg, Switzerland and from
the University Mayor of San Andres, La Paz, Bolivia.
His extense
knowledge in Philosophy, Politics, History and Religion has been converted in
more than 50 books and 400 academic articles. He is one of the most influential philosophers in the world.
Raul Zibechi
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, started political activism when he was 17 years. At 21 he discover daily life under dictatorial regime. At 23 he is exile to Buenos Aires, city in which he live for one year before the military coup. At 24 he is exile to Spain, where he get involved in communist movements and anti militarist movements.
He has published books in many countries like Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Brazil, Germany, the United States, France and Italy. Some of his publications are: Genealogy of revolt; The Horizontal look; Social movements and emancipation; Challenges of the Zapatismo; Disperse Power; Contrainsurgency and misery; Resistance territories, autonomy and emancipation movements in Latin America.
Currently participate as lecturer and researcher in the Franciscan Multidiversity of Latin America and collaborate with social movements and alternative media. Without doubt is one of the most respected academics on the analysis of social movements.
Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar
She is licensed in Mathematics by the Universidad Autonoma de México (UNAM). In early 80´s she traveled to live in Bolivia from where she linked up with miners and coca growers unions, the thoughts based on self organization and the empowerment of indigenous people that forms Bolivia touched her life in a powerful way and we can see this in her theoretical and political work, “She is a woman who refuses the logic of the articulation based on the power centralization, occupying Raúl Zibechi´s words, I said woman. I should say feminist though I feel that words are not enough, they dwindle rather than expand. There´s something about Raquel that dazzles and amazes, is her ability to relegate reason and heart, argument and outrage. She returned to Mexico in 2000 to study a doctorate in sociology at the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Alfonso Vélez Pliego.
Her theoretical contribution is focus on the analysis of indigenous organizations,in Bolivia she publishes a large amount of texts such as "Entre hermanos" (1995) y "Apuntes sobre la crisis actual del capitalismo mundial" (1993), a desordenar (1995), desandar el laberinto (1999), y Los ritmos del Pachakuti (2006). She was activist and advisor to the Coordinadora del Agua in Cochabamaba (2003).
She is currently professor-researcher in the Centro de Estudios Andinos y Mesoamericanos, coordinator in the Jornadas Andino-Mesoamericanas and professor-researcher in the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Alfonso Vélez Pliego.
Luis Tapia
He studied philosophy and political science at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (UNAM) later he studied his graduate studies in the Instituto Universitario de Pesquisas de Río de Janeiro, specializing in party systems and electoral systems. He is currently a research professor of CIDES-UMSA and coordinates the Ph.D in developmental sciences that impart that institution in agreement with UNAM. He also integrates the steering committee of CLACSO.
His main research topics are political theory, democracy and multiculturalism, also a hard work of analysis of the state, among there are books like "El estado de derecho como tiranía" y "El Estado. Campo de lucha", compilation of critical texts made with Raúl Prada, Álvaro García Linera y Oscar Camacho, Gramchiano y Zavaletiano, writer of books like La invención del núcleo común, La velocidad del Pluralismo, Política salvaje, Pensando la democracia geopolíticamente.
Gustavo Esteva
Born in Mexico in 1936. He has work with indigenous communities, farmers and urban marginal communities. His practical and theoretical position challenge the legitimacy of social systems that subordinate communitarian practices and institutions to global markets and the State. He explore new forms of political, social and technological alternatives to dominant paradigms. He rejects elaborations and terminology of progress in all its forms, because he consider these practices are toxic to original cultural community traditions, to form part of bureaucrats, technocrats and professors work. Questioning the growing homogenization of cultures and ways of life, he argue for radical pluralist attitudes to develop cultural diversity. He argue for ideas and perspectives beyond capitalism, communism, the nation State, representative democracy and individualism.
At the beginning of his career, he worked in high positions of private business and government. However, he discover that the solutions for the people should some from the people it self. This is why he has worked through out the last 30 years has live and work on the social basis. From the 80´s on, his collaboration and friendship with Ivan Illich give a new theoretical framework to heir critique on institutions and dominant paradigms.
Awarded with the National Economic Politics Award for his work on inflation theory, even though he is not an economist. Chaired the 5th World Rural Sociology Congress, even though he is not a sociologist. He was member of the Council and temporary President of the United Nations Research Institute on Social Development. He was awarded with an Honoris Causa degree from the Vermont University. He also was awarded with the Annual Journalism Award.
Carlos Figueroa Ibarra
Born in Guatemala in 1952, exiled to Mexico after the coup on Jacobo Arbenz Guzman´s government. Afterward he and his family return to Guatemala. In June of 1980, Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia´s government murdered Carlos´s parents after threats of the Secret Anticommunist Army.of Guatemala. After this he became permanent resident in Mexico.
He is sociologist professor and researcher of the Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico. Specialist in political processes, violence in Guatemala in conjunction with Political processes in Mexico. Bachelor, masters and doctorate studies in the National Autonomous University of Mexico. San Carlos of Guatemala University´s professor and researcher. Coordinator of Sociology Postgraduate at the Human and Social Sciences. Member of the Latin American Social Sciences Faculty. Researcher level II at the Researchers National System of Mexico.
He has served as visitor professor of the Philosophy and Letters School of the Autonomous University of Tlaxcala, Mexico; visitor professor of the University of Stanford; visitor professor of the Social Psicology and Political Violence mater in the San Carlos of Guatemala University; visitor professor of the master and doctorate of the Central American Social Sciences Program of the Latin American Social Sciences Faculty, in which he is currently member of the directive council.
Ana Esther Ceceña
Economist, National Researcher, ascribed to the Economic Research Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She studied International Relations in Paris - La Sorbona. Specialized in "world economic hegemony" studies. Coordinated the Mayan Paradise Project for the conservation of the environment and natural resources. Member by invitation of the International Consultative Council of the Center of Transnationality, Economy and Society based in Santiago, Chile.
CLACSO member, worked in the International Economy work group, in charge of PhD Emir Sader. Has been conference lecturer in Mexico, France, Belgium, Germany, Argentina, Brasil and Guatemala.
Among her principal publications there are:
Hegemonie oder Emanzipation? [2012-01-05]
Hegemonía o emancipación? [2011-12-08]
AmericaLatina,EE.UU: Los peligros de la militarización en América Latina [2011-08-09]
Cuba: Ante los desafíos y riesgos del siglo XXI [2011-05-31]
EE.UU, Haiti: La jugada del Caribe [2010-02-11]
Caminos y agentes del saqueo en América Latina [2009-10-23]
AmericaLatina: Honduras y la ocupación del Continente [2009-08-17]
Oportunidad para las resistencias [2009-02-25]
America Latina, EE.UU: Geopolítica de la enmienda [2009-02-11]
Operación Bolivia [2008-05-04]
A militarização e suas cumplicidades [2008-04-29]
Emergência no Haiti [2008-04-13]
AmericaSur: Territorialidad de la dominación: Integración de la Infraestructura Regional Sudamericana (IIRSA) [2008-01-14]
North America, Central America: The scope of Plan Mexico [2008-01-06]
EE.UU,Mexico: Los alcances del Plan México [2007-12-12]
EE.UU: La lucha ideológica decisiva de nuestra era [2007-02-01]
EE.UU: El american way of thinking [2007-01-29]
Mexico: Mexique 2006 : entre la promesse et la tragédie [2006-12-04]
Mexico: The battle of Oaxaca [2006-11-08]
Mexico: La batalla de Oaxaca [2006-11-03]
David Bailey
David Bailey is lecturer in political science at the University of Birmingham, where he teaches modules on the European Union and on Left Parties and Protest Movements. His research focuses on critical theories of European integration, comparative political economy, and left parties and protest movements. His work attempts to identify opportunities and constraints for social and political movements seeking emancipatory social change. He is also an active trade unionist within the lecturers' union, UCU, and a member of the historically famous revolutionary syndicalist union, the IWW - or the wobblies - which is currently enjoying a resurgence of activity within the UK. He has also been involved in recent campaigns against the current wave of attacks upon the higher education and its partial privatisation within the UK.
Professor of the Department of Political Science and International Studies in the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. His is master in European Politics in the context of Economic Integration and doctor in Political Sciences.
Professor of the Department of Political Science and International Studies in the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. His is master in European Politics in the context of Economic Integration and doctor in Political Sciences.
He is lecturer of the following courses: Controversies in Contemporary Democracies: Comparative Perspectives, Left Parties and Protest Movements, Advanced Topics of European Integration and Theories of European Integration. He´s research areas are European Politics, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Economy, Social Democratic Parties, Protests and Protest Movements.
Some of his latest published work is:
-2012. ‘The Impossibility of Social Democracy: From Unfailing Optimism to Enlightened Pessimism in the 'Re-Social Democratisation' Debate’, in G. Strange and O. Worth (eds.), New Regionalism and the Left in Europe, (Manchester, Manchester University Press).
-2011. 'The European Union in the World: Critical Theories', in J.U. Wunderlich and D.J. Bailey (eds.), The European Union and Global Governance: A Handbook, (London, Routledge).
-2011. J.U. Wunderlich and D.J. Bailey (eds.), The European Union and Global Governance: A Handbook, (London, Routledge).
-2010. ‘Review Essay: Efficient Plutocracy versus Ineffective Democracy? (De)Limiting Alternatives in European Governance’, Public Administration Review, vol. 70(5), pp. 817-820.
-2010. ‘The European Rescue, Recommodification, and/or Reterritorialization of the (Becoming-Capitalist) State? Marx, Deleuze, Guattari, and the European Union’, Journal of International Relations and Development, Vol. 13(4), pp. 325-53.
Theodoros Karyotis
Studied Sociology in the University of Bristol, UK, he have done postgraduate studies in Social Anthropology in Granada, Spain, with the research "Various social movements in the context of the antiglobalization movement".
In Tesalonica, Greece, he participate actively in two autonomous centers: Micropolis - social space for the emancipation by the self-gestion of activities, lectures, courses, store, kitchen, bar, library, independent radio and several politic collectives. And Biotecnia that is also a self-gestion center.
He participate in Syn.trofia a cooperative market in which there are a direct relation between producers and consumers. In the initiative 136 which is against the privatization of water services in Tesalonica and in favor of self-gestion of the services by the citizenry. Also in Di.an.thes, a network that promote the exchange of products and the use of an alternative monetary system.
He is one of the organizers of the Direct Democracy Festival, Tesalonica, in 2010, about direct democracy, alternatives to capitalism and the contemporary crisis, and also in 2011 in which the topics were self-gestion, direct democracy, social solidarity economics and common goods.
Stavros Stavrides
Assistant professor in the Architecture School of the National Technique University of Athens, Greece, where he gives two postgraduate courses about social housing and the meaning of the metropolitan experience. Has published six books and numerous academic articles, in Greek, Spanish and English, about spatial theory: "The symbolic relation to space", Athens, 1990; "Advertising and the meaning of space", Athens, 1996; "The textures of things", Athens, 1996; "From screen-cities to scene-cities, Athens, 2002, National Book Award; "Suspended spaces of alterity", Athens, 2010; and "Towards the city of thresholds", Trento, 2010. His research focus also in the spatial emancipatory forms and practices, developed in his work: "Loose space: possibilities and diversity in public life", Routledge, 2006, edited by K. Franck and P. Stevens. He has been invited to talk in the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain and Brazil.
Also he has organized and participated in several discussions, festivals, collective public interventions, groups, autonomous spaces, active popular assemblies and movements all around Greece that struggle against policies that undermine the general well being and security of the population.
Katerina Nasioka
Studied her undergraduate degree in the Philosophy Faculty of Athens University. Afterwards she did her postgraduate studies in Sociology in the Social and Political Sciences University of Athens. During her studies she did research about urban sociology, public spaces, emigration and gender. She wrote with Nota Kiriazi, Stela Kiriazi and Dimitra Pasjalidu the book "Gender and Journalism in Greece", which circulates in Greece since 2008, edited by Elinica Gramata. She is member of the collective group Reconstruction Community (www.reconstruction.gr). Between 2005 and 2009 she participated in several public interventions and discussions in Athens.
Is member of the collective RATNET (http://ratnet-blog.blogspot.com) that was created in Athens in 2010. This collective discusses the concerns about the city and national politics and culture. She participated with the assembly of the Autonomous Park of Navarinou, Exerjia, Athens. And also with the Solidarity Group of Keratea Community.
Since 2010 she lives in Mexico. She is currently doing her PhD in Sociology in the
Social Sciences and Humanities Institute of the Autonomous University of Puebla.
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