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Mimi Marcus is a practicing lawyer currently completing a Masters in Public and International Law at the University of Melbourne. Mimi is also an executive member of Reprieve Australia, an organisation committed to the abolition of the death penalty around the world.
Keir Milburn is finishing his doctoral thesis titled: “How does a Multitude decide?” This research is focused on the problematics of autonomous social movements and the foundational role of intense events in political conceptions of the many. He is the co-founding editor of the anomalist e-journal www.theanomalist.com. A founding editor of the journal Turbulence and a member of the long term research and collective writing project; The Free Association
William McDowall is an Associate Member of the Sustainability Solutions Group Workers Co-Operative in Vancouver, Canada, and an International Associate of Brunel Research in Enterprise, Innovation, Sustainability and Ethics at Brunel University in the UK. He was previously a Research Fellow at the Policy Studies Institute in London, where his research focused on energy and technology policy, and Chinese environmental issues.
SD’ s primary research focuses upon new situationist art’ s rendering of a negative aesthetic. An unlikely configuration of events led to doctoral research in the department of sociology at the University of Birmingham. Additional areas of inquiry include political protest as popular culture and the learning experiences of undergraduates in their first encounter with cultural studies. SD welcomes electronic communication and can be emailed at sdn542@bham.ac.uk.
Panos Papoulias is a finishing PhD student in Political Theory at the London School of Economics. He teaches “introduction to Political theory’ at undergraduate level and specializes in the fields of liberalism, political ideologies, and political economy. He is a member of the group Ex’ apostaseos.
Heikki Patomäki is professor in international relations at the University of Helsinki. He is among the founding members of the Network Institute for Global Democratisation (NIGD). His latest publications include After International Relations. Critical Realism and the (Re)Construction of World Politics (Routledge, 2002) and A Possible World: Democratic Transformation of Global Institutions (Zed books, 2004)
Laurence Pawley is a PhD candidate and undergraduate tutor at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His thesis seeks to analyse the interaction between different models of citizenship in the BBC, and his other research interests include democratic theory, blogging, and the politics of pop culture. He writes on broadcasting issues for the campaign group Voice of the Listener and Viewer, and has contributed music reviews to various online and print publications, co-founding the e-zine ‘To Hell With’ in 2002.
Fabio Petito teaches International Relations at the University “L’Orientale” in Naples, Italy and has been Visiting Professor of International Relationsat the ESCP-EAP in Paris. Together with John L. Esposito, he is running the “Mediterranean, Europe and Islam: Actors in Dialogue”. Among his recent publications: the co-edited volumes Religion in International Relations: The Return from Exile (Nex York: Palgrave, 2003; Italian translation by Vita e Pensiero, Milan, 2006).
Athanasios Priftis is a PhD Candidate on Information Society, eGovernance and eDemocracy issues at the Aegean University (Greece). He holds an MSc in Information Science from University of Loughborough (UK). He, currently, works as an IT analyst for PASOK (Greek Socialist Party).
Dr Tariq Ramadan is currently Senior Research Fellow at Lokahi Foundation and Visiting Fellow at Oxford St Antony’s College and also President of the European think tank: European Muslim Network (EMN) in Brussels. He has authored and co-authored over 20 books and over 700 articles. His latest book is titled Globalisation: Muslim Resistances (Oxford University Press, 2004).
Ilias Roubanis is a finishing PhD student at the department of Political Science of the European University Institute, Florence. He received his MSc from Panteion university and works as a research fellow at the Institute of Strategic and Development Studies (ISTAME).