Editors’ Introduction written by Chizu Sato on behalf of the Editorial Collective.
Stefania Barca
Environmental historian and feminist political ecologist who specializes in the labour/nature/gender nexus in the Anthropocene.
Jared C. Bly
Ph.D., philosopher, and translator currently posted at Villanova University. His research concerns the intersections of politics and aesthetics as well as the current struggles against imperialism, especially in Africa and the Global South.
Kenan Erçel
Longtime member of the Editorial Board of Rethinking Marxism. His areas of interest are global supply chains, labor rights, and corporate social responsibility. He is a regular contributor to the website of the Turkish leftist journal Birikim.
Khayaat Fakier
Associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, where she teaches and supervises in the sociology of work and feminist sociology. Her research interest is the social-reproductive analysis of unpaid care for humans and other species. Her latest book publication is a coedited anthology (with Nora Räthzel and Diana Mulinari) titled Marxist-Feminist Theories and Struggles Today: Essential writings on Intersectionality, Labour and Ecofeminism (Zed, 2020).
Jules Falquet
Full professor in philosophy at Paris 8 University Saint Denis and a member of the Studies and Research about Contemporary Philosophy’s Logics Unit (LLCP). Her work takes a feminist perspective on social movements (especially those resisting globalization, mainly in Latin America and the Caribbean), violence, migration, the neoliberal transformation of labor, and epistemology, including interlocking systems of oppression, decolonial feminism, and French materialist feminism.
Kristen Ghodsee
Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and a faculty member for graduate groups in anthropology and comparative literature. Ghodsee’s essays have appeared in publications worldwide. She is the author of books including Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women’s Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War (Duke University Press, 2019) and Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence (Bold Type, 2018).
Jule Goikoetxea
Graduate of the University of Cambridge and professor in political theory at the University of the Basque Country. She is the editor of the LISIPE book collection Feminist Thought. Her research focuses on state theory; the imbrication of democracy, capitalism, and nationalism; and the analytical dimensions of neoliberal patriarchies. Her latest books are Privatizing Democracy (Peter Lang, 2017), Estallidos (Bellaterra, 2021), and Democracia Patriarcal (Txalaparta, 2022).
Samuel J. R. Mercer
Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at Liverpool Hope University in Britain. Mercer is a member of the Editorial Board of Rethinking Marxism and has published research on theoretical antihumanism, the Marxism of Louis Althusser, and the sociology of work and employment. Mercer's book The Ideology of Work: Theoretical Humanism, Work and Labour is forthcoming as part of Brill’s Historical Materialism book series.
Diana Mulinari
Professor at the University of Lund, Sweden, working in gender studies and exploring social identities in the political field. Her publications include “In Green and White: Feminist Struggles for Abortion Rights in Argentina,” in Struggles for Reproductive Justice in the Era of Anti-Genderism and Religious Fundamentalism, coedited with Rebecca Selberg and Marta Kolankiewicz (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023); and “The Swedish Racial Regime in Transition” (with Anders Neergaard), in Racism in and for the Welfare State (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
Nora Räthzel
Professor at the University of Umeå, Sweden. Her main research areas are environmental labor studies, transnational corporations, and gender and ethnic relations in the everyday. Her publications include Marxist-Feminist Theories and Struggles Today, with Khayaat Fakier and Diana Mulinari (Zed, 2020); Transnational Corporations from the Standpoint of Workers, with Diana Mulinari and Aina Tollefsen (Palgrave Macmillan 2014); and Trade Unions in the Green Economy: Working for the Environment, with David Uzzell (Routledge, 2013).
Maliha Safri
Professor in the economics department at Drew University. Her research has focused on class and political economy, and in particular the ways that people engage in collective practices in work, housing, and food. She has published articles in Signs, Antipode, Rethinking Marxism, the Economist's Voice, Organization, and edited books. Her forthcoming book Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation is coauthored with Craig Borowiak, Stephen Healy, and Marianna Pavlovskaya, and will be published later in 2024 by University of Minnesota Press.
Chizu Sato
Teaches in the Cultural Geography group at Wageningen University in The Netherlands. Her research interests are in the areas of transnational feminism, Marxism, international development and political ecology with a focus on the intersections of women, empowerment, development and socio-ecological well-being. Her recent work appears in World Development, Journal of Agrarian Change, and The International Journal of the Commons. She has been a member of the editorial board of Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture, and Society for 20 years.
Richard Sobel
Professor of Economics at the University of Lille (France) and a researcher at the Centre Lillois de recherches sociologiques et économiques. His research focuses on the philosophical issues involved in institutionalist political economy, particularly in Marx and Polanyi. In 2023, he published (with Nicolas Postel): “Commodification and Fictitious Commodities—Polanyi’s Decisive Contribution” in The Handbook of Commodification (Routledge).
Travasaros Tasos
Ph.D. candidate who completed undergraduate studies in the Department of Psychology at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a master’s degree in special education at the University of Nicosia. He is trained in the systemic approach to family, group, and individual psychotherapy. He works as a psychologist/psychotherapist in private practice and conducts research in clinical psychology and in theoretical and philosophical psychology.
Zhuoqun Wang
Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. His academic interests are Marxism and critical theory.
Ryan Watt
Independent scholar currently based in California. His ongoing research concerns the relationship between narrative and identity. His more recent work focuses specifically on the need to understand dominant and subcultural groupings as social interpretations, and the rethinking of contemporary media scholarship through the lens of ecological Marxism. He received his bachelor’s in English and Film Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2019. He currently works at a middle school, where he teaches creative writing, environmental science, and physical education.