The International Journal of INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY, vol.3, no.1, (January 2007)
Contributors
Steve Best is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas, El Paso. He is the co-author with Douglas Kellner of Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations, The Postmodern Turn, and The Postmodern Adventure, as well as author of The Politics of Historical Vision and Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? Reflections on the Liberation of Animals. His latest book, co-edited with Anthony J. Nocella II, is Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth.
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-dimensional crisis. He is also the author of over 600 articles in English, American, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian, Chinese, Turkish, Arab and Greek theoretical journals, magazines and newspapers. (see http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/fotopoulos/). His latest book is The Multidimensional Crisis and Inclusive Democracy, published by the International Journal of Inclusive Democracy, (2005) http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/ss/ss.htm .
David Gabbard is a professor in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at East Carolina University’s College of Education. He is the co-founder and co-editor of Public Resistance: An Academic Journal to Confront& Expose the Lies of the Right (www.publicresistance.org). He has also authored or edited five books in the areas of critical education policy studies and the history of educational thought. His most recent books include Knowledge & Power in the Global Economy: The Effects of School Reform in Neoliberal / Neoconservative Age, (Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishing, forthcoming/2007); Defending Public Schools, Vol. I: Education Under the Security State (edited with E. Wayne Ross) (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2004); Education As Enforcement: The Militarization and Corporatization of Schools (New York: Routledge, 2003); and Knowledge & Power in the Global Economy: Politics and the Rhetoric of School Reform (Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishing, 2000).
Clément Homs is a history and geography teacher in France. He is working on a history thesis about the renewal of the practice of history. His work is based on the material phenomenology of the French philosopher Michel Henry and his original and iconoclastic study of Marx’s work.
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/The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy. 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).
Ted Trainer is a lecturer in the School of Social Work, University of New South Wales. His main interests have been global problems, sustainability issues, radical critiques of the economy, alternative social forms and the transition to them. He has written numerous books and articles on these topics, including Abandon Affluence, London, Zed, 1985,The Conserver Society; Alternatives for Sustainability, London, Zed, 1995, and Saving the Environment; What It Will Take, Sydney, University of N.S.W Press, 1998. He is also developing Pigface Point, an alternative lifestyle educational site near Sydney, and a website, http://www.socialwork.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/