The International Journal of INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY, Vol. 4, No. 4 (October 2008)
Contributors
Takis Fotopoulos is a political philosopher, editor of Society and 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 & 1998) which has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek and lately in Chinese and the book The Multidimensional Crisis and Inclusive Democracy, published by the International Journal of Inclusive Democracy (2005). He has also contributed to several books in English, Italian, Chinese, Polish 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, Albert and Parecon, and the present multi-dimensional crisis. Finally, he is the author of over 700 articles in English, American and Greek theoretical journals, magazines and newspapers, several of which have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian, Chinese, Portuguese, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Finnish, Polish Turkish and Arab, see here. His latest book is Inclusive Democracy: 10 Years Later (Athens: Eleftheros Typos, May 2008).
Dr. Qingzhi Huan is a professor of comparative politics at the School of Political Science and Public Administration, and director of the Institute of Environmental politics, Shandong University, China. He was a visiting scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute of 2002/2003, and a Humboldt Research Fellow of 2005-2006 at the MZES. His main academic interests are environmental politics, European politics and party politics in a comparative perspective. His major publications include Eco-socialism as Environmental Politics (ed., forthcoming), International Comparison on Environmental Politics (2007), Environmental Politics: Theories and Practice ed. (2007), Contemporary European Party Politics: Social Democrats in Electoral Politics (2007) and Green Political Dimension: Studying on European Green Parties (2000).
John Sargis is a political activist and organizer in Paterson, New Jersey. He is also assistant editor of The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy to which he makes frequent contributions. He is also a contributor to the book Globalised Capitalism, The Eclipse of the Left and Inclusive Democracy ed. by Steven Best (Athens: Koukkida, May 2008). He taught secondary school biology in Paterson, New Jersey for twenty-six years and he also used to function as a union leader.
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.