Raquel Sosa Elizaga - Facing An Unequal World

Raquel Sosa Elzaga,Editor. Born in Mexico City, on the 24th February 1955. Resident in Mexico City. Email: rsosa@unam.mx
Degrees in Sociology, Latin American Studies, and PhD in History, National Autonomous University of Mexico. Full Time Professor at the Center for Latin American Studies of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, since January, 1976. Vice President of Program of the International Sociological Association, from 2010 to 2014. Member of its Program Committee from 1998 to 2002; Member of its Executive Committee, from 2006 to 2010. President of the Asociacin Latinoamericana de Sociologa, from 1985 to 1987, and member of its Council of Ex Presidents, since 2013. Secretary of Social Development and of Culture in the Mexico City Government, from 2000 to 2005, and from 2005 to 2006. Published Educacin y exclusin, Mexico, Facultad de Ciencias Polticas y Sociales, UNAM, 2017; Reflexiones sobre la tradicin sociolgica, los dilemas de nuestro tiempo y el porvenir en Castaeda, Dvila et al, El futuro de las ciencias sociales en un entorno globalizado, Mxico, Facultad de Ciencias Polticas y Sociales, UNAM, 2017; Hacia la recuperacin de la soberana educativa en Amrica Latina: conciencia crtica y programa. Mxico, UNAM/CLACSO, 2012; Pensar con cabeza propia. Educacin y pensamiento crtico en Amrica Latina. Septiembre de 2011. CLACSO, Cuadernos del pensamiento crtico latinoamericano. Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales. Nmero 45, ao 4, 10 de diciembre de 2011; Co-authored with Irene Snchez, Amrica Latina: los desafos del pensamiento crtico, Mxico, Siglo XXI, 2004.

Peter Alexander,Professor of Sociology and Director of Centre for Social Change at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. PhD. in History, London University. Member of the International Sociological Association. Author of Racism, Resistance and Revolution, 1987; Workers, War and the Origins of Apartheid, 2000; with Luke Sinwell, Thapelo Lekgowa, Botsang Mmope and Bongani Xezwi, Marikana: A View from the Mountain and a Case to Answer, 2012; and with Claire Ceruti, Keke Motseke, Mosa Phadi and Kim Wale, Class in Soweto, 2013. Editor of, with Rick Halpern, Racializing Class, Classifying Race, 2000; and with Marcelle C. Dawson and Meera Ichharam, Globalisation and New Identities: A View from the Middle, 2006.Walden Bello,Professor of Sociology and Public Administration at the University of the Philippines Diliman, as well as Executive Director of Focus on the Global South. PhD in Princeton University. Author of Dragons in Distress: Asias Miracle Economies in Crisis, with Stephanie Rosenfeld, 1990; with Cunningham, Shea and Li, Kheng Po, A Siamese Tragedy: Development & Disintegration in Modern Thailand, 1999; with Mittal, Anuradha, The Future in the Balance: Essays on Globalization and Resistance, 2001; Deglobalization Ideas for a New World Economy, 2001; The Food Wars, 2009; Capitalisms Last Stand?: Deglobalization in the Age of Austerity, 2013.Jean-Michel Bonvin,Professor of Sociology at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. PhD in Sociology, La Sorbonne, Paris. Member of ISA. Author of Investir dans la protection sociale atouts et limites pour la Suisse / Reformieren durch Investieren? Chancen und Grenzen des Sozialinvestitionsstaats in der Schweiz, with S. Dahmen, 2017; Towards a Critical Sociology of Democracy: The Potential of the Capability Approach, in Critical Sociology, with F. Laruffa and E. Rosenstein (2017); The Ambivalence of Social Policies and the Challenge of Human Development. In H.-U. Otto, S. Pantazis, H. Ziegler and A. Potsi (Eds.), Human Development in Times of Crisis: Renegotiating Social Justice (2017); Childrens Rights as Evolving Capabilities, Towards a Processual and Contextualised Conception of Social Justice. In Ethical Perspectives