Contributors
Glenn
Albrecht
is an senior lecturer in the School of Geosciences at the University of
Newcastle, Australia. He has a PhD in philosophy, teaches in the domain of
environmental studies and offers subjects on environmental ethics and values,
sustainability, environmental history and environmental politics. He has
published internationally in the field of social ecology and has a particular
interest in dialectical and organicist theoretical traditions. He has explored
the affinities between these traditions and complexity theory in a number of
different contexts including social ecology and transdisciplinary approaches to
health issues.
Steven
Best is Associate
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso. With Douglas
Kellner, he is author of Postmodern
Theory: Critical Interrogations, The Postmodern Turn, and The Postmodern
Adventure (all with Douglas Kellner), as well as The Politics of
Historical Vision.
Giancarlo
Corsi is researcher at the University of Lecce
(Italy). He studied political sciences in Bologna and obtained a doctorate in
sociology in Bielefeld (Germany). Recent publications include:
Ridescrivere
la Questione Meridionale (Pensa 1998), with Raffaele De Giorgi; ‘Ein
Symbol für eine unbekannte
Zukunft‘, in: Theodor Bardmann, Dirk Baecker (Eds),
„Gibt
es eigentlich den Berliner Zoo noch?“ Erinnerungen an Niklas Luhmann (UVK
Konstanz, 1999); ‚Zwischen Irritation und Indifferenz: Systemtheoretischen
Anregungen für die Pädagogik‘, in: Henk De Berg, Johannes Schmidt (Eds),
Rezeption und Reflexion. Zur Resonanz der
Systemtheorie Niklas Luhmanns ausserhalb der Soziologie
(Suhrkamp,
2000).
Takis Fotopoulos is
a writer and the editor of
Democracy
and Nature; 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--The Crisis of the Growth Economy and the Need for a New
Liberatory Project (London
& New York: Cassell, 1997) which was also published in Italian and Greek and is planned to be published soon in German,
Spanish and French. He is also the author of the following books (in Greek):
Dependent
Development: The Case of Greece;
The
Gulf War: The First Battle in the North-South Conflict;
The
Neo-Liberal Consensus and the Crisis of the Growth Economy;
The
New World Order and Greece; Drugs:
beyond the demonology of penalisation and the ‘progressive’ mythology of
liberalisation; The New Order in the Balkans;
Religion, Autonomy and Democracy; From the Athenian
Democracy to Inclusive Democracy.
He
has also made contributions
in French, German, Dutch and Norwegian publications
Arran Gare
is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Cultural Inquiry, Swinburne University,
Australia. His research focusses on the problem of
understanding and creating the cultural conditions for a radical
transformation of society. He has published
Nihilism
Incorporated: European Civilization and Environmental Destruction;
Beyond
European Civilization: Marxism, Process Philosophy and the Environment;
Postmodernism and the Environmental Crisis and
Nihilism Inc.: Environmental Destruction and the Metaphysics of
Sustainability. With Robert Elliot he also edited the anthology
Environmental
Philosophy. He is the Director of the Joseph Needham Centre for Complex
Processes Research and is a member of the International Advisory Board of
Democracy and Nature.
Alexandros
Gezerlis
is co-ordinator
of the
editorial
assistants
of Democracy
& Nature and editor
of the Greek journal Inclusive Democracy.
He is currently studying
Electrical
and Computer
Engineering
at
the National
Technical
University
of Athens, while
his main
research interests
lie in the field
of theoretical
Physics. He
is a political activist
and he
sporadically
writes
for various
anarchist
journals
in Greece.
Douglas
Kellner is George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy
of Education at UCLA. In addition to his writings with Steven Best, he is author
of Critical Theory, Marxism, and Modernity; Jean Baudrillard:
From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond; Television and the Crisis of
Democracy,
and The Persian Gulf TV War, Media Culture.
Alan Roberts was a senior lecturer
in the Physics Department at Monash University (Melbourne) and is currently
Honorary Research Associate in the Monash Graduate School of Environmental
Science. He has published in
physics, theoretical ecology and objective literary analysis in e.g. Nature,
Proceedings of the Physical Society, Solid State Physics C and F, Physics
Letters, Physical Review, Comptes Rendus de l’Academie des Sciences, Bulletin
of Mathematical Ecology, Oecologia, Ecology.
Also, articles on Science and Society in journals including
Arena,
Island, Blacksmith, National Times, Nation; Journal of Community Communications;
l’Ecole Emancipé. Books
include The Self-managing Environment (Allison and Busby, London) and
The
Ecological Crisis of Consumerism (Spokesman Press, Nottingham).