ALICE BRYER is a PhD student at Manchester University, UK ANDRIENETTA KRITZINGER is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa ANTHONY BEBBINGTON is Professor of Nature, Society and Development in the School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, an ESRC Professorial Fellow, and Research Associate of the Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales, Peru CAMELIA CRISAN is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Communication and Public Relations within the National School for Political Science and Administration in Bucharest, Romania D. AJIT is an Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC), Prince George, British Columbia, Canada FABIANA LI is PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis, USA FIONA MACPHAIL is Associate Professor and Chair of the Economics Program at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada KATHERINE TREBECK is Research Executive at The Wise Group LESLIE SKLAIR is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Associate Faculty in the Cities Programme at the London School of Economics; Associate Fellow of the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of London, UK, and President of the Global Studies Association PAUL BOWLES is Professor of Economics at the University of Northern British Columbia, USA PRANAB KANTI BASU is a lecturer in the faculty of the department of Economics and Politics, Visva-Bharati.. RAJESH VENUGOPAL is a Research Officer at the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE) at the University of Oxford, UK RONNIE D. LIPSCHUTZ is Professor of Politics and Co-Director of the Center for Global, International and Regional Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA STEPHANIE BARRIENTOS lectures at the Institute of Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, UK