Nicos Souliotis is Senior Researcher at the National Center for Social Research (EKKE), Greece. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the EHESS, Paris (1998-2005). His research activity and publications concern issues of economic sociology, urban sociology and sociology of culture (see https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nicos-Souliotis?ev=hdr_xprf, https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-souliotis-a1355a43/). Email: nsouliotis@ekke.gr.
My name is Yasmine Hafez; I am a PhD candidate at SOAS University of London. My research focuses on lake-dependent communities—especially fisherfolk—around Lake Victoria (Uganda and Kenya) and Egypt’s Delta lakes. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and archival research, I examine the lakes’ colonial histories, neoliberal fisheries interventions, and contemporary climate politics. I also hold doctoral fellowships at the Centre d’Études et de Documentation Économiques, Juridiques et Sociales (CEDEJ) in Cairo and the Water Diplomacy Center (WDC) in Jordan. Beyond my doctoral work, I am co-editing two volumes: one on South–South fieldwork experiences and another on water and food dynamics in Egypt.
Polat S. Alpman is a professor of sociology at Yalova University. He works on production sociology, political economy, migration, and class, with research interests in labor regimes, marginalization, urban justice, public sociology, critical social policy, and regimes of race, ethnicity, and belonging. email: polatalpman@gmail.com Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/polat-alpman-a496082a
Mohamed Oubenal: Researcher in sociology at Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe (IRCAM) in Morocco. I have a PhD in sociology from Paris-Dauphine University. My research interests include economic sociology, sociology of amazigh culture and social network analysis. Website: https://sites.google.com/view/oubenal/ Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohamed-oubenal-4a93201b
Ilyes Boumahdi, PhD in quantitative economics, has been head of service at DEPF/MEF since 2002, and an adjunct professor at INSEA since 2007 and UM6P/FGSES since 2024. He has several research published in Scopus indexed journals relating to regional disparities, smart specialization, spatial evaluation of well-being and unconventional big data. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilyesboumahdi
Gábor Scheiring is an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University Qatar. He researches how economic shocks lead to precarity, mental and physical suffering, and how this affects democratic stability. As a member of the Hungarian Parliament (2010–2014), he advocated for a socially just transition to sustainability. Website: https://www.gaborscheiring.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gscheiring/
Shilajit Sengupta, Assistant Professor at Alliance University, researches political economy, precarity, migration, and gender in the global south. With a PhD in Political Science, he bridges academia and grassroots development through praxis-driven inquiry and teaching. https://www.linkedin.com/in/shilajit-sengupta-5212a0a1/
Emrah Yıldız is an assistant professor at Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University in the department of Sociology. Emrah's ongoing research project focuses on understanding how modern Turkey delineated her economic interests throughout the period of 1929 to 1947.
Brian Schmitt, Associate professor (MCF) Faculté des Etudes Internationales et Interculturelles (FE2i) CY CERGY PARIS UNIVERSITÉ Lead professor for the EUTOPIA University CLC on Social Power & Social Change AGORA Research Center Areas: US political economy.
Maurilio Pirone is Junior Researcher at the Department of Art of University of Bologna. He works for the Horizon Europe Project INCA and is member of Into the Black Box collective and COST Action P-WILL. His interests entail platform labour, globalization, digital technologies, logistics.
Olav Velthuis (o.j.m.velthuis@uva.nl) is Professor at the Department of Sociology of the University of Amsterdam, specializing in economic sociology and cultural sociology. He currently serves as Head of the department. His research interests include the art markets, gift exchange, valuation and pricing, and markets for adult content.
Zineb Jorfaoui étudiante chercheuse en cycle doctoral. Au Maroc inscrite à la faculté des lettres et sciences humaines tetouan. Jorfzineb@gmail.com
Helena Geisler (she/her) is a Junior Researcher and Lecturer in Qualitative Methods at the Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training. Her research focuses on valuation processes in education and labor markets, with particular interest in convention theory and reflexive thematic analysis. Contact: helena.geisler@ehb.swiss
Gabriel Kahan is a PhD Student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as well as a Visiting Researcher at the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations at Sciences Po. His work focuses on state-led decarbonization. Bluesky: @gkahan.bsky.social
Zeev Rosenhek: Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, The Open University of Israel. His main research interests lie in the fields of economic sociology and political economy, with a particular focus on processes of institutional change and continuity in state-economy relations. He has conducted research on the political economy of the welfare state, labor migration, and the politics of institutionalization of the neoliberal regime. He is currently studying social dimensions of financialization. zeevro@openu.ac.il
Yintan Fan is a final-year PhD candidate in Economic Sociology at the University of Essex, researching temporality, uncertainty, and migrant/industrial entrepreneurship. He is currently seeking postdoctoral or research positions. (yintan.fan@gmail.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/yintan-fan/)
Xiaoying Qi, Associate Professor, Australian Catholic University. Areas of expertise: business and market relations; family and family change; social networks and social capital; globalization; migration; gender; emotion. Email: xiaoying.qi@acu.edu.au
K. Madhubabu. Professor, Department of Economics, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Andhra Pradesh, India, drmbecoanu@gmail.com