Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes, four volumes of the Essential Žižek, and many more.
Shashi Joshi is former Senior Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. A Ph.D. in History from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Dr. Joshi began her career as a senior le
Lisa Björkman is Assistant Professor of Urban and Public Affairs at the University of Louisville, and Research Scholar at CETREN (Transregional Research Network), University of Göttingen,
Kumari Jayawardena is the author of The Rise of the Labour Movement in Ceylon; Ethnic and Class Conflict in Sri Lanka; Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World; The White Woman’s Other Bur
Haifa Zangana writes regularly for the Guardian and Al-Ahram Weekly, and is the author of many books, including City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman's Account of War and Resistance. She lives in London.<
