I’m a marxist, militant worker, and union representative. I work as a professor of “Critique of the political economy” at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM).

I have a degree in Economics (1989), Sociology (1992), and a doctorate in International Economics and Development (1993), with a thesis that gave rise to the book Milagro o quimera: la economía chilena durante la dictadura (1995), all from UCM. I’m also a Master in Planning, Public Policy, and Development at the Latin American Institute of Economic and Social Planning of the United Nations (ILPES) in Santiago, Chile (1990). I’ve worked at dozens of universities on five continents, mostly in Latin America. I’ve advised 15 doctoral theses, in addition to tens of Masters research projects. I’ve published numerous articles, book chapters, etc.

In 2014, I published Capitalismo y economía mundial, an extensive book from which we did almost 100 presentations, each one turning into a political action as well. A second edition was released in 2016 and a French edition was released in 2017; a Portuguese edition is being prepared and an English edition is awaiting confirmation. In 2018, I published the book Enseñanzas de la Revolución rusa, in which in addition to my extensive introduction, I’ve compiled texts from the revolutionary experiences itself as well as from its principal leaders, and I conclude with an epilogue on the contributions of the Russian Revolution to the emancipatory struggle today.

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Capitalism | Communism | Mode of production | Productive forces of production | Relations of Production | Socialism | Superstructure

Vicente Rubio-Pueyo is an adjunct instructor at Fordham University (New York). He is currently working on a book on political cultures in Contemporary Spain, from the 80’s to the present. He has published numerous articles, both academic and in the press, about political and cultural issues both in Spain and the US.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vicente_Rubio-Pueyo  

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Municipalism

Valentín Ladrero holds degrees in Sociology and Information Sciences. For years, he worked as a journalist and music critic in radio, printed press, and the music industry while participating in anti-military, anarchist, and environmentalist collectives. He has collaborated on books such as Hasta el final (2000), Desde el otro lado (2006), and ¿Y ahora qué? Impactos y resistencia social contra la embestida ultraliberal (2012), among others. He is the author of Músicas contra el poder (2016) and is about to publish a new book about popular music, the working class, and lumpen. Currently, he is the coordinator of Libros en acción, the publishing house of the association Ecologistas en acción, and he heads a program on Radio Primavera Sound. (Translated by Hannah Sherman). Co-dictionary entry: Music against power

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Susan Larson

Professor Susan Larson teaches at Texas Tech University in the Spanish and Portuguese program. She is a specialist in the narrative (prose and film) of Spain since 1898 and her research lies at the intersection of Literary, Film and Urban Studies. She has two distinct but occasionally overlapping areas of specialization: the prose and film of the Spanish avant-garde and the more interdisciplinary field of Hispanic Urban Cultural Studies. She is the Executive Editor of the Romance Quarterly and co-edit the book series “Hispanic Urban Studies” with Benjamin Fraser.

Further readings:

"Madrid Río, El Matadero and the Nature of Urbanization." Co-authored with Matthew I. Feinberg. Arizona Journal of Cultural Studies 25, special volume Ecology and Iberian Cultural Studies in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Iñaki Prádanos-García, 2019. 

"Henri Lefebvre: vida cotidiana, revolución urbana y derecho a la ciudad." In El urbanismo de la transición. El Plan General de Ordenación Urbana de Madrid de 1985. Edited by Carlos Sambricio and Paloma Ramos. Ayuntamiento de Madrid, 2019. 

"Cultivating the Square: Trash, Recycling and the Cultural Ecology of Post-Crisis Madrid." Co-authored with Matthew I. Feinberg. In Ethics of Life: Contemporary Iberian Debates. Hispanic Issues Series Vol. 42. Katarzyna Beilin and William Viestenz, eds. Vanderbilt UP, 2016. 

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Everyday Life .The Right to the City

Samuel Amago teaches courses on modern and contemporary Spanish literary history, cinema and culture at the University of Virginia. His current scholarship centers on waste and space, memory and modernity in post-dictatorship Spanish cultural production, including photography, documentary, narrative, comics, film and television.

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Trash

Salvador López Arnal. Highschool professor (of Philosophy and Ethics) and vocational training teacher (Economics and Entrepreneurship, Programming languages) in a highschool, Puig Castellar, in Santa Coloma de Gramenet (Barcelona, Spain) and professor of Mathematics, Philosophy, Sociology, and Mathematics for Economists at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) in the same city, Salvador López Arnal is currently a retired citizen-worker. He regularly contributes to the journals El Viejo Topo and Papeles de relaciones ecosociales y cambio global and to the online newspaper Rebelión. His personal blog can be found at http://slopezarnal.com/. His two most recently published books are Siete historias lógicas y un cuento breve (Barcelona, Ediciones Bellaterra, 2017) and Crítica de la (sin)razón nuclear (Vilassar de Mar, Editorial de El Viejo Topo, 2018), coauthored by Eduard Rodríguez Farré. (Translated by Hannah Sherman).  

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Exploitation| Polyethics | Third culture

Roberto Robles-Valencia holds a PhD in Spanish from the University of Michigan and is currently a Faculty of Spanish at  the South Carolina Governor´s School for Sciences and Mathematics. He has taught previously at the University of South Alabama and Kalamazoo College. His main research focus is Spanish Nationalism . He has co-edited Fuera de la ley. Asedios al fenómeno quinqui en la Transición española, Comares, 2015, and has published on immigration, precariousness and the crisis, as represented in different cultural artifacts. 

Paddy Woodworth is a Research Associate at Missouri Botanical Garden, an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the School of Languages and Literatures, University College Dublin, a member of the European Cultural Parliament, and a founder-member of the Irish Forum on Natural Capital. He worked as staff journalist at The Irish Times from 1988-2002. As a writer he has contributed to the International Herald Tribune, Vanity Fair, The Scientist, The Sunday Times, Ecological Restoration, The World Policy Journal and BBC Wildlife and many other publications. His essays have been published in Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature, the International Journal of Iberian Studies, the Annals of Missouri Botanical Garden, Ecology, and the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. He has broadcast for RTE, the BBC, Al Jazeera, and Spanish, US and other international radio and TV networks. Since 2008, he has worked as a specialist cultural guide for visitors to the Basque Country, in partnership with Jon Warren of San Sebastián Food (now Mimo San Sebastián), developing the ‘Discovering the Basque Country’ tour series. He also works as an editor for scientists who wish to reach a wide public readership. He has published The Basque Country (Signal Books 2007, Oxford University Press, 2008), a collection of essays on diverse aspects of the region, from fiestas in remote villages to the reinvention of the city of Bilbao through the Guggenheim museum. And Dirty War, Clean Hands: ETA, the GAL and Spanish Democracy (Yale University Press, 2002), an account of the impact on Spanish institutions and Basque society of the state terrorist strategy espoused by Spanish government ministers and generals to fight the Basque terrorist group ETA in the 1980s. His most recent book is  Our Once and Future Planet: Restoring the World in the Climate Change Century (University of Chicago Press, 2013, 2015 paperback), a worldwide assessment of ecological restoration as a conservation strategy.

http://www.paddywoodworth.com

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Terrorism