Ulrich Beck was one of the leading sociologists of today. His idea of the risk society – later developed into the idea of the world risk society – marked contemporary social theory. His latest work was mostly dedicated to the issues of Europeanization and building of cosmopolitan Europe. He taught sociology at the University of…
Etienne Balibar is a leading French neo-Marxist, professor emeritus at the prestigious University of Paris X and full professor at the University of California Irvine. Balibar was a student and follower of Louis Altiser, where he took a course on Marx’s Capital, and was one of the co-authors of How to Read Capital (1965, our translation…
Éric Fassin is a professor of sociology in the Political Science Department and co-chair of the Gender Studies Department at Paris 8 university, and a founding member of the Laboratoire d’études de genre et de sexualité – Research Center on Gender and Sexuality Studies (LEGS, CNRS / Paris 8 / Paris 10). His work focuses…