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Contributors

Peter Beilharz is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Thesis Eleven Centre for
Critical Theory at La Trobe University, Australia. He is author of Trotsky, Trotskyism and
the Transition to Socialism (Croom Helm 1987); Labour’s Utopias (Routledge 1992);
Postmodern Socialism (Melbourne University Press 1994); Transforming Labour
(Cambridge 1994); Imagining the Antipodes (Cambridge 1997); and Zygmunt Bauman –
Dialectic of Modernity (Sage 2000); and is editor of fifteen books. He is working on a
book on Australia, to be called The Unhappy Country.

Ann Brooks is author of Academic Women (Open University Press, 1997);
Postfeminisms: Feminism, Cultural Theory and Cultural Forms (Routledge, 1997); Gender
and the Restuctured University: Changing Management and Culture in Higher Education
(with Alison Mackinnon) (Open University Press, 2001) and Gendered Work in Asian
Cities: The New Economy and Changing Labour Markets (Ashgate, 2006). Ann is currently
Head of Sociology Programmes at SIM University, Singapore and was previously a
Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Massey University, New Zealand. Her latest project is a
book for Routledge entitled Intimacy, Reflexivity and Identity: The Gendered Self in
Chinese Diasporic Communities.

Eamonn Carrabine is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the
University of Essex. His teaching and research interests lie in the fields of Criminology
and Cultural Studies. His books include Crime in Modern Britain (with Pamela Cox,
Maggy lee, and Nigel South, Oxford UniversityPress, 2002), Criminology: A Sociological
Introduction (with Paul Iganski, Maggy Lee, Ken Plummer, Nigel South, Routledge,
2004) and Power, Discourse and Resistance: A Genealogy of the Strangeways Prison Riot
(2004). He is currently working on a book on Crime and the Media: Interrogating
Representations of Transgression in Popular Culture.

Douglas Kellner is George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at UCLA and
is author of many books on social theory, politics, history, and culture, including
works in cultural studies such as Media Culture and Media Spectacle; a trilogy of books

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