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on postmodern theory with Steve Best; a trilogy of books on the Bush administration,
including Grand Theft 2000, From 9/11 to Terror War, and his latest text Media
Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy. His website is at www.gseis.ucla.edu/
facullty/kellner.

Tim May is Professor and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional
Futures (www.surf.salford.ac.uk). Tim is the author of works on urban and science pol-
icy, universities, social theory, research methodology and methods, philosophy of
social science and organisational change. He has recently edited special editions of
journals (with Beth Perry) on universities and academic production, science and
regional policy and urban sociology and is writing a book on social science and reflex-
ivity. He is also series editor of Issues in Society for McGraw-Hill/Open University Press.
Tim is undertaking research for various clients on knowledge production and transfer,
science and cities and regional and urban policy. He also works for universities advis-
ing them on intellectual, organisational and strategic developments and is a member
of ‘The Transatlantic Forum on the Future of Universities’ (http://www.
einaudi.cornell.edu/sshen/index.asp).

William Merrin is a lecturer in media and communications at the University of Wales,
Swansea, specialising in media theory, new media and cyberculture and media history.
He is the author of Baudrillard and the Media: A Critical Introduction (Polity, 2005), and
New Media: Key Thinkers (Polity, forthcoming) as well as a range of articles on media
theory and history and is a member of the editorial board of the on-line International
Journal of Baudrillard Studies.

Maggie O’Neill is Senior Lecturer in the Deptartment of Social Sciences at
Loughborough University. Committed to interdisciplinarity her work is situated at the
crossroads of sociology, feminist theory, cultural and critical criminology and social
policy. She co-edited Sociology (with Tony Spybey): the journal of the British Sociological
Association from 1999–2002. Her books include Adorno, Culture and Feminism (Sage,
1999); Prostitution and Feminism: Towards a Politics of Feeling (Polity, 2001); Prostitution: A
Reader with Roger Matthews (Ashgate, 2002); Gender and the Public Sector with Jim Barry
and Mike Dent (Routledge, 2002); Sex Work Now with Rosie Campbell (Willen 2006).
She is currently convening a regional network underpinned by the principles of PAR and
funded by the AHRC ‘making the connections: arts, migration and diaspora – www.
makingtheconnections.info and a board member of the global human dignity and
humiliation studies network (HDHS) – www.humiliationstudies.org

Jason L. Powell is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Liverpool. His
research interests are in social theory, Foucauldian approaches to ageing and social
policy. He has published extensively and most recently is author of Social Theory and
Ageing as part of Charles Lemert’s distinguished book series on ‘New Discursive
Formations’ (2006, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham); Rethinking Social Theory and
Later Life (2006, Nova Science Press, New York) and edited (with Dr. Azrini Wahidin)

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