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About the Contributors

Ellen Annandale is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at University of Leicester, UK. She is
Vice-President of the Research Committee on Sociology of Health (RC 15) of ISA. Her main
interests are in gender and health, and medical work and practice. She is the author of
The Sociology of Health and Medicine (Polity Press, 1998) which is currently being prepared
in a 2nd edition, and Women’s Health and Social Change (Routledge, 2008). She is currently
Editor-in-Chief of the journal Social Science & Medicine.
Victor Armony is an FQRSC Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Université du
Québec à Montréal and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University
of Ottawa, both in Canada. He is a past President of the Association canadienne des socio-
logues et des anthropologues de langue française (ACSALF) and the current Editor of the
Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Reza Banakar is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Westminster in London,
UK. He was previously Senior Research Fellow in Law at Harris Manchester College and Paul
Dodyk Research Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford.
Among his publications are: Theory and Method in Socio-Legal Research, co-edited
with M. Travers (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2005), Merging Law and Sociology: Beyond the
Dichotomies in Socio-Legal Research (Berlin/Wisconsin: Galda + Wilch Verlag, 2003), and
Introduction to Law and Social Theory, also co-edited with M. Travers (Oxford: Hart
Publishing, 2002).

Elaine Barclay is the Director of the Centre for Rural Crime which is incorporated within the
Institute for Rural Futures, a research centre at the University of New England, Armidale,
Australia. The research program of the Centre for Rural Crime includes studies of crime in
rural communities, crime and crime prevention on farms, biosecurity on farms, and environ-
mental crime. She has authored/co-authored several journal articles and book chapters and is
co-editor of Crime in Rural Australia published by Federation Press in 2007.

Paul Bernard, PhD in Sociology, Harvard, 1974, is a Professor at the Université de Montréal,
in Canada. Research on job quality, social cohesion, social capital, welfare and gender regimes,
social inequalities of health, indicators of social development, lifecourse and social investment,
flexicurity, and poverty among single-parent families. Member of the National Statistics
Council, of the Steering Committee of the Canadian Household Panel Survey, of the Board of
Governors of the Council of the Canadian Academies, of the Board of the Social Research and
Demonstration Corporation, and of the Board of Québec’s Centre d’études sur la pauvreté et
l’exclusion sociale.