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xxvi ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

Ari Sitas is a writer and a sociologist. He is a past President of the South African Sociological
Association and on the executive of the African Sociological Association. He is based in
Durban at the University of KwaZulu Natal where he holds the Chair of Industrial,
Organizational, and Labour Studies.

Henry Teune is the Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He
is a principal investigator of two on-going research programs, Universities as Sites of
Citizenship, and Democracy and Local Governance. The latter has conducted surveys on dem-
ocratic values and practices of thousands of local political leaders in 30 countries, in many of
them for two and more points in time. He was President of the International Studies Association
and has been active in both the International Political Science and Sociological Associations
since the 1970s. His theoretical interests and writings continue to address relationships among
development, democracy, and globalization.

Joseph-Yvon Thériault is the Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at
the Université d’Ottawa, Canada where he holds the Research Chair on ‘Identité et
Francophone’. A political sociologist, his work has focussed on relations between collective
identity and democracy (citizenship) within the perspectives of the history of ideas and the
comparative analysis of small societies. His work on Canadian society has concentrated on
Québec, Acadia, and minority francophones in Canada. He was elected to the Academy of
Social Sciences of the Royal Society of Canada in 2004 and holds the Trudeau Foundation
Prize (2007–2010).
Georgios Odysseus Tsobanoglou is the President of ISA-RC26, and Professor of
Sociology of Work, Sociology Department, Aegean University, Greece. He obtained
his PhD from Carleton’s Sociology Department. Member of CIRIEC, Liege, LEED, OECD,
and IIAS, Brussels, Belgium, his publications include ‘The Ombudsman System in Greece’
in R. Gregory and P. Giddings (eds.) Righting Wrongs, ‘Aspects of the Public Justice
System in Greece’, in M. Fabri and P. M. Langbroek (eds.) Changing Positions of Courts
in Society, The Challenge of Change for Judicial Systems, ‘The Struggle for Integration
in the Greek Juridical System’ in M. Fabri and F. Contini (eds.) Justice and Technology in
Europe.

Robert van Krieken is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney,
Australia. Author of Children and the State (1992), Norbert Elias (1998), lead author of the
Australian sociology textbook, Sociology: Themes and Perspectives (2004) and numerous jour-
nal articles on the history and sociology of Australian childhoods. He is currently working on
a book titled Civilizing Divorce, which develops a sociological account of the changes to the
legal regulation of parent–child relations after separation and divorce. He is also past President
of RC53, Sociology of Childhood, Vice-President of RC17, Sociology of Organizations, and a
member of the ISA Executive.

Edward Webster is Emeritus Professor and a former director of the Sociology of Work
Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He was a senior
Fulbright Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1995. He is past President
of the Research Committee on Labour Movements for the International Sociological
Association. He is co-editor, with Glenn Adler, of Trade Unions and Democratisation in South
Africa, 1985–1997 (NY: St Martin’s Press, 2000) and, with Karl von Holdt, of Beyond the