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Apartheid Workplace: Studies in Transition (University of KwaZulu Natal Press:
Pietermaritzburg). He is author, with Rob Lambert and Andries Bezuidenhout, of Grounding
Globalisation: Labour in the Age of Insecurity (Blackwell, 2008).

Yuko K. Whitestone is a Research Associate at the Center for Research on Military
Organization at the University of Maryland, USA. Her dissertation was on the impact of peace-
keeping participation on professional identity of Japanese service members.

Nira Yuval-Davis BA, etc. is a past President of the International Sociological Association
Research Committee on Nationalism, Racism, and Ethnic Relations and appointment member of
the UK 2008 RAE Sociology panel. She has written extensively on issues of racism, nationalism,
multiculturalism, fundamentalisms, citizenship, identity, and gender relations in Britain, Europe,
Israel, and other settler societies. Among her books are: Racialized Boundaries (Routledge,
1992); Unsettling Settler Societies (Sage, 1995); Gender and Nation (Sage 1997 [translated
into seven languages]); Women, Citizenship and Difference (Zed Books, 1999); Warning Signs
of Fundamentalisms (WLUML, 2004); and The Situated Politics of Belonging (Sage, 2006).