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Leslie Sklair is emeritus professor of sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science; Associate Fellow of the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of London; and President of the Global Studies Association. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Southern California, New York University, The New School in New York, University of Sydney, Hong Kong University and, currently, Strathclyde University in Scotland, and has lectured on globalization all over the world. Editions of his Globalization: Capitalism and its Alternatives (2002) have been translated into Japanese, Portuguese, Persian, Spanish and Korean with an Arabic edition forthcoming. His study of the Fortune Global 500, The Transnational Capitalist Class, was published in 2001 (Chinese edition 2002). Papers from his current research project, “Iconic architecture and capitalist globalization”, have been published in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (2005) and CITY (2006).He has written on globalization and capitalism for several major social science encyclopaedias and is on the Editorial Boards of Review of International Political Economy, Global Networks, Social Forces and Journal of World-Systems Research.
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Dr Wendy Pullan
Architecture, University of Cambridge (Jerusalem)
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Prof James Anderson
Geography, Queen's University Belfast (Belfast)
Prof Mick Dumper
Politics, University of Exeter (Jerusalem)
Prof Liam O'Dowd
Sociology, Queen's University Belfast (Belfast)
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Dr Britt Baillie-Warren
Architecture, University of Cambridge (Jerusalem)
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Politics, University of Exeter (Jerusalem)
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Architecture, University of Cambridge (Jerusalem)
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Sociology, Queens University Belfast
Dr Martina McKnight
Sociology, Queens University Belfast
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Nadera Karkaby
Architecture, University of Cambridge (Jerusalem)
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Karen Smith
University of Cambridge
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Architecture, University of Cambridge (Jerusalem)
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University of Cambridge