Upsetting the Offset - Transnational Institute

Contributors
co-founder of the open-access journal ephemera: theory & politics in organization
(www.ephemeraweb.org), and co-founder and co-editor of the new open
publishing press MayFlyBooks (www.mayflybooks.org). He has also published
Repositioning Organization Theory (Palgrave) and Against Automobility (Blackwell).
steffen@essex.ac.uk
Patrick Bond is senior professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal
School of Development Studies in Durban, South Africa, where since 2004 he
has directed the Centre for Civil Society. His work presently covers aspects of
economic crisis, environment (energy, water and climate change), social
mobilization, public policy and geopolitics. His recent books include: Climate
Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society; Looting Africa; Talk Left, Walk Right; and
Elite Transition. He was a founding member of the Durban Group for Climate
Justice and is active in Climate Justice Now!’s South Africa branch. In service to
the new South African government from 1994-2002, Patrick authored/edited
more than a dozen policy papers, including the Reconstruction and Development
Programme. Patrick earned his doctorate in economic geography under the
supervision of David Harvey at Johns Hopkins. pbond@mail.ngo.za
Joanna Cabello is a researcher at the Carbon Trade Watch project of the
Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She has an MA in
Politics of Alternative Development from the Institute of Social Studies and a
Bachelor Degree in Social Communications from Universidad de Lima, Peru.
Previously she has worked with different projects concerning the Peruvian
rainforest and at the UN office for Peace and Disarmament in Latin America.
joanna@tni.org
Ricardo Carrere is the International Coordinator of the World Rainforest
Movement, an international network of citizens’ groups of North and South
involved in efforts to defend the world’s rainforests and to secure the lands and
livelihoods of forest peoples. Since the late 80s, Ricardo has concentrated his
energies on research and campaigning at national and international levels to
both protect forests and its peoples and to oppose the spread of large-scale tree
monocultures. Ricardo is a Uruguayan forester and the author of numerous
publications on forests and tree plantations as well as co-author – with Larry
Lohmann – of ‘Pulping the South: Industrial Tree Plantations and the World
Paper Economy’. rcarrere@wrm.org.uy
Melissa Checker is an Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at CUNY,
Queens College. Her research focuses on environmental justice activism and
issues of urban sustainability in the United States. More recently she has added
environmental gentrification in New York City and the global struggle for
climate justice to her areas of study. Her publications include Polluted Promises:
Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town (NYU Press, 2005),
and the edited volume, Local Actions: Cultural Activism, Power and Public Life (with
Maggie Fishman, Columbia University Press, 2004). In addition, she has
published a number of academic and journalistic articles.
mchecker@qc.cuny.edu
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