Suhrkamp Insel

Arjun Appadurai, born in Mumbai in 1949, is Goddard Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University and currently a visiting lecturer at the Institute of European Ethnology at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Zygmunt Bauman was born in Poznań in 1925 and died in Leeds in 2017. His last teaching post was at the University of Leeds. He is considered one of the most important contemporary sociologists and received many accolades including the Theodor W. Adorno Prize of the City of Frankfurt am Main (1998) and the Prince of Asturias Award (2013).

Donatella della Porta, born in Catania in 1956, is Professor for Political Sciences and director of the Centre of Social Movement Studies at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence.

Nancy Fraser is Professor of the New School University in New York.

Eva Illouz, born in 1961 in Morocco, is Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Ivan Krastev, born in Lukovit in 1965,is the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia and permanent fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna. Since 2015, he has been writing regular analyses for the international edition of The New York Times.

Bruno Latour, born in 1947, is Professor at the Sciences Politiques Paris and Deputy Director of the Centre of Sociologie des Organisations (CSO).

Paul Mason, born in Leigh in 1960, is a British author and multi-award-winning television journalist. He worked for the BBC and Channel 4 News for many years and regularly writes for The Guardian.

Pankaj Mishra, born in Jhansi in 1969, is an Indian essayist, literary critic and writer. He writes for publication such as The New York Times, the New York Review of Books and The Guardian. In 2014, he was awarded the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding.

Robert Misik, born in Vienna in 1966, is a journalist and political author. He was awarded the Prize of the Keynes Society for Economic Journalism in 2018.

Oliver Nachtwey, born in 1975, is an associate professor of social structure analysis at the University of Basel and an associated scholar of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main.

César Rendueles, born in Girona, Spain, in 1975, teaches sociology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Wolfgang Streeck, born in 1946, was the director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Research in Cologne until 2014. He is a member of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Academia Europaea, Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and Honorary Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. His book Gekaufte Zeit. Die vertagte Krise des demokratischen Kapitalismus was nominated for the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2013 (non-fiction category) and has been translated into 17 languages to date.

David Van Reybrouck, born in Bruges in 1971, is a writer, playwright, journalist, archaeologist and historian. In 2011, he founded the Initiative G1000, which advocates for democratic innovations in Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain. Congo: The Epic History of a People was published to great international acclaim and received numeorus awards and prizes. His book Against Elections: The Case for Democracy was met with great attention throughout Europe.

Slavoj Žižek, born 1949, is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic.

He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.