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Mariel Aguilar-Støen is a senior researcher at the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo. Her current research interest focuses on international migration and land-use change in Mexico and Guatemala.

Kenneth J. Andrien is Humanities Distinguished Professor in History at Ohio State University. He received his B.A. at Trinity College and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Duke University. He has written Crisis and Decline: The Viceroyalty of Peru in the Seventeenth Century (1985), The Kingdom of Quito, 1690–1830: The State and Regional Development (1995), and Andean Worlds: Indigenous History, Culture, and Consciousness under Spanish Rule, 1532–1825 (2001), and has edited The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America (2003). He has also coedited (with Rolena Adorno) Transatlantic Encounters: Europeans and Andeans in the Sixteenth Century (1991) and (with Lyman L. Johnson) The Political Economy of Spanish America in the Age of Revolution, 1750–1850 (1994).

Arild Angelsen is professor of economics at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB) and a senior associate of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Indonesia. He has done extensive research on causes of tropical deforestation and the interaction with poverty, tenure, and government policies. His more recent work is on how reducing deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) can be included in a global climate regime, as well as national strategies and policies to reduce green-house-gas emissions.

Roger Atwood was a visiting researcher at the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University from 2005 to 2007 and later communications director at the Washington Office on Latin America. His articles have appeared in SAIS Review and Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, as well as in numerous popular publications in North America, Europe, and Latin America. He is currently an independent scholar and writer living in London.

Javier Auyero is Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor of Latin American Sociology at the University of Texas-Austin. He is the author of Poor People's Politics (Duke University Press, 2000), Contentious Lives (Duke University Press, 2003), Routine Politics and Collective Violence in Argentina (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and (with Débora Swistun) Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown (Oxford University Press, 2009).

Scott H. Beck is professor of sociology at East Tennessee State University. Together with Kenneth J. Mijeski, he has been investigating the indigenous movement and racial politics in Ecuador since 1995. Mijeski and Beck have published articles in various journals, including Latin Americanist, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, and Latin American Research [End Page 285] Review. Their forthcoming book (from Ohio University Press) is New Age, Old Politics: Pachakutik and the Rise and Decline of the Ecuadorian Indigenous Movement.

Jacqueline Behrend is assistant professor and researcher at the Escuela de Política y Gobierno, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, in Argentina, and a Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas post-doctoral fellow. She received her D.Phil. in politics from the University of Oxford in early 2008. She has written on subnational politics and democratization in Argentina, and her current research focuses on comparative subnational democratization. At present, she is coordinating a broader research project with Laurence Whitehead—"Sub-national Democratization: Latin America, the United States, Russia and India in Comparative Perspective"—with funding from a Mellon–Latin American Studies Association Grant.

Simone Bohn is assistant professor of political science at York University, in Toronto, Canada. Her interests include the study of political parties, electoral behavior, and political culture in the recently democratized countries of Latin America. Her work has appeared in several peer-reviewed journals, such as Government and Opposition, Dados, Brazilian Political Science Review, Revista de Sociologia e Política, and Revista Opinião Pública. She is currently finalizing a book manuscript on the left turn in Latin America.

Isaac Caro is a sociologist at the Catholic University of Chile. He received his M.A. from Alberto Hurtado University and his Ph.D. in American studies from Universidad de Santiago de Chile. He has been a researcher at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO-Chile) and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Among his publications are...

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