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Contributors
Barbara M. Cooper is an assistant professor at New York University’s Gallatin School for Individualized Study and the author of Marriage in Maradi: Gender and Culture in a Hausa Society in Niger, 1900–1989 (Heinemann, 1997). She is currently working on the history of a minority Christian community in Niger.
Michael Dutton teaches at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the codirector of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies, Melbourne, and the coeditor of the journal Postcolonial Studies. His most recent book is Streetlife China (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Geoffrey Lawrence is Foundation Professor of sociology and the executive director of the Institute for Sustainable Regional Development at Central Queensland University, Australia. His areas of interest are rural sociology, the sociology of science and technology, and the sociology of sport and leisure.
Mahmood Mamdani is currently the A. C. Jordan Professor of African Studies and director of the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town. His most recent book is Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (Princeton University Press, 1996).
Randy Martin teaches globalization (among other things) at Pratt Institute. His recent work includes Critical Moves (Duke University Press, 1998); Chalk Lines, an edited volume on academic labor (Duke University Press, 1999); and SportCult, coedited with Toby Miller (University of Minnesota Press, 1999).
Jim McKay teaches popular culture in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is the editor of the International Review for the Sociology of Sport and his most recent books are Managing Gender: Affirmative Action and Organizational Power in Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand Sport (State University of New York Press, 1997) and, with Michael Messner and Donald Sabo, Men, Masculinities, and Sport (Sage, forthcoming).
Toby Miller is an editor of Social Text. His latest book is SportCult, coedited with Randy Martin (University of Minnesota Press, 1999).
Gyan Prakash is a professor of history at Princeton University. He is the author of Bonded Histories (Cambridge University Press, 1990) and Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India (Princeton University Press, 1999) and has written extensively on colonial India and on colonialism and history writing.
Arvind Rajagopal is an associate professor of media studies at New York University and member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1998–99). He is the author of Politics after Television: Religious Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Hindu Public (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
David Rowe is an associate professor in media and cultural studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His latest books are Popular Cultures: Rock Music, Sport, and the Politics of Pleasure (Sage, 1995); Tourism, Leisure, Sport: Critical Perspectives (coedited with Geoffrey Lawrence) (Hodder Education, 1998); and Sport, Culture, and the Media: The Unruly Trinity (Open University Press, 1999).
Michael J. Shapiro is a professor of political science at the University of Hawai’i. His most recent publication is Violent Cartographies: Mapping Cultures of War (University of Minnesota Press, 1997).
Gerald Sussman is the author of Communication, Technology, and Politics in the Information Age (Sage, 1997) and the lead editor (with John A. Lent) of Global Productions: Labor in the Making of the “Information Society” (Hampton, 1998).
