ABOUT THE EDITORS / CONTRIBUTORS
José Bell Lara is professor at the Latin American Faculty of Social
Sciences, University of Havana (FLACSO-Cuba). He has written
Globalisation and the Cuban Revolution (2002) and Cuban Socialism
within Globalisation (2007). Bell Lara is part of the international
advisory board of the journal Critical Sociology.
Orlando Cruz Capote holds a Doctorate in Historical Science. He
is a researcher at the Instituto de Filosofía and its former scientific
subdirectory from 2005-2008. He is Professor at the Higher Institute
of International Relations Raúl Roa García and a member of the
Nacional Union of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC), as well as a
founder of the Cuban Union of National History. For 35 years he has
done historical, philosophical and political rsearch. His recent
publications include Apuntes para la historia del movimiento juvenil
cubano (1987); El Peligro Mayor (1993); Historia de la Revolución
Cubana 1959-2000 (2001-Inédito); Proyección Internacional de la
Revolución Cubana hacia América Latina y el Caribe (1959-1962);
El contexto histórico-político y filosófico del debate teórico
internacional sobre la Identidad Nacional: Un estudio acerca de su
re-conceptualización en Cuba y un balance historiográfico de lo
publicado en el país entre 1989 y el 2005” (2006); Cuba: Nación y
Raza en el siglo XX (2010). He has written essays such as the
problem of the Nation-state and continuing research on globalization
and nationalism, participation and socialism and contemporary
international relations.
Cliff DuRand is a Research Associate at the Center for Global
Justice, which he co-founded in 2004. He is also coordinator of
Research Network in Cuba and has led trips annually to Cuba since
1990. A veteran of the 1960s social movements, he has worked to
build institutions of the Left. In 1982 he co-founded the Radical
Philosophy Association and the Progressive Action Center, long the
“home” of the Left in Baltimore. For 40 years he was a professor of
Social Philosophy at Morgan State University. His continuing
research and activism focuses on globalization, participatory
democracy and socialism.
Steve Martinot has been a human rights activist for most of his life,
as union organizer, community organizer, and anti-war organizer,
including Latin America solidarity work. He has worked as a machinist
and truck driver, and taught literature and cultural studies at the
Univ. of Colorado and San Francisco State University. His latest book
is "The Machinery of Whiteness," from Temple University Press. His
two preceding books, also from Temple, are "The Rule of
Racialization" and "Forms in the Abyss: a philosophical bridge
between Sartre and Derrida." He lives in Berkeley, CA, leads
seminars on the structures of racialization in the US, and is active in
a neighborhood assembly and participatory budget movement.
Armando Cristóbal Pérez holds a doctorate in Political Science
from the University of Havana. He has taught there as well as at the
Higher Institute of International Relations. He has held diplomatic
postings in Moscow and Madrid. He has been Executive Secretary of
the National Union of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC) as well as a
founder and Vice President of the Cuban Society for Philosophical
Research (SCIF). His recent publications include Literatura y
sociedad en Cuba (Ensayos literarios)( ), Del acoso a la
consagración. La Cuba del siglo XX en la novelística de Alejo
Carpentier (Investigación literaria) ( ), Las puertas del infierno
también son verdes (cuentos) ( ), Un traspatio en el jardín (cuentos
), El Estado Nación. Su origen y construcción (investigación y
estudio de teoría política) ( ) y ena con Buda (novela-thriller en
proceso de edición)
Olga Fernandez Rios is a Researcher at the Instituto de Filosofia
and its former Director from 1988 to 1999. She was professor of
Marxist studies and sociopolitical theory at the Central University in
Villaclara and at the Universityd of Habana. She has held diplomatic
postings, first in the Cuban Mission at the UN in New York and for the
last 10 years in the Cuban Interest Section in Washington DC and in
the Cuban Embassy in Chile, in both places in charge of Academic
Exchanges. She is a member of the Cuban Academy of Sciences.
Her research interests focus on the theory and practice of
democracy, state and political system. Among her publications are:
“Formación y Desarrollo del Estado Socialista en Cuba”; “La terca
actualidad del socialismo”; “Democracia: mito y realidad”;
“Democracia y Justicia Social: romper el mito o buscar alternativas”;
“Socialismo y Democracia en el pensamiento político de Che
Guevara”; “Socialismo y Valores Éticos. Una reflexión a partir de El
Socialismo y el Hombre en Cuba de Ernesto Che Guevara”; “Cuba:
participación popular y sociedad”; and “El Socialismo en Cuba:
Búsqueda y Descubrimiento”.
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