Globalization from Below: The World's Other Economy

Gordon Mathews is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has written Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket (2000) and Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong (2011).

Gustavo Lins Ribeiro is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Brasilia and Research Fellow of Brazil’s National Council of Scientific and Technological Development. He has written Transnational Capitalism and Hydropolitics in Argentina (1994) and edited (with Arturo Escobar) World Anthropologies (2006).

Carlos Alba Vega is Professor and Researcher at El Colegio de Mexico. He has been a visiting fellow in universities in Mexico, France, Germany and the United States.