Notes on Contributors

Sabrina Axster holds a PhD in political science from Johns Hopkins University. She is currently affiliated with the Migrations Program at Cornell University, where she was a postdoctoral fellow from 2023 to 2025. In her research, Sabrina uses a transnational lens to examine how histories of colonialism, racism, and capitalism shaped contemporary forms of state power, including migration control and policing. Her first book, Controlling Migrants: Vagrancy, Indentured Labor, and the Policing of Mobility in Germany, is forthcoming and recently won the Oxford University Press Early Career Researcher First Book Prize.Sita Balani is the author of Deadly and Slick: Sexual Modernity and the Making of Race (2023) and coauthor of Empire's Endgame: Racism and the British State (2021). She has published in Vice, Tribune, the White Review, Salvage, Public Books, Radical Philosophy, Five Dials, and Protean. She teaches English at Queen Mary, University of London.Gargi Bhattacharyya is director and professor at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation, University College London.Sarah Bufkin is assistant professor in political theory at the University of Birmingham. She works on Black Atlantic political thought, critical theory, and cultural studies, with a focus on racism and racialization, imperial techniques of government, and racial capitalism.Barbora Černušáková is a Hallsworth Fellow in political economy at the University of Manchester. Her first book, Surplus Lives under Racial Capitalism: Roma in Post-socialist Czechia, is forthcoming. Prior to academia, Barbora worked for twelve years as Amnesty International's researcher and advocate focusing on East Central Europe. She authored dozens of reports on workers’ rights, racial discrimination of Roma, the independence of judiciary, and the right to protest.Ida Danewid is associate professor of gender and global political economy at the University of Sussex. She is the author of Resisting Racial Capitalism: An Antipolitical Theory of Refusal (2024) and coeditor of The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders, and Citizenship (2021).Amani Hassani is a lecturer in sociology at Brunel University London. She leads the research project “The Other's Right to the City,” funded by the Leverhulme Trust. The project examines Denmark's ghetto policies and their impact on racialized residents. As an urban ethnographer working across sociology, anthropology, and human geography, she critically engages with racialization, Islamophobia, and social justice in urban contexts. Her previous work has focused on Muslim urban life in Denmark and Canada, exploring questions of class, gender, and racialization through ethnographic methods and critical interdisciplinary approaches.Sofia Jannok is a Sámi singer, songwriter, and actress. In 2016 she was part of a Sámi group that traveled to Standing Rock to join in solidarity with protests against the North Dakota Access Pipeline. Her records include LÁVV U (2021), ORDA—This Is My Land (2016), and Áhpi (Wide as Oceans) (2013).Kristina Millona is a PhD researcher at Central European University. Her ethnographic project examines the racialization and production of Albanian men as “bogus” asylum seekers in Britain, focusing on how they navigate deportability and racialization. She has written extensively on the Italy–Albania migration deal for various media platforms, engaging critically with questions of border externalization and coloniality in post-socialist space.Piro Rexhepi is a Human Rights Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has degrees in International Relations from the City University of New York and a PhD from the University of Strathclyde, and he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity and University College of London. He is the author of White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality Along the Balkan Route (2022).Farnoush Rezai is an independent researcher and artist based in Italy. Her work explores themes of society, culture, and collective memory through interdisciplinary approaches. She is particularly interested in the intersection of lived experience and social-political analysis.Sasan Sedghinia is an Iranian writer, translator, and independent leftist political activist currently living in Italy. He has published numerous articles and translations. His research focuses on Marxist thought, radical philosophy, new forms of labor, and emerging struggles within contemporary global capitalism.Anders Sunna is a Sámi artist and reindeer herder. His work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Larkin Durey in London, and the Stockholm Modern Art Museum, among other venues.Vanessa E. Thompson is associate professor and distinguished professor in Black studies in the Department of Gender Studies at Queen's University, Canada. She is an interdisciplinary social scientist, and her research examines the relation between state violence and racial capitalism, and how people struggle against state violence and structural abandonment and build alternatives. Grounded in activist scholarship, anti-colonial theories, and Black feminist methodologies, she explores abolitionist politics as a form of internationalism. She collaborates with abolitionist movements in Europe as well as globally. She has widely published on the relation between state violence and racial capitalism, abolitionist struggles, Fanonian thought, and Black feminism.Tor Tourda is a Sámi organizer, photographer, and member of Gruvfritt Jokkmokk (Mining Free Jokkmokk). He blogs at kvikkjokk.nu.Ali Zokai is an independent Iranian writer and filmmaker. His research and writings are rooted in the Marxist and critical tradition, through which he has explored topics such as war regimes in the world and the Middle East, social struggles, and the ontology of the justice-seeking movement in Iran, as well as avant-garde cinema. His articles have been published on various websites and journals.