Osnaide Izquierdo holds a PhD in Sociological Sciences from the University of Havana. He is currently Professor and Director of the Department of Sociology at this University. He has published several texts related to labor studies and economics.

Anna Landherr holds a PhD in Sociology and is currently a lecturer and researcher at the Center for Climate Resilience (ZfK- Zentrum für Klimaresilienz) at the University of Augsburg, Germany. In recent years she has dedicated her research to socio-ecological conflicts resulting from different extractive sectors, as well as the struggles and power relations that emerge from them, focusing mainly on the Chilean mining industry and its toxic waste.

Alejandro Grimson is Full Professor of Contemporary Anthropological Theories at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín and is a Senior Researcher at CONICET (Argentina). At the Universidad Nacional de San Martín he has been Director of the PhD in Social Anthropology and Director of the Doctoral College and Dean of the Institute of Higher Social Studies at UNSAM between 2005 and 2014.

Delia Ramírez holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology (PPAS). National University of Misiones (UNaM). Master in Social Sciences, by the Institute of Economic and Social Development (IDES) - National University of General Sarmiento (UNGS). Bachelor's Degree in Social Communication, Universidad Nacional de Misiones (UNaM) Honors Diploma, class of 2005.

Gabriela Delamata has a degree in Political Science, Lawyer and PhD in Political Science and Sociology. She is an Independent Researcher at CONICET based at the Instituto de Investigaciones Políticas (School of Politics and Government of UNSAM and CONICET), Vice-Director of the IIP and Professor of Political Sociology at the EP&G and EIDAES of UNSAM. Much of her work deals with social and legal mobilization on issues of environment, habitat, citizenship and dispute for rights.

Víctor Santillán holds a PhD in Social Science with a major in Sociology from El Colegio de México and is a member of the National System of Researchers (SNII). He is a professor of the Graduate Program in Political and Social Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. During his academic career, he has consolidated his expertise in qualitative methodological strategies, focusing mainly on ethnographic and biographical methods.

Pablo Ortemberg holds a PhD in History (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 2008) and a BA in Anthropology with a sociocultural orientation (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1999). He is an Independent Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), based at the Institute for Political Research of the National University of San Martín (UNSAM). He is Director of the Centre for Political History Studies (CEHP) of the School of Politics and Government at the same university.

Jaime Antonio Preciado Coronado is a professor-researcher at the Department of Iberian and Latin American Studies (DEILA) of the University of Guadalajara. He has been coordinator of the PhD in Political Science at the University Center for Social Sciences and Humanities of the same University. D. in Latin American Studies from the University of Paris III. His research interests include the geopolitics of globalization and regional integration, geography of power -local, national, supranational- and democracy.