Patricio Besana has a degree in Sociology and a PhD in Political Science. He is an Assistant Researcher at CONICET based at the Instituto de Investigaciones Políticas. He is general coordinator of the Environment and Politics Area and teaches at the School of Politics and Government of the Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Much of his work deals with participation, environment and access to public services, with emphasis on contexts of urban poverty. He is currently researching on Anthropocene and anti-speciesist identities and demands in Latin American countries.

Diego Escolar holds a PhD in Philosophy and Letters with a major in anthropology and a BA in Anthropology from the University of Buenos Aires. He is a Senior Researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research and full professor at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the National University of Cuyo in Mendoza. He is responsible editor and co-founder of the journal Corpus, Archivos virtuales de la alteridad americana.

Monika Raič holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Innsbruck and Magistra Artium in Political Science and Comparative and General Literature from the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the Department of Romance Literatures at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.

Guillermo Rosales is a postdoctoral researcher in the Migration and Cross-Border Processes Studies Group of the Department of Society and Culture at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur Tapachula Unit. D. in Social Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México.Master in Latin American Studies from the University of Chile. B.A. in International Relations from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

María Emilia Reiszer holds a degree in Political Science from the University of Buenos Aires and is currently a student of the Master in Politics and Government at the University of San Martín (Argentina). She also has postgraduate degrees in Public Opinion and Political Communication and in Literature and Political Discourse, both from the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (Argentina).

Jakob Graf holds a PhD in Sociology, works as a PostDoc at the Center for Climate Resilience at the University of Augsburg, Germany, and teaches in the area of environmental sociology. He is also on the editorial board of the German journal PROKLA (Journal of Critical Social Sciences). His research focuses on issues of social inequality, class relations and socio-ecological conflicts in the (semi-)peripheries of the world-system.

Claudia Tomadoni holds a degree in History and a Master's degree in Environmental Management of Urban Development from the National University of Córdoba (Argentina); Master's degree in Territorial and Environmental Impacts of Globalization from the International University of Andalusia (Spain); PhD in Geography from the National University of La Plata (Argentina); Doctor Philosophiae and Post-doctorate in Urbanism from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Germany).

Martin Leiner pursued his academic career in the fields of Protestant theology and philosophy. He obtained his doctorate researching on the psychological exegesis of the New Testament and then moved on to systematic theology. With a long academic career spanning more than four decades, Professor Leiner has made important contributions in a number of areas, including hermeneutics, Paul Tillich, media ethics and transdisciplinary studies on reconciliation, a field in which he was a pioneer ("father of reconciliation studies").

Adriana Petra holds a PhD in History from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina). She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at the School of Humanities of the Universidad Nacional de San Martín, is director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the same university and an independent researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (Conicet), based at the Laboratory for Research in Human Sciences (LICH/UNSAM). She is a specialist in intellectual, cultural and left-wing history in Argentina and Latin America.