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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