Interrogating the Future

Honouring David Fasenfest, who has not only conducted research spanning contexts from Detroit to Shanghai but is also a long-standing editor both of a social science journal and of its related book series, this festschrift addresses issues central to political economy. These range from globalization, employment, migration, social justice, inequality, race/class, and urban poverty to Marxist theory, democracy, capitalism, neoliberalism, and socialism. In keeping with the editorial policy and ideas pursued by the honorand, the contributions emphasize the continuing need on the part of sociology to adopt a radically critical investigative approach to all these issues.

Contributors are: Hideo Aoki, Tom Brass, Michael Burawoy, Rodney D. Coates, Kevin R. Cox, Raju J. Das, Ricardo A. Dello Buono, Mahito Hayashi, Lauren Langman, Robert Latham, Ngai Pun and Alfredo Saad-Filho.

Tom Brass, D.Phil (1982), formerly lectured in the SPS Faculty at Cambridge University, has carried out fieldwork research in Latin America and India, and is the second-longest serving editor of The Journal of Peasant Studies. He has published numerous articles and books on agrarian development, including Transitions (Brill, 2023).

Raju J. Das is Professor at York University, Toronto. He is on the Graduate Programmes in Social and Political Thought, Geography, Environmental Studies, and Development Studies. His teaching and research interests are in political economy, class relations, the state, uneven development, poverty, and politics of the Right and the Left. His most recent book is The Challenges of the New Social Democracy (Brill, 2023).