Autor: Marcela Mollis

Fernanda Beigel: Sociologist and Ph D in Social Sciences. Independent Researcher at Argentina's National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), Head Professor of Sociology and Director of the Ph D Program at the National University of Cuyo (Mendoza, Argentina). Her research interests include Latin American Sociology, Comparative studies on higher education and Sociology of power. She has published work on the relations between academic autonomy and politicization in Latin American Social sciences during the 1960s. She is currently working on the role of academic publishing within the World Scientific System and the new forms of peripheriality. Recent publications: Beigel, F (2011) Misión Santiago. El mundo academico Jesuita y los inicios de la cooperación internacional católica. LOM: Santiago de Chile; Beigel, F. Ed. (2013) The politics of Academic Autonomy in Latin America. Ashgate: London; Beigel, F. (2014) „Publishing from the Periphery: Structural heterogeneity and segmented circuits. The evaluation of scientific publications for tenure in Argentina's CONICET, “ Current Sociology, 62 (5).  Hanan Sabea: Associate Professor of Anthropology at the American University in Cairo. She received her Ph D in Anthropology from Johns Hopkins University in 2001. Her research examines the dynamics of land and labor on plantations in colonial and postcolonial Africa, state-subject relations, and the production of histories and memories, which are part of her forthcoming monograph Present Pasts: Coloniality of Power and Laboring Subjects on Sisal Plantations in Tanzania. Her current research projects include shifting meanings of the political; irregular migration; gender and regional gatekeeping concepts; and knowledge production in the social sciences. She has published articles in Africa, Journal of Historical Sociology, African Studies, Feminist Africa, and International Journal of African Historical Studies. Additionally, she is co-editor of Visual Productions of Knowledge: Toward a Different Middle East (Cairo Papers in Social Science, American University in Cairo Press) and How to Read the Arab World? Alternative Perspectives from the Social Sciences (Cairo: Al-Ain Publishing House).