The SAGE Handbook of Marxism

Beverley Skeggs is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University. She has published The Media; Issues in Sociology; Feminist Cultural Theory; Formations of Class and Gender; Class, Self, Culture Sexuality and the Politics of Violence and Safety (with Les Moran) and Feminism after Bourdieu (with Lisa Adkins), and with Helen Wood, Reacting to Reality TV: Audience, Performance, Value and Reality TV and Class, along with many journal articles on class and culture. As an ESRC Professorial Fellow she developed a “sociology of values and value’’ that included projects on the digital economy and prosperity theology, and whilst Director of the Atlantic Fellows Programme, established the ‘Global Economies of Care’ theme at the LSE.

Sara R. Farris is a Reader in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths University of London. She has published widely on issues of gender, migration, social reproduction and racism/nationalism as well as social and political theory. She is the author of Max Weber’s theory of personality. Individuation, politics and orientalism in the sociology of religion (Brill Academic Publishers 2013) and In the name of women’s rights. The rise of Femonationalism (Duke University Press 2017).

Alberto Toscano is Professor of Critical Theory in the Department of Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Visiting Professor at the School of Communications at Simon Fraser University. Since 2004 he has been a member of the editorial board for the journal Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory and is series editor of The Italian List for Seagull Books. He is the author of The Theatre of Production (2006), Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea (2010; 2017, 2nd ed.) and Cartographies of the Absolute (with Jeff Kinkle, 2015). A translator of Antonio Negri, Alain Badiou, Franco Fortini, Furio Jesi and others, Toscano has published widely on critical theory, philosophy, politics and aesthetics.

Svenja Bromberg is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research and teaching are in continental philosophy and social theory with a focus on issues of emancipation, radical democracy, and materialist philosophies. She completed her PhD “Thinking ‘Emancipation’ after Marx - A Conceptual Analysis of Emancipation between Citizenship and Revolution in Marx and Balibar" in 2016. Svenja is a co-editor of Eurotrash (published 2016 at Merve Verlag, Berlin together with Birthe Mühlhoff and Danilo Scholz) and a member on the editorial board of the journal Historical Materialism. She recently published ′Marx, an ‘Antiphilosopher’? Or Badiou’s Philosophical Politics of Demarcation′ in: Völker, J. (ed) (2019), Badiou and the German Tradition of Philosophy, London: Bloomsbury Academic.