Gurminder K. Bhambra is Professor of Historical Sociology at the University of Sussex. She is co-author of Colonialism and Modern Social Theory (with John Holmwood, 2021, Polity), and author of Connected Sociologies (2014, Bloomsbury), and the award-winning Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination (2009, Palgrave Macmillan). She has recently co-edited the Sage Handbook of Global Sociology (2024, Sage) and Imperial Inequalities: The Politics of Economic Governance across European Empires (2023, Manchester University Press).

Catherine Hall is Emerita Professor of History and Chair of the Centre of the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at UCL. She has written extensively on the history of Britain, gender, and empire, including Family Fortunes (1987, Routledge), co-authored with Leonore Davidoff, Civilising Subjects (2002, University of Chicago Press), Macaulay and Son (2012, Yale University Press), and, with others, Legacies of British Slave-ownership (2014, Cambridge University Press). From 2009 to 2016 she was principal investigator on the LBS project www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs. Her latest book is Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism (2024, Cambridge University Press).

Sarah A. Radcliffe is Professor Emerita of Latin American Geography at the University of Cambridge. Based on extensive collaborative research in Latin America, she has published extensively on development, nation-state–citizen relations, gender, and Indigenous intersectionality, and on decolonising geography. Publications include Remaking the Nation (co-authored with Sallie Westwood, 1996, Routledge), Indigenous Development in the Andes (co-authored with Nina Laurie and Robert Andolina, 2009, Duke University Press), Dilemmas of Difference (2015, Duke University Press), and Decolonizing Geography: An Introduction (2022, Polity). Her current project addresses Indigenous everyday citizenships in Ecuador and Peru.