Linda Williams
Linda Williams is a Professor Emerita of RMIT University, and an affiliate in environmental humanities at MESH (University of Cologne). Her research is focused on cultural histories of the longue durée in human-animal relations and the current issue of mass species extinction, along with philosophies of nature and the history of emotions.
Paul James
Paul James is a researcher in the Institute for Culture and Society at the Western Sydney University. He has been an editor of Arena since 1986, and is author or editor of numerous books including Globalization Matters: Engaging the Global in Unsettled Times (with Manfred Steger, Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Marco Amati
Marco Amati teaches and researches urban planning and the history of cities at RMIT University in Melbourne. He is the author of the book The City and Superorganism (Palgrave 2021) and an advocate for more ecosystemic planning of cities.
Donna Houston
Donna Houston is Professor in the Macquarie School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on environmental justice in climate-changing worlds; geographies of extinction, and urban planning in more-than-human cities. She is particularly interested in how cultural methodologies such as storytelling, visual methods and cultural memory can be used to address current social and environmental challenges.
Rosie Ibbotson
Rosie Ibbotson is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Theory at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha University of Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand, and is a member of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies. Rosie’s research concerns visual cultures of (de)extinction, often in the context of how these intersect with museology and technologies of display. More broadly, Rosie’s research is interested in the agentic entanglements of images and environmental violence.
Timothy Erik Ström
Tim Ström is a postdoctoral fellow at Western Sydney University. He is also an editor at the radical publishing cooperative Arena, the author of Globalization and Surveillance and his forthcoming book, Cybernetic Capitalism will be published by Verso. His writings are collected on his website, The Sorcerer’s Apparatus.
Rick De Vos
Rick De Vos conducts research in anthropogenic extinction at RMIT and Curtin University. He has published widely on the cultural and historical significance of extinction, the ways in which extinction is articulated and practiced, and on colonial and species histories. He is also a co-editor for Sydney University Press’ Animal Politics book series.