Dimitris Skleparis is a Senior Lecturer in the Politics of Security at Newcastle University. His research is at the intersection between critical security studies and migration/refugee studies. He is interested in how migration is governed, perceived, portrayed and experienced amid increasing insecurities. He focuses particularly on the dynamics between security discourse and practice and their human impact. He approaches these issues from an interdisciplinary, and mixed methods standpoint.

I am a social anthropologist specializing in economic anthropology, Orientalism studies, criminal anthropology, and the concept of conscious integration. My academic work focuses on how culture, law, and identity intersect in North Africa and the Arab world, especially in relation to heritage preservation.

Researching lived experiences of forced migrants in cities, their uses of and interactions with urban space and infrastructure, and how these dynamics shape their social, civic, and political lives. Invested in creative, participatory, and arts-based methodologies.

Lance L P Gore is Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. His research interests span a wide range of topics on China and East Asia. He has done research and published on Chinese environmental politics (the “Green GDP” experiment), the reforms in China’s steel industry, energy sector, patterns of entrepreneurship in mainland China, the economic bureaucracies of China, cadre performance evaluation, local state economic behaviour, the Chinese Communist Party, industrial relations, elite politics and the People’s Liberation Army. He taught for many years at Bowdoin College and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University in the United States. He is the single author of three monographs: Chinese Communist Party and China’s Capitalist Revolution: the Political Impact of Market (Routledge); Market Communism: the Institutional Foundations of China’s Post-Mao Hyper-Growth (Oxford); and Chinese Politics Illustrated: the Cultural, Social and Historical Contexts (World Scientific). He also published widely in international journals such as Polity, The New Political Economy, The China Journal, East Asia: An International Quarterly, Problems of Post-Communism, Journal of Contemporary China, Chinese Journal of Comparative Law etc. and also edited or co-edited several books and contributed numerous book chapters. He is associate editor of China: An International Journal.