Suzana Sawyer is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at University of California, Davis, USA. Her research explores conflicts among indigenous peoples, the extractive industry, and the state. Her book Crude Chronicles (2004) examines these dynamics in Ecuador. Her current research delves into these questions as they emerge in a transnational environmental lawsuit.
Edmund Terence Gomez is Professor of Political Economy at the Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya. His publications include The Chinese in Britain, 1800-Present: Economy, Transnationalism and Identity (2008) and Affirmative Action, Ethnicity and Conflict (2013).
