JAVIER AUYERO Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor in Latin American Sociology at the University of Texas, Austin USA and the former editor of Qualitative Sociology EDUARDO CANEL Associate Professor in the Division of Social Science and director of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) at York University, UK JULIÁN DURAZO HERRMANN Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Université de Québec à Montréal, Canada where he also heads the Participatory Democracy and Public Space Revitalization axis of the Nycole Turmel Chair of Public Space and Public Innovation JONATHAN FOX teaches in the Latin American and Latino Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA ROBERT GAY Professor of Sociology and director of the Toor-Cummings Center for International Studies and Liberal Arts (CISLA) at Connecticut College, USA TINA HILGERS Assistant Professor of Political Science at Concordia University Montreal, Canada PABLO LAPEGNA Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute at the University of Georgia, USA FRANÇOISE MONTAMBEAULT assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Université de Montréal, Canada LUIS RONIGER Reynolds Professor of Latin American Studies at Wake Forest University, USA JON SHEFNER Professor and head of Sociology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA