Ana Isla is a professor in the Department of Sociology and the Centre for Women and Gender Studies at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. She works on issues of development, sustainable development, climate change, ecofeminism, environmental justice, gender and society. She is the author of The "Greening" of Costa Rica: Women, Peasants, Indigenous People and the Remaking of Nature.

Claudia von Werlhof is Professor Emerita at the University of Innsbruck, in the Department of Political Science and Sociology. Her work focuses on the "modern world system,"seen from the South, the neoliberal globalization of "capitalist patriarchy," alternatives to patriarchal societies inspired by matriarchal and Indigenous societies/civilizations, as well as on the elaboration of the "Critical Theory of Patriarchy" as a new paradigm. Her books in English include Women: The Last Colony; There is an Alternative; and The Failure of Modern Civilization and the Struggle for a "Deep" Alternative.