Ana Cecilia Dinerstein is a Reader in Sociology at the University of Bath, where she teaches political sociology, global political economy and Marxist/Feminist/Decolonial theory. She has created a field of research titled the global politics of hope that connects critical theory with movements’ autonomous praxis and is founder and convenor of the scholar activist network Women on the Verge. Her book publications include The Politics of Autonomy in Latin America: The Art of Organising Hope (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Social Sciences for An-Other Politics: Women Theorising without Parachutes (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, editor), and The Labour Debate: An Investigation into the Theory and Reality of Capitalist Work (Routledge, 2002, co-edited with M. Neary).