Csaba Szaló teaches sociology at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. He studied sociology at the Masaryk University and political theory at the Manchester University. He has an enduring interest in social theory and cultural sociology. In the previous years, he has been working on urban memory, the trans-generational transmission of trauma, and existential spatiality. His recent work focuses on the phenomenology of embodied understanding. He has published two books, one on theories of transnational migration and one on the cultural memory of places (both in Czech). His last article, „The existential spatiality of rebellion: Insubordination, counter‐conduct, and places“ was published in Sociology Compass.

Kateřina Nedbálková is an associate professor of sociology at the Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic), where she teaches courses on qualitative methodology, ethnography, social inequality, criminality and sexuality. She is the author of four books: Spoutaná Rozkoš: (re)konstrukce gender a sexuality v ženské věznici [Chained Pleasure: (re)construciton of gender and sexuality in woman's prison] (Praha: Slon 2006) and Matky kuráže. Lesbické a gay rodičovství v pozdně moderní společnosti [Mothers of Courage. Lesbian and gay partnerships in late modern society] (Praha: Slon 2010), Tichá dřina: třída a dělnictví v továrně Baťa. [Silent Toil: Class and working classness in a Bata shoe factory] (Display 2021), Pracovat. [To Work] (Display 2021),

Patrick Laviolette is an anthropologist, editor and teacher. Having done research on adventure sport, hitchhiking and perceptions of landscape, his research fits within the rubric of material culture studies. His fieldwork has mainly been in the UK, Benelux and Central Europe.

Richard Randell received a BA from Flinders University of South Australia, and a MS and PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is currently a Senior Researcher at Masaryk University, a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna and teaches at the Geneva campus of Webster University. His research interests include automobility studies, conceptualizing the Anthropocene, political ontology, imaginaries of modernity and mid-twentieth century sociologies of modernity.

Researcher at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University. Her professional interests encompass the topics of migration, civically engaged art, and civil society. In her PhD, she explored the phenomenon of civically engaged festivals reacting to growing ethnic diversity of Central European cities. In her research, she relies on the perspective of cultural and pragmatic sociology and is interested in the perspective of social actors. Besides her academic activities, she works as an independent researcher and consultant and cooperates with a number of non-governmental organizations working in the field of minority issues, participatory planning, and cultivation of public space.

Tomáš Paul is a researcher at the Faculty of Social Studies at Masaryk University. He studied social anthropology and sociology and is currently studying for a PhD in sociology at the same university. His research has from the beginning focused on anthropological and ethnographic investigations of the topics of human bodily experiences. He has also published on this within the journal Anthropology of Consciousness. Outside of academia, he collaborates with the non-profit organization Gender Information Centre NORA to conduct equal opportunity audits at Czech universities and other institutions and companies, where he has conducted content analyses, collected individual and group interviews, and performed basic statistical analysis of data from the institutions surveyed.

Katarína Azzamová is currently finishing her Master degree in psychology and social anthropology at Masaryk university. She also works in chat psychological counseling at IPčko.sk, where she completed a training in intervention in crisis and systemic counseling methods. For the past 4 years, she has been volunteering in several psychiatric departments in Brno, organizing free time activities for patients. In her thesis, she focuses on social anthropology of medicine and mental health, researching psychiatric treatment of eating disorders. Besides her concerns for mental health, she also has a general interest in current social theory and qualitative research methods.