Kerry Ryan Chance is a Full Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen in Norway, a Visiting Scholar at MIT in the United States, and a Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow in France. She is the author of numerous articles and the book, Living Politics in South Africa's Urban Shacklands (2018, University of Chicago Press).

Christopher Hamerton is Programme Director in Criminology and Law, at City St Georges, University of London, United Kingdom. He is a Barrister of the Middle Temple, and an elected Fellow of both the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Linnean Society of London. He is an interdisciplinary and comparative scholar whose research and writing primarily focus on criminological, socio-legal and historical perspectives.