S.A. Hamed Hosseini, PhD in Sociology and Global Studies from the Australian National University (ANU, 2006), is a Senior Sociologist, in the College of Human and Social Futures, University of Newcastle (UON), NSW, Australia. He is the author of Capital Redefined (Open Access, 2024, with B K Gills), The Well-Living Paradigm (Open Access, 2023), the lead editor of The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies (2020), and the sole author of Conscientious Sociology (2013), and Alternative Globalizations (2009/2011).