Dario Azzellini is assistant professor for sociology at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria, writer and documentary director. He holds a PhD in political science at the Goethe University in Frankfurt (Germany) and a PhD in sociology at the BUAP in Puebla (Mexico). His research and writing focuses on social and revolutionary militancy, popular power and self-administration, workers control, migration and racism, social movements and extensive case studies in Latin America. Azzellini published several books, essays and documentaries about social movements, privatization of military services, migration and racism, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Colombia and Venezuela. Among them: The Business of War (Assoziation A 2002), a book about privatization of military services, translated and published in Germany, Argentina, Bolivia, France, Indonesia, Italy, Spain and Venezuela. Azzellini is co-editor of Ours to Master and to Own: Worker Control from the Commune to the Present (Haymarket 2011). With Marina Sitrin he is co-author of "Occupying Language" (Occupied Media Pamphlet 2012) and "They Can’t Represent Us. Reinventing Democracy From Greece to Occupy" (Verso 2014). Azzellini served as Associate Editor for The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present (Wiley-Blackwell 2009) and was primary editor for Latin America, the Spanish Caribbean, and the new left in Italy. He serves as Associate Editor for WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society and for Cuadernos de Marte, an academic publication on the sociology of war published through the University of Buenos Aires. Azzellini also is a documentary filmmaker. His latest film is “Comuna under construction“(2010) on local self-government in Venezuela. Azzellini has been invited to conferences in Europe, North America, South America and Asia. His art projects focus on socio-political themes and have been exhibited in galleries, museums and biennales around the world.