John Foran is professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His current areas of intense focus and interest include the climate crisis, 21st-century movements for radical social change, and sustainable development or “building better futures.” He is currently working on a book, Taking Power or (Re)Making Power:  Movements for Radical Social Change and Global Justice, which assesses the new forms of such movements as the Zapatista  and Kerala experiments, the global justice movement, the Pink Tide in Latin America, the global Occupy movements, the Arab Spring, and his new passion, the global climate justice movement.