John Holloway (sociologist)

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John Holloway
John Holloway (2011)
Born	1947 (age 76–77)
Nationality	Irish
Alma mater	University of Edinburgh
Scientific career
Fields	Sociology
Institutions	University of Edinburgh
Thesis	Harmonisation and Co-ordination of Social Security in the European Communities (1975)
Doctoral advisors	John David Bawden Mitchell Henry Drucker
Doctoral students	Allin Cottrel|de

John Holloway (born 1947) is an Irish Marxist lawyer, sociologist and philosopher, whose work is closely associated with the Zapatista movement in Mexico, his home since 1991. It has also been taken up by some intellectuals associated with the piqueteros in Argentina; the Abahlali baseMjondolo movement in South Africa and the Anti-Globalization Movement in Europe and North America.^{[clarification needed]} He is currently a professor at the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at the Autonomous University of Puebla.^[1]