Jim Dooley studied at the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, where he investigated the links between politics and popular culture and wrote an MA thesis on music piracy. Jim has conducted numerous interviews for reggae fanzines (some being compiled in More Axe 9: Interviews from the Culture Reggae Archive in 2013), written articles for the BEAT, and is the author of the Small Axe Guide to Dub (Muzik Tree, 2010).