Cultural Identity Politics in the (Post-)Transitional Societies

Notes on the authors
PAŠKO BILIĆ has an MA in sociology and history (University of Zagreb) and is
employed at the Institute for International Relations, Zagreb (Department for Culture
and Communication) as a research assistant. He is a doctoral student (interuniversity
doctoral course in Sociology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,
University of Zagreb), specializing in the media and media policies.
E-mail: pasko@irmo.hr
SEZGIN BOYNIK is sociologist based in Helsinki. He is currently a doctoral
researcher in Jyväskylä University Cultural Policy Department (SOVAKO) where
he is working on the topic of “Cultural Politics of the ‘Black Wave’ in Yugoslavia
from 1963 to 1972”. Previously he was working as lecturer at the Prishtina University
Turkology Department. He has published articles and monographs on the Situationist
International, on ideologies of contemporary art, the punk movement and nationalism.
E-mail: sezgin_boynik@hotmail.com
MAJA BREZNIK is researcher at the Faculty for Social Sciences (University of
Ljubljana) and a docent in sociology of culture. She is author and co-author of the
following books: Artisanry and Erudition. The Topography of Renaissance Theatre
(Koper/Capodistria, Annales, 2003), Cultural Revisionism (Ljubljana, Peace Institute,
2004), The Book Culture (Ljubljana, UMco, 2005), Culture Ltd. (Ljubljana, Peace
Institute, 2006) and The Culture of Danaian Gifts (Ljubljana, Sophia, 2009).
E-mail: maja.breznik@guest.arnes.si
VLADIMIR DAVČEV PhD, is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Saints
Cyril and Methodius in Skopje. In the years 2003 and 2004 he was president of the
Philosophical Society of Macedonia. He has been the chief editor of the Annual of the
Faculty of Philosophy for the period between 2008 and 2011. He was a member of the
advisory board for the project “The Other in Teaching Programs of Higher Education”.
He is author of more than 40 published works and editor of the publication
Researching the Otherness – Aspects of Otherness Seen from the Perspectives of Specified
Disciplines in Higher Education. His research specialities include the philosophy of
mind and the philosophy of technology.
E-mail: valdopeper@gmail.com
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