Bojan Baća får dubbla priser för sin forskning om postsocialistiska civilsamhällen i Europa
Bojan Baća, Marie Curie Skłodowska-stipendiat vid Institutionen för sociologi och arbetsvetenskap samt forskare vid University of Montenegro, har under hösten vunnit inte mindre än två priser för sin forskning om civilsamhällen i postsocialistiska länder i Central- och Östeuropa.
Motivering Routledge Area Studies Interdisciplinarity Award:
Dr. Baća’s impressive research project is original and innovative, making a significant contribution to understanding the complexity and diversity of civil society in post-socialist countries in Central and Eastern Europe. The strong regional focus of Dr. Baća’s research project challenges a static view of the region, providing a deeper understanding of political action and democracy in the post-socialist arena. Demonstrating a serious engagement with, and fusion of, Political Science and Social Movement Studies, this interdisciplinary project engages with a broad range of sub-disciplines including political sociology, anthropology, and political geography. The research has the potential to broaden our understanding of what is actually happening in terms of voluntary action in the regions concerned, and may lead to a more analytically nuanced and innovative understanding of public life in post-Communist polities. The conceptual framework and the tools provided to refine current research are both accomplished and insightful, with the findings relevant for a variety of social scientists.
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Motivering Zagorka Golubović Engaged Research Award:
The Committee concluded that this research paper represents a synthesis of theoretical and empirical findings on civil society, social movements, protest politics, activist citizenship and unconventional political participation in Central and Eastern Europe; moreover, it displays a critical reflection that offers a new analytical framework for overcoming theoretical, conceptual and empirical dilemmas as well as extant problems in the existing literature primarily in terms of better identifying, describing and understanding the empirical reality of social engagement in post-socialist countries. The paper emphasizes the necessity of moving away from an abstract, universalistic and normative approach towards a rooted, contextual and critical understanding of post-socialist civil societies. As such, it provokes reflection and encourages action by bringing into focus protest practices that challenge dominant narratives, approaches and theories. With its high scientific quality, orientation towards engaged thinking and treatment of a topic which is of broad social importance, Bojan Baća’s paper responds in the best possible way to the propositions of the call for the “Zagorka Golubović” Annual Award.