{"id":14234,"date":"2024-04-04T11:06:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T09:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging-v2.kulturwissenschaften.de\/person\/dr-bojan-baca\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T10:56:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:56:24","slug":"dr-bojan-baca","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/person\/dr-bojan-baca\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Bojan Ba\u0107a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bojan Ba\u0107a is a political and cultural sociologist whose research primarily focuses on civil society, social movements, and contentious politics. After receiving his PhD from York University in 2018, he has held postdoctoral research fellowships at the University of Graz, Charles University,\u00a0Heidelberg University, and most recently at the University of Gothenburg as a Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie Fellow.\u00a0Bojan has also served as a junior research fellow at the University of Rijeka, New Europe College, and Akademie Schloss Solitude. He\u00a0is currently a research associate at the University of Montenegro. Over the past few years, he has received several research awards recognizing his contributions to the study of civil society and social movements in Central and Eastern Europe, such as the 2022 Routledge Area Studies Interdisciplinarity Award, 2022 Zagorka\u00a0Golubovi\u0107 Engaged Research Award, and 2020 Danubius Young Scientist Award.<\/p>\n<p>His research has been published in a variety of peer-reviewed outlets, including <em>Sociology<\/em>, <em>Antipode<\/em>, <em>International Political Sociology<\/em>, <em>Political Geography<\/em>, <em>Europe-Asia Studies<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Theory, Culture &amp; Society<\/em> (forthcoming), among several others.\u00a0His professional background includes more than a decade of experience in the non-governmental sector, where he worked as a policy analyst and consultant. Presently, he is a member of the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications (Selection)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Milo\u0161 Be\u0161i\u0107 &amp; Bojan Ba\u0107a (2025) \u201cOne Client, Four Votes: Ethnopolitical Clientelism and its Socioeconomic Consequences during State\u00a0Capture in Montenegro\u201d, <em>Acta <\/em><em>Sociologica<\/em> 68(2): 161\u2013182.<\/li>\n<li>Bojan Ba\u0107a &amp; Jelena Vasiljevi\u0107 (2025) \u201cBeing or Becoming Political? Performative Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe\u201d, in <em>Rethinking Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe: Insights from Educational and Political Science Research<\/em>, edited by Nina Kolleck and Pawel Karolewski. Bristol: Bristol University Press. 158\u2013179.<\/li>\n<li>Bojan Ba\u0107a (2025) \u201cPostsocialist Civil Society or Postsocialist Civil Societies? A Comparative Analysis of Regional Commonalities and Differences in Central and Eastern Europe\u201d, in <em>New Europe College Yearbook 2024\u20132025<\/em>, edited by Andreea E\u0219anu. Bucharest: New Europe College. 11\u201344.<\/li>\n<li>Bojan Ba\u0107a (2024) \u201cQAnon and the Epistemic Communities of the Unreal: A Conceptual Toolkit for a Sociology of Grassroots Conspiracism\u201d, <em>Theory, Culture &amp; Society<\/em>\u00a041(4): 111\u2013132.<\/li>\n<li>Bojan Ba\u0107a (2024) \u201cThree Stages of Civil Society Development in the Global East: Lessons from Montenegro, 1989\u20132020\u201d, <em>Political Geography<\/em> 109: 1\u201310.<\/li>\n<li>Bojan Ba\u0107a (2024) \u201cDefiant Civil Society: The Role of Social Movements and Contentious Politics in the\u00a0Democratization of Montenegro\u201d, <em>S\u00fcdosteuropa<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Mitteilungen<\/em> 64(2\/3): 19\u201331.<\/li>\n<li>Bojan Ba\u0107a (2023) \u201cEnacting Resistance, Performing Citizenship: Trajectories of Political Subjectification in the Post-Democratic Condition\u201d, <em>Sociology<\/em> 57(1): 175\u2013193.<\/li>\n<li>Bojan Ba\u0107a (2022) \u201cPractice Theory and Postsocialist Civil Society: Toward a New Analytical Framework\u201d, <em>International Political Sociology<\/em> 16(1): 1\u201321.<\/li>\n<li>Bojan Ba\u0107a &amp; Kenneth Morrison (2022) \u201cDependence, Independence, Interdependence: Montenegro\u2019s Foreign Policy from 1991 to 2020\u201d (with Kenneth Morrison), in <em>A New Eastern Question? Great Powers and the Post-Yugoslav States<\/em>, edited by Soeren Keil and Bernhard Stahl. Stuttgart: Ibidem and New York: Columbia University Press. 317\u2013343.<\/li>\n<li>Bojan Ba\u0107a (2021) \u201c\u2018Demanding What is Not Theirs to Demand\u2019: Rebellious Students in Post-Socialist Montenegro\u201d, in <em>When Students Protest: Universities in the Global North<\/em>, edited by Judith Bessant, Analicia Mejia Mesinas and Sarah Pickard. London: Rowman and Littlefield. 141\u2013158.<\/li>\n<li>Bojan Ba\u0107a (2020) \u201cEveryday Acts of Citizenship: Infrapolitical Resistance and its Political Consequences in the Age of Social Media\u201d, in <em>Resistances: Between Theories and the Field<\/em>, edited by Sarah Murru and Abel Polese. London: Rowman and Littlefield. 37\u201359.<\/li>\n<li>Bojan Ba\u0107a (2018) \u201cForging Civic Bonds \u2018From Below\u2019: Montenegrin Activist Youth between Ethnonational Disidentification and Political Subjectivation\u201d, in <em>Changing Youth Values in Southeast Europe:<\/em>\u00a0<em>Beyond Ethnicity<\/em>, edited by Tamara P. Tro\u0161t and Danilo Mandi\u0107. London: Routledge. 127\u2013147.<\/li>\n<li>Bojan Ba\u0107a (2017) \u201cThe Student\u2019s Two Bodies: Civic Engagement and Political Becoming in the Post-Socialist Space\u201d, <em>Antipode<\/em> 49(5): 1125\u20131144.<\/li>\n<li>Bojan Ba\u0107a (2017) \u201c\u2018We Are All Beranselo\u2019: Political Subjectivation as an Unintended Consequence of Activist Citizenship\u201d, <em>Europe-Asia Studies<\/em> 69(9): 1430\u20131454.<\/li>\n<li>Bojan\u00a0Ba\u0107a\u00a0(2017)\u00a0\u201cCivil Society Against the Party-State? The Curious Case of Social Movements in Montenegro\u201d, in <em>The Democratic Potential of Emerging Social Movements in Southeastern Europe<\/em>, edited by Jasmin Mujanovi\u0107. Sarajevo: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. 33\u201339.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":14701,"template":"","person_category":[675,437,277],"class_list":["post-14234","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","person_category-cohort-8-en","person_category-fellows","person_category-forschende"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/14234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"person_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person_category?post=14234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}