Bojan Baća 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, Heidelberg University, and most recently at the University of Gothenburg as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow. Bojan has also served as a junior research fellow at the University of Rijeka, New Europe College, and Akademie Schloss Solitude. He is 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 Golubović Engaged Research Award, and 2020 Danubius Young Scientist Award.
His research has been published in a variety of peer-reviewed outlets, including Sociology, Antipode, International Political Sociology, Political Geography, Europe-Asia Studies, and Theory, Culture & Society (forthcoming), among several others. His 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).
Publikationen (Auswahl)
- Miloš Bešić & Bojan Baća (2025) “One Client, Four Votes: Ethnopolitical Clientelism and its Socioeconomic Consequences during State Capture in Montenegro”, Acta Sociologica 68(2): 161–182.
- Bojan Baća & Jelena Vasiljević (2025) “Being or Becoming Political? Performative Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe”, in Rethinking Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe: Insights from Educational and Political Science Research, edited by Nina Kolleck and Pawel Karolewski. Bristol: Bristol University Press. 158–179.
- Bojan Baća (2025) “Postsocialist Civil Society or Postsocialist Civil Societies? A Comparative Analysis of Regional Commonalities and Differences in Central and Eastern Europe”, in New Europe College Yearbook 2024–2025, edited by Andreea Eșanu. Bucharest: New Europe College. 11–44.
- Bojan Baća (2024) “QAnon and the Epistemic Communities of the Unreal: A Conceptual Toolkit for a Sociology of Grassroots Conspiracism”, Theory, Culture & Society 41(4): 111–132.
- Bojan Baća (2024) “Three Stages of Civil Society Development in the Global East: Lessons from Montenegro, 1989–2020”, Political Geography 109: 1–10.
- Bojan Baća (2024) “Defiant Civil Society: The Role of Social Movements and Contentious Politics in the Democratization of Montenegro”, Südosteuropa Mitteilungen 64(2/3): 19–31.
- Bojan Baća (2023) “Enacting Resistance, Performing Citizenship: Trajectories of Political Subjectification in the Post-Democratic Condition”, Sociology 57(1): 175–193.
- Bojan Baća (2022) “Practice Theory and Postsocialist Civil Society: Toward a New Analytical Framework”, International Political Sociology 16(1): 1–21.
- Bojan Baća & Kenneth Morrison (2022) “Dependence, Independence, Interdependence: Montenegro’s Foreign Policy from 1991 to 2020” (with Kenneth Morrison), in A New Eastern Question? Great Powers and the Post-Yugoslav States, edited by Soeren Keil and Bernhard Stahl. Stuttgart: Ibidem and New York: Columbia University Press. 317–343.
- Bojan Baća (2021) “‘Demanding What is Not Theirs to Demand’: Rebellious Students in Post-Socialist Montenegro”, in When Students Protest: Universities in the Global North, edited by Judith Bessant, Analicia Mejia Mesinas and Sarah Pickard. London: Rowman and Littlefield. 141–158.
- Bojan Baća (2020) “Everyday Acts of Citizenship: Infrapolitical Resistance and its Political Consequences in the Age of Social Media”, in Resistances: Between Theories and the Field, edited by Sarah Murru and Abel Polese. London: Rowman and Littlefield. 37–59.
- Bojan Baća (2018) “Forging Civic Bonds ‘From Below’: Montenegrin Activist Youth between Ethnonational Disidentification and Political Subjectivation”, in Changing Youth Values in Southeast Europe: Beyond Ethnicity, edited by Tamara P. Trošt and Danilo Mandić. London: Routledge. 127–147.
- Bojan Baća (2017) “The Student’s Two Bodies: Civic Engagement and Political Becoming in the Post-Socialist Space”, Antipode 49(5): 1125–1144.
- Bojan Baća (2017) “‘We Are All Beranselo’: Political Subjectivation as an Unintended Consequence of Activist Citizenship”, Europe-Asia Studies 69(9): 1430–1454.
- Bojan Baća (2017) “Civil Society Against the Party-State? The Curious Case of Social Movements in Montenegro”, in The Democratic Potential of Emerging Social Movements in Southeastern Europe, edited by Jasmin Mujanović. Sarajevo: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. 33–39.