Socio-Political Insights. Towards Debalkanization

      Аннотация: A compilation of selected academic texts that deal with the problems of the socio-political reality of a Balkan society, i.e. Macedonia, going through turbulent transitive periods, a chrestomathy that handles subjects such as inter-ethnic relationships, nationalism, religion, ethics-university-corruption, as well as topics of a much modern spectrum, like pop-culture, graffiti, sports and performing behavior (reality shows) which give the book the color of catching mural-virtual trends and those of the society of the spectacle. The articles that have been presented in various international scientific conferences in Prague, Rome, Cyprus, Craiova, Konia and Rotterdam, entertain an empirical dimension besides the theoretical one. The papers are accompanied by quantitative contents (tables, graphics) and visual ones (photos) that speak and illustrate many things differently from speech and narrative description. The discourse of these texts can be described as reflections of a problem-solving sociology, forms of praxis intervention...

Ключевые слова: Ethics, transition, Religion, nationalism, sport, Corruption, grafitti