In the thirteenth episode of the Political Science Podcast, our host Enes Kulenović interviewed Karin Doolan, Professor at the Department of Sociology at the University of Zadar. The main topic of discussion were social inequalities in the perspective of Bourdieusian class analysis, which considers classes through the prism of economic, cultural and social capital, associated with habitus and taste of agents in social fields.
In the twelfth episode, we ask ourselves - what really determines the electoral decision of Croatian voters? To get an answer to that question, in the twelfth episode, Enes Kulenović interviewed Kosta Bovan, associate professor at the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb and an expert in political behavior, about the recent book Croatian Voters: 30 Years of Political Behavior and Opinion, which he co-edited with Danijela Širinić and Višeslav Raos.
In the eleventh episode of the Political Science Podcast, Višeslav Raos interviewed Lidija Kos-Stanišić, head of the Department of International Relations and Security Studies at the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb, co-author of the book International Relations and Foreign Policies of the Global South: Studies of Selected Countries, written together with Đana Luša and Borna Zgurić.
In the tenth episode of the Political Science Podcast, Enes Kulenović talked with Goran Čular, associate professor of the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Zagreb and president of the Croatian Political Science Society (HPD). In the first part of the conversation, Čular spoke about the conference of the Central European Political Science Association (CEPSA) held in Dubrovnik this fall, which was hosted by HPD together with the University of Dubrovnik.
In the ninth episode of the Political Science Podcast, our host Enes Kulenović talked with Jonathan Havercroft, associate professor at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Southampton, about his forthcoming book Just and Unjust Riots: A Normative Analysis of Militant Protest. Can normative political theory draw a fine line between justified and unjustified violent protests? According to what criteria?
In the eighth episode of the Political Science Podcast, the host Enes Kulenović talked with Derek Edyvane, associate professor at the School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, about his forthcoming book titled The Politics of Politeness: Citizenship, Civility, and the Democracy of Everyday Life. Are politeness and rudeness of our daily interactions political and how exactly? What are the differences between tolerance and civility?
In the seventh episode of the Political Science Podcast, Višeslav Raos spoke with philosopher and theoretician of international relations Stipe Buzar, associate professor at Libertas International University. Together with Petar Popović and Damir Mladić Buzar is the co-author of the book Finis Africae. Its title connotes the unexplored and unknown, but also the potentially dangerous, like the forbidden part of the library in Eco's The Name of the Rose.
In the sixth episode of the Political Science Podcast, its host and presenter Enes Kulenović spoke with Ana Matan, assistant professor at the Department of Political and Social Theory at the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb. Matan is an expert on the work of John Rawls, teaching theories and policies of peace and theories of democracy, and also a political activist at the local level.
In the fifth episode of the Political Science Podcast, Višeslav Raos discussed public policies with political scientist Ana Petek, associate professor at the Department of Public Policy, Management and Development of the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Zagreb and head of the research team on the project Kako vlada Vlada? (“How Does the Government Govern?”).
In the fourth episode, the conversation of the host of the Political Science Podcast Enes Kulenović with the Croatian political scientist and scientific returnee from the USA Dagmar Radin focused on three topics. The first part of the conversation focused on the position of women in the Croatian health system. Radin pointed out the problems of institutional and social practices that contribute to inequality and hinted the possibility of reformist action through institutions that would contribute to greater equality between men and women.
