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About authors
Günsoy Funda – philosopher, translator; a member of the Department of Philosophy at the
Uludag University, speacializes in classical, modern and contemporary political philosophy, especially political theology. She translated Richard Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of
Nature into Turkish. She is author of the book In the crossroad of Philosophy and Theology: The Concept of the Political in Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss (Paradigma, Istanbul 2010).
Member of Editorial board of the journal „Kaygı: Journal of Philosophy” (Uludag University).
Krawczyk Tomasz – lecturer at the Institute of Political Science of Wroclaw University.
His area of scientific studies, among others, refers to "political Buddhism" and "socially engaged Buddhism". On this issue he has published the folowing articles: "A Vision of "good
governance" according to the Gross National Happieness Contcept and the First Project of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Bhutan of 2005" (2009); "An Introduction to Nichiren's Religious and Political Doctrine" (2011).
Kusztal Aleksandra – PhD in the field of political science, specialising in international
relations and European integration. A graduate of international relations at the Institute for International Studies at the University of Wroclaw. In the years 2009-2014 lecturer in chairs of Eastern Studies and European Studies at the Institute of Political Science, University of Opole. Research interests focuses around themes related to: international relations, international security, history and the present shape of European integration, religious issues. The author of the monograph: The main Christian churches in the Republic of Poland
towards Polish integration with the European Union, and 30 other scientific publications in
journals and collective works.
Michalopoulos Georgios D. – (DPhil Oxon, 2014) has studied languages and history in
Cambridge, Athens, Madrid and Minsk. Georgios.d.michalopoulos@gmail.com, 25 Ipsilantou Street, 10675 Athens, +30210-7229658.
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Odrowąż-Coates Anna – Assistant Professor at M. Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw
(Poland), sociologist, doctor of political science (University of Gdansk 2005). She carried out independent field research in Italy (2002-2004), UK (2004-2008) and Saudi Arabia (2010-2012). Her main areas of expertise include social inequality: gender, ethnicity, religion and the reproduction of social systems. Recent publications: A mirage of socio-cultural space of
women in Saudi Arabia. Impuls, Kraków 2015; A gated community as a ‘soft’ and gendered total institution, „International Sociology” 30 (3) 2015, pp. 233-249, Sage; Is gender neutrality a post-human phenomenon? The concept of 'gender neutral' in Swedish education, „Journal of Gender and Power”, 3 (1) 2015, pp. 113-133. Contact: acoates@aps.edu.pl;
odrowaz-coates.com
Rdzanek Grzegorz – doctor of political science, assistant professor in the Laboratory of
Coordination of Research and Education of the National Security within the structure of Institute of International Studies at the University of Wroclaw. He specializes in defense policy of Denmark and Norway and in the problems of modern armaments market. Author of numerous publications, among others on: international security, the evolution of NATO, the European Union's defense policy, armed conflicts and armed forces of Denmark and Norway.
Szymczyk Katarzyna – MA, a PhD student at the Institute of Political Science, The
University of Warsaw, and a research-and-teaching assistant at the Institute of Logistics and International Management, Czestochowa University of Technology.
Tittenbrun Jacek – Professor of Sociology and Chair of Economic Sociology at the Adam
Mickiewicz University in Poznan. He is the author of Economy in Society: Economic
sociology revisited, Private Versus Public Enterprise, The Collapse of Real Socialism in Poland, and Anti-Capital – Human, Social and Cultural: The mesmerising misnomers and
many other books and articles.
Turowski Mariusz – philosopher, translator; lecturer in the Sub-Department of Social and
Political Philosophy at University of Wroclaw. Scientific Director of Institute for the Studies of Islam. Main fields of interest: history of liberalism (especially interrelations between liberal political thought and racism, colonialism, economic exploitation, sexism and other forms of domination); world-system analysis; eurocentrism; history and sociology of Islam;
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Liberalism After Communitarianism? Philosophical Conceptions of Individual, Community and the State as Sources of Social and Political Critique (Torun, 2011); Modernity, Europe, Islam: Religion and Dilemmas of Citizenship and Exclusion (Wroclaw-Warsaw, 2012), C.B. Macpherson and the Dilemmas of Western Political Ontology: Retrieving the Possessive Individualism Thesis (Wroclaw, 2015), Specters of the Third World: Eurocentrism in contemporary social and political theories (book in preparation).
