prof. Pavel Barša, Ph.D.

Pavel Barša is Research Fellow at the Department of Political Philosophy and Globalization Research, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences. In his  research he  has  applied  concepts of social and political theory to subjects  such  as   new social movements, politics of memory, nationalism, political  and  intellectual history  of Central Europe and ecological crisis.  He taught at Masaryk University in Brno in 1990 – 2000 and Central European University in Budapest in 2000-2002. Since 2002 he has been teaching at Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague where he became a Professor in 2005. He was a research fellow at the Institute of International Relations in Prague (2002 – 2018) and member of the board of The Czech Journal of International Relations (2005 – 2022).

ORCID: 0000-0002-9781-0354

Position: senior researcher

Research Interests:
- Contemporary Social and Political Theory
- Intellectual and Political History of Central Europe
- Political Philosophy and Ecology

Selected Publications:
Barša, Pavel. Post-Communist Central Europe and Eurowhiteness: Comments on Hans Kundnani. The Czech Journal of International Relations. 59/3/ 2024: 139 – 149.
Barša, Pavel. Beyond „Democracy vs. Populism“: Urbinati’s Theory of Populism from a Central European Perspective. Filosofický časopis. Special Issue. Democracy and Opinion. On Nadia Urbinati’s Democratic Theory, Jan Bíba (ed.). 1/2024: 85 – 100.
Barša, Pavel. Dekadence a obrození: Krize evropského liberalismu a „židovská otázka“. Praha: Karolinum, 2024.
Barša, Pavel. Mezi Davidovou a rudou hvězdou, Židovské odpovědi na krizi liberální emancipace. Praha: NLN, 2023.
Barša, Pavel. Three Responses to he Rise of National Conservatism in the Central and Eastern Europe of the 2010s and the Legacy of 1989. In: Maslowski, N. – Torbicka, K. (ed.): Contested Legacies of 1989, Geopolitics, Memories and Societies in Central and Eastern Europe, Berlin: Peter Lang, 2022: 167-185.
Barša, Pavel - Hesová, Zora - Slačálek, Ondřej (eds.) Central European Culture Wars: Beyond Post-Communism and Populism, Praha: Vydavatelství Filozofické fakulty Univerzity Karlovy, 2021.

Grants:
2018 - 2022
Member of the reserch team for the project
„Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World” (reg. no.: CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000734), European Regional Development Fund
2018 – 2019
Member of the research team for the project
„Culture wars and national secularisation processes in Central Europe“, Czech Science Foundation, no. 18-18675S

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