Astrea Nikolovska
Astrea Nikolovska is an associate researcher at the ERC project Memory and Populism from Below, hosted by the Institute of Ethnology at the Czech Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on the visible and invisible legacies of the Cold War, counter-liberalism, the aesthetics of commemoration, and their influence on political narratives. She holds a PhD from the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Central European University.
Jovan Bliznakovski
Jovan Bliznakovski is an Assistant professor in political science at the Institute for Sociological, Political and Juridical Research, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. He holds a PhD in political studies from the University of Milan, Italy and MSc in political science from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Bliznakovski’s current research is focused on political mobili-zation in the Western Balkan countries, with a focus on political clientelism and ethnic-based mobilization. In the period 2014–16, Bliznakovski served as program director of the Institute for Democracy Societas Civilis in Skopje (IDSCS).