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Jana Cviková is a Slovak editor, writer, journalist and translator (from German), known for co-founding the feminist, cultural magazine Aspekt and its publishing and educational branches. Since the early 1990s she has been jointly responsible (with Jana Juráňová) for Aspekt’s book publishing. They have edited and published several books, including Feminizmy pre začiatočníčky. Aspekty zrodu rodového diskurzu na Slovensku [Feminism…

Michał Sutowski is the coordinator of Krytyka Polityczna’s Institute for Advanced Studies. A graduate of MISH UW (Kolegium Międzyobszarowych Indywidualnych Studiów Humanistycznych i Społecznych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego (The College of Humanities and Social Scienes at the University of Warsaw)), he is a political scientist and journalist, specialising in Polish democratic opposition ideology, Russian and German politics and the political thought of…

Professor Joan Subirats is currently a professor of political science and researcher and director of the PhD programme of the Institute of Government and Public Policy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His research fields include policy analysis, democratic innovation, public participation and local and regional government. Professor Subirats has been a visiting scholar at the University of California at…

Dionisios Sturis is a Greek-born political scientist, who works as a foreign correspondent for the Polish radio station TOK FM. He is also known for his book, Grecja. Gorzkie pomarańcze [Greece. Bitter Oranges] (2013), which looks at the recent crisis in Greece and explores the idea of Northern European Greek stereotypes through the eyes of the Greek people themselves. Information…

Igor Stokfiszewski is a literary critic, playwright and member of Krytyka Polityczna. He studied Polish literature at the University of Łódź and the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and, from 2001-2006, he edited the literary magazine Ha!art. He has worked as part of the Krytyka Polityczna editorial team in Warsaw and presently works with the international literary scholarship programmes of the…

Matina Stevis is a journalist with Dow Jones Newswires and the Wall Street Journal in Brussels, for whom she covers European economic stories. Matina was born and raised in Athens, Greece and read modern history and politics at Queen’s College, Oxford. She also has an MPA in public policy and management from the London School of Economics. Other than her present employers,…

Andrej Stasiuk is a Polish novelist, travel writer and essayist. In the 1980s, he joined the pacifist movement and, after deserting from the army, spent a year and a half in a communist prison. In 1987, he left Warsaw and settled in the Beskid Mountains near the Polish-Slovak border, where he founded Czarne, currently one of the leading Polish publishing…

Nikos Sotirakopoulos studied international and European studies at Athens’ Panteion University, before moving onto a PhD in law and environmental law at the University of Kent, where his thesis focused on the demise of radical progressive politics under the influence of anti-modernist ideas in Western culture. The research for his doctorate focused on how concepts such as economic growth and individual agency have…

Robert Skidelsky is an economic historian and Professor Emeritus of the University of Warwick in England. Author of the monumental three-volume biography of Keynes: Hopes Betrayed, 1883-1920 (1983), The Economist as Saviour, 1920-1937 (1992) and Fighting for Britain, 1937-1946 (2000). His articles are published regularly in The Guardian newspaper and he is also a regular contributor to the writers syndicate,…

Martin M. Šimečka is a Slovak writer and journalist. Before 1989, he was only able to publish his work in samizdat formats. After 1989, he co-founded the Archa Publishing House, later becoming editor of the critical magazine Domino-Fórum. From 1997 to 2006, he worked for the newpaper SME, spending seven years as its editor-in-chief before moving to the Prague socio-political…

Jiřina Šiklová is a Czech sociologist and writer, author of many research articles and books. Following the Soviet military intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968, she was banned from publishing and university teaching and had to make a living as a cleaner and social worker at a Prague hospital. Her interest in gerontology, the main focus of her present-day work, dates…

Jindřich Šídlo is a Czech journalist, who has spent most of the last decade working for the weekly magazine, Respekt. From 2001-2005, he was also the editor of the newspaper MF Dnes, while between 2005 and 2009 he served as the managing editor of the economics newspaper, Hospodářské noviny. Since May 2009, he has also been a chief political analyst…