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Juraj Buzalka is a Slovak social anthropologist and university teacher. He works at the Institute of Social Anthropology of the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences of the Comenius University in Bratislava and deals with the anthropology of political movements and the topics of nationalism, populism, politics, religion and social transformation in East Central Europe.
In 1999, he completed a master's degree in political science and journalism at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Comenius University in Bratislava (FiF UK), followed by a master's degree in social anthropology at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England, in 2002. As a researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Ethnology, he defended his dissertation at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg. A revised version of the work was published in 2007 under the title Nation and Religion: The Politics of Commemoration in South-East Poland. He completed postdoctoral stays at the Aleksanteri Institute in Helsinki and the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna. In 2007, he defended the title of docent in the field of ethnology at FiF UK.
Since 1997, he has been cooperating with the Research Center of the Slovak Society for Foreign Policy (SFPA). He is a member of the editorial boards of the magazines International Issues & Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs and Zahraničná politika and served as the editor-in-chief of the magazine OS – civil society.
As a producer, he participated in the production of Mira Fornay's feature debut Líštička (2009) and her next film My Dog Killer (2013).
He published books of essays Slovak Ideology and Crisis (2012) about Slovak politics, national ideology and Slovak political thought and Post-peasants: Slovak People's Protest (2023) about modern Slovaks who, however, "believe in the ideal of the homeland from agrarian times and behave accordingly" .