Juan A. Roche Cárcel holds an MA in Philosophy, and a PhD in Sociology. He teaches Sociology of Culture and Arts at the University of Alicante. For three years, he coordinated the Art Network Board and now he is Vice-President of AESCA (Spanish Association of Sociology of Culture and Arts). He leads a research team on an I+D (Research and Development) Project about immigration called SOLCOR, i.e. “Between Solitude and Courage. Culture, Woman, and Immigration in the Comunidad Valenciana.” He also participates in the Mediterranean Universities Cooperation Project on Immigration (UNIMEDIMIGRA). He is the author of several books about old and contemporary culture as The Scene of Life: A Sociologic and Cultural Interpretation of Greek Theatrical Architecture, Culture and Globalization: Between Conflict and Dialogue, and From Reality to Mask: The Evanescent Society. Furthermore he has published several articles and book chapters such as “The Evanescent Capitalism,” “Social Dimensions of Life and Death in Greek Tragedy,” “Epistemology of Complexity and Sociology of Arts and Literature,” “From a Scenario for Life to a Scenario for the Evasion of Life: A Social-Cultural Introduction to European Theatrical Architecture” and “From the Sovereing as a Great Man to the Divine Monarch: The Mesopotamic Zigurat and the Egyptian Pyramid.”

E-Mail: ja.roche@ua.es