Juan A. Roche Cárcel is Professor of Sociology at the University of Alicante, Spain. His publications include Between the Mount of Apollo and the Vine of Dionysus. Nature, Gods and Society in the Theater Architecture of Ancient Greece (2016); The Vanishing Society (2012); Transitions. The Fragility of Democracy (2016); and Spaces and Uncertain Times of Culture (2007), among others. He is currently the President of the Committee of Sociology of Emotions of the Federación Española de Sociología.