Andrej Grubačić (born 1976) is a Yugoslav world historian, world-systems theorist, and activist based in the United States.

Early life and education

Grubačić was born in the

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. The grandson of Ratomir Dugonjić, former president of the

Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Socijalistička Republika Bosna i Hercegovina, Социјалистичка Pепублика Босна и Херцеговина), commonly referred to as Socia ...

and the vice president of the

, Grubačić graduated from

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and completed master's and doctoral degrees from the State University of New York at Binghamton.

Career

Grubačić is a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies and founded its Department of Anthropology and Social Change. Grubačić edits the ''

Journal of World-Systems Research The ''Journal of World-Systems Research'' (''JWSR'') is a biannual, open access, peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of world-systems analysis, established in 1995 by founding editor Christopher Chase-Dunn at the Institute for World-Syste ...

''. He is Affiliated Faculty at the UC Berkeley Center for Social Medicine. After the premature death of his friend and colleague

David Graeber David Rolfe Graeber (; February 12, 1961 – September 2, 2020) was an American and British anthropologist, Left-wing politics, left-wing and anarchism, anarchist social and political activist. His influential work in Social anthropology, social ...

, Grubačić remains one of the exponents of the anarchist anthropology research perspective, and the department he founded at the CIIS is the only academic institute in the United States dedicated exclusively to the study of anarchist anthropology. ''Living at the Edges of Capitalism'', which Grubačić co-authored with Denis O'Hearn, won the 2017

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's Political Economy of the World-System Book Award. Grubačić's work is a synthesis of Braudelian history, Hegelian Marxism, and the anarchist anthropology of

Peter Kropotkin Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (9 December 1842 – 8 February 1921) was a Russian anarchist and geographer known as a proponent of anarchist communism. Born into an aristocratic land-owning family, Kropotkin attended the Page Corps and later s ...

. Together with John Holloway and several other dissident academics, Grubačić has assembled a global federation of activist scholars and academic programs "inhabiting the cracks in academia". Grubačić is a member of the Retort collective and has participated in grassroots

alter-globalization Alter-globalization (also known as alter-globo, alternative globalization or alter-mundialization—from the French alter- mondialisation) is a social movement whose proponents support global cooperation and interaction, but oppose what they desc ...

movement and has supported international projects in

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and

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. Since 2012, Grubačić has written about the revolution in Rojava and the imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan. As a professor at the University of Rojava and social science editor at

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, he is responsible for a number of books on the Kurdish struggle published in English.

Books

* Grubačić, Andrej, & O'Hearn, Denis (2016). ''Living at the edges of capitalism: Adventures in exile and mutual aid''. University of California Press. . * * Lynd, Staughton & Grubačić, Andrej (2010) From Here to There: The Staughton Lynd Reader. PM Press. * * * ''Noam Comski, Politika bez Moci''. Izdavac: DAF

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, 2004. .

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Grubacic, Andrej 21st-century Serbian historians Historians of anarchism Anarchist theorists Industrial Workers of the World members Yugoslav emigrants to the United States Living people Serbian anarchists University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy alumni American sociologists American people of Serbian descent 1976 births