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

Early life and education

Grubačić was born in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He is the grandson of

Ratomir Dugonjić Ratomir "Rato" Dugonjić (10 January 1916 – 27 June 1987) was a Yugoslav Partisan fighter in the antifascist liberation struggle of the people of Yugoslavia, Minister in the Communist Government, Ambassador with the Non-Aligned Movement, presid ...

, 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 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Grubačić graduated from

University of Belgrade The University of Belgrade ( sr, / ) is a public university in Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia. Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-b ...

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 California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) is a private university in San Francisco, California.Otterman, Sharon. "Merging Spirituality and Clinical Psychology at Columbia". ''New York Times'', Aug. 9, 2012Aanstoos, C. Serlin, I., & Greenin ...

and founded its Anthropology and Social Change department. 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-Sy ...

''. He is an affiliated Faculty in Residence with the UC Berkeley Center for Social Medicine. After the premature death of his friend and colleague

David Graeber David Rolfe Graeber (; February 12, 1961September 2, 2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist. His influential work in economic anthropology, particularly his books '' Debt: The First 5,000 Years'' (2011) and ''Bullshit Jobs ...

, Grubacic remains one of the very few prominent exponents of the anarchist Anthropology research perspective, and his Center in San Francisco 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

American Sociological Association The American Sociological Association (ASA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology. Founded in December 1905 as the American Sociological Society at Johns Hopkins University by a group of fif ...

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

Peter Kropotkin Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (; russian: link=no, Пётр Алексе́евич Кропо́ткин ; 9 December 1842 – 8 February 1921) was a Russian anarchist, socialist, revolutionary, historian, scientist, philosopher, and activis ...

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

alter-globalization Alter-globalization (also known as alternative globalization or alter-mundialization—from the French alter- mondialisation—and overlapping with the global justice movement) is a social movement whose proponents support global cooperation an ...

movement and has supported international projects in Yugoslavia and

Rojava The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), also known as Rojava, is a de facto autonomous region in northeastern Syria. It consists of self-governing Regions of North and East Syria, sub-regions in the areas of Afrin Region ...

. Since 2012, he has been writing about the revolution in Rojava and the imprisoned Kurdish leader

Abdullah Ocalan Abdullah may refer to: * Abdullah (name) Abd Allah ( ar, عبدالله, translit=ʻAbd Allāh), also spelled Abdallah, Abdellah, Abdollah, Abdullah and many others, is an Arabic name meaning "Servant of God". It is built from the Arabic words ...

. As a professor at the University of Rojava, and social science editor at PM Press, he is responsible for a number of books on Kurdish struggle published in English language.

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

Zagreb Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Croatia#List of cities and towns, largest city of Croatia. It is in the Northern Croatia, northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slop ...

, 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 Year of birth missing (living people)