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Doctor of Philosophy

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 Siniša Malešević, MRIA

Royal Irish Academy

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 (born 1969) is a Professor of Sociology and the Head of School of Sociology at the University College, Dublin, Ireland. His research interests include the comparative-historical and theoretical study of ethnicity, nationalism

Nationalism

Nationalism is a political ideology that involves a strong identification of a group of individuals with a political entity defined in national terms, i.e. a nation. In the 'modernist' image of the nation, it is nationalism that creates national identity. There are various definitions for what...

, ideology

Ideology

An ideology is a set of ideas that constitutes one's goals, expectations, and actions. An ideology can be thought of as a comprehensive vision, as a way of looking at things , as in common sense and several philosophical tendencies , or a set of ideas proposed by the dominant class of a society to...

, war

War

War is a state of organized, armed, and often prolonged conflict carried on between states, nations, or other parties typified by extreme aggression, social disruption, and usually high mortality. War should be understood as an actual, intentional and widespread armed conflict between political...

, violence

Violence

Violence is the use of physical force to apply a state to others contrary to their wishes. violence, while often a stand-alone issue, is often the culmination of other kinds of conflict, e.g...

 and sociological theory

Sociology

Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...

. He is author of five and editor of four books including influential monographs Ideology, Legitimacy and the New State (2002), The Sociology of Ethnicity (2004), Identity as Ideology (2006) and The Sociology of War and Violence (2010). Professor Malesevic has also authored over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. His work has been translated into several languages including Croatian, Persian

Persian language

Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...

, Portuguese, Russian and Serbian. Previously he was a research fellow in the Institute for International Relations (Zagreb), the Centre for the Study of Nationalism, CEU (Prague)- where he worked with late Ernest Gellner

Ernest Gellner

Ernest André Gellner was a philosopher and social anthropologist, described by The Daily Telegraph when he died as one of the world's most vigorous intellectuals and by The Independent as a "one-man crusade for critical rationalism."His first book, Words and Things —famously, and uniquely...

 -, and senior lecturer at the National University of Ireland, Galway

National University of Ireland, Galway

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. He also held visiting research fellowships in the Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna) and the London School of Economics

London School of Economics

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. In March 2010 he was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Royal Irish Academy

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Selected publications

•(2010). The Sociology of War and Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Croatian translation 2011).

•(2007). Ernest Gellner and Contemporary Social Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (co-edited).

•(2006). Identity as Ideology: Understanding Ethnicity and Nationalism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

•(2004). The Sociology of Ethnicity. London: Sage (Serbian translation 2009; Persian translation 2011).

•(2002). Ideology, Legitimacy and the New State: Yugoslavia, Serbia and Croatia. London: Routledge (reprinted in 2008; Serbian translation 2004).

•(2002). Making Sense of Collecitivity: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalization. London: Pluto (co-edited).

•(2002). Ideology after Poststructuralism. London: Pluto (co-edited).

Sources

• http://www.ucd.ie/sociology/staff/profiles/malesevicsinisa/
• http://www.ucd.ie/warstudies/members/siniamaleevi/
• http://www.ucd.ie/sociology/
• http://www.nuigalway.ie/soc/staff/malesevic_sinisa.html
• http://www.ria.ie/our-work/membership.aspx
• http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sinia-Maleevi/e/B001H6WVJY/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0