Andrej Grubačić

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

Andrej Grubačić
Grubačić at the 2010 Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair
Born	1976
Spouse	Renata Ávila Pinto
Children	Tanja Grubačić Pinto
Academic background
Alma mater	State University of New York at Binghamton
Thesis	Exilic spaces and practices in the modern world system
Academic work
Discipline	World-systems theory
Institutions	California Institute of Integral Studies

Early life and education

Grubačić was born in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The grandson of Ratomir Dugonjić, former president of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the vice president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Grubačić graduated from University of Belgrade 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.^[1] He is Affiliated Faculty at the UC Berkeley Center for Social Medicine.^[2]

After the premature death of his friend and colleague David Graeber,^[3] 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.^[4] Living at the Edges of Capitalism, which Grubačić co-authored with Denis O'Hearn, won the 2017 American Sociological Association's Political Economy of the World-System Book Award.^[5]

Grubačić's work is a synthesis of Braudelian history, Hegelian Marxism, and the anarchist anthropology of Peter Kropotkin.^[6] 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".^[7]

Grubačić is a member of the Retort collective and has participated in grassroots alter-globalization movement^[8] and has supported international projects in Yugoslavia^[9] and Rojava.^[10]

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 PM Press,^[11] 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. ISBN 9780520287303.^[12][13]
• Grubačić, Andrej (2010). Don't Mourn, Balkanize!: Essays After Yugoslavia. PM Press.
• Lynd, Staughton & Grubačić, Andrej (2010) From Here to There: The Staughton Lynd Reader. PM Press.
• Grubačić, Andrej; Lynd, Staughton (2008). Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History. PM Press. ISBN 978-1-60486-041-2.
• Grubačić, Andrej (2003). Globalizacija nepristajanja [The globalization of refusal] (in Serbian). Novi Sad: Svetovi. ISBN 86-7047-422-0. OCLC 64097747.^[8]
• Noam Comski, Politika bez Moci. Izdavac: DAF Zagreb, 2004. ISBN 953-6956-01-2.