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Encountering Berlant part 1: Concepts otherwise (2022)
Journal Article
Anderson, B., Aitken, S., Bacevic, J., Callard, F., Chung, K. D. (., Coleman, K. S., Hayden, R. F., Healy, S., Irwin, R. L., Jellis, T., Jukes, J., Khan, S., Marotta, S., Seitz, D. K., Snepvangers, K., Staples, A., Turner, C., Tse, J., Watson, M., & Wilkinson, E. (2023). Encountering Berlant part 1: Concepts otherwise. The Geographical Journal, 189(1), 117-142. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12494

In Part 1 of ‘Encountering Berlant’, we encounter the promise and provocation of Lauren Berlant's work. In 1000-word contributions, geographers and others stay with what Berlant's thought offers contemporary human geography. They amplify an encounter... Read More about Encountering Berlant part 1: Concepts otherwise.

Epistemic injustice and epistemic positioning: towards an intersectional political economy (2021)
Journal Article
Bacevic, J. (2023). Epistemic injustice and epistemic positioning: towards an intersectional political economy. Current Sociology, 71(6), 1122-1140. https://doi.org/10.1177/00113921211057609

This article introduces the concept of epistemic positioning to theorize the relationship between identity-based epistemic judgements and the reproduction of social inequalities, including those of gender and ethnicity/race, in the academia. Acts of... Read More about Epistemic injustice and epistemic positioning: towards an intersectional political economy.

Why do we fail to predict social crises? (2021)
Book Chapter
Bacevic, J. (2022). Why do we fail to predict social crises?. In S. Jasanoff (Ed.), Un/certainty. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press

No such thing as sociological excuses? Performativity, rationality and social scientific expertise in late liberalism (2021)
Journal Article
Bacevic, J. (2021). No such thing as sociological excuses? Performativity, rationality and social scientific expertise in late liberalism. European Journal of Social Theory, 24(3), 394-410. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684310211018939

This article examines a frequent assumption of sociological accounts of knowledge: the idea that knowledge acts. The performativity of knowledge claims is here analysed through the prism of ‘sociological excuses’: the idea that sociological explanati... Read More about No such thing as sociological excuses? Performativity, rationality and social scientific expertise in late liberalism.

Unthinking knowledge production: from post-Covid to post-carbon futures (2020)
Journal Article
Bacevic, J. (2021). Unthinking knowledge production: from post-Covid to post-carbon futures. Globalizations, 18(7), 1206-1218. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2020.1807855

The past years have witnessed a growing awareness of the role of institutions of knowledge production in reproducing the global climate crisis, from research funded by fossil fuel companies to the role of mainstream economics in fuelling the idea of... Read More about Unthinking knowledge production: from post-Covid to post-carbon futures.

With or without U? Assemblage theory and (de)territorialising the university (2018)
Journal Article
Bacevic, J. (2019). With or without U? Assemblage theory and (de)territorialising the university. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 17(1), 78-91. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2018.1498323

Contemporary changes in the domain of knowledge production are usually seen as posing significant challenges to ‘the University’. This paper argues against the framing of the university as an ideal-type, and considers epistemic gains from treating un... Read More about With or without U? Assemblage theory and (de)territorialising the university.

What kind of university for what kind of society? Nation-states, post-national constellations, and higher education in the post-Yugoslav space (2016)
Book Chapter
Bacevic, J. (2016). What kind of university for what kind of society? Nation-states, post-national constellations, and higher education in the post-Yugoslav space. In P. Zgaga, U. Teichler, & J. Brennan (Eds.), The Globalisation Challenge for European Higher Education (287-308). Peter Lang AG. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-06508-4

The last decade has marked European higher education with particular dynamics. Today, after a decade of «connected» policy, national systems look much more convergent but new questions and dilemmas are emerging: about the nature and quality of higher... Read More about What kind of university for what kind of society? Nation-states, post-national constellations, and higher education in the post-Yugoslav space.

Education, conflict and class reproduction in socialist Yugoslavia (2016)
Book Chapter
Bacevic, J. (2016). Education, conflict and class reproduction in socialist Yugoslavia. In R. Archer, I. Duda, & P. Stubbs (Eds.), Social Inequalities and Discontent in Yugoslav Socialism (77 - 94). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315609461

Introduction In 1974, the Parliament of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia adopted the Law on Vocational Education, marking the beginning of what would arguably be the most comprehensive education reform in the country’s history. The reform... Read More about Education, conflict and class reproduction in socialist Yugoslavia.