Sinisa Malesevic is a Full Professor and Chair of UCD School of Sociology. He is also a Senior Fellow and Associate Researcher, at CNAM, Paris, France. Previously he held research and teaching appointments at the Institute for International Relations (Zagreb), the Centre for the Study of Nationalism, CEU (Prague) and at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He also held visiting professorships and research fellowships at the London School of Economics, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Visiting Professor/Eric Remacle Chair in Conflict and Peace Studies), Uppsala University, the Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna) and the Australian Defence College, Canberra. In 2010 he was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and in 2012 he was elected an Associated Member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is author of ten and editor of nine volumes including The Sociology of War and Violence (2010), Nation-States and Nationalisms (2013) The Rise of Organised Brutality (2017), Grounded Nationalisms (2019), Classical Sociological Theory (2021), Contemporary Sociological Theory (2021) and Why Humans Fight (2022). Professor Malesevic has also authored over 140 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and has given more than 200 invited talks all over the world. His work has been translated into 14 languages.
Articles
Organized Callousness: Gaza & the Sociology of War*
Introduction The ongoing war in Gaza has generated extensive polemic among scholars and the general public.1 Some have described this conflict as a novel form of warfare. The deeply asymmetric character of this war and the vast number of Palestinian civilian casualties have prompted some analysts to described Gaza as a “new urban warfare.”2 Others… Read More »