Slobodan Antonić

Slobodan Antonić
Born	(1959-05-19)19 May 1959 Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Nationality	Serbian
Scientific career
Fields	Sociology Political science
Institutions	University of Belgrade

Slobodan Antonić (Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Антонић; born 19 May 1959) is a Serbian political scientist, sociologist and university professor.

Biography

Antonić was born in 1959 in Belgrade which at that time was a part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He graduated in 1982 and received his master's degree in 1988 from the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Belgrade on the topic Contribution to the Critique of Historical Materialism as a Philosophy of History. He prepared and defended his doctoral dissertation on Theoretical and Methodological Problems of Studying the Evolution of Suburban Societies at the Department of Sociology of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade in 1995, where he teaches general sociology, power theory and contemporary political theory.

He worked as a researcher at the Institute for Political Studies in Belgrade (1990–1996), taught sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad (1996–2001), and since 2001 has been employed at the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade (assistant professor 2001, associate professor). professor 2006, full professor 2011). He was the head of the Department of Sociology (2006-2010), the editor-in-chief of the Sociological Review (2006-2009) and the president of the Serbian Sociological Society (2009-2013). He is one of the founders (1994) and editor of the New Serbian Political Thought, which published three of his books and tens of articles.

He was a columnist for the daily newspaper Politika, where he mostly wrote about political topics.

Books

• Serbia Between Populism and Democracy, IPS, Belgrade, 1993.
• Challenges of Historical Sociology, Belgrade, 1995
• Antonić, Slobodan (1999). "Party and Social Divisions in Montenegro". Sociology: Journal of Sociology, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology. 41 (2): 165—186
• Captive Country: Serbia for the Government of Slobodan Milošević, Belgrade, 2002
• The Nation in the Currents of the Past: Essays on the Sustainability of Democracy in Serbia, Čigoja, Belgrade, 2003.
• Swallowing Frogs, (2005).
• Elite, Citizenship and the Weak State: Serbia after 2000, (2006).
• Serbs and "Euro-Serbs", (2007).
• Consolidation of Democratic Institutions in Serbia after 2000, (2007, co-author Dušan Pavlović).
• Weimar Serbia, (2008).
• Cultural War in Serbia: Slobodan Antonić, (2008).
• The Temptations of Radical Feminism: The Power and Limits of Social Engineering, (2011).
• Vichy Serbia, (2011).
• Transitional Locusts: Conceptual Confrontations 2008-2011, (2011).
• The Devil, History and Feminism: Sociological Adventures, (2012).
• Bad Infinity: Contributions to the Sociology of Serbian Society, (2012)
• On Brussels Rails: Political Analysis, (2013).
• Power and Sexuality: The Sociology of the Gay Movement, (2014).
• Dossier of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, (2014). (co-author)
• It is Not Over Yet: Milošević, (2015).
• Dismantling of Culture: Contributions to the Sociology of Serbian Society, (2016).