Research interests
precarious work, labour migration, political sociology, methodology of sociological research
Biography
Dr Aleksandra Marković completed all levels of study in Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. She defended her PhD dissertation entitled Ideological and Political Orientation of the Precariat in Serbia in 2022. She gained her research and academic experience at the Institute for Sociological Research, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, as well as at the Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research in Belgrade. In 2023, she conducted postdoctoral research within the international project The Formation of Worker Collectivism Among Migrant Workers in Denmark, Germany, and the UK at Aalborg University, Denmark. As a visiting researcher at the University of Manchester (United Kingdom), she collected empirical data relevant to the project’s objectives. Her research interests include labour migration, insecure and precarious forms of work, collective action and workers’ resistance, as well as methodological issues in the study of social movements. In her work, she applies mixed-methods approaches, combining quantitative and qualitative research methods. She is the recipient of two research mobility scholarships: Erasmus+ (Estonia, Institute of Social Studies, University of Tartu) and CEEPUS (Slovenia, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana). She has participated in more than 20 national and international projects and several COST Actions, collaborates with international research teams, and regularly presents her work at academic conferences.
Selected publications
Marković, A., Manić, Ž. (2025). Precarious working conditions for migrant workers in Serbia: A content analysis of online articles from daily newspaper Danas about the Linglong factory. In: V. Backović & A. Marković (Eds.), New Divisions, Struggles and Solidarities in South East Europe Book of Proceedings International Scientific Conference, Belgrade, June 13–14, 2025 (117–136). Sociological Scientific Society of Serbia. https://doi.org/10.5937/snds25006M
Marković, A. (2025). Work During and After Serving the Prison Sentence: Double Precarization in the Service of the Preservation of Capitalism. In: Ilijić Lj. (ed.). Prison Life Organization and Security: Criminological, Penological, Sociological, Psychological, Legal, and Security Aspects. Belgrade: Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research. https://doi.org/10.47152/PrisonLIFE.D4.5.11
Jovanović Ajzenhamer, N., Marković, A. (2025). The precariat as Bauman's flawed
consumers. Sociologija, 67(3): 378–398. https://doi.org/10.2298/SOC2503378J
Marković, A. (2025). Comparative Analysis of the Ideological and Political
Orientations of the Precariat in Serbia, Germany, and Croatia. Zbornik Instituta za kriminološka isociološka istraživanja 44(1–2): 17–51. https://doi.org/10.47152/ziksi2025122
Zvijer, N., Radoman, M., Marković, A. (2025). The formal features of protest slogans as an element of symbolic struggle in Serbia’s faculty blockades (2024-2025). In V. Backović & A. Marković (Eds.), New Divisions, Struggles and Solidarities in South East Europe Book of Proceedings International Scientific Conference Belgrade, June 13–14, 2025 (79–96). Sociological Scientific Society of Serbia. https://doi.org/10.5937/snds25004Z
Marković, A. (2024). Neoliberalism and the Penal Turn: Reproduction of Capitalism through the Prison System. In: Milićević M., Stevanović I., Ilijić Lj. (eds.). PROCEEDINGS of the International Scientific Conference “LIFE IN PRISON:
Criminological, Penological, Psychological, Sociological, Legal, Security, and Medical Issues”. Belgrade: Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research. https://doi.org/10.47152/PrisonLIFE2024.22
Marković, A. (2023). Research topics and methods in sociological papers on the COVID-19 pandemic published in the world's most influential sociological journals. U: Radoman, M. Poleti Ćosić, D. (ur.). Istraživati društvo tokom pandemije: neke metodološke prepreke i rešenja (121–142). Beograd: Filozofski fakultet, Institut za sociološka istraživanja.
Selected presentations
Manić, Ž., Marković, A. (2025). Exploring the Applicability of Bales’ Set of Categories to Observations of Student Plenums at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade during the 2024/2025 Blockade. In: Backović, V. et al. (eds.). Naučna konferencija Studentski protesti 2024/25: BloKADA, ako ne SADA? Beograd, 22. i 23. novembar 2025. Knjiga apstrakata (70–71). https://doi.org/10.46793/6427.376.3Boa (in Serbian)
Pešić, J., Birešev, A., Marković, A. (2025). The echo of silence. Backović, V. et al. (eds.). Naučna konferencija Studentski protesti 2024/25: BloKADA, ako ne SADA? Beograd, 22. i 23. novembar 2025. Knjiga apstrakata (106–107). https://doi.org/10.46793/6427.376.3Boa (in Serbian)
Stanojević, D., Ljubičić, M., Filipović, B., Marković, A. (2024). Risks of Violence among the Elderly in Serbia – A Positive Deviance Approach. In: Gundogan, D., Ranđelović, B., Drobac, A. (eds.). ICCS 2022: Results and Implications – Book of Abstracts (123–124). Belgrade: The Institute for Educational Research.
Marković, A., Filipović, B. (2024). Istraživanje subjektivne percepcije sigurnosti u javnim prostorima: uvidi iz evropskog društvenog istraživanja. Treća naučna konferencija URBANA BEZBEDNOST I URBANI RAZVOJ Zbornik sažetaka (58–59). Univerzitet u Beogradu: Fakultet bezbednosti i Arhitektonski fakultet.
