Research interests
value orientations, class analysis, social movements, social change, historical sociology
Biography
Jelena Pešić completed her undergraduate and doctoral studies in sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. She earned her PhD in 2016 with the dissertation Value Orientations in Post-Socialist Societies of Serbia and Croatia (supervisor: Prof. Mladen Lazić). Jelena Pešić has been employed at the Department of Sociology of the Faculty of Philosophy since 2005. She teaches Theories on Social Change, General Sociology, Statistics in Social Research, and the Sociology of Social Movements. As a researcher, she has participated in scientific projects funded by the European Commission (InTune and DIOSCURI – 6th Framework Programme; Transnational Political Contention in Europe – Erasmus+, Jean Monnet Network), a project of the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (CAPITO), the RRPP project (Informal Practices of Capturing Economic Resources by Political Elites: Exploring Party Patronage in Kosovo and Serbia), the international comparative project financially supported by the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation – the European Social Survey, as well as a large number of international and domestic scientific and professional projects. Jelena Pešić is a member of the Sociological Scientific Society of Serbia.
Selected publications
Pešić, J. (2025). Teorije zavisnosti. Kapitalizam iz vizure periferije. Beograd: Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu, Institut za sociološka istraživanja; ISBN: 978-86-6427-365-7; DOI: 10.46793/6427.365.7.Pesic
Pešić, J. & Vukelić, J. (2025). Transnationalization vs. Eco-Nationalism: Discursive Framing of Environmental Struggles in Serbia. In: Milan, C. & Buzogany, A. (eds.). Contentious Politics in the Transnational Arena. Political Contention in Europe and its Wider Neighbourhood. Cham: Palgrave Macmilan (101–122). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-86209-0_5 ISBN: 978-3-031-86209-0
Lazić, M. & Pešić, J. (2024). Values, norms and social dynamics. Philosophy and Society/Filozofija i društvo 35(3): 703–724. ISSN: 0353-5738. DOI: 10.2298/FID2403703L
Vukelić, J. & Pešić, J. (2023). The unusual weakness of the economic agenda at protests in times of austerity: the case of Serbia. East European Politics 39(4): 645–665. ISSN: 2159-9165; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2023.2164850.
Spasić, I. Pešić, J. & Babović, M. (2022). Sociology in Serbia. A Fragile Discipline. Cham: Springer Nature, Palgrave Macmillan; ISBN: 978-3-031-12484-6; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12485-3
Pešić, J. Birešev, A. & Petrović Trifunović, T. (2021). Political disaffection and disengagement in Serbia. Sociologija 63(2): 355–380. ISSN: 0038-0318; DOI: 10.2298/SOC2102355P
Pešić, J. (2017). Promena vrednosnih orijentacija u postsocijalističkim društvima Srbije i Hrvatske: politički i ekonomski liberalizam. Beograd: Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu, Institut za sociološka istraživanja, ISBN: 978-86-6427-064-9.
Selected presentations
2025: Jelena Pešić, Tamara Petrović Trifunović, Ana Birešev, Reaffected, Reengaged? Exploring New Political Mobilizations in Serbia, New Divisions, Struggles, and Solidarities in South East Europe, Sociological Scientific Society of Serbia, Serbia: Belgrade
2023: Jelena Pešić, Ana Birešev, Tamara Petrović Trifunović, Views and evaluations of democracy in the post-Yugoslav societies, Sociological Perspectives on Contemporary Post-Yugoslav Societies, Sociological Scientific Society of Serbia; Serbia: Belgrade
2022: Jelena Pešić, Jelisaveta Vukelić, Transnationalisation vs. Green Nationalism: Discursive Framing of Recent Environmental Struggles in Serbia. Transnational Political Contention and European Integration, University for Life Sciences (Universität für Bodenkultur, BOKU), Austria: Vienna
2020: Jelena Pešić & Jelisaveta Petrović, Urban Social Movements as Catalysers of Anti-Neoliberal Discontent in Serbia, Reclaiming the Cities: Space and the Contentious Politics in the Western Balkans, Center for Southeast Europe Studies, University of Graz, Austria: online
2018: Jelena Pešić, Restructuring of the Class Relations in Post-Socialist Serbia, Social Innovativeness in Europe and Asia, Polish Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Poland: Warsaw
