Research interests
sociology of politics; sociology of nation and nationalism, sociology of knowledge; historical sociology; studies of ex-Yugoslav societies and ideologies of Yugoslavism
Biography
I graduated in 1996, defended MA thesis 2002, PhD 2009, at the University of Belgrade, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy. I published three books: 2004. Ideologies of Yugoslavism Between Serbian and Croatian Nationalism 1918-1941; 2011. Yugoslavia: Destruction and Its Interpreters; 2019. European Far-Right 1945-2018. Beside I edited book (2021) Researches of Nationalism in Serbia at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Studies of Young Generation of Sociologists. In addition, I published almost fifty shorter studies. Nations and Nationalism, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, and Sociologija, among other journals, published my articles. I have been dealing with the national conflicts in ex-Yugoslavia. I have especially focused on Serbian and Croatian nationalisms and the idea and ideologies of Yugoslavism before the WWI, during the War, and between the two World Wars. In addition, I have been very interested in studies of ethnicity, nation and nationalism, and studies of European and Serbian Far-Right movements and parties. I was editor of the most important Serbian journal in sociology Sociologija in 2011 and 2012. I was the president of the Association of sociologists of Serbia and Montenegro 2015-2019, and I am a member of the International Association of Sociologists and Sociological Scientific Association of Serbia. I was visiting scholar at the Charles University in Prague (2018), University of Massachusetts (Amherst) in 2010, University of Helsinki (2009), and at the University of Oxford (2003/4).
Selected publications
Bakić, J. (2026). How old is the Serbian nation? Conceptual analysis of ethno-national terms in the works of the first Serbian writers 1199–1235. Nations and Nationalism. DOI: 10.1111/nana.70003 (forthcoming, online version published in July 2025)
Bakić, J. (2023). The Serbian Far Right, Football Hooligans, And Their Instrumentalisation by an Authoritarian Regime: Serbia as Case Study. In: Kondor, K. & Littler, M. (eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Far-Right Extremism in Europe. London & New York: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003256892-3
Bakić, J. (2019). Evropska krajnja desnica 1945–2018. Beograd: Klio.
Bakić, J. (2011). Jugoslavija: razaranje i njegovi tumači (Yugoslavia: destruction and its interpreters). Beograd: Službeni glasnik i Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu.
Bakić, J. (2009). Extreme-Right Ideology, Practice and Supporters: Case Study of the Serbian Radical Party. Journal of Contemporary European Studies 17(2): 193–207.janin”.
Bakić, J. (2006). Teorijsko-istraživački pristupi etničkoj vezanosti (ethnicity), nacionalizmu i naciji. Sociologija 48(3): 231–264.
Bakić, J. (2004). Ideologije jugoslovenstva između srpskog i hrvatskog nacionalizma 1918-1941. Sociološko-istorijska studija. Zrenjanin: Gradska Narodna Biblioteka „Žarko Zrenjanin”.
Selected presentations
Bakić, J. “Social, economic and political construction of Covid-19”. International conference The attitude of far-right organizations towards measures against the Covid-19 pandemic in Serbia 2020–2022, May 12–13, 2023.
Bakić, J. „Sociološko nasleđe Vojina Milića – 100 godina od rođenja”. Konferencija nacionalnog značaja Uticaj reakcionarnih ideja Nikolaja Velimirovića i Justina Popovića na organizacije krajnje desnice u postsocijalističkoj Srbiji, September 17, 2022.
Bakić, J. “What’s left of the Left in Serbia during capitalist restoration”. International conference The Left is Dead – Long live the Left: The Changes and Challenges of the Left in Contemporary Europe, Institut društvenih nauka, Beograd, November 29–30, 2018.
Bakić, J. „Jugoslovenstvo Josipa Broza Tita: kontinuitet ili diskontinuitet?”. Međunarodni naučni skup Tito: Viđenja i tumačenja. Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije, Arhiv Jugoslavije i Südost-Institut Regensburg, Beograd, May 7–9, 2010.
Bakić, J. “From “Brotherhood and Unity” to “European Unity of Differences”. International conference Spinning out of control: Rhetoric and Violent Conflict. Representations of “Self” and “Other” in Post-Yugoslavia. Sarajevo, October 12–13, 2006.
