Research interests
Gender Studies, History of Sexuality, Political Sociology
Biography
Selena Špica is a PhD candidate at the University Paris-8, France (Pratiques et théories du sens – Laboratoire d’études du genre et de la sexualité), and a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. She is also a research assistant at the Institute for Sociological Research within the project Challenges of New Social Integration in Serbia: Concepts and Actors, and a member of the GenLab of the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory in Belgrade. She completed undergraduate studies in sociology as the most successful student in her generation, then master studies at the same Department, and the master studies at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade. As additional training, she has also attended Women’s Studies and Queer Studies.
She started teaching in 2012 in the course Introduction to the Sociology of Music at the Department of Sociology in Belgrade, and since 2014 has been engaged at the courses Introduction to Sociology 1 and Introduction to Sociology 2. In 2015 she was teaching assistant in Sociology at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences. Since then she has been the secretary of the scientific journal Sociology (until 2020). She is a permanent lecturer at the School of Media Literacy, and from 2019 on she has been engaged as a lecturer at Erasmus + programs as well as at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory within the lecture series Reflections on Gender.
As a holder of the French Embassy Scholarship in 2018, she was on a professional specialization in Paris through a program of gender studies at the Institute Genre, Travail, Mobilités, Centre de Recherches Sociologiques et Politiques de Paris. She was involved in the international project of gender politics in Europe, organized by the GTM Institute from Paris and the Viadrina University in Frankfurt. She is currently completing a PhD thesis in joint supervision at the University of Belgrade and the University of Paris on the topic of transformation of sexuality in contemporary societies in Serbia and France, as a scholarship holder of the French Government.
Supervisors: Éric Fassin, Vladimir Vuletić
Selected publications
Radović, Selena. 2022. Sociological method according to Pierre Bourdieu, in: Mladenović, I, Zarić, Z, Urošević, M (ed.). Horizons of Engagement: Eternalizing Pierre Bourdieu, Belgrade: Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory.
Radović, Selena. 2021. Intimacy and intimate relations during the pandemic: practices and discourses – the case of Serbia, in: Vuletić, Mladen (ed.). The impact of the pandemic of Covid 19 on social and psychological processes, Belgrade: Faculty of Philosophy, pp. 33–44.
Petrović Tamara, Radović Selena. 2019. Neet in Serbia. Youth Educational Center, City Municipality of Stari grad.
Radović Selena, Marković Aleksandra. 2017. New/old Gender Expectations – Conformity or Resistance to the Patriarchal Division of Gender Roles in the Family, in: Sekulić, N, Jarić, I, Radonjić, O (ed.). In the shadow of public policies – gender politics and gender experience, LIMES. Vol. XIV, No. 2: pp. 135–152.
Radović Selena, Radulović Mladen. 2016. The Transformation in the Representation of Gender Roles in Animated Films: the Case of Disney Princesses. Sociology, Vol. LVIII, No. 1: pp. 86-112.
Jovanović Nataša, Radović Selena, Marković Aleksandra. 2016. The Consolidation of Electoral Democracy in Serbia and the Formation of Pluralist Political Elite and its political-ideological orientation, in: Lazić, Mladen (ed.). Political elites in Serbia in the period of consolidation of the capitalist system, Belgrade: Institute for Sociological Research of the Faculty of Philosophy, Čigoja štampa.
Selected presentations
Radović, Selena. 2021. NEET as a Sociological Category – Characteristics of NEET Population in Serbia, conference „National and regional strategies for rural NEETs social inclusion”, Management Department Tehnical Faculty in Bor, University of Belgrade, 28–30.05.2021.
Radović, Selena. 2020. Sociological method according to Pierre Bourdieu, conference „Horizons of Engagement: Eternalizing Pierre Bourdieu“, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, 22–23.12.2020.
Radović, Selena. 2018. Private and Public Patriarchy in Serbia and France, conference „Social Relations in Serbia: Continuity and Change”, Institute for Sociological Research (Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade), Belgrade, 21.12.2018.
Radović, Selena. 2017. The Crisis of gender identities: the transformation of masculinity in Serbia, conference “Global Crisis of Neo-liberal Forms of Capitalist Regulation and Local Consequences: the Case of Serbia”, Institute for Sociological Research (Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade), Belgrade, 17–18.11.2017.
Radović, Selena. 2016. Gender Representations in Media, conference „The Gobal Human Rights Forum 2016 in Belgrade”, Center for margin, Belgrade, 20–22.10.2016.
Radović, Selena. 2016. Power Relations in Pornography – Pornography as a Mirror of Social Reality, conference „1st International PhD Student Conference, Philosophy and Society”, University of Rijeka (Faculty of Philosophy), Rijeka, 25,11.2016.
Radović, Selena. 2015. The Consolidation of Electoral Democracy in Serbia and the Formation of Pluralist Political Elite, conference „The challenges of new social integration in Serbia – Concepts and Actors, the main results of the project”, Institute for Sociological Research (Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade), Belgrade, 27–28.11.2015.