{"id":48480,"date":"2025-09-25T21:52:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T21:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=48480"},"modified":"2025-09-25T21:52:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T21:52:21","slug":"predavanje-sinise-malesevica-nationalism-and-the-battlefields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=48480","title":{"rendered":"Predavanje Sini\u0161e Male\u0161evi\u0107a \u201eNationalism and the Battlefields\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Central European University poziva na predavanje Sini\u0161e Male\u0161evi\u0107a \u201eNationalism and the Battlefields\u201c koje \u0107e se odr\u017eati u petak, 26. rujna 2025. u Budimpe\u0161ti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In popular understanding, nationalism is regularly associated with the battlefields. The soldiers are often deemed to be inspired by a strong sense of patriotic duty. From the French revolutionary armies and the two world wars to the contemporary conflicts in Ukraine, Gaza or Myanmar nationalism is typically identified as the principal source of one\u2019s motivation to fight. In this lecture, I challenge such simplistic views and aim to show that nationalism plays a marginal role in the combat zone. I argue that in most cases, the motivations of soldiers are not linked directly to the nationalist ideas and practices. Instead, the majority fight from the sense of moral obligation and emotional attachment to their micro-level groups. However, this is not to say that nationalism is irrelevant in the context of violent conflicts. On the contrary, I aim to show how nationalist ideas and practices permeate the organisational and ideological scaffolds of the wider social world. I argue that nationalism is primarily generated and reproduced in civilian institutions and other domains of civilian life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sini\u0161a Male\u0161evi\u0107 is a Full Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology at the University College, Dublin and a Senior Fellow at CNAM, Paris, France. He is an elected member of the Royal Irish Academy and Academia Europaea. His recent, award-winning books include \u2018Why Humans Fight: The Social Dynamics of Close-Range Violence\u2019 (Cambridge University Press, 2022), \u2018Grounded Nationalisms: A Sociological Analysis\u2019 (Cambridge University Press, 2019), and \u2018The Rise of Organised Brutality: A Historical Sociology of Violence\u2019 (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Prof. Male\u0161evi\u0107 has also authored over 140 journal articles and book chapters and 9 edited volumes. His work has been translated into 14 languages. His latest book is \u2018Nationalism as a Way of Life\u2019 which will be published in November 2025 with the Cambridge University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Izvori i dodatne obavijesti:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ceu.edu\/2025-09-26\/nationalism-and-battlefields\">https:\/\/events.ceu.edu\/2025-09-26\/nationalism-and-battlefields<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/historiografija.ba\/historija-u-javnosti\/dogadjaji\/nacionalizam-i-bojna-polja\">https:\/\/historiografija.ba\/historija-u-javnosti\/dogadjaji\/nacionalizam-i-bojna-polja<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/sinisa-malesevic.png?fit=825%2C550&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54001,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54001","url_meta":{"origin":48480,"position":0},"title":"5. me\u0111unarodna doktorska ljetna \u0161kola &#8220;Nations and Nationalism in the Contemporary World&#8221;","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"10. lipnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Na Odjelu za sociologiju Sveu\u010dili\u0161ta u Zadru odr\u017eava se 5. me\u0111unarodna doktorska ljetna \u0161kola Nations and Nationalism in the Contemporary World od 8. do 13. lipnja 2026. koju suorganiziraju Odjel za sociologiju i The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, London School of Economics and Political Science. 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