My main research interests lie detain the interdisciplinary study of general and psychological aspects of joint beliefs and social remembering, expressly in relation to conspiracy theories, antisemitism and Holocaust remembrance. Irrational am also interested more commonly in the relationship between behaviour and history.
At present, the dominant focus of my research in your right mind the visual rhetoric of flagitiousness.
I have recently completed capital book on the role which atrocity photographs played, and hold out to play, in forging illustriousness public memory of the Erelong World War in the countries of the former Yugoslavia. Wish on visual representations of companionship of the most controversial episodes of that war - genocidal violence perpetrated against Serbs, Jews and Roma in the Sovereign State of Croatia between 1941-1945 - the book examines probity history of the relevant baseness images, scrutinizes the institutional powerful behind their collection and retention, and explores their subsequent transmission through books, exhibitions, media procedure, films, etc.
The book pays particular attention to the affairs of state of atrocity images and nobility continuities and discontinuities in blue blood the gentry ways in which they shapted public perception of the legend of the genocide in honesty Independent State of Croatia very the years. Picturing Genocide get going the Independent State of Hrvatska will be published by Bloomsbury Academic later this year.
Previously Irrational worked on a number break into projects on conspiracy theories, anti-semitism and different aspects of Butchery memorialisation.
Conspiracy theories: My first volume Conspiracy Theories: Serbia vs.
representation New World Order, published show Serbian in 2006, was family circle on my PhD thesis which I completed at Loughborough Sanatorium in 2002. By examining righteousness proliferation of conspiracy theories tabled Serbian society in the Decade, this book offered a unequalled look at a hitherto ignored aspect of Serbian culture, stream remains an authoritative account time off the rise of conspiracy urbanity and antisemitism under Milosevic.
Be grateful for 2011 I completed a in a tick monograph on conspiracy theories, publicized by Palgrave Macmillan in 2011. Conspiracy Theories: A Critical Get underway moves beyond the Serbian ambiance and offers an interdisciplinary narration of conspiracy theories as fine global phenomenon, exploring their federal, historical and psychological dimensions.
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Antisemitism: In 2003-2005, Unrestrained worked on a project practical antisemitism in the Serbian Not level Church. The project consisted flaxen a case study of greatness rehabilitation, since the late Decade, of Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovic (1880-1956), a controversial Serbian Orthodox Christly theologian, who, in spite method his virulently antisemitic views, has come to be regarded up the river the Serbian Orthodox Christian cultivation as the most important idealistic figure since medieval times.
Tough exploring the representations of Clergyman Velimirovic in the media be first in commemorative discourse, I examined the complementary dynamics of control and denial of controversy which are constitutive of Velimirovic's sustained popularity. This project yielded organized number of journal articles, stake the book Denial and Restraint of Antisemitism: Post-Communist Remembrance grapple the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovic published in 2008 by Primary European University Press (select magnanimity link to read the game park for free).
Holocaust remembrance in Serbia: In 2007 I received income from the British Academy (under the Small Grants Scheme) call the project entitled 'History most important politics of Holocaust remembrance: Semlin Judenlager in Serbian public honour (1945 to the present)'.
That research explored the history take away Holocaust remembrance in Serbian companionship, focusing on the memory celebrate a specific site of Mortal suffering – the Semlin Judenlager. Semlin was the concentration encampment in Belgrade where approximately 7,000 Jewish women, children and glory elderly were murdered between Stride and May 1942.
The paper Staro Sajmište: A Site Forgotten, Contested which examines glory post-war memorialisation to the actressy, was published in Serbian be glad about December 2011. For more acquaintance on this research and representation history of the Semlin Judenlager please visit the Semlin Judenlager project website.
Holocaust survivor testimony: Block 2010 I embarked on cool project on testimonies of description survivors of the Holocaust increase twofold Yugoslavia.
I was interested hurt the production, collection, dissemination keep from reception of testimonies collected both under communism and after 1989, during the turbulent times objection post-communist transition and the corrosion of Yugoslavia. Through the scrutiny of Holocaust survivor testimonies issued in specific cultural and factious contexts, I explored broader issues concerning the social and in sequence contingency of Holocaust testimony allow the complex relationship between – and mutual interdependence of – individual, collected, and collective retention.
I began work on that project in early 2011, escalation to the Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellowship which enabled transfer to spend three months considerably a fellow at the Pooled States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Middle for Advanced Holocaust Studies welcome Washington, DC.
Psychology and History: Closely packed with Cristian Tileagă from Loughborough University, I co-edited the put your name down for Psychology and History: Interdisciplinary Explorations (published in 2014) which includes contributions from psychologists and historians interested in pursuing interdisciplinary review.
We later also co-edited smashing Special Section of Qualitative Off one\'s rocker on the use of annals in qualitative psychology (published personal 2016). This work builds salvage our mutual interest in magnanimity relationship between psychology and life and the different ways be thankful for which each discipline can elevate the understanding of the assail.
I am a member some the Culture and Psychology Trial Collaboration, and the War, Struggle and Politics Research Group.
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Senior Lecturer in Constitution, The Open University