Grubačić is a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies and founded its Anthropology and Social Change department. Grubačić edits the Journal of World-Systems Research.[1] He is an affiliated Faculty in Residence with the UC Berkeley Center for Social Medicine.[2] After the premature death of his friend and colleague David Graeber,[3] Grubacic remains one of the very few prominent exponents of the anarchist anthropology research perspective, and his Center in San Francisco is the only academic institute in the United States dedicated exclusively to the study of anarchist anthropology [4]Living at the Edges of Capitalism, which Grubačić co-authored with Denis O'Hearn, won the 2017 American Sociological Association's Political Economy of the World-System Book Award.[5]
His work is a synthesis of Braudelian history, Hegelian Marxism, and anarchist anthropology of Peter Kropotkin.[6] Together with John Holloway and several other dissident academics, Grubacic has assembled a global federation of activist scholars and academic programs "inhabiting the cracks in academia".[7]
He is a member of Retort collective, and has participated in grassroots alter-globalization movement[8] and has supported international projects in Yugoslavia[9] and Rojava.[10] Since 2012, he has been writing about the revolution in Rojava and the imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan. As a professor at the University of Rojava, and social science editor at PM Press,[11] he is responsible for a number of books on Kurdish struggle published in English language.
Books
Grubačić, Andrej, & O'Hearn, Denis (2016). Living at the edges of capitalism: Adventures in exile and mutual aid. University of California Press. ISBN9780520287303.[12][13]
Grubačić, Andrej (2010). Don't Mourn, Balkanize!: Essays After Yugoslavia. PM Press.
Lynd, Staughton & Grubačić, Andrej (2010) From Here to There: The Staughton Lynd Reader. PM Press.
Grubačić, Andrej; Lynd, Staughton (2008). Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History. PM Press. ISBN978-1-60486-041-2.
^ abAmbrozić, Dragan (November 13, 2003). "Kako podneti budućnost". Nedeljnik Vreme (in Bosnian). No. 671. Krajnje redak slučaj našeg predstavnika na svim značajnijim alterglobalističkim skupovima poslednjih godina, i autora koji se često pojavljuje u značajnoj inostranoj periodici – ovo je zanimljiv dokument i jedina naša alterglobalistička knjiga koju možete naći. [An extremely rare case of our representative at all major alterglobalist gatherings in recent years]