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My research explores the psychological processes associated with collective and individual identity formation particularly in the context of conflict and collective violence. I am interested in how anxiety functions as a political motivator, and how perceptions of material change can prompt political action and collective violence. I have examined such phenomena in the contexts of expressions of anti-Semitism in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe, the wars of the Former Yugoslavia, and in the conflicts of the Northern Caucasus. My present research projects analyze the processes of identity formation in immigrant communities in Western Europe, particularly in the United Kingdom. My research explores the relationship between a changing ethnic polity and perceptions of the state and community membership. I ask the questions of how collectivities form a sense of identity through exclusion, and how new arrivals are to attach to majority or establish identity forms, or indeed whether they can.
My research is at the intersection of sociology, politics, and psychoanalysis, where I explores the performances of collective identity through acts of violence and works of imagination. I have received research grants from the British Council, the Carnegie Foundation, and the Independent Social Research Foundation, among others. In 2018 I was a Visiting Fellow at Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge; previously, I was an Academic Fellow of the Psychoanalytic Centre of Philadelphia, and a National Fellow of the American Psychoanalytic Association. I have received a number of teaching and research awards and my research appears in journals such as Topique: Revue Freudian; Terrorism and Political Violence; Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society; and The International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, among others. In 2017 I was made a Founding Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council.
Generally in my research I explore the confluences of conflict, collective violence, terrorism, psychology, psychoanalysis, critical theory, cultural studies, identity formation, and political economy.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Doctor of Philosophy, Pursuing the Familiar Foreigner: The Resurgence of Antisemitism and Nationalism in Hungary Since 1989, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
25 Aug 1992 → 18 Mar 1999
Award Date: 27 May 1999
Bachelor of Arts, Political Philosophy, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON
Aug 1985 → Dec 1988
Award Date: 10 Dec 1988
Visiting Fellow, University of Cambridge
Jan 2018 → Jul 2018
Associate Senior Lecturer, University of Dundee
31 Jul 2017 → …
Fellow, Royal Society of Arts
May 2017 → …
Associate Lecturer, University of Dundee
1 May 2014 → 31 Jul 2017
Member, The Royal Society of Edinburgh
Nov 2011 → Apr 2016
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Birkedal, K. H. S. (Creator), Murer, J. S. (Supervisor) & Gentry, C. E. (Supervisor), University of St Andrews, 1 Oct 2074
DOI: 10.17630/c3e330f5-a217-4660-ac4f-0cd57004a256, http://hdl.handle.net/10023/18940
Dataset: Thesis dataset
Murer, J. S. (PI)
1/10/13 → 30/11/13
Project: Standard
Murer, J. S. (PI)
31/03/08 → 31/05/11
Project: Standard
Murer, J. S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public lecture/debate/seminar
Murer, J. S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public lecture/debate/seminar
Murer, J. S. (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organising a public lecture/debate/seminar
Murer, J. S. (Participant)
Activity: Membership types › Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel
Murer, J. S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public lecture/debate/seminar
Murer, J. S. (Recipient), 1 Sept 2004
Prize: Other distinction
Murer, J. S. (Recipient), 2000
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Murer, J. S. (Recipient), 2003
Prize: Other distinction
Murer, J. S. (Recipient), 19 Apr 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
15/12/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Relating to Research
23/09/16
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Relating to Research