Miloš Đurović, M.A.

PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology

Contact

Universität Regensburg
Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies
Landshuter Straße 4
93047 Regensburg
Germany

+49 (0)941 / 943-5360 milos.djurovic.milos@gmail.com

Doctoral Project

Living polluted lives in an “ecological state”: Coping with air pollution in a coal-mining town on the periphery of Montenegro

This project explores the long-standing issue of air pollution in the coal-mining town of Pljevlja at the periphery of Montenegro – which constitutionally is an ecological state and an EU candidate member committed to transition policies of “decarbonisation”. In my project, I am focusing on the notion of environmental suffering and resistance within the polluted local ecology while trying to understand how the residents articulate their agency through the everyday experiences of air pollution and the visions of their environmental future.

The research is based on 10 months of ethnographic fieldwork consisting of participant observation, informal conversations, and semi-structured interviews, complemented by expert interviews and archival work. As the Balkan region has not attracted much attention in environmental research, this project aims to better understand the challenges of resolving environmental issues at the grassroots level on the European (semi-)periphery.

Curriculum Vitae

Miloš Đurović earned his BA and MA degrees in Ethnology and Anthropology at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. In his BA and MA theses, he was primarily focused on the construction of the religious, gender and political identity of younger Muslim women in southern Serbia through the bodily practices of wearing the hijab, and political discussions created around the visibility of “covered” Muslim women across (mostly “Western”) Europe. He has worked as a university teaching associate in anthropological courses and as an interdisciplinary researcher of social policies in Montenegro. Since 2021, he has been a scholarship holder of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg, supervised by Prof. Dr. Ger Duijzings.

Publications

Journal articles and chapters

Kopnina, Helen, Ryan Wong, Kate Black, and Miloš Đurović. "Anthropocentrism and Climate Change: Radical Re-Orientation Away from Greenwashing and toward Degrowth in Business Education." In Brechin, Steven and Seungyun Lee (2024 forthcoming), Routledge Handbook on Climate Change and Society, 2 Edition

"Reluctance towards decarbonized futures in a coal mining town in northern Montenegro." Hypothesis. 2023: https://ean.hypotheses.org/ean-conferences/lisbon-2023/contested-carbon-introduction/reluctance-towards-decarbonized-futures-in-a-coal-mining-town-in-northern-montenegro

"Hidžab kao fenomen konstruisanja i osporavanja identiteta: primjer savremenog Novog Pazara [The Hijab As a Phenomenon of Constructing and Contesting Identity: The Example of Contemporary Novi Pazar"]. Etnoantropološki problemi 10(4). 2015: 821-838

Book review

Kristofer Boem. 1998. Krvna osveta: regulisanje i upravljanje sukoba u Crnoj Gori i drugim plemenskim društvima [Blood Revenge: The Enactment and Management of Conflict in Montenegro and Other Tribal Societies.]. Podgorica: CID. Aquamarine Press. 2016:  https://aquamarinepress.wordpress.com/2016/06/05/recenzija-knjige-krvna-osveta/

Social policy reports

Kaluđerović, Jadranka, and Miloš Đurović. "ESPN Thematic Report on Access to essential services for low-income people – Montenegro." European Social Policy Network (ESPN). Brussels: European Commission. 2020.

Kaluđerović, Jadranka, and Miloš Đurović. "ESPN Thematic Report on National strategies to fight homelessness and housing exclusion – Montenegro." European Social Policy Network (ESPN). Brussels: European Commission. 2019.

Academic-art interventions

Author of the photo exhibition "Ekstraktivizam, zagađenje i budućnost: Pljevlja u fotografiji" [Extractivism, Pollution, and the Future: Pljevlja in Photography], The Regional Museum Pljevlja, Montenegro, September 26-October 25 2024.

One of the authors of Veliki vječiti kvir sanovnik [Queer Dreambook], edited by Čarna Brković. Queer Montenegro and Aquamarine Press, Podgorica, 2016:
https://aquamarinepress.com/Kvir%20sanovnik.pdf
 

Positions, Assignments and Membership

Member of the Study Group "Ethnographic Methods and Research Ethics"