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 how the long-standing issue of air pollution is lived and experienced in Pljevlja, a town in northern Montenegro. It draws on 10 months of ethnographic fieldwork combining participant observation, informal conversations, and semi-structured interviews, complemented by expert interviews, policy documents, and archival research.

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 focused on the construction of religious, gender, and political identities of younger Muslim women in southwestern Serbia through bodily practices of wearing the hijab. Furthermore, he explored the political debates surrounding the visibility of ‘covered’ Muslim women across (mostly ‘Western’) Europe. Prior to his PhD, he worked in Montenegro as a university teaching associate in anthropology courses and as an interdisciplinary researcher on social policies, and in France as a political ecology researcher. Since 2021, he has been a scholarship holder at 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

David Bond, 2022, Duke University Press. "Negative Ecologies: Fossil Fuels and the Discovery of the Environment". Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, 2025

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

Photography exhibition "Spaces of Peripheralization: Extractivism, Pollution and Environmental Future in Southeastern Europe", International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Justus Liebig University Gießen, 22 May – 19 June 2025.

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.
 

Positions, Assignments and Membership

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