Đurović Srđan
Srđan Đurović is a PhD student at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Belgrade. At the same faculty, he completed his undergraduate studies in international relations and master’s studies in political science. He trained professionally at several specialist programs, including the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He has many years of experience working in civil society organizations, primarily on applied research and public policy research in Serbia. He is the editor and co-author of numerous public policy studies primarily devoted to European integration, public policies in the field of democratization and citizen participation, institution building and sustainable development, and social justice. He worked as an assistant at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Program manager at the Open Society Foundation Serbia and director of the Center for Applied European Studies. He was a member of the National Convention for the EU, a member of the UN Network for the Development of Sustainable Development Indicators. He works at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory as a research associate and program development manager of the Institute.
The area of academic interest is normative political theory, social justice and emancipatory social theory in the context of global development mega-trends – climate change and energy transition and artificial intelligence. He is particularly interested in researching the relationship between academia and activist organizations and social movements. Srđan is one of the leaders of the Evening School of Climate Justice launched in cooperation between the Faculty of Political Sciences and the activist organization of the Institute for Urban Policies, and he is the editor and author of the study Mapping a Just Green Transition in Serbia. His doctorate is dedicated to the research of the heritage of humanist Marxism and Praxis philosophy, especially the “thought of revolution” of the Yugoslav philosopher Gaja Petrović and its relevance in the context of contemporary theoretical debates in the field of political theory about the Anthropocene and AI.