Senior Research Fellow

aleksandra.bulatovic@ifdt.bg.ac.rs

Aleksandra Bulatović is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, where she is affiliated with the SolidCare Lab for Philanthropy, Solidarity and Care Studies, as well as the research group for ecology. She earned her SJD from the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, and her master’s degree in multidisciplinary regional studies from Central European University. Her doctoral dissertation explored the role of human rights in shaping contemporary anti-organised crime policy, while her MA research examined the implementation of international minority rights standards in Croatia through an interdisciplinary legal and political approach.

Her academic expertise spans non-conventional soft security, criminology, human rights theory, and the intersection of philosophical practice and collective well-being. She has also contributed to applied ethics, particularly in developing ethical frameworks for the security sector.

Currently, her research focuses on various dimensions of justice, social governance, and human security, understood as the right to an optimal quality of life. Her work brings together criminological, legal, philosophical, and ecological perspectives to examine how social and institutional structures shape experiences of suffering, pain, discrimination, and insecurity.

She is particularly interested in questions of social resilience, solidarity, ecological justice, and care-based approaches to social transformation. Her recent research explores the relationship between social pain, environmental injustice, poverty, institutional neglect, and collective well-being, with a particular emphasis on the ways crises and vulnerabilities can reveal both structural inequalities and possibilities for democratic and social transformation.

• (2026) Bulatović (with Z. Zarić) „Pain, Suffering, and Discrimination: Between Vulnerability, Injustice, and Recognition“, Temida, 29(1): 3–24.
• (2025) “Legal Responses to Non-Legally Caused Deviant Behavior”, in: Lj. Ilijić (ed.) Prison Life Organization and Security: Criminological, Penological, Sociological, Psychological, Legal, and Security Aspects, Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research, Belgrade: 428–447.
• (2024) (with Fatić, A.) “The Vagaries of Restorative Justice: Borders Between Restorative Justice and Justice as Punishment”, in: M. Milićević, I. Stevanović & Lj. Ilijić (eds.) Life in Prison: Criminological, Penological, Psychological, Sociological, Legal, Security, and Medical Issue, Institute for Criminological and Sociological Research: 85–91.
• (2024) (with Fatić, A. & Žikić, S.) “Empathy and Collective Welfare”, Philosophical Investigations 44(3): 547–560.
• (2024) (with Konjević, M. & Radovanović, B.) “What Are We Capable of Doing and What Kind of Lives Can We Lead?: Well-Being, Development and Justice”, Political Perspectives 14(1): 7–31.