Dr Branko Banović
Small Group Project 2022-23
Toward Inclusion of Missing Stakeholders in Design and Implementation of Public Policies for Environmental Protection: A Comparative Anthropological Study in Serbia and Montenegro Loznica in Serbia and Pljevlja in Montenegro
With Miloš Milenković
Coal mines and thermal power plants are generators of large number of direct and related jobs, they significantly participate in the state and local budgets, as well as in the financing of local sports, cultural and other social activities. However, these big pollutants pose a special threat not only to citizens living in their immediate vicinity.
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Banović, B., Milenković, M., & Milenković, M. (2025).
Nationalism, Clientelism, and Green Transition: Econativism and Environmental Politics in Pljevlja, Montenegro. East European Politics and Societies, 39(4), 981-1000.
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Dr Branko Banović is Senior Research Associate and Head of the Institute of Ethnography of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA). He graduated in Ethnology and Anthropology from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, where he also received his magister degree in 2007 and his doctorate in 2010. Prior to joining the Institute of Ethnography SASA in 2021, he worked for over a decade at the Regional Museum of Pljevlja in Montenegro.
His research spans the anthropology of mining, minority cultures, anthropology of masculinity, identity, intangible cultural heritage, and the anthropology of medicine, with a sustained focus on Montenegro and the Western Balkans. He is the author of The Montenegrin Warrior Tradition: Questions and Controversies over NATO Membership (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and has published widely in both English and Serbian.
His research spans the anthropology of mining, minority cultures, anthropology of masculinity, identity, intangible cultural heritage, and the anthropology of medicine, with a sustained focus on Montenegro and the Western Balkans. He is the author of The Montenegrin Warrior Tradition: Questions and Controversies over NATO Membership (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and has published widely in both English and Serbian.
Biographical details correct as of 27.04.26