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Milica Kočović De Santo, PhD
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Milica Kočović De Santo, PhD

Senior Research Associate

Economic History and Theory Department

research fields

  • Economic theory (political, heterodox economics and critical developmental theory (CDT))
  • Cultural studies, Cultural policy and Management in Culture
  • Degrowth (ecological economics, social and solidarity economy, decolonial studies)

education

  • She is attending МА in Degrowth: Economics, Ecology and Policy (2023) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
  • Doctor of Science in the field of culture, arts and media, 2017 / academic studies, Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade
  • Graduated in Economics, MA equivalence, 2009 / Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade

previous employment

  • Director of the entrepreneurial company Artam 2010-2014
  • Institute for Insurance and Actuarial Studies, 2010-2012
  • Military Academy, teaching associate, course: Strategy and Management, subject: Human Resource Management, 2011-2012
  • Institute of Economic Sciences, from 2012
  • Faculty of Dramatic Arts, teaching associate, master's study program, Department of Theater, Radio and Culture Management and Production, subjects: Cultural Management, Cultural Policy and Cultural Diplomacy 2016/2017
  • Faculty of Philology in Belgrade, doctoral studies, subjects: Contemporary Studies of Culture 1 and 3, 2016/2017
  • Faculty of Dramatic Arts, teaching as Research Associate, Master's study program, Department of Theater, Radio and Culture Management and Production, subjects: Cultural Management and Cultural Policy, Cultural Financing; and doctoral studies, subject: Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development 2019/2023
  • University of Arts in Belgrade, Interdisciplinary studies, teaching as Research Associate, master's studies, course: Art and Design of video games, subject Marketing and entrepreneurship in the video gaming industry, 2022/2023
  • She is on the Mentors list for master's and doctoral studies at FDU since 2021. She was a member in mentoring committees for doctoral and master's theses since 2020. She was twice a mentor for master's theses, successfully defended in 2022. She is a mentor for two doctoral candidates since 2022.

references/bibliography

Kočović De Santo, M. (2026). Ya Falastin: Networks of Resistance Against The Economy of Genocide. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 1–25. [https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2025.2607978](https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2025.2607978)

Kočović De Santo, M. (2026). Beyond performative decolonization: Epistemic justice in degrowth curricula. Social Sciences & Humanities Open. Elsevier.( accepted)

Kočović De Santo, Milica, Ristić Ratko. „Može li subalterno govoriti?” — „Not in My Country” kulturna reprezentacija političko-ekoloških sukoba oko projekta Jadar. Зборник радова Факултета драмских уметности. - Vol. 2025, No. 47 (2025), p. 103–132.

Kočović De Santo, M. (2024). Yugoslav self-management: The forgotten anti-capitalist seeds of degrowth. Cultura económica, 42(108), 50-85. [http://ebooks.ien.bg.ac.rs/2158/1/5-%2BArt_Ko%C4%8Dovi%C4%87%2BDe%2BSanto.pdf](http://ebooks.ien.bg.ac.rs/2158/1/5-%2BArt_Ko%C4%8Dovi%C4%87%2BDe%2BSanto.pdf)

Milovanović Rodić, D., Maruna, M., Teofilović, V., Kočović De Santo, M. (2025). From online platforms to on-ground actions: synergies of digital and analog civic engagement in non-inclusive New Belgrade’s urban transformations. (402-408).

Kočović De Santo, M., Milovanović Rodić, D., Maruna, M., Cigić, P.,Dragićević Šešić, M.. (2025). Participativne prakse u odbrani javnog dobra i stvaranju zajedničkog na području sela Topli Do, opština Pirot. in Osnaživanje participacije u kulturi i arhitekturi: aktiviranje javnih resursa za i sa zajednicom = Empowering participation in culture and architecture: activating public resources for and with community. Beograd : Fakultet dramskih umetnosti, Institut za pozorište, film, radio i televiziju = Belgrade : Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Institute for Theatre, Film, Radio and Television., 105-135. [https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_raf_2944](https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_raf_2944)

Milovanović Rodić, D., Kočović De Santo, M., Maruna, M., Cigić, P.,Dragićević Šešić, M.. (2025). Participativne prakse za zaštitu i unapređenje javnog i zajedničkog dobra na području Savskog keja na Novom Beogradu. in Osnaživanje participacije u kulturi i arhitekturi: aktiviranje javnih resursa za i sa zajednicom = Empowering participation in culture and architecture: activating public resources for and with community. Beograd : Fakultet dramskih umetnosti, Institut za pozorište, film, radio i televiziju = Belgrade : Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Institute for Theatre, Film, Radio and Television., 73-103. [https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_raf_2943](https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_raf_2943)

Kočović De Santo, M. K., Domptail, S. E. (Eds.). (2023). Degrowth Decolonization and Development: When Culture Meets the Environment. Springer Nature.

Vujanović, V., & Kočović De Santo, M. (2023). Coupling culture and space for the post-growth. Kultura polisa, 20(2), 175–197. [https://doi.org/10.51738/Kpolisa2023.20.2r.175vkds](https://doi.org/10.51738/Kpolisa2023.20.2r.175vkds)

Babović, D., Kočović De Santo, M. (2023). Female Entrepreneurship in the Creative Economy. Journal of Women's Entrepreneurship and Education. pp. 109-127. ISSN 1821-1283

selected projects:

Cultures on the Silk Roads (Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, 2016–2018)

Project implemented within the Centre for Asian Studies. Role: Project Leader (Director of the Centre for Asian Studies).

COST Action CA19129 – Decolonizing Development (since 2020) Participation in three working groups: WP1 Decolonizing Research, WP2 Decolonizing Teaching, WP3 Decolonizing Practice. Role: Member of the Management Committee (MC) for Serbia and member of Working Group boards.

EPICA – Empowering Participation in Culture and Architecture: Activating Public Resources for and with Local Community (ID 7744648) (Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, since 2021) Project of the Institute of Economic Sciences. Leadership of subproject tasks within WP3 (design and implementation of empirical research in 2022), coordination with the external research team from the Institute of Social Sciences; engagement in WP4 (field implementation of case studies in 2023). Role: Subproject Task Leader, Coordinator of Empirical Research, Team Member.

Decolonizing Degrowth – beyond the Eurocentric Western Nature of Conceptualizations and Movements (University of Łódź, Poland, since 2022) International project emerging from the COST 19129 network; mapping of solidarity and social economy initiatives and bottom-up degrowth practices in Serbia. Role: Project Team Member and National Coordinator of Subproject Tasks for Serbia.

Project OI179015 (Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia, 2012–2019) Research project in the field of social sciences. Role: Project Team Member.

Project III47009 (Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia, 2012–2019) Interdisciplinary research project. Role: Project Team Member.