Beyond the Anticlerical Paradigm:

Rethinking Secularism in Contemporary Montenegro

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Feđa Pavlović

Feđa Pavlović

Research Assistant

A researcher, contributes to the project’s topic from the perspectives of contemporary political and cultural theory.

Fedja Pavlovic was born in 1992 in Cetinje, and completed his primary and secondary education in Podgorica, Montenegro. He holds a BA (cum laude) and MA in Philosophy (magna cum laude) from KU Leuven, as well as a MSc in Political Theory (with Distinction) from the London School of Economics and Political Science. As part of MA studies, he spent a semester as a visiting student at the University of Edinburgh. 

As a doctoral candidate in in Political Science at LMU Munich, he is currently working on a dissertation provisionally titled “Hegemony, Ressentiment and Revolt: a Nietzschean Critique of the ‘Populist Moment”, in which he employs select aspects of Nietzsche’s genealogical account of morality – crucially, his notion of ressentiment – to theorise the contemporary rise of the populist radical right in Europe and North America.

His research interests include populism, radicalism, the theory of political ideologies, radical democratic theory, post-structuralist discourse theory, political/electoral narrative. He has participated and presented at several domestic and international academic conferences. In addition to his research work, during the academic year 2020/21, he was engaged as a Teaching Associate on two undergraduate-level courses (Introduction to Sociology and Contemporary Political Systems) at the Faculty of State and European Studies (FDES) in Podgorica.