Research interests
urban sociology, sociology of rural development, sociology of architecture
Biography
Vera Backović is associate professor at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy, teaching Urban Sociology, Sociology of Rural Development, Sociology of Architecture and Visual Sociology.
She has been involved in the following research projects: Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Republic of Serbia, Grant no. 451-03-137/2025-03/200163 (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy); European Social Survey – ESS ERIC: cross-national survey of stability and changes in social structure, conditions, and attitudes in Europe (2017–2024) 2024. national coordinator with V. Mentus; TESI – Training and Education in Social Innovation (2023); Territorial Capital in Serbia – Structural and Action Potential of Local Development/Challenges of New Social Integration in Serbia: Concepts and Actors (No. 179035), Institute for Sociological Research (2011–2019); Intune. Integrated and United? A Quest for Citizenship in an Ever Closer Europe, A 6th Framework Programme (2007–2009); Social Actors and Social Change in Serbia 1990–2010, Institute for Sociological Research (2008–2010); Surveying the Audience for Ethnological Films, Ethnographic Museum and Faculty of Philosophy (2010–2011); Professional Activation of Experts in Serbia: Young Sociologists and the Labor Market, Faculty of Philosophy and Open Society Fund (2006–2007); Differentiated Neighborhoods, Center for Visual Culture of the Museum of Contemporary Art (2006–2009).
Selected publications
Petrović, M. Backović, V. & Toković, M. (2022). Rebuilding post-communist city identity: The case of Novi Pazar, Serbia. Urbani Izziv 33: 91–102. doi:10.5379/urbani-izziv-en-2022-33-02-03
Spasić, I. & Backović, V. (2020). Urban Identity of Belgrade: Perfect Chaos, Imperfect Balance. Sociologija 62(4): 549–568. https://doi.org/10.2298/SOC2004569S
Backović, V. (2020). Grad, arhitektura, društvo. Beograd: Čigoja štampa; ISI FF.
Backović, V. (2019). The Specificity of Gentrification in the Postsocialist City: The Case of the Belgrade Waterfront Project. In: Petrović, J. & Backović, V. (eds.). Experiencing Postsocialist Capitalism: Urban Changes and Challenges in Serbia. Belgrade: Institute of Sociological Research Faculty of Philosophy (23–43).
Backović, V. (2018). Džentrifikacija kao socioprostorni fenomen savremenog grada. Beograd: Čigoja štampa; ISI FF.
Spasić, I. & Backović V. 2017. Gradovi u potrazi za identitetom, Beograd: ISI FF.
Selected presentations
Backović, V. “How Does Radical Urban Transformation Change the Symbols of Belgrade?“, International Conference New Divisions, Struggles, and Solidarities in South East Europe, Sociological Scientific Society of Serbia, Belgrade, June 13–14, 2025.
Petrović, M. Backović, V. Petrović, J. & Toković, M. “Modifications of Life Style Options Caused by the Pandemic COVID 19 – the Case of Belgrade“, Sociological Knowledges for Alternative Futures, 15th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Barcelona, 31 August – 3 September, 2021.
Backović, V. & Petrović, J. “The scope and validity of the concept "post-socialist city" in urban sociology“, Post-socialist Transformation of the City, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, November 12–13, 2019.
Backović, V. “Osećaj sigurnosti u postmodernom gradu“, Prva naučna konferencija Urbana bezbednost i urbani razvoj, Fakultet bezbednosti i Arhitektonski fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu, Beograd, 21. jun, 2017.
