Notes on Contributors
Karolina Bednarz
is an
Paweł Bohuszewicz
works as a professor in the Department of Anthropology of Literature and New Media at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland). He specialises in the history of literature and culture. He is the author of two books on the early novel (in Polish): Gramatyka romansu. Polski romans barokowy w perspektywie narratologicznej [The Grammar of Romance: Polish Baroque Romance in a Narratological Perspective] (2006) and Od “romansu” do powieści. Studia o polskiej literaturze narracyjnej (druga połowa xvii wieku – pierwsza połowa xix wieku) [From ‘Romance’ to Novel: Studies on Polish Narrative Literature (second half of the 17th century – first half of the 19th century)] (2016). He is the editor of five monographic journal issues devoted to old Polish literature, constructivism, Sarmatism or the anthropology of literature.
Anna Cichecka
is an assistant professor at the University of Wrocław, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Sociology (Poland). Her research focuses on the socio-political situation in Sub-Saharan Africa, with particular emphasis on the situation of women and the role of social movements in democratization. Additionally, she is interested in the topics of post-colonialism and the Anthropocene. She has authored academic papers, reports, and a book dedicated to women’s movements in Tanzania. She has been a grant recipient from the National Science Center and has participated in research teams that developed high-quality expertise for the business sector. Currently, she is part of the research team in the “endure: Inequalities, Community Resilience and New Governance Modalities in a Post-Pandemic World” project.
Monika Humeniuk
holds a Ph.D. in the Humanities and is an assistant professor at the Institute of Pedagogy at the Univeristy of Wrocław (Poland). She graduated from Pedagogy at the University of Wrocław and Religious Studies at the Jagiellonian University. Head of the Centre for the Study of Religions at the at the Institute of Pedagogy at the Univeristy of Wrocław. Her research interests focus on the study of religion and non-religious worldviews in religious education (re) and intercultural education, on hermeneutical and critical trends in the re and educational studies of the Anthropocene. Author of the monograph (in Polish) Wizerunek kobiety w wielokulturowym społeczeństwie Kazachstanu odniesieniem do edukacji międzykulturowej (Toruń 2014), edited works i.a. Between Exclusion and Inclusion in Religious Education (Wrocław 2017) and numerous articles in Polish and English.
Justyna Kajta
is a sociologist and researcher working at the Institute of Social Sciences at swps University (Poland). She holds a Ph.D. in social sciences (University of Wrocław, 2017). Her main research interests concern youth, social movements, class (im)mobilities, social and political changes in Central and Eastern Europe, and qualitative research, e.g. biographical method and discourse analysis. Her articles have been published in e.g. Current Sociology, Nationalities Studies, European Societies, and Qualitative Sociology Review. She is the author of the book (in Polish) Młodzi radykalni? O tożsamości polskiego ruchu nacjonalistycznego i jego uczestników [Young Radicals? On the Identity of the Polish Nationalist Movement and Its Participants] (Nomos, 2020).
Kinga Kędzior
is a Polish philologist and an
Katarzyna Kliszcz
is an
Leszek Koczanowicz
is a professor of cultural studies and political science at the Department of Cultural Studies at the swps University (Poland). He specializes in theory of culture, social theory, and cultural aspects of politics. His previous appointments include inter alia Wroclaw University, suny/Buffalo, Columbia University, and suny/Geneseo Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. He is the author and editor of twelve books and numerous articles in Polish and English, including Politics of Time: Dynamics of Identity in Post-Communist Poland (Berghahn Books, 2008), Politics of Dialogue: Non-consensual Democracy and Critical Community (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), Anxiety and Lucidity: Reflections on Culture in Times of Unrest (Routledge, 2020), and recently Emancipatory Power of the Body in Everyday Life: Niches of Liberation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).
Katarzyna Krzyżanowska
is a Ph.D. researcher at the Department of Law at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy). She works on the intersection of sociology of law and constitutional theory, but her interests include studies on literature as well. She was a reconstitution fellow (2023/24 cohort), an editor, and later a co-managing editor of the Review of Democracy, an online platform issued by the ceu Democracy Institute. Her previous research stays include visiting fellowships at Cardiff University, the University of Copenhagen (iCourts), the Institute for European Studies, and ulb (iee-ulb). She is a contributing author to a number of Polish and international media outlets.
Franciszek Łosieczka
is an M.A. graduate of psychology at the University of Wrocław (Poland). Interested in reaserch of the commons in a context of liberal democracy.
Karol Morawski
is an assistant professor at the Department of Contemporary Philosophy of the Institute of Philosophy, University of Wrocław (Poland). His research interests focus on issues concerning the theory of hegemony, the philosophy of images, the problem of the people and populism. He is the author of two books and several articles in Polish and English on these issues. He is also the winner of two competitions for research grants from the National Science Centre in Poland.
Róża Norström
is an assistant professor at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Wrocław (Poland). She specializes in political communication, international relations, and conflict reporting. She previously worked at the Institute of Journalism and Media Communication at the University of Silesia. She is the author of one monograph entitled The Coverage of the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict by the Polish Media (2014–2015), and numerous articles and chapters in Polish and English, dedicated to media, communication, and politics.
Joanna Sieracka
is a cultural studies scholar and an educator. In 2024, at the University of Wrocław (Poland), she defended her Ph.D. on the changes of feminism in Poland in the context of the Black Protests and the Women’s Strikes against the abortion ban. As an author of numerous articles in Polish and English, she specializes in history and theory of feminism and cultural aspects of social movements. Since 2021 she has been working for Józef Piłsudski Museum, where – besides coordinating educational programs – she is involved in various herstorical projects. In the academic year 2024/2025 she was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (iwm) in Vienna, where she carried out her research project titled “Postfeminism in Poland? The Black Protests and the Women’s Strikes between Conservative Modernization and Feminist Populism”.
Jan Sowa
is a materialist-dialectical social theorist and researcher. He studied at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland) and University Paris viii in Saint-Denis (France). He holds a Ph.D. in sociology and a Habilitation in cultural studies. His research and teaching assignments took him to several institutions around the world, including University of São Paulo, Academy of the Arts of the World in Cologne and Institute of Human Studies in Vienna. He was a member of the Committee on Cultural Studies of the Polish Academy of Art and Sciences (2016–2020), and curator of the Discursive Programs and Research of Biennale Warszawa (2018–2019). He currently works as an associate professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He edited and authored several books and published numerous articles, recently a volume dedicated to postcolonial theory Perverse Decolonization? (co-edited with Ekaterina Degot and David Riff and published by Archive Books in Berlin in 2021).
Michał Stambulski
is an assistant professor in legal theory at the Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands), and a visiting professor at West University in Timisoara (Romania) and Oñati International Institute of Sociology of Law (Spain). He was a 2023 Emile Noël Global Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice, New York University. His recent publications address the issues of rule of law, constitutional populism, legal mobilization, and strategic litigation in Europe.
Julia Trzcińska
is an assistant professor at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Wrocław (Poland). Her main research interests are political communication, soft power, public diplomacy, and fan studies. In her research, she primarily uses content and frame analysis. Since 2017, she has been writing about Polish K-Pop fans, as well as South Korean soft power, and she has been teaching courses at the University of Wrocław and Jagiellonian University. She published three books and several other publications, including The Presidential Campaign in the Republic of Korea in 2017: The Role of Social Media (Peter Lang, 2022), “Litmus Test for a Democratic Public Sphere? Discussion on the Abortion Issue on Polish Twitter” (2022) and “Media Coverage of the 2022 Campaign” (2024).
Wojciech Ufel
is an assistant professor at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Wrocław (Poland) and a former researcher in the Horizon2020 project euarenas at the SWPS University. He specialises in political theory, particularly contemporary debates on participatory, deliberative and radical democracy as well as populism. In his research he applies political philosophy based on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s approach to ‘language games’, together with postcolonial, posthumanist and critical theories, also to empirical research and social practice. He was a visiting researcher at The New School for Social Research, University of Brighton (
Rafał Węgrzyn
is a psychologist and philosophist at the Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences at the University of Wrocław (Poland). He specializes in social psychology, Gestalt psychotherapy and utopian studies. His previous appointments include inter alia swps University and University of Lower Silesia. He has authored numerous publications in academic journals, including: Journal of Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, Polish Psychological Bulletin and Utopia and Education.
Przemysław Witkowski
is an assistant professor at Collegium Civitas (Poland). He collaborates with the think tanks Counter Extremism Project and the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism. He is an expert on the Radicalisation Awareness Network operating at the European Commission. He is the author of the monographs (in Polish) Laboratorium przemocy: polityczna historia Romów [Laboratory of Violence: The Political History of the Roma] (Warsaw, 2020) and Szpryca i chipowanie: polityczny wymiar ruchów sprzeciwu wobec obowiązku szczepień i sieci telefonii piątej generacji [Needle and Chipping: Political Dimension of the Movements Opposing Mandatory Vaccinations and Fifth-Generation Telephone Networks] (Warsaw, 2024). He is the deputy director of the Gabriel Narutowicz Institute of Political Thought.
Rafał Włodarczyk
is an associate professor at the Institute of Pedagogy at the University of Wrocław (Poland). He specializes in educational theory, general pedagogy and the philosophy of education. His research interests also concern social theory and philosophy, ethics, cultural anthropology, the borderland of Western and Jewish thought. He holds a Ph.D. and Habilitation in social sciences. He has published four monographs, including (in English) Utopia and Education. Studies in Philosophy, Theory of Education, and Pedagogy of Asylum (Wrocław, 2022, open access). He is the author several articles and co-editor of works in Polish and English.
Clare Woodford
is principal lecturer/associate professor in philosophy and politics in the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (cappe) at the University of Brighton (UK). She has published widely on democratic political theory with regard to populism, affect and care, aesthetics, ethics, political theology, social policy, and gender theory. Her recent collaboration with Adriana Cavarero, Judith Butler, and Bonnie Honig, Towards a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence (Fordham up, 2021), brings these thinkers into conversation with other leading feminist and gender theorists to argue that we need to attend more carefully to political infrastructural organisation if we are to construct a less violent world. She is the pi of the Wellbeing State Network – a collaboration between academics, policy makers and activists working to rechannel the welfare state project for the 21st century as a transnational collective politics of democratic forms of care and equality.