dr Małgorzata Kowalska

Assistant Professor, Section of Theory and Methodology of Anthropology

Room: 2.35
Phone: 61 829 13 87
E-mail: malgorzata.kowalska@amu.edu.pl

Office hours:

Thursday, 09:45-10:45

 

Research interests

keywords: ecological anthropology, more-than-human anthropology, transdisciplinary research, economic anthropology After my studies, I started working in marketing – first abroad, later in Poland. My interest in business and political elites’ practices and language, and the performative discourses of Polish capitalism began back then. It eventually led to work on my doctoral thesis on Euro 2012 as a grand modernization project. I am interested in anthropological theory and the co-creation of knowledge, with a particular interest in transdisciplinary research. I have worked within the field of economic anthropology on various levels, including the negotiation of power and modernization narratives, especially in postsocialist countries. More recently, however, I have been focusing on ecological relations and nature conservation. In my current research, I analyze nature conservation sites as more-than-human webs of dependencies which create places and landscapes.

Publications

2024

Kowalska, M. Z. (2024). Nature Conservation as a More-Than- Human World: From Managerial to Ecological Thinking W: Arrivals and Departures / Latva Otto [i in.] (red.), 2024, De Gruyter, s.177-194, ISBN 9783111215273. DOI:10.1515/9783111215273-009

2022

Kowalska, M. Z. (2022). Antropologia więcej niż ludzka jako praktyka badawcza i propozycja etyczna. Etnografia Polska, 66(1-2), 93–109. https://doi.org/10.23858/EP66.2022.3063

2017

Urban Politics of a Sporting Mega Event. Legitimacy and Legacy of Euro 2012 in Anthropological Perspective, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319521046

‘From the football field to the communicative field: Embedding entrepreneurial strategy and negotiating local past and future during Euro 2012 in the host city of Poznan’ in: Anthropological Notebooks 23 (1): 111-126

2016

(together with Alexandra Schwell, Nina Szogs, Michał Buchowski, eds.) New Ethnographies of Football in Europe. People, Passions, Politics, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

‘Hegemony in Question? Euro 2012 and Local Politics in the City of Poznań’. In: A. Schwell, N. Szogs, M. Z. Kowalska, M. Buchowski (eds.) New Ethnographies of Football in Europe. People, Passions, Politics, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 99-119

(together with Michał Buchowski, A. Schwell and N. Szogs) ‘Introduction. People, Passions and Much More: the Anthropology of Football’ and ‘People, Passions – but What about Politics?’. In: A. Schwell, N. Szogs, M. Z. Kowalska, M. Buchowski (eds.) New Ethnographies of Football in Europe. People, Passions, Politics, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 1-17 & 228-34

2015

(together with Michał Buchowski) ‘Doing Ethnography and Writing Anthropology of an Event: The Protest Against the 2012 UEFA European Championship in Poznań’. In: B. Alpan, A. Schwell and A. Sonntag (eds.) The European Football Championship: Mega-Event and Vanity Fair, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 150-72

(together with Michał Buchowski) ‘Globalna gra: Mundial 2014 w oczach Europejczyków’. In: R. Kossakowski, J. Kurowski, J. Nowakowski (eds.) Modern futbol a świat kibiców, Pszczółki: Wydawnictwo Orbis Exterior, p. 35-51

 2014

‘The mega-events paradox / Le paradoxe des méga-évènements’ In: Sport and Citizenship. Sport serving society/ Sport et Citoyenetté. Le Sport au service de la société, no. 29 December 2014/January-February 2015, p. 13

(together w/ Michał Buchowski, eds.) Nie tylko piłka w grze. Antropologiczne interpretacje Euro 2012, Poznań: Wydawnictwo Nauka i Innowacje, Poznańskie Studia Etnologiczne nr. 18

(together w/Michał Buchowski) ‘Mistrzostwa Europy w piłce nożnej Euro 2012 oczami antropologów: w kierunku antropologii sportu’ and ‘Opis etnograficzny wydarzenia a interpretacja antropologiczna: protest przeciwko Euro 2012 w Poznaniu’. In: M. Buchowski, M.Z. Kowalska (eds.) Nie tylko piłka w grze. Antropologiczne interpretacje Euro 2012, Poznań: Wydawnictwo Nauka i Innowacje, Poznańskie Studia Etnologiczne nr. 18, p. 7-10 & 11-36.

Research projects

Nature protection area Natura 2000 as a multispecies network of dependencies. Non-obvious relations in anthropological perspective (PL: Obszar ochronny Natura 2000 jako wielogatunkowa sieć zależności. Nieoczywiste relacje w perspektywie antropologicznej), National Science Centre, 2022-2024

 

Football Research in an Enlarged Europe: Identity dynamics, perception patterns and cultural change in Europe’s most prominent form of popular culture (FREE), European Commission’s 7 Framework Programme, 2012-2015.

Other

Member of

European Association of Social Anthropologists

International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences