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dr Robert Rydzewski

Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology

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E-mail: robert.rydzewski@amu.edu.pl

Office hours:

Wednesday, 10:30-11:30

 

Research interests

I am cultural anthropologist interested in migration, border regimes, social movements, and urban transformation in Southeastern Europe. My research focuses on the external borders of the European Union, primarily in Serbia, North Macedonia, and Poland. I examine migration routes, border-crossing strategies, and the impact of migration on local communities. In my most recent research project, I explored cooperation in the context of initiatives supporting migrants in Poland. Additionally, I have a keen interest in the anthropology of affect and the anthropology of sound. I am the author of academic and popular science articles, expert reports for the NGO sector, and radio materials.

Publications

[with Izabela Wagner] Harming by Interviewing? Methodological and Ethical Dilemmas of In-deep Interviews with people on the move, Population Place and Space, 2025 (forthcoming).

Book Review: Spaghetti With Ajvar. Translocal Everyday Life of Muslims in Macedonia and in Italy, Warsaw, Warsaw University Press, 2015, 273 Pages.” EthnoAnthropoZoom/ЕтноАнтропоЗум 24 (24), 236-34. 2024

Sojusze promigracyjne – współpraca ruchów oddolnych z państwem [Pro-migrant Alliances – Cooperation Between Grassroots Movements and the State]. trzeci sektor 2024.

The Balkan Route. Hope, Migration and Europeanisation in Liminal Spaces, Routledge, 2024.

Sojusze promigracyjne – trzyletnia lekcja współpracy [Pro-migrant Alliances – A Three-Year Lesson in Cooperation], NGO.pl, 2023.

Crafting Activists from Tourists: Volunteer Engagement During the “Refugee Crisis”. In: Intersections of Tourism, Migration, and Exile, (Eds.): Natalia Bloch, Kathleen Adams, Routledge 2023.

O wzajemnych potrzebach – próba dekolonizacji aktywizmu [On Mutual Needs – An Attempt at Decolonizing Activism], Czas Kultury, 2022.

Understanding the Albanians’ Return to North Macedonia, Ethnologia Balkanica, 2022.

Unia tu nie pomoże. Na granicy z Białorusią PiS realizuje jej politykę [The EU Won’t Help Here – At the Belarus Border, PiS Is Implementing Its Policy], Krytyka Polityczna, September 24, 2021.

Hope, Waiting, and Mobility Migrant Movement in Serbia After The EU-Turkey Deal, movements. Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies, 2020

Mobilność w czasach zamkniętych granic – notatki z badań terenowych w Serbii [Mobility in Times of Closed Borders – Fieldwork Notes from Serbia], Prace Etnograficzne, 2019.

Rozczarowanie niespełnionymi obietnicami – dorastanie w prowincjonalnym macedońskim mieście [Disappointment with Unfulfilled Promises – Growing Up in a Provincial Macedonian Town], Prace Etnograficzne, 2019.

Wysyłacie na nas helikoptery, psy, żołnierzy, o co wam chodzi [You Send Helicopters, Dogs, Soldiers at Us – What Do You Want?] Krytyka Polityczna, 4 Marzec, 2017

Ethnic gentrification. The silent fight for a Macedonian city. EthnoAnthropoZoomm, 14, p. 9 – 35, 2015.

Sprzedawcy na poznańskich bazarach, [in:] Migracje a heterogeniczność kulturowa. Na podstawie badań antropologicznych w Poznaniu, (eds.) M. Buchowski, J. Schmidt, Poznań: Wydawnictwo Nauka i Innowacje p. 102-116. 2012

The list of current publications is available at:

https://amu.academia.edu/RobertRydzewski

Other

  • Coordinator of the CREOLE Master’s Program in Cultural Differences and Transnational Processes
  • Member of Center for Migration Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University

 

Scholarships:

  • Centre for South-East European Studies, University of Graz, Austria
    Postdoctoral Fellowship – 09/2021 – 09/2022
  • WIRTH Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
    Doctoral Fellowship – 09/2018 – 09/2019
  • Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
    Doctoral Fellowship – 09/2017 – 03/2018
  • Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
    Doctoral Fellowship – 01/2015 – 07/2015

 

Awards and Distinctions:

  • UAM Rector’s Scholarship, 2023
  • Main Prize of Zofia Sokolewicz Award granted by the Polish Ethnological Society for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of ethnology for the years 2018–2020, 2021.
  • Honorable Mention for the radio report “Guide to Crossing Borders” at the 21st Jacek Stwora Festival organized by Polish Radio, 2015.
  • Main Prize of Paweł Edmund Strzelecki Award granted by the Emigration Museum in Gdynia and the Kolosy Festival for the short documentary film “Święty M.”, 2014.
  • Honorable Mention for the radio documentary “For Now, I Wait” in the radio competition “Qualifications on the Wave” organized by the Institute of Educational Research, 2013.

 

Media

  • Fiasko twierdzy Europa. „Przepuszczamy uprzywilejowanych, blokujemy niemile widzianych” OKO.PRES [INTERVIEW]
  • Selected Radio Reports:

– Ja się tam przydam, 2012

– Przewodnik przekraczania granic, 2015

– Za dwie głowy na trzy lata, 2015

– Wolontariusze dla uchodźców, 2016