prof. UAM dra hab. Natalia Bloch
Associate Professor, Section of Social Anthropology
Room: 2.32
Phone: 61 829 13 84
E-mail: nbloch@amu.edu.pl
Office hours:
tuesday 11:00-12:30
wednesday 9:00-10:30
Articles
The Failed Struggle for Heritage Ownership in an Indian Village: A Non-Native Entrepreneurial Community’s Predicament. “International Journal of Heritage Studies”. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2025.2496878
Barbarians in India. Tourism as Moral Contamination, “Annals of Tourism Research” 2017, vol. 62, pp. 64-77. doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2016.12.001
Taxonomic Panic and the Art of “Making Do” at a Heritage Site. The Case of Hampi UNESCO Site, India, “Anthropological Notebooks” 2017, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 19-43. [pdf]
Beyond Integration. Tibetan Diaspora’s Separation Strategy in Multicultural India, [in:] The World of Encounters. The Role of Migration and Ethnicity in the Contemporary World. Ed. A. Posern-Zieliński, Poznań: Instytut im. Oskara Kolberga, 2017, pp. 75-96. [pdf]
Evicting Heritage. Spatial Cleansing and Cultural Legacy at the Hampi UNESCO Site in India, “Critical Asian Studies” 2016, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 556-578. doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2016.1224129
Overheating with Authenticity. Between Familiarity and Otherness in Multisensory Experiencing of India by Tramping Tourists, “Déjà Lu” 2016, vol. 4. [pdf]
Constructing Borders within Diaspora. „Born Refugees”, Newcomers and Bargaining Tibetan Identity, [in:] Middle Grounds, Ambiguous Frontiers and Intercultural Spaces. Eds. A. Posern-Zieliński, L. Mróz, Poznań: Instytut im. Oskara Kolberga, 2014, pp. 135-154. [pdf]
Between Vishnu and Mao Zedong. The Maoist Movement in Multi-ethnic Nepal, “Ethnologia Polona” 2010-2011, vol. 31-32, pp. 169-189.
Obóz uchodźców jako atrakcja turystyczna. Kto i po co od(z)wiedza diasporę tybetańską? [Refugee Camp as Tourist Attraction: Who Re(dis)covers the Tibetan Diaspora, and Why?] „Etnografia Polska”, 2011, vol. 55, no. 1-2, pp. 51-68. [pdf]
Czy jakożerca może zostać wegetarianinem? Globalny dyskurs praw zwierząt jako „tradycja wynaleziona” w diasporze tybetańskiej [Can a Yak-Eater Turn Vegetarian? The Global Animal Rights Discourse as “Invented Tradition” in the Tibetan Diaspora], „Lud” 2010, vol. 94, pp. 121-141. [pdf]
The Young Tibetan Exile Today: A Democrat, Environmentalist, Vegetarian? Globalization and Negotiating Identity in the Situation of Displacement, [in:] Exploring Home, Neighboring and Distant Cultures. Eds. L. Mróz, A. Posern-Zieliński, Warsaw: DiG, 2008, s. 239-258. [link]
Books [in Polish]
Urodzeni uchodźcy. Tożsamość pokolenia młodych Tybetańczyków w Indiach [Born Refugees: The Identity of the Young Generation of Tibetans in India], Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, 2011, pp. 672. [link]
Wszyscy jesteśmy migrantami. (Od)zyskiwanie pamięci migracyjnej) [We Are All Migrants. (Re)covering of the Memory of Migration]. Ed. N. Bloch, Poznań: Centrum Kultury ZAMEK, 2016, pp. 346. [pdf].
Nie dość użyteczni. Zmagania imigrantów na lokalnym rynku pracy [Not Useful Enough. The Struggle of Immigrants in the Local Labour Market]. Eds. N. Bloch, I. Main, K. Sydow, Poznań: Centrum Badań Migracyjnych UAM, 2015, pp. 189. [pdf]
Od gości do sąsiadów. Integracja cudzoziemców spoza Unii Europejskiej w Poznaniu w edukacji, na rynku pracy i w opiece zdrowotnej [From Guests to Neighbours: The Integration of Migrants from Non-European Union Countries in Poznań City: Education, Labour Market, and Health Care]. Eds. N. Bloch, E. M. Goździak, Poznań: Centrum Badań Migracyjnych UAM, 2010, pp. 262. [pdf]
Private Hosting of Refugees from Ukraine in Polish Homes: Everyday Humanitarianism and Encounters across Difference (2024-2028), research grant of the Polish National Science Centre (manager and principal investigator). [link]
Communities Embedded in Mobility: Refugees, Migrants, and Tourists in India. Towards a Non-Sedentarist Anthropology (2016-2019), a post-doc fellowship of the Polish National Science Centre (manager and principal investigator). [link]
We Are All Migrants. Letters of Polish Immigrants from America in the Late 19th Century (2016-2018), a photo exhibition & an education and research project of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (curator, principal investigator). [link] [award]
Power Relations and Strategies of Authenticity in Tourism. A Case Study of India through a Postcolonial Perspective (2012-2016), a research grant of the Polish National Science Centre (manager and principal investigator).
Active Migrants in the Local Labour Market (AMIGA). Polish-German Cooperation Project (2013-2015), an applied grant of the European Social Fund (supervisor of the researchers/migrants’ assistants). [link] [Migrant Info Point]
Polish Settlements in Europe. Anthropological Visualizations of Cultural Phenomena – Enclaves of Polish Culture in the Region of Bukovina in Romania and in the Czech Republic (2010-2012), Erasmus Intensive Programme summer schools (teacher).
Factors Assisting and Restricting the Integration of Third Country Nationals into the Labour Market, Health Service and Education: An Anthropological Case Study of the City of Poznań (2010), a research grant of the European Fund for the Integration of Third Country Nationals (principal investigator). [link]
Foreigners in Poland: The Heterogeneity of Large Urban Centres. A Case Study of Poznań (2009-2012), a research grant of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (principal investigator). [link]
Regional National-Religious Movements in an Increasingly Globalized Asia. Contemporary Pilgrimages to Mount Kailash in the Indian-Chinese-Nepalese Borderland (2007-2010), a research grant of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (researcher).
Culture and Politics. A Case Study of the Young Generation of Tibetan Exiles in India (2007-2009), a research grant of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (manager and principal investigator). [link]
Membership in associations
International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
European Association of Social Anthropologists
Centre for Migration Studies at the Adam Mickiewicz University
Positions
Vice-President of the IUAES Executive Committee (2023–2027)
Member of the Migration Research Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2023–2026)
Member of the Scientific Council supporting the process of updating the Poznań City Development Strategy (2024–2025)
Member of the IUAES Council of Commissions (2018–2023)
Co-Deputy Chair of the IUAES Commission on the Anthropology of Tourism (2018–2021)
Member of the Team for Policy on the Integration of Immigrants in Poznań (2021–2023)
Co-deputy chair of the IUAES Commission on the Anthropology of Tourism (since 2018)
Secretary of the editorial board of the journal ‘Lud’ (2010–2016)
Member of the Board of the Centre for Migration Research Foundation (since 2015)
Secretary of the Centre for Migration Research at the Adam Mickiewicz University (2013–2014)
Co-founder and member of the Open Coalition ‘Wspólny Poznań’ (2016–2017)
Expert on the Commission for Civic Dialogue on Culture at the Department of Culture and Arts of Poznań City Council (2012–2013)
Member of the Organising Committee of the 4th Alumni Reunion marking the 90th anniversary of Ethnological Studies at the Adam Mickiewicz University (2010)
Supervisor of the Asian section of the Student Ethnology Research Society at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University (2011–2014)
Curator of the exhibition “We Are All Migrants. Letters of Polish Emigrants in America from the Late 19th Century” – an exhibition shown at ‘Zamek’ Cultural Centre in Poznań, the Ethnographic Museum in Toruń, the Museum of the Dobrzyń Region in Rypin, and the Community Centre in Golub-Dobrzyń (2016–2018)
Awards
The Edward Bruner Prize, presented by the Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group of the American Anthropological Association, for the best book published in 2022–2023 for the book Intersections of Tourism, Migration, and Exile, edited by N. Bloch and K. M. Adams (2024).
The Bronisław Malinowski Award of the Committee on Ethnological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences for the best book publication in the field of ethnological sciences published in 2020–2021 for the book Encounters across Difference. Tourism and Overcoming Subalternity in India (2023).
“Anthropological Study of the Year 2021” Award from the Social Anthropology Section of the Polish Sociological Association for the book Encounters across Difference. Tourism and Overcoming Subalternity in India (2022).
Second-degree individual award for academic achievements from the Rector of Adam Mickiewicz University for the parameterisation index in the 2017–2021 discipline evaluation (2022).
First-degree team award for organisational activity from the Rector of Adam Mickiewicz University for the development of the ‘3rd criterion’ [social impact of science] for the discipline evaluation (2021).
Title of Ambassador of Polish Congresses for the organisation of the IUAES2019 World Anthropological Congress “World Solidarities” in Poznań (2020) [link].
The Antoni Kalina Award in the EVENT 2019 category (most interesting event on ethnological/anthropological themes) awarded to the Organising Committee by the Polish Ethnological Society for organising the IUAES2019 World Anthropological Congress “World Solidarities” (2020).
First-degree team award for organisational activities from the Rector of Adam Mickiewicz University for organising the IUAES2019 World Anthropological Congress “World Solidarities” (2020).
European Design Award: Gold Medal in the Book Layout category awarded by the International Council of Design for the book We Are All Migrants. (Re)claiming Migrant Memory (editorial and graphic design: Marcin Markowski) (2017).
Honourable Mention in the “Most Beautiful Books of 2016” competition organised by the Polish Book Publishers’ Association in the category “Academic and popular science books in the humanities” for the book We Are All Migrants. (Re)claiming Migrant Memory (2017).
“Anthropological Study of the Year 2021” Award from the Social Anthropology Section of the Polish Sociological Association for the research project and editing of the book We Are All Migrants: (Re)claiming Migrant Memory (2017).
First-degree individual award for academic achievements from the Rector of Adam Mickiewicz University (2017).
Joint 1st place in the “A Different Perspective on the Other” category in the ETNO W OKU ethnographic photography competition organised by the Ethnographic Workshop Association for the photo series We Are Not Buddhas, and joint 2nd place in the “Space as Context” category for the photo series So Close, Yet So Far. A Migration Essay on Those Who Stay (2013).
Scholarship from the Minister of Science and Higher Education for outstanding young researchers (2012–2015).
First-degree individual award for scientific achievements from the Rector of Adam Mickiewicz University (2012).
Grant from the Foundation for Polish Science for the publication of the doctoral thesis Born Refugees: The Identity of a Generation of Young Tibetans in India as part of the FPS Monographs series (2010).
“Pen of Hope” – Amnesty International Journalism Award for the best press article of 2004 on human rights for the reportage We Are Not Buddhas, published in “Puls Świata” magazine.
Media presence
„Znak” magazine, reportage Nie tylko dach nad głową [More than Just a Roof over Your Head], no. 846, 2025, pp. 56-64 [link].
The Ethnographic Workshop Association, a public lecture Regaining a Voice through Tourism: Solidarity Tours in the Tibetan Refugee Settlement in India as part of the “Journeys with Anthropology” series, 30.11.2023 [link].
Cervantes Institute, participation in the debate “Contemporary Explorers. Responsible Tourism”, 30.03.2023 [link].
AMU Centre for Migration Studies, „Glossary with Commentary: ‘How to Talk about Refugees’” (with I. Main, R. Rydzewski), March 2022 [pdf; poster]
The Ethnographic Workshop Association, essay „ The Disappearance of Hampi: Erasing People from India’s UNESCO World Heritage Landscape” as part of the “Journeys with Anthropology” series, 2021 [link]
Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group at the American Anthropological Association: Lexington Books “Anthropology of Tourism” Series’ Conversations with Authors about the book Encounters Across Difference, 02.12.2022 [link]
“Culture at the Core” magazine: comments in Michał Sita’s article NRC Foil and Acts of Resistance, 21.12.2021 [link]
“Znak” magazine, reportage Momo z Nutellą i spotkanie z ofiarą tortur. O solidarnej turystyce [Momo with Nutella and a Meeting with a Torture Survivor. On solidarity Tourism], no. 770-771, 2019, pp. 36-41. [link]
Radio Tok FM, guest on Cezary Łasiczka’s programme “OFF Czarek” entitled “Refugees and Tourism”, 04.09.2019. [link]
Polish Radio Trójka, guest on Paweł Drozd’s programme discussing political tourism in Dharamsala, 13.07.2019.
“Znak” magazine, essay Relationships of Reciprocity, no. 746–747, 2017, pp. 17–19. [link]
TV AMU, comments in the reportage 125 Years Late Postmen on the project “(Re)claiming Migration Memory” and the book We Are All Migrants, 04.05.2017.
“Gazeta Wyborcza. Poznań” daily newspaper, comments in Agnieszka Kwiatkowska’s article The ‘Adopt a Vest’ Campaign Will Remind Us of Refugees, 03.02.2017. [link]
Onet.pl, comments in Marta Glanc’s article on the Extraordinary Congress of Polish Ethnologists and Anthropologists Academics against Discrimination. ‘In Germany, it Began with Words and Ended in Extermination’, 18.11.2016. [link]
TV AMU, comments in Katarzyna Wala’s reportage from the Extraordinary Congress of Polish Ethnologists and Anthropologists, 23.11.2016.
“Gazeta Wyborcza. Poznań Magazine”, essay Natalia Bloch Reads a Reportage on Lampedusa, 10.11.2016. [link]
“Gazeta Wyborcza. Duży Format” reportage magazine, comments in Violetta Szostak’s reportage America is for the Bull, 06.10.2016, online version: Letters Arrived from America, 125 Years Late [link]
Winogrady Cable TV, comments in a reportage on the exhibition “We Are All Migrants”, 05.10.2016. [link]
“Puls Poznania” monthly magazine, comments in the article We Are All Migrants, 04.10.2016, pp. 24–25.
WTK Wielkopolska Cable TV, interview on “Poranek WTK” on the exhibition “We Are All Migrants”, 26.09 & 27–30.09.2016.
Polish Radio Trójka, interview with Michał Nogas in “Radio Cultural Centre” on the exhibition “We Are All Migrants”, 24.09.2016.
“IKS” monthly magazine, Anna Solak in conversation with Natalia Bloch Shotgun, Painting, and Quilt. A Conversation with Natalia Bloch, 20.09.2016. [link]
Radio Merkury and Polish Radio Dwójka, comments in Agnieszka Maciejewska’s programme on the exhibition “We Are All Migrants”, 18.09. & 24.09.2016.
TV AMU, expert clip Refugees around the World”, 02.11.2015.
Radio Merkury, comments in Wanda Wasilewska’s reportage Two Protests. A Diptych. Part 1. Mickiewicz Square, 19.09.2015. [link]
WTK Wielkopolska Cable TV, comments in the reportage The Wave of Refugees in Europe. Are We Ready to Receive Them in Poznań?”, 03.09.2015.
Polish Radio Trójka, Paweł Drozd in conversation with Natalia Bloch, Anna Wieczorkiewicz and Paweł Cywiński, guests of Trójka Club, on the topic “The Blessing and Curse of Tourism”, 04.12.2014.
The post-turysta.pl website, a series of essays on responsible tourism, 2013–2015:
- The Viewers and the Viewed or Postcolonialism as a Necessity for Tourism [link]
- The Genuine Savage or the Fatal Belief in the Utopia of Authenticity [link]
- Ethnic Tourism or Welcome to the ‘Culture’ Theatre [link]
- Trouble with UNESCO, or ‘Dead’ Monuments and ‘Living’ Heritage [link]
“Znak” magazine, Marzena Zdanowska in conversation with Natalia Bloch, The Regime of Identity, no. 694, March 2013. [link]
Polish Radio Dwójka, Katarzyna Kobylecka in conversation with Natalia Bloch, Born Refugees – Tibetans in India, 05.10.2011. [link]
Links
(Re)covering of the Memory of Migration: FB fan page
The Centre for Migration Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
