Adam Ostolski
Adam Ostolski (born 7 November 1978) is a Polish sociologist, columnist and activist. He is a member of the Krytyka Polityczna. In 2013-2016 he was co-leader of the Poland's Green Party.[1]
He graduated from the Department of Philosophy and Sociology at the University of Warsaw. In 2011, he defended his doctoral dissertation Trauma and Public Memory: The Legacy of World War Two in Contemporary Poland. He lectures at the University of Warsaw and at the Medical University of Warsaw.[2] His research interests include social movements, gendered nationalism, memory studies and sociology of knowledge.[3] He is author of a major study comparing antisemitic and anti-gay discourses in contemporary Poland. He translated into Polish books by Immanuel Wallerstein, Étienne Balibar, Shmuel Eisenstadt and Judith Butler.
Ostolski was an environmental activist since the early 1990s.[4] He is a member of the left-wing milieu Krytyka Polityczna since the establishment of the group in 2002. He is also a member of the Poland's Green Party, and in 2013-2016 its co-leader (first with Agnieszka Grzybek, then with Małgorzata Tracz).
In 2012, he wrote a column in the weekly Przekrój. Since 2013 he writes a political blog at neTemat.pl platform.[5] He appeared in the film "What Is Democracy?" by Oliver Ressler (2009).[6]
References
- ^ New leaders for Poland's Zieloni offer a new political vision Europeangreens.eu, 6 March 2013
- ^ Adam Ostolski Archived 2015-12-22 at the Wayback Machine Nauka-polska.pl
- ^ Biographical note in: Adam Ostolski, Pressing Juice out of the Brussels Cabbage, www.boell.eu, 20 December 2012
- ^ Les écologistes sont les héros polonais du XXIe siecle Archived March 21, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, La Revue Durable, No. 47, January 2013.
- ^ adamostolski.natemat.pl natemat.pl/
- ^ What Is Democracy? www.ressler.at
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