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Adam Edward Ostolski (born 7 November 1978) is a Polish sociologist, columnist and activist. He is a member of the Krytyka Polityczna and a member of the editorial board of the Green European Journal . [1] In 2013-2016 he was co-leader of the Poland's Green Party. [2]

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 lectured at the Medical University of Warsaw (2009-2013) and since 2013 he has been a faculty member (assistant professor) at the University of Warsaw. [3] He was a visiting professor at the University of Jena in 2022. [4] His research interests include social movements, gendered nationalism, memory studies and sociology of knowledge. [5] He authored a 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. [6] He is a member of the left-wing milieu Krytyka Polityczna since the establishment of the group in 2002. He was also a member of the Poland's Green Party, and in 2013-2016 its co-leader (first with Agnieszka Grzybek, then with Małgorzata Tracz). He left the party in February 2019.

In 2012, he wrote a column in the weekly Przekrój . He appeared in the film "What Is Democracy?" by Oliver Ressler (2009). [7]

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References

  1. Editorial team greeneuropeanjournal.eu
  2. New leaders for Poland's Zieloni offer a new political vision Europeangreens.eu, 6 March 2013. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
  3. Adam Ostolski Archived 2015-12-22 at the Wayback Machine Nauka-polska.pl
  4. Gastdozentur in Jena: Dr. Adam Ostolski
  5. Biographical note in: Adam Ostolski, Pressing Juice out of the Brussels Cabbage, www.boell.eu, 20 December 2012. [ dead link ]
  6. Les écologistes sont les héros polonais du XXIe siecle La Revue Durable, No. 47, January 2013.
  7. What Is Democracy? www.ressler.at. Retrieved 30 November 2019.