SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
ARTICLES
2026
"Bringing defence back home: security imaginaries of Polish and German shift to territorial defence", with Bettina Bruns, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 2026.
2025
"Between Citizen-Soldiers and Anomic Pacifists. Varieties of Society-Defense Relations in the Visegrad Group", with Pavol Kosnáč, Armed Forces & Society,
2024
“Rethinking Polish (Para)Military Herstory. New Goals for Research on the Militarism–Feminism Nexus", Aspasia. The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History, Special forum: Gender and Militarization in Central and Eastern Europe, Volume 18: Issue 1 (Jun 2024).
2022
“Gender politics of ‘illiberal pragmatics’ in the Polish defense sector”, Politics and Governance, Special issue: Gender and Illiberalism in Post-Communist Europe, 2022.
2021
“The grand return of the troops. Militarization of COVID-19 and shifting military-society relations in Visegrad”, with Z. Madarova, Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics, 2021.
"Regendering defence through a national-conservative platform? The case of Polish paramilitary organizing", Critical Military Studies, 2021
2020
"Citizen-soldiers in a post-security state. Militarism, memory politics, and masculinity in 21st century Poland", PhD dissertation, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Defended 2020.
2018
“The gendered modus operandi of the illiberal transformation in Hungary and Poland”, with A. Pető, Women’s Studies International Forum, Vol 68 2018. p. 164-172.
"Kobiety i mit męskiego militaryzmu" [Women and the Myth of Masculine Militarism], in: "Niepodległe. Kobiety a dyskurs narodowy" [Independent. Women and the National Discourse], ed. Magda Lipska, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw 2018.
"Gender as symbolic glue. How gender became an umbrella term for the rejection of the (neo)liberal order", Weronika Grzebalska, Eszter Kováts and Andrea Pető Breaking Feminism. LUX, pp.32-38, 2018.
2017
"Between gender blindness and nationalist herstory: The history of Polish women in WWII as the site of an anti-modernist revolution", Baltic Worlds. Special section: Herstory Revisionism. Women’s participation in political upheavals, vol. x:4, 2017, pp. 71-82.
Gender as symbolic glue: how ‘gender’ became an umbrella term for the rejection of the (neo)liberal order, with Eszter Kováts and Andrea Pető, Political Critique, 13 January 2017.
“Zmierzch państwa cywilnego? Słabnące państwo i jego żołnierze”, ResPublica 3: 23-26 [Published in English as “The weak state and its soldiers”, ResPublica Nova], 2017.
2015
“Od fałszywego uniwersalizmu do fetyszyzacji różnicy…” [From False Universalism to the Fetishization of Difference…], Pamięć i Sprawiedliwość, No 2(26): 139-158, 2015.
CONTACT ME
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BOOKS & BOOK CHAPTERS
"POLITICS OF GENDER IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE" WITH ANDREA PETO, THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS
2026