SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
ARTICLES
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
Contact Weronika Grzebalska to discuss their published work, media appearances, and collaboration opportunities or for any other inquiries.
BOOKS & BOOK CHAPTERS
POLICY PAPERS & BRIEFS
2022
“Gendered impacts of increased defense preparations on NATO’s eastern flank”, German Marshall Fund of the U.S., forthcoming 2022.
2020
“Ochrona obywatelska. Edukacja na rzecz obywatelskiej rezyliencji” [Civic protection: Education for civic resilience], co-authored with Jan Zygmuntowski and Wojciech Kuźnicki, Instrat Foundation Policy Paper Series, 2020.
2018
“Poland”, co-authored with E. Zacharenko, in: "Triumph of the Women? The Female Face of the Populist & Far Right in Europe, FES, Berlin 2018, p. 81-92.
2016
“Thoughts on the contested relationship between neoliberalism and feminism”, with A. Gregor, in: Solidarity in Struggle. Feminist Perspectives on Neoliberalism in ECE, ed. E. Kováts , FES, p. 11-20. 2016.
“Conservatives vs. the ‘culture of death’: How progressives handled the war on ‘gender’”, co-authored with E. Soos, FEPS study, March 2016.
OP-EDS & INTERVIEWS
2023
"The gender paradox in Polish defense", Let's Talk About Politics and Governance podcast, 23 May 2023.
2022
"Szkoły, szpitale, strzelnice. To lewica ma klucz do budowy prawdziwej odporności państwa" [Schools, hospitals, shooting ranges. The Left holds a key to building true resilience of the state], Krytyka Polityczna, 30 May 2022.
"Nie taki 'niewidzialny' batalion. Ukrainki widać na froncie wojny z Rosją." [Not such an 'invisible' batalion. Ukranian women are visible on the front]. TOK FM Podcast, 2 April 2022.
"'Armia Macierewicza' stała się 'plasterkiem na problemy'" [The 'Macierewicz Army' became a band-aid for structural vulnerabilities] Mine, Yours, Ours... Podcast, Wirtualna Polska, 28 February 2022.
2021
"Can the crisis of social reproduction bring the demise of central-European illiberals?", Social Europe, 15 November 2021.
"On the EU’s Belarus border, security and fundamental rights collide", Social Europe, 13 September 2021.
"As Polish women flock towards volunteer defence, the left remains inept", Social Europe, 14 June 2021.
2020
"Building radical resilience in place of militarizing the status quo", Kapital, 6 May 2020.
"In Poland, COVID-19 exposes progressing societal militarization", Baltic Worlds, 31 May 2020.
2019
"A curious feminist gaze into the right-wing shift", Feminism and Gender Democracy, 3 May 2019.
"Gdy państwo się zwija, rodzi się paramilitaryzm [When the state rolls back, paramilitarism is born]", Kultura Liberalna, 28 May 2019.
2018
Beyond the anti-women backlash. How we can understand women’s support for the right in Poland and Hungary, International Politics and Society, 18 December 2018.
2017
"In Central Europe, militarised societies are on the march", The Conversation, 28 September 2017.
"Green Observatory: Security", Green European Journal, 24 June 2017.
2016
"How Hungary and Poland have silenced women and stifled human rights", The Conversation, 14 October 2016.
"Why the war on “gender ideology” matters – and not just to feminists", Visegrad Insight, 7 March 2016.
CONTACT ME
Contact Weronika Grzebalska to discuss their published work, media appearances, and collaboration opportunities or for any other inquiries.