Elzbieta Matynia is director of the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies headquartered at The New School for Social Research. The center’s year-round activities include summer institutes in Poland and South Africa and mesh with her own research in political and cultural sociology focusing on democratic transitions in Eastern Europe and beyond, and more recently on the concept of borderlands in the emerging “shared Europe”. Her main areas of interest are political sociology, the history of social thought, sociology of culture and art, democratic theory and practice, women and democracy, and public memory in the context of globalization.
Recently PublishedContributions - Hitchens in Wroclaw – A Remembrance
December 18th, 2011 - OWS and the Recovery of Democracy
October 25th, 2011 - Searching for Hope? Look for Bridges with Kapias
April 6th, 2011 - Last Letter from Joburg: Cry for Politics of the Earth
March 11th, 2011 - Egypt, Squaring the Circle: A View from Poland and South Africa
February 11th, 2011 - Privacy and Progress
December 3rd, 2010 - In Johannesburg: The Struggle for Democracy all Over Again
November 8th, 2010 - From Liu Xiabo: A Seed of Strength for Chinese Political Protesters
October 11th, 2010 - In South Africa: A Young Leader Ignites Passion, Controversy
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