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Magdalena Zolkos <mzolkos@gmail.com> Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy, University of Western Sydney |
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Address: | Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy, University of Western Sydney College of Arts Locked Bag 1797 Penrith South Dc., NSW 1797 Australia |
Primary Phone: | 02 9772 6322 |
Web Page: | https://www.uws.edu.au/ccpp |
List Affiliations: | Former Review Editor for H-Ideas Reviewer for H-Ideas |
Reviews: | Sample |
Interests: | Communication Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies Intellectual History Political History / Studies Political Science Women, Gender, and Sexuality |
Bio: EDUCATION: Ph.D. (2002-2005), Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen MA (1995-2001), Department of Scandinavian Studies, University of Gdansk EDITED BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS: Conceptual Analysis of the Human Rights and Democracy Nexus in the Polish Late- and Post-Communist Contexts, Ph.D. Thesis, Copenhagen: Department of Political Science, 2005. 315 pp. ISBN 87-7393-540-9; The Challenge of Mobility in the Baltic Sea Region, Berlin: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2005 (co-editor with Catherine-F. Gicquel and Victor Makarov); Forthcoming Defunct Federalisms. Critical Perspectives on Federal Failure, Aldershot: Ashgate (co-editor with Emilian Kavalski, expected publication date July 2007); BOOK CHAPTERS: ‘Human Rights and the Politics of Regional Articulation: a Post Scriptum to the CBSS Commissioner’s Office’ in: Bernd Henningsen, ed., Changes, Challenges and Chances. Conclusions and Perspectives of Baltic Sea Area Studies, Berlin: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2006, pp.161-183; ‘Conclusions: Moving On With Mobility’ (with Catherine-F. Gicquel and Victor Makarov) in: Catherine-F. Gicquel, Victor Makarov and Magdalena Zolkos, eds., The Challenge of Mobility in the Baltic Sea Region, Berlin: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2005, pp.193-202; ‘Human Rights, Post-Communism and the ‘New Europe’: How Human Rights Matter in Democracies’ in: Ulla Björneberg, ed., Whither Europe? Human Rights, Göteborg: Göteborg University Press, 2003, 47-74; Forthcoming ‘An Ambivalent Denmark Faces Europe: On Danish Nationalism and Denmark’s Participation in the European Integration Project’ in: Marcin Suszycki and Ireneusz Karolewski, eds., Contemporary Nationalism and European Integration, Münster: LIT Verlag/ The Transactions Publishing House (forthcoming in 2006/2007); JOURNAL ARTICLES: ‘The Conceptual Nexus of Human Rights and Democracy in the Polish Lustration Debates 1989-97’ in: Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol.22, No.2, 2006, pp.228-248; ‘The Precarious Moment of ‘Political Identification’: Analysis of the post-Helsinki Human Rights Discourse of the Polish Dissidence’ in: Slovo, Vol.18, No.1, 2006, pp.59-77; ‘Human Rights and Democracy in the Polish Abortion Debates: Concepts, Discourses, Subversions’ in: Essex Human Rights Review, Vol.3, No.1, 2005, pp.1-21; ‘On Human Rights, Wittgenstein and Disciplinary Hegemonies: Methodological Reflections’ in: Nordic Journal of Human Rights, Vol.22, No.4, 2004, pp.417-432; ‘Human Rights and Polish Dissident Tradition: the Civic Republican Perspective’ in: Studies in Social and Political Thought, No.10, August, 2004, pp.57-78; ’Bringing Human Rights in the Enlargement Politics: the EU as a Human Rights Promoter in the Central Eastern Europe’ in: Central European Political Studies Review, Vol.4, Part 2-3, 2004, pp. 92-103; ‘Forskjellige visioner og idéer om menneskerettigheder i demokratisk tænkning: Ferry and Renauts republikanske alternativ’ (’Different Visions and Ideas about Human Rights in the Democratic Thought: the Republican Alternative of Ferry and Renaut’) in: Slagmark, No. 39, 2004, pp.145-155; ‘The Copenhagen Human Rights Criteria and the Relevance of the Post-Communist Context’ in: Papeles del Este. Transiciones Poscomunistas, No. 7, 2003, pp.2-26; ‘Polityka pomocy rozwojowej Norwegii w latach dziewięćdziesiątych jako dążenie do ukształtowania wizerunku kraju niezależnego na arenie międzynarodowej’ (‘The Norwegian Aid Development Assistance in 1990s and the Trajectories of the Norwegian Identity Construction in the International Arena’) in: Studia Scandinavica, Vol.17, 2003; Forthcoming ‘Jean Améry’s Philosophy of Resentment at the Crossroads of Ethics and Politics’ in: European Legacy, Vol.12, No.1 (forthcoming in 2007); REVIEW ESSAYS: ‘How to Re-capture Human Rights within the Political: Validating the Discourse Theory Approach’ in: Human Rights & Human Welfare, Vol.6, 2006, pp.43-52; ‘What the Pre-modern Can Tell Us: Jacques Maritain on the Rights on Men’ in: The Nordic Journal of Human Rights, Vol.21, No. 4, 2003, pp.470-477; Forthcoming ‘Seyla Benhabib’s Post-Metaphysics of Human Rights and the (Un)Bearable Heaviness of Politics’ in The Nordic Journal of Human Rights, Vol.24, No.3 (forthcoming in 2006); PUBLISHED WORKING-PAPERS: ‘Norden discourse on Human Rights and Democracy: the Effects of ‘Europeanization’’, Working-paper 06/2003, Copenhagen: Department of Political Science, Copenhagen University, 2003; ‘New Members in the European Community of Values? European Union’s Human Rights Policy towards the Accession Countries, the case of Poland’, BaltSeaNet Working-paper, Berlin: Humboldt University / Poland: Gdansk University, vol.6, 2002; ‘On the Uneasy Partnership of Human Rights and Political Science – and on Human Rights Language’, Working-paper 07/2002, Copenhagen: Institute of Political Science, Copenhagen University, 2002; ‘The ‘New Politics’ of Human Rights: Positive and Negative Consequences of Globalization for Human Rights Regime’, Working-paper 10/2001, Copenhagen: Institute of Political Science, Copenhagen University, 2001; ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES: Forthcoming ‘Hannah Arendt’; ‘Miljan Djilas’; ‘Eurocommunism’; ‘Lech Walesa’; ‘Solidarity, Poland’ in: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, SAGE (forthcoming in 2007); ‘Yalta Conference’; ‘AIDS Crisis’; ‘Berlin War/ Fall of Wall, End of Cold War’; ‘Brezhnev, Leonid (Soviet era of stagnation)’ in: The Encyclopedia of Worlds History, Golson Books Ltd (forthcoming in 2007); ‘Edward Bernstein’ in: The Encyclopedia of Protest and Revolution, Facts on File (forthcoming in 2007); BOOK REVIEWS: Numerous book reviews in Ab Imperio, Canadian Journal of History, Comparative Sociology, European Journal of Cultural Studies, Human Rights & Human Welfare, In-Spire, International Studies Review, Law & Politics Book Review, Political Studies Review, Southeast European Politics TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND THESIS SUPERVISION: Human Rights and World Politics, 3rd year undergraduate course, Department of Political Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton (to be taught in Fall 2006); The Paradigms of Dissidence: Political Ideas Behind 1989, graduate course, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (Spring 2005); Second supervisor of M.A. dissertation at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, area: human rights, post-communism and European integration (Feb 2004– Feb 2005); The Impact of EU Conditionality (part of the graduate course ‘The Baltic Sea Region: Politics, Economy and Society after the Enlargements’), Centre for Baltic Studies, Øresund University, Copenhagen (Fall 2004); The Minority and Gender Problematique in the Post-Communist Baltics: Societal Contexts (part of NetCom course on ‘The Baltic Sea Region Studies’), NetCom Centre, Copenhagen (Fall 2003); Social Transformation Processes and Democratization in the Baltic Sea Region (with supervising Prof. Uffe Jakobsen), graduate course, the Baltic Sea School Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin (Spring 2003); Human Rights and Democratization in the Post-Cold War World, graduate course, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (Spring 2003); The EU Enlargement and the Policy Areas: The Political Criteria of Copenhagen (at the graduate course ‘The Baltic Studies’), Øresund University, Copenhagen (Fall 2002); Post-communist Minority Issues, Minority Rights and the EU Enlargement (at the summer course ‘The Baltic Studies’), Øresund Summer University (Summer 2002, Summer 2003); |