Dembinska, Magdalena
Professor Dembinska’s research focuses on Central Europe and post-soviet space covering issues of identity politics, majority-minority relations, ethnic conflicts and inter-ethnic integration. She explores the politics of recognition and ethno-political movements in post-communist countries. She works on the processes of the construction of states and nations, mainly looking into developments in post-conflict societies and de facto States. She studies political and institutional processes of building trust in divided societies. And finally, she looks into the role of ‘borderization’ processes for the construction of borderlands and border identities.
Research Interests: Comparative politics; Identity politics; Nationalism; Democracy and diversity; Eurasia and Central Europe
Listing Details
| Institution: | Université de Montréal |
| Fields of Expertise: | Borders Collective Identity Cultural Diversity, Integration and Multiculturalism Social Movements and Political Mobilization |
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| Email: | Magdalena.dembinska@umontreal.ca |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English, French, Polish, Spanish |
| Publications: | Vivre ensemble dans la diversité culturelle. Europe centrale et orientale après 1989 (Living Together in Cultural Diversity. Central Eastern Europe after 1989), Les Presses universitaires de Rennes (PUR), 2012. “Frozen Conflicts and Internal Dynamics of de facto States”, with A. Campana, Internatioanal Studies Review, forthcoming. “The Imagined ‘Other’ and Its Shifts: Politics and Identifications in Turkish Cyprus,” National Identities, 2016 (June). “Introduction to the Special Section: Minority Politics and the Territoriality Principle in Europe,” with L. Maracz & M. Tonk, Nationalities Papers, 42:3, 355- 375, 2014. “The Making of an Empty Moldovan Category within a Multiethnic Transnistrian Nation,” with J. Danero Iglesias, East European Politics and Societies, 27:3, 413- 428, 2013. “Minorities in the Europeanisation Process: Undermining the Westphalian Order for the Neo-Medieval Scrum?,” European and Regional Studies, 3, 24-46, 2013. “Ethnopolitical Mobilization without Groups: Nation-Building in Upper Silesia”, Regional and Federal Studies, 23:1, 47-66, 2013. “(Re)Framing Identity Claims. European and State Institutions as Opportunity Windows for Group Reinforcement,” Nations and Nationalism, 18:3, 417-438, 2012. “Turkish Cyprus: The Dynamics of a Frozen Conflict,” in Rudolph J.R. Jr. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Modern Ethnic Conflicts, Greenwood Press, 2nd ed., 2015. “Ethnopolitical Mobilization without Groups: Nation-Building in Upper Silesia,” in Cole, A. M. and Harguindeguy, J. (eds), The Politics of Ethno-Linguistic Mobilization in Europe: Language Matters. Abingdon: Routledge, 2014. “Vertrauen bilden: Die Gestaltung einer gemeinsamen Vergangenheit und symbolischer öffentlicher Räume in gespaltenen Gesellschaften » (Building Trust, Managing Common Past and Symbols in Divided Societies), in G. Pallaver (ed.), Umstrittene Denkmäler. Der Umgang mit der Vergangenheit, South Tyrol: RAETIA, 2013. “Group Empowerment and Cross-Ethnic Dialogue. Integration Within the Polish National-State,” in J. Danero, N. Stojanovic & S. Weinblum (eds), New Nation-States and National Minorities, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Press, 2013. |
