Michal Wanke
wnkz.bsky.social
Michal Wanke
@wnkz.bsky.social
context collapse *

cannabis social worlds / migrations / qual sociologist / double rhymes *

uni opole (💫cultural studies) + krakow uni of econ (🌈CASPAR👾)
A nice book in the pipeline with our chapter on the spurious language proximity of 🇵🇱 &🇺🇦 and how it complicates Ukrainian folks' interactions with various institutions in PL. Just a heads up. Kudos to the editors - @helenringrow.bsky.social et al, brilliant!👽

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The Language of Marginality and Subjectivity in a Global Context
This book expands and deepens the investigation of the language associated with or produced by groups that are socially, culturally, racially and economically o…
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May 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
In the department of FAILURE☄: today I DID NOT 🥹 get an @ncn.gov.pl SONATA grant to research Cannabis Social Worlds among people who migrate in Europe. After making it to the 2nd round👩‍🚀it breaks my researcher's💔heart, but the reviews are really encouraging. Revise and resubmit 🤹🏼‍♂️
May 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Be-beep🤖: our proposal of a SI got picked by the Board of the Polish Sociological Review! Together👯with mighty Justyna Struzik we will be 🤙🏼calling for papers soon for the:

"Drugged Sociology in the Semi-Periphery: Psychoactive Substances, Governance, and Resistance in Central and Eastern Europe".👾👻
May 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Reposted by Michal Wanke
Media Studies Meet Drug Research: call for tentative chapter abstracts and expressions of interest for a new edited collection exploring the intersections between media studies and critical approaches to drugs.

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February 13, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Peep, peep! Calling #drugs or #media folks!
We put together a proposal 👩🏼‍💻that already received a bit of love 🤍 from Routledge, with Piotr Siuda. We aim to inquire into different intersections of substances use or supply and their mediated realms. SHARE!🫴🏼
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February 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
We started sharing our work on people who migrate and the 🇵🇱 healthcare system. Many undertones to be explored. The report for Krakow & a paper we presented at the Migration, Diasporas and Settlement Forum will follow. 🙌🏼 Iwona Bielska, Konrad Pedziwiatr and Svitlana Luchik-Musiyezdova.
January 31, 2025 at 10:54 AM
A bit from us on medical cannabis & it's appropriation for nontherapeutic purposes in PL, tl;dr: it gives folks some agency, i.a. to "hold" the state accountable for the quality. It's part of an upcoming SI "Cannabis Policy at the Twilight of Drug Prohibition" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
“Overdried, Without Curing? F*Ck, this [Is Supposed to be] Government Licensed Skunk!” Medical Cannabis and the Refracted Publics Within an Online Polish Drug Forum
In this article, we analyze a Polish drug forum as a refracted public by focusing on the intersection of the digital space and illicit substances. To illuminate the reception of the medical cannabis ...
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January 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Reposted by Michal Wanke
CALL FOR PAPERS for a Special Issue of @ceemr-journal.bsky.social edited by Bolaji Balogun, Kasia Kubin and myself - please share widely and send us your abstracts: 'Race-Making in the East of Europe: Understanding Imperial and Colonial Histories and their Afterlives': ceemr.uw.edu.pl/news
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December 16, 2024 at 10:01 AM
Reposted by Michal Wanke
Aleksander Kwasniewski, former President of Poland, expresses his regret for signing repressive laws. Another welcome case of "post retirement enlightenment syndrome" #PRES at #EHRC2024
December 2, 2024 at 8:56 AM
Reposted by Michal Wanke
This morning at #EHRC2024, we heard about Poland's legalisation of medical cannabis. In this new article, Dr Greg Los shows how this is experienced by people who use cannabis. doi.org/10.1080/1082...
Taking Stock – Legalization of Polish Medicinal Cannabis Seven Years Later: Users’ Perspectives
It has been seven years since Poland legalized medical cannabis. Doctors in Poland are allowed to prescribe medical cannabis, which can be then obtained via pharmacies. However, no evaluation has b...
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December 2, 2024 at 2:21 PM
In our paper on differentiated normalization, we conclude that: "Despite the fact that Polish law on #cannabis remains restrictive, the users cease to think about detachment from mainstream society and move on to define their goals and inspect the use critically." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Now I like to know what I smoke”—differentiated cannabis normalization in Polish online discussions
This study explores how cannabis has been accommodated over the last 18 years in the social world of an online forum in Poland. It considers users who operate in the context of unhurried normalizat...
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November 25, 2024 at 7:57 PM
Doing fieldwork off the beaten track. The oversized resto sign though...
November 13, 2024 at 8:36 PM