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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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 🤹🏼‍♂️

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".👾👻

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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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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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.

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/...

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

Aleksander Kwasniewski, former President of Poland, expresses his regret for signing repressive laws. Another welcome case of "post retirement enlightenment syndrome" #PRES at #EHRC2024

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...

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....

Doing fieldwork off the beaten track. The oversized resto sign though...