Gosia_Polanska

I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the ESRC-funded project ‘Place, crime and insecurity in everyday life’, working with Dr Evi Girling and the research team on everyday (in)security in Macclesfield. 

 

My journey in researching and teaching in field(s) of security has been ongoing since 2008. I hold a PhD in humanitarianism and conflict response (2019) from University of Manchester. Prior to that my home was in Mexico, where I used to work in academic, governmental and non-governmental sectors, including consultancies for United Nations and Freedom House. 

My research concerns bottom-up approaches to peace, everyday (in)security, as well as forms of coping with violence by the vulnerable and unprivileged. I am interested in how people experience (in)security in the context of violence and power asymmetries. My interdisciplinary research speaks to the literature(s) across critical security studies, social anthropology and feminist IR, as well as peace and conflict studies.

 

For my PhD project I conducted ethnographic and multi-method extensive fieldwork in urban periphery in Mexico, which focused on how everyday uncertainty was (1) experienced by and (2) communicated among those at risk in the context of criminal violence. 

Edited volumes: 

 Reports:

• CASEDE - Freedom House (2015) Prevención del riesgo. Protocolo para el ejercicio de libertad de expresión en México. Mexico: CASEDE - Freedom House. pp. 1-16; 19-20 (co-author)
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean (UNODC), Ministry of the Interior of Mexico (SEGOB) (2012) Estrategia Nacional de Fortalecimiento en Seguridad y Justicia para Medios de Comunicación en México. Mexico: SEGOB (co-author)

Other (not peer-reviewed):