Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at SGH Warsaw School of Economics

There is also a growing interest in DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) within the concept of social responsibility of universities. In Poland, a Central and Eastern European country with a post-socialist legacy, DEI has only recently emerged as a concept, remaining more abstract and theoretical than pragmatic and achievable. This paper analyzes...

Predominantly Catholic and governed in the years 2015–2023 by the populist right Law and Justice Party, Poland is a country that has adopted a conservative stance towards the LGBT+ community. Homonegativity has entered the mainstream political discourse, while the notion of gender is considered a dangerous ideology. This political setting has also...

Przestrzenie dla osób ze szczególnymi potrzebami, wynikającymi z neuroróżnorodności czy odmienności kulturowej, w tym religijnej, mają na uczelniach zachodnich długą tradycję. Są to pomieszczenia do wyciszenia, medytacji czy modlitwy. Uwzględnienie szczególnych potrzeb coraz liczniejszych grup studentów stanowi realizację zasady równych szans na uc...

Koran, święta księga islamu, doczekał się przynajmniej sześciu pełnych tłumaczeń na język polski, które są obecnie dostępne w obiegu publikacyjnym. W środowisku naukowym najczęściej wykorzystywany jest przekład Józefa Bielawskiego – arabisty, który jako jedyny dokonał tłumaczenia bezpośrednio z języka arabskiego. Celem artykułu jest analiza recepcj...

Purpose The aim of the paper is to theoretically and empirically explore the issue of well-being (WB) of female administrative employees who work on managerial positions at higher education institutions (HEIs). Design/methodology/approach This study is based on both literature studies and explorative empirical research conducted in Poland with the...

Unlike Western European countries, in Poland, there are two groups of native Muslim citizens: the Tatars and converts to Islam. They differ from mainstream society by their religion – Islam, and the Tatars, additionally, by their ethnicity. However, one of these groups – Islam converts – is racialised by the other. We argue that the Polish Tatars c...

Since Poland joined the EU in 2004, intercultural education has become one of the fundamental goals of the Polish educational system. Many Polish educators believed that it was only through intercultural education that they would be able to teach students necessary skills which would support them in the transition to becoming truly multicultural an...

This article presents the system of higher education (HE) in Poland and the role of remote (and later online) learning in education with the focus on changes induced as the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis begins with a historical background that shows how higher education has been changing after the political transformation of the 1...

Looking through the lenses of classical colonial theories, Poland seems to be a country that does not need a decolonial framework. In fact, the historical feudal structures have been embedded in many professional settings. This chapter presents the case of Polish higher education institutions and the asymmetrical relations between two groups of emp...

This book presents research into inclusive education in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), written by scholars based in CEE. Inclusive education has become a framework for understanding and embracing diversity but most of the research in this area has been carried out in intercultural or culturally diverse settings within a relatively inclusive and...

Jakich argumentów można użyć, żeby wyjaśnić rodzicom i dyrekcji, dlaczego rozmawiać o aktualnych wyzwaniach związanych z migracjami? W dobie otwartych granic i globalizacji, migracje są naturalnym procesem, o którym warto wiedzieć tak samo jak o konfliktach międzynarodowych, sytuacji geopolitycznej, czy wymianie handlowej w UE. Dyskurs wokół migrac...

The COVID-19 situation has made higher education institutions face the unprecedented challenge of transition into distance learning. As a result, students had to acquire some skills and knowledge remotely, including the experience of learning social research. The article presents the results of research on students' attitudes and perceptions regard...

Remote teaching became one of the key topics in educational research due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our article looks at the other side of the story, i.e., in-person education during the pandemic. This aspect of teaching excellence has been overlooked because it seemed to be thoroughly studied. However, COVID-19 has profoundly changed in-person teac...

Dean’s Offices are administrative units of a wide scope of tasks with particular focus on managing students affairs. Their work is regulated by ordinary law, as well as internal normative acts developed at their respective HEIs. In our article we analyse the role of the Dean’s Offices in creating such acts in regard to a) their inclusion in this pr...

After 1990, the Muslim Turks and Tatars in Dobruja (Romania), the region where the community is concentrated demographically, as other Muslim communities in the Balkans, became the environment of interaction and confrontation between ranges of transnational actors. The objective of my research is to determine the influence and effects of transnatio...

To cite: Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska, Jan Misiuna, Marta Pachocka, Preface, in: Muslim Minorities and the Refugee Crisis in Europe, eds. Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska, Jan Misiuna, Marta Pachocka, SGH Publishing House, Warsaw 2019.

The aim of this paper is to discuss how the Muslim Other has been invented and still is in contemporary Poland. We argue that it is framed into a different narrative and 'logic' than in the case of many Western European countries. While Poles also need their Muslim 'enemy' , they use him or her not only to strengthen their national identity, but al...

To cite: Muslim Minorities and the Refugee Crisis in Europe, eds. Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska, Jan Misiuna, Marta Pachocka, SGH Publishing House, Warsaw 2019.

This paper is a non-conventional academic paper based on a live discussion organized by the Polish expert on Saudi women’s issues, Professor Anna Odrowaz-Coates (2015, 2016), which took place in The Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw, in June 2018. Two participating experts are known for their conflicting points of view on issues of security...

Hungary and Poland used to have much in common, as the saying in the title suggests. Yet, it seems that in recent years, this phrase has acquired new meaning as both countries became enfants terrible in EU politics. One of the earliest and most significant indicators of this change was their stance towards Muslims and refugees during the 2014 crisi...

The paper describes the phenomenon of romance tourism through the narratives taken from the German Internet portal 1001-Geschichte.de. Romance tourism is a term used to characterize women who during holidays in the countries of global south engage in a personal relationship with a local man. As that relationship is emotional in character it cannot...

At the first glance Polish intolerance of Muslims - expressed in a variety of quantitative and qualitative studies - seems to be puzzling for two reasons. Firstly, Poland has a six century long tradition of peaceful coexistence with Tatars, indigenous Polish Muslims, thus Poles should be used to the Muslim Other. Secondly, the number of Muslims in...

The article aims to explore and analyze online activity of Polish female converts to Islam, especially, on forums. Since the number of Muslims in Poland is marginal, Internet forums provide the converts with a sense of a virtual Polish umma as well as information about Islam. At the same time, most of these forums are closed or hidden from the outs...

Branding caliphate. ISIS, Al‑Baghdadi and the new era of global jihadism In Summer 2014 Abu Bakr al‑Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Al‑Sham declared a caliphate in Iraq and Syria. By referring to the marketing technique of branding the author analyzes how the caliphate is created in the public space. In this case branding reca...

Austrian banking in Poland under the Austrian partition, in interwar Poland, Polish People Republic and Third Republic.

Introducing innovative new research from international scholars working on Islamic fashion and its critics, Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion provides a global perspective on muslim dress practices. The book takes a broad geographic sweep, bringing together the sartorial experiences of Muslims in locations as diverse as Paris, the Canadian Prairie,...

During the two decades since the beginning of Polish transformation in 1989, one of the most important tasks f the educational system has been restructuring; currently the system is still in transition. Many internal and external factors influence these changes. Internal factors include a change in educational structure and the educational framework...

Discourse on gender roles in the Islamic world, even though popular and wide-ranging, refers predominantly to the heterosexual pattern, i.e. to biological males and females. Definitely the binary gender system is the backbone of social order, but still provides space for transgressing traditional social roles. It results from the heritage of classi...

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The reform of Polish educational system that took place several years ago was crucial for Polish textbook market as it allowed more and more authors to publish their textbooks. Despite the great variety of textbooks, a common educational framework exists which enables – to some extent – to compare the textbooks with one another and pick up topics s...