Mgr Marcin Skupiński

 

 

Department of contemporary ethnology and anthropology

 

kontakt: m.skupinski(at)iaepan.edu.pl

 

 

Research interests:

 

 

Sociocultural anthropologist, graduate of the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Warsaw. His research interests include the impact of politics and cultural determinants on people's relationships with the environment, as well as non-state forms of social organization and revolutionary movements. He has conducted engaged and applied research on topics including organizational anthropology and local environmental relations. Since 2019, his doctoral project has been examining the contexts of incorporating the concept of social ecology in the Kurdish Freedom Movement and the impact of the climate catastrophe on society in Northeast Syria. From 2021 to 2024, he was a fellow in the project "Activism and its Moral and Cultural Foundations: Alternative Citizenship and the Role of Women in Kurdistan and the Diaspora (ALCITfem)" led by Dr. Joanna Bocheńska. He has conducted ethnographic research in Kurdish-inhabited regions of Turkey, Iraq, and Syria. In 2022-2023, he spent six months in the Democratic Autonomous Administration of Northeastern Syria (Rojava). He is associate of the University of Rojava in Qamishlo. From 2015 to 2018, he conducted research in the Ukrainian Transcarpathia region on nature conservation and the use of natural resources by local communities. From 2011 to 2015, he was involved in research on religiosity in the border areas, researching Catholic communities in Ukraine and Ukrainians in Poland. During this research, his interests included local cosmologies, the influence of media coverage on them, and the relationship between religion and identity.

 

 

Selected bibliography:

 

 

Articles:

 

Hanoğlu, H., Wiktor-Mach, D., Hamelink, W., Skupiński, M. (2025). Resistance in a “sacred geography”: Critical perspectives on land, ecology, and activism among Dersimi Alevis in Turkey. Geoforum, Vol. 161, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104263

 

Wiktor-Mach, D., Skupiński, M., Salih., K. (2023). „We want to have a positive impact”: Fragile ecologies and the Iraqi Kurds’ dutiful environmentalism. Journal of Political Ecology 30(1), 198–218. doi: https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.5377

 

Skupiński, M. (2015). Czerez nasze selo iszła Boża Matyr. Religia publiczna i „zaczarowanie świata” we współczesnej Ukrainie Murafa i Klekotyna, obwód winnicki. Konteksty. Polska sztuka ludowa, Issue 2015/3 (310) str. 228-236

 

Chapters in edited volumes:

 

Skupiński, M. (2025). Women, Environmental Activism, and Stateless Citizenship in Post-state North-East Syria. W: Enacting Citizenship. Kurdish Women's Resilience, Activism and Creativity. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-83537-7_3

 

Skupiński, M. (2020). Krajobrazy „złej zmiany” w ukraińskich Karpatach: transformacja i kryzys od hali fabrycznej po połoniny. W: Kultury i krajobrazy pamięci, Marek Dziewierski, Bożena Pactwa (red.), Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego.

 

Skupiński, M. (2019). Religion and identity in the post-socialist landscape. A comparative perspective. W: Catholic Religious Minorities in Times of Transformation. Comparative studies of religious culture in Poland and Ukraine, Magdalena Zowczak (red.), Pater Lang Publishing.

 

 

Scholarships:

 

 
2016-2017 stypendium rektora UW dla najlepszych studentów.

 

 

Udział w grantach

 

 
2025 – współpracownik w grancie Polsko-Niemieckiej Fundacji na Rzecz Nauki „Obraz Rosji: porównawcze studium jakościowe w Polsce i w Niemczech”, kierowniczka dr. Agnieszka Halemba.

 

2021 – 2024 stypendysta w grancie NCN „Aktywizm i jego kulturowe i moralne podstawy: alternatywne obywatelstwo i rola kobiet w Kurdystanie i diasporze”, kierowniczka dr Joanna Bocheńska (Numer projektu UMO-2019/34/H/HS2/00541)

 

2014 – 2016 wykonawca w grancie NCN „Kultura religijna wobec zmian społecznych. Studium porównawcze społeczności lokalnych (Polska-Ukraina)”, kierowniczka prof. dr hab. Magdalena Zowczak (Nr projektu 2011/03/B/HS3/00341)

 

 

Członkostwo w organizacjach:

 

 
The European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)

 

Stowarzyszenie “Pracownia Etnograficzna” im. Witolda Dynowskiego