{"id":20143,"date":"2026-09-03T16:59:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T12:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sociology.kpi.ua\/?page_id=20143"},"modified":"2026-09-04T12:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T08:03:07","slug":"piotr-kocyba","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sociology.kpi.ua\/en\/faculty-members\/piotr-kocyba","title":{"rendered":"Piotr Kocyba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sociology.kpi.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Piotr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-20147\" src=\"https:\/\/sociology.kpi.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Piotr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sociology.kpi.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Piotr.jpg 909w, https:\/\/sociology.kpi.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Piotr-276x300.jpg 276w, https:\/\/sociology.kpi.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Piotr-768x836.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<b>Piotr Kocyba<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Position<\/b>: DAAD Lecturer at the Sociology Department, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute<br \/>\n<b>Additional affiliation<\/b>: Assistant Professor, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (IFiS PAN), Warsaw<\/p>\n<p><b>Academic degree<\/b>: Dr. phil.<\/p>\n<p><b>Education<\/b>:<br \/>\nPhD, Technische Universit\u00e4t Dresden, 2012<br \/>\nM.A., \u00a0University of Regensburg, 2006<\/p>\n<p><strong>Google Scholar profile:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.de\/citations?user=9rDI9YAAAAAJ&amp;hl=de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/scholar.google.de\/citations?user%3D9rDI9YAAAAAJ%26hl%3Dde&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1788525175558000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1tFXfP6WwLiqft_g9oEJAa\">https:\/\/scholar.google.de\/<wbr \/>citations?user=9rDI9YAAAAAJ&amp;<wbr \/>hl=de<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Research interests<\/b>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Social movements and protest<\/li>\n<li>Civil society and democracy<\/li>\n<li>Protest culture and political participation<\/li>\n<li>The far-right and right-wing mobilization<\/li>\n<li>Central and Eastern Europe<\/li>\n<li>Comparative protest research and protest surveys<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Current research projects<\/b>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.protestproject.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.protestproject.eu\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1788525175558000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3ZM6PlaYNzFcms15DD_6Y-\">ProTest \u2013 Protest as a Democracy Test: Protest Culture under Transformation and as a Transformative Power<\/a><\/b>\u00a0(Horizon Europe), Principal Investigator of the Polish study<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Selected publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kocyba, Piotr (2025): \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-031-77888-9_9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-031-77888-9_9&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1788525175558000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3GDrLClv3_nElG9Igil85Y\">Poland \u2013 Changing Patterns of Protest Mobilisation in a Polarised Society<\/a>.\u201d In: Claudiu Cr\u0103ciun and Henry Rammelt (eds.), Power and Protest in Central and Eastern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan.<\/li>\n<li>Kocyba, Piotr &amp; Ulf Bohmann (eds.) (2025):\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcript-verlag.de\/978-3-8376-7238-1\/rechte-gewalttaten-in-deutschland\/?number=978-3-8394-7238-5&amp;c=310000023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.transcript-verlag.de\/978-3-8376-7238-1\/rechte-gewalttaten-in-deutschland\/?number%3D978-3-8394-7238-5%26c%3D310000023&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1788525175558000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0giZk47TXDBlva2wxlrt1r\">Rechte Gewalttaten in Deutschland. Aufarbeitung und Gedenken im lokalen Kontext<\/a>. Transcript.<\/li>\n<li>Piotrowski, Grzegorz &amp; Piotr Kocyba (2024): \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/siba-ese.unisalento.it\/index.php\/paco\/article\/view\/28424\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/siba-ese.unisalento.it\/index.php\/paco\/article\/view\/28424&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1788525175558000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2I1yoIF_QzhiY0uAIKmjTz\">The Dynamics of the Antifascist Movement in the Context of Illiberal Democracy in Poland<\/a>.\u201d Partecipazione e Conflitto 17(1), 80\u201395.<\/li>\n<li>Kocyba, Piotr &amp; Piotr P\u0142ucienniczak (2023): \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/23254823.2023.2221723\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/23254823.2023.2221723&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1788525175558000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0VrBelZbqenBsF56jRnj8E\">Diffusion Processes and Unfavorable Opportunity Structures \u2013 the Case of BLM Mobilizations in Poland<\/a>.\u201d European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology 10(4), 632\u2013652.<\/li>\n<li>Kocyba, Piotr &amp; Sebastian Sommer (2022): \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/intersections.tk.mta.hu\/index.php\/intersections\/article\/view\/967\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/intersections.tk.mta.hu\/index.php\/intersections\/article\/view\/967&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1788525175558000&amp;usg=AOvVaw27PdV4eKlwT_sKNRRyV34Q\">On (Missing) Critical Distance and (Involuntary) Alliances<\/a>.\u201d Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics 8(1), 208\u2013221.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piotr Kocyba Position: DAAD Lecturer at the Sociology Department, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Additional affiliation: Assistant Professor, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (IFiS PAN), Warsaw Academic degree: Dr. phil. Education: PhD, Technische Universit\u00e4t Dresden, 2012 M.A., \u00a0University of Regensburg, 2006 Google Scholar profile: https:\/\/scholar.google.de\/citations?user=9rDI9YAAAAAJ&amp;hl=de Research interests: Social movements and protest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sociology.kpi.ua\/en\/faculty-members\/piotr-kocyba\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Piotr Kocyba<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":11672,"menu_order":21,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20143","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sociology.kpi.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sociology.kpi.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sociology.kpi.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sociology.kpi.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sociology.kpi.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sociology.kpi.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20158,"href":"https:\/\/sociology.kpi.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20143\/revisions\/20158"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sociology.kpi.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sociology.kpi.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}