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 Universität Dresden, 2012
M.A., University of Regensburg, 2006
Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.de/
Research interests:
- Social movements and protest
- Civil society and democracy
- Protest culture and political participation
- The far-right and right-wing mobilization
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Comparative protest research and protest surveys
Current research projects:
- ProTest – Protest as a Democracy Test: Protest Culture under Transformation and as a Transformative Power (Horizon Europe), Principal Investigator of the Polish study
Selected publications:
- Kocyba, Piotr (2025): “Poland – Changing Patterns of Protest Mobilisation in a Polarised Society.” In: Claudiu Crăciun and Henry Rammelt (eds.), Power and Protest in Central and Eastern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Kocyba, Piotr & Ulf Bohmann (eds.) (2025): Rechte Gewalttaten in Deutschland. Aufarbeitung und Gedenken im lokalen Kontext. Transcript.
- Piotrowski, Grzegorz & Piotr Kocyba (2024): “The Dynamics of the Antifascist Movement in the Context of Illiberal Democracy in Poland.” Partecipazione e Conflitto 17(1), 80–95.
- Kocyba, Piotr & Piotr Płucienniczak (2023): “Diffusion Processes and Unfavorable Opportunity Structures – the Case of BLM Mobilizations in Poland.” European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology 10(4), 632–652.
- Kocyba, Piotr & Sebastian Sommer (2022): “On (Missing) Critical Distance and (Involuntary) Alliances.” Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics 8(1), 208–221.