OSKAR LUBIŃSKI
2023 – obtained a PhD degree (in humanities) in Culture and Religion Studies at the Faculty of Culture and Arts of the University of Warsaw
2016 – obtained an MA degree in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty of History of the University of Warsaw
2014 – obtained an MA degree in Iberian Philology at the Faculty of Neophilology of the University of Warsaw
Professional appointments
2024 – present: Assistant Professor at the Institute of Culture Studies of the University of Silesia
Research interests
Latin American studies, urban anthropology, marginalisation and class divisions, development studies, decolonial theory and methodology
Membership in organisations/associations
EASA – European Association of Social Anthropologists
RC21 – Research Committee on Urban and Regional Development
SIEF – International Society for Ethnology and Folklore
Projects
Shantytowns of Havana and proyectos comunitarios – social marginalisation and grassroots strategies of overcoming it in contemporary Cuba, Preludium pre-doctoral grant, National Science Center Poland, 2018/31/N/HS3/00497; role in the project: Manager
Major publications
Lubiński O. (forthcoming). Havana’s informal settlements – strengthening resilience through grassroots infrastructures, in: Lakshmi Rajendran et al. (eds.) “Resilient Cities in the Global South: Urban Informality and Planning”, Routledge.
Lubiński O. (2023). Internal and internalised borders of Havana, Ethnologia Europea 53(2), 1–8. (ACCESS_HERE)
Lubiński O. (2022). Timescapes and the vernacular language of Cuba’s popular economies, Regional Science Policy and Practice, 15(3), 529-538. (ACCESS_HERE)
Lubiński O. (2020). Proyectos Comunitarios in Havana: Tourism as Resource for Grassroots Development in Late Socialist Cuba, Revista del CESLA, 25. (ACCESS_HERE)
Ana R., Lubiński O. (2019). Cuban private entrepreneurship – from periphery to key sector of the economy in tourism-oriented market socialism, Regional Science Policy and Practice, 11 (3), 467-477. (ACCESS_HERE)
Lubiński O. (2017). Imaginarium państwa. Seksturystyka i oddolne systemy kontroli kontaktów między Kubańczykami a turystami, Zeszyty Etnologii Wrocławskiej, 2017/1 (26). (ACCESS_HERE)
Ana R., Lubiński O. (2014). Not Exotic Enough? Implications of the Duality of Cuban Foodways on the Tourist Market Maska, 24 (4), 119 –129.
Collaboration with other academic institutions/centres/stakeholders
Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw – research fellow, co-designing consumer-centric methodology for co-creation sessions in EIT Food Consumer Engagement Labs and xKIC Circular Economy Consumer Engagement Labs in Western Balkans (Horizon Europe scheme), facilitating co-creation methodology workshops for startups, dissemination of project results during events and in reports, (2021-2022)
Łukasiewicz Research Network – Institute of Aviation – International Cooperation Specialist, coordination of the Industry Contact Point “Smart and Clean Mobility” – supporting Polish companies in developing R&D projects through the Horizon Europe scheme (2023-2024)
Institute of Adam Mickiewicz – Knowledge Management, designing and coordinating research on the perception of Polish culture and IAM programmes abroad, study visit and programme evaluation, desk research for the purposes of programming of the cultural promotion, including compiling data and preparing reports (2017-2019)