Staff
Dr Katarzyna Kosmala
PhD (University of Edinburgh) MSc (Edinburgh College of Art), MA (Hons) (University of Gdansk), Reader
Email: katarzyna.kosmala@uws.ac.uk
Tel: + 44 141 848 3468
Fax: + 44 141 848 3395
Room: B229
http://katarzynakosmala.wordpress.com/
Creative Practice/Research group blog http://uwspracticeresearch.blogspot.com/
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Representation; identity politics and visual culture
Researches aspects of construction of identity and gender/sexuality in contemporary (visual) culture, the politics of representation, artists and meaning of work in the precarious condition.
- Organisation; politics of functioning and organisational lives
Research interests encompass critical and interpretative approaches to analysing creative labour, professional services firms (PSFs), creativity and enterprise in the context of cultural globalisation; art production, arts-run projects. Researches the careers and movements under transitions in the socio-economic and cultural contexts of emerging democracies, post-Socialist spaces, at boundaries and more peripheral locations.
- Critical perspectives in cultural and visual studies
Writes art reviews and features on construction and representation of gender identity and otherness in the video/new media art, predominantly in the context of new Europe and its politics; curates art exhibitions.
NEW & ONGOING PROJECTS
AHRC funded project (collaboration with the University of Glasgow) Translating East European & Russian cultures: Exchange and communication within a multidisciplinary and multicultural area studies context (start January 2011)
Curatorial project New/Old Old/New, Group exhibition, Bilgi University, Santral, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2010. More information...
Co-convening and co-organizing the conference stream Boundless Creativity/Urban Subversion, Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey, August 2010. More information...
Co-convening and co-organizing the conference stream Movements, Political Organizations and Governance: Collective Creativity for/in a Sustainable World, LAEMOS: Constructing & Disrupting Social Realities, Buenos Aires, Argentina, April, 2010. More information...
Research fellowship project Do not die for love! Visual accounts of domestic violence: On seeing and noticing, GEXcel, University of Linkoping, Sweden, 2009. More information...
Co-organizing of the conference stream Labyrinths of ‘Otherness’: Alternative Voices, Visual Accounts and Artistic Representations of Organisational Selves, APROS, Monterrey, Mexico, December 2009. More information...
Collaboration for the art exhibition Vacuum and Oxygen: Hanna Nowicka, Gdansk Gallery of Photography, National Museum, Gdansk. September-October 2009. More information...
Co-organizing and co-convening PDW for the US Academy Meeting (Critical management Division), Green Management Matters, Land-Art for a Sustainable and Activist ‘Bio-Culturally Diverse’ Management: The Voices from the South Matter’ Chicago, August 2009
The book project collaboration: Sexing the Border: Gender, Art and New Media in Central and Eastern Europe
TEACHING
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Programme Leader for Faculty of Business and Creative Industries programme Msc Research Methods for Business, Cultural and Social Science Researchers
- Qualitative Research Methods, Requirements for PhD, Research Design & Process
SELECT PUBLICATIONS:
Kosmala K. (2010), ‘Expanded Cities in Expanded Europe: Resisting Identities, Feminist Politics and their Utopias’, Third Text, 24(5): 541 - 555
Kosmala K and Imas M (2011), forthcoming, ‘Pedestrian Utterances on Space/less Green Awareness. Visualizing the Process’, Teaching Artist Journal, January Issue.
Kosmala K. and McKernan J. (2011) forthcoming, ‘Moral Agency in Foucault’s Work, from Care of the Self to Care for the Other: Implications for Professional Responsibility’, SI on French Philosophers and Intellectuals, Accounting, Auditing, Accountability Journal
Kosmala K. (2008) ‘Women at Work, Women on Work: Visual Artists on Labour Exploitation’ British Journal of Management, 19(1): 85-98.
Kosmala K. (2007) ‘The Identity Paradox? Home and Work Boundaries in Professional Process. Reflections on Fluid Identity of the Female Artist’, Culture and Organisation, 13(1):37-53.
Kosmala K. (2007) '(Un)realised Independence in the CEE Region: Insights from Interpretive Cultural Theory' Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 18(3): 315-342.
McKernan J. and Kosmala K. (2007) ‘Doing the Truth: Religion - Deconstruction - Justice, and Accounting’, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 20(5): 729-764.
Kosmala K. and Herrbach O. (2006) ‘The Ambivalence of Professional Identity: On Cynicism and Jouissance in Audit Firms’, Human Relations, 59(10): 1393-1428.
Kosmala K. (2006) ‘What it Feels Like to Be a Professional Artist in Central and Eastern Europe? Individualised Reality of the Other in Zofia Kulik’s Arts’, International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management, 5(3): 107-116.
Kosmala K. (2006) ‘On Non-being in the Organisational Settings: Arty Meditation on Embodied Behaviour and the Unconscious’, International Journal of the Arts in Society, 1(4): 31-42.
Kosmala K.(2005) ‘On the Ways of Being (Un)altered: ‘Little Deaths’ in the Video Installation Art of Hanna Nowicka and Alicja Zebrowska” N.Paradoxa, Scientific Ethics/Aesthetics, 15(January):62-75.
Kosmala K. (2005) ‘Insights from Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics on Best Practice in Professional Service Firms: On Perpetual Myth Creation?’, Qualitative Sociology Review, 1(1): 31-50.
Kosmala K and Sucher P (2005) ‘A Local Realisation of Independence Construct in Poland: Counteracting ’Iron Curtain’ Syndrome in Academic Writing”, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 16(5): 593-612.
