Dr. Piotr Goldstein

Researcher, ZOiS

• B2: Remembering and Practising Diversity in a Post-Multi-Ethnic City
• B3: ‘Living Together – Living in Difference’ – Everday Diplomacy in Transregional Contexts (Workshop – together with Tsypylma Darieva)

Piotr Goldstein is a social scientist. At ZOiS, he works in the team of the MOBILISE project, which aims to understand why in times of crisis some people protest while others migrate.

Piotr  Goldstein holds a master’s in International Peace Work from the University of Trieste as well as in Philosophy from the University of Lodz. He received his PhD from the University of Manchester working at the intersection of social anthropology, sociology and political science. Before joining ZOiS in June 2019, he held a Thomas Brown Assistant Professorship at Trinity College Dublin and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Manchester. During his fellowship, he researched various forms of donor-independent, informal, everyday activism, conducting fieldwork in Novi Sad (Serbia), Debrecen (Hungary), Lodz (Poland), Cádiz (Spain) and Manchester (UK). He is also a recipient of a Leverhulme/British Academy Small Research Grant, thanks to which he co-produced a 30-minute ethnographic documentary entitled  ‘Active (citizen)’.

CV Piotr Goldstein

• Activism and civil society
• Post-multi-ethnic cities
• Post-conflict societies
• Migration and ethnic minorities
• Identity and gender

Goldstein, Piotr. Visualising Invisible (Migrant) Activism. In: Entanglements, 4 (2021), 1, pp. 24-27

Goldstein, Piotr. Post-Yugoslav Everyday Activism(s): A different form of activist citizenship?. In: Europe-Asia Studies, 69 (2017), 9, pp. 1455–1472

Goldstein, Piotr. Everyday Active Citizenship the Balkan Way: Local civil society and the practice of ‘Bridge Building’ in two post-Yugoslav cities. In: Vieten, Ulrike M.; Valentine, Gill (eds.). Cartographies of Differences. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2016, pp. 135-153.

Goldstein, Piotr. Grassroots Narratives and Practices of Diversity in Mostar and Novi Sad. In: Matejskova, Tatiana; Antonisch, Marco (eds.). Governing through Diversity: Migration Societies in Post-Multiculturalist Times. London: Palgrave Macmillian, 2015, pp. 104-124.