Mikołaj Pawlak
Biographic Data
| ID | 3634985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mikołaj Pawlak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mikołaj |
| FAMILY NAME | Pawlak |
| SIGNATURE | PAWLAK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warsaw |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1727-4342 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sweet, but confusing: Failure and palatability in Polish disability policy
We develop the idea of a ‘taste of failure’ as a critical lens for understanding how the inherent contradictions of policy-making are perceived. We set out a typology (bitter, sweet, guilty (pleasures), flat, and cruel (optimism)), further focusing on ‘sweet failure’ in Polish disability policy as a marker of problematic palatability: the paradox of bad policy-good politics. Policy studies often examine ‘successful failure’ in domains, where pres…
Actor positioning logics and the participatory mapping of Poland's decarbonization field
Harnessing Ignorance: Resources for Action and Resistance During the Covid-19 Pandemic Crisis in Nigeria
Fracasopolicy: Toward a Critical Typology of Policy Failures
Failure Privilege in Policymaking: Exploitation, (In)visibilization, and Future Projection in Abortion Policy in Poland
Who gets to benefit from failure is a hot topic in recent research on science and innovation. This article articulates the phenomenon of failure privilege on the terrain of public policy, that is, circumstantial and institutionally ingrained dispositions to use policy downfalls, derailments, and crises as resources of policy action, tools of integration, and dynamism. Building on analyses of policy failures, the article advances a typology of thr…
A Taste for Oppression: A Political Ethnography of Everyday Life in Belarus
Humanitarian Aid in Times of War: Organization and Ignorance
Access to Health Care for English Division Students of the Medical University of Warsaw
Foreigners face certain barriers in accessing medical care, though international medical students are in many aspects privileged in this field. The aim of this study is to explore whether these students are facing problems in accessing healthcare. An original survey questionnaire was prepared and distributed online and on paper among students. In total 138 questionnaires were filled out. The results were analyzed using statistical methods. The ma…
Dynamics of Class and Stratification in Poland
Ignorance as an Outcome of Categorizations: The “Refugees” in the Polish Academic Discourse before and after the 2015 Refugee Crisis
The article addresses the issue of the so-called refugee crisis in Europe from the perspective of ignorance studies and seeks to establish the mechanisms whereby ignorance is created through categorizations. We depart from the proposal of Proctor and view ignorance as either “native state,” “lost realm,” or “strategic ploy.” In all three, ignorance is an unalienable part of social action. The case of Polish academic research on refugees before an…
Sociology in Poland: To be continued
In Sociology in Poland, Marta Bucholc presents the last 70 years of sociology in the country troubled by large social transformations, which impacted the institutional base and academic style of it
Unaccountable: How elite power brokers corrupt our finances, freedom, and security
Research-Policy Dialogues in Poland
Poland has one of the lowest rates of immigration of any EU member state; it is a country of emigration rather than of immigration, although this may change in the near future. This chapter analyses three kinds of related actors – NGOs, researchers and public authorities – and it also analyses the context of institutional transformation after the fall of communism. Europeanization has been a key factor in the development of research as well as po…
Dynamics of Class and Stratification in Poland
Ignorance as an Outcome of Categorizations: The “Refugees” in the Polish Academic Discourse before and after the 2015 Refugee Crisis
The article addresses the issue of the so-called refugee crisis in Europe from the perspective of ignorance studies and seeks to establish the mechanisms whereby ignorance is created through categorizations. We depart from the proposal of Proctor and view ignorance as either “native state,” “lost realm,” or “strategic ploy.” In all three, ignorance is an unalienable part of social action. The case of Polish academic research on refugees before an…
Research-Policy Dialogues in Poland
Poland has one of the lowest rates of immigration of any EU member state; it is a country of emigration rather than of immigration, although this may change in the near future. This chapter analyses three kinds of related actors – NGOs, researchers and public authorities – and it also analyses the context of institutional transformation after the fall of communism. Europeanization has been a key factor in the development of research as well as po…
Sociology in Poland: To be continued
In Sociology in Poland, Marta Bucholc presents the last 70 years of sociology in the country troubled by large social transformations, which impacted the institutional base and academic style of it
Unaccountable: How elite power brokers corrupt our finances, freedom, and security
Ignorance as an Outcome of Categorizations: The “Refugees” in the Polish Academic Discourse before and after the 2015 Refugee Crisis
The article addresses the issue of the so-called refugee crisis in Europe from the perspective of ignorance studies and seeks to establish the mechanisms whereby ignorance is created through categorizations. We depart from the proposal of Proctor and view ignorance as either “native state,” “lost realm,” or “strategic ploy.” In all three, ignorance is an unalienable part of social action. The case of Polish academic research on refugees before an…
Access to Health Care for English Division Students of the Medical University of Warsaw
Foreigners face certain barriers in accessing medical care, though international medical students are in many aspects privileged in this field. The aim of this study is to explore whether these students are facing problems in accessing healthcare. An original survey questionnaire was prepared and distributed online and on paper among students. In total 138 questionnaires were filled out. The results were analyzed using statistical methods. The ma…
Dynamics of Class and Stratification in Poland
Humanitarian Aid in Times of War: Organization and Ignorance
Failure Privilege in Policymaking: Exploitation, (In)visibilization, and Future Projection in Abortion Policy in Poland
Who gets to benefit from failure is a hot topic in recent research on science and innovation. This article articulates the phenomenon of failure privilege on the terrain of public policy, that is, circumstantial and institutionally ingrained dispositions to use policy downfalls, derailments, and crises as resources of policy action, tools of integration, and dynamism. Building on analyses of policy failures, the article advances a typology of thr…
A Taste for Oppression: A Political Ethnography of Everyday Life in Belarus
Fracasopolicy: Toward a Critical Typology of Policy Failures
Harnessing Ignorance: Resources for Action and Resistance During the Covid-19 Pandemic Crisis in Nigeria
Sweet, but confusing: Failure and palatability in Polish disability policy
We develop the idea of a ‘taste of failure’ as a critical lens for understanding how the inherent contradictions of policy-making are perceived. We set out a typology (bitter, sweet, guilty (pleasures), flat, and cruel (optimism)), further focusing on ‘sweet failure’ in Polish disability policy as a marker of problematic palatability: the paradox of bad policy-good politics. Policy studies often examine ‘successful failure’ in domains, where pres…
Actor positioning logics and the participatory mapping of Poland's decarbonization field
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Ignorance (3 works) · Economic geography (2 works) · Economic system (2 works) · Political economy (2 works)