Adam Ostolski

Adam Edward Ostolski (born 7 November 1978) is a Polish sociologist, columnist and activist. He is a member of the Krytyka Polityczna and a member of the editorial board of the Green European Journal.^[1] In 2013-2016 he was co-leader of the Poland's Green Party.^[2]

He graduated from the Department of Philosophy and Sociology at the University of Warsaw. In 2011, he defended his doctoral dissertation Trauma and Public Memory: The Legacy of World War Two in Contemporary Poland. He lectured at the Medical University of Warsaw (2009-2013) and since 2013 he has been a faculty member (assistant professor) at the University of Warsaw.^[3] He was a visiting professor at the University of Jena in 2022^[4] and a visiting researcher at the Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales (CEFRES) in Prague in 2023.^[5] His research interests include social movements, gendered nationalism, memory studies and sociology of knowledge.^[6] He authored a study comparing antisemitic and anti-gay discourses in contemporary Poland. He translated into Polish books by Immanuel Wallerstein, Étienne Balibar, Shmuel Eisenstadt and Judith Butler.

Ostolski was an environmental activist since the early 1990s.^[7] He is a member of the left-wing milieu Krytyka Polityczna since the establishment of the group in 2002. He was also a member of the Poland's Green Party, and in 2013-2016 its co-leader (first with Agnieszka Grzybek, then with Małgorzata Tracz). He left the party in February 2019.

In 2012, he wrote a column in the weekly Przekrój. He appeared in the film "What Is Democracy?" by Oliver Ressler (2009).^[8]