Maciej Gdula

Maciej Gdula
Maciej Gdula (2019)
Member of the Sejm
In office
12 November 2019 – 12 November 2023
Personal details
Born(1977-05-20)20 May 1977
Żywiec, Poland
CitizenshipPolish
Political partySpring (2019–2021)
New Left (since 2021)
Other political
affiliations		The Left
Alma materUniversity of Warsaw
Occupationsociologist
opinion journalist
politician

Maciej Roman Gdula (born 20 May 1977) is a Polish sociologist specializing in social theory and political theory, as well as opinion journalist and politician.

Biography

He is the son of Andrzej Gdula, deputy interior minister of the Polish People's Republic in the 1980s, and later adviser to President Aleksander Kwaśniewski.

Gdula obtained a PhD in sociology in 2006 at the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology at the University of Warsaw.[1] There, in 2016 he received the postdoctoral degree in social sciences in the field of sociology and became an adjunct at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Warsaw.[2][3]

For several years, he has been a member of the Stanisław Brzozowski Association, a non-profit organization coordinating the actions of Krytyka Polityczna. He was a member of the Association's Board (2005–2010), and a member of its Audit Committee (2010–2015). As an opinion journalist, he contributed to Krytyka Polityczna, as well as to Tok FM Radio morning broadcasts, of which he was a frequent guest.[4][5][6]

In 2017, he was the coordinator of a field study in Miastko, one of the poviat towns in Mazovia. The report of this study was considered by several sociologists the first authoritative diagnosis of the reasons for the victory of Law and Justice in the 2015 Polish parliamentary election.[7][8][9]

In May 2019, Gdula became an expert of the Spring party and the leader of its list in the European Parliament election, in the district covering the Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie voivodships,[10][11] but did not win a seat.[12] In October 2019, he became member of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland.[13]

Books

  • Trzy dyskursy miłosne (2009)
  • Style życia i porządek klasowy w Polsce (2012, with Przemysław Sadura)
  • Oprogramowanie rzeczywistości społecznej (2014, with Lech Nijakowski)
  • Uspołecznienie i kompozycja. Dwie tradycje myśli społecznej a współczesne teorie krytyczne (2015)
  • Dobra zmiana w Miastku. Neoautorytaryzm w polskiej polityce z perspektywy małego miasta (2017, with Katarzyna Dębska and Kamil Trepka)

References

  1. ^ "Zakład Socjologii Ogólnej IS UW" (in Polish). Instytut Socjologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Maciej Roman Gdula" (in Polish). nauka-polska.pl. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  3. ^ "Maciej Gdula" (in Polish). Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology at the University of Warsaw. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
  4. ^ "Jarosław Gugała, Michał Szułdrzyński i Maciej Gdula u Piotra Kraśki" (in Polish). TOK FM. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
  5. ^ "Godzina publicystów: Renata Grochal, Michał Szułdrzyński i Maciej Gdula" (in Polish). TOK FM. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
  6. ^ "Joanna Solska, Jarosław Gugała i Maciej Gdula u Dominiki Wielowieyskiej" (in Polish). TOK FM. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
  7. ^ Gdula, Maciej; Dębska, Katarzyna; Trepka, Kamil (2017). Raport z badań – "Dobra zmiana w Miastku. Neoautorytaryzm w polityce z perspektywy małego miasta". Warsaw.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ^ "Wyborcy PiS-u wcale nie są tacy, jak myśleliście. To badanie zupełnie zmienia ich postrzeganie". Newsweek Polska. 7 January 2018.
  9. ^ Bierzyński, Jakub (3 January 2018). "Poznajcie wyborców PiS: cenią demokrację, mają udane życie, nie znoszą pouczania". Gazeta Wyborcza.
  10. ^ "Robert Biedroń ogłasza swój program. "Nikt, kto pracował przez całe życie, nie może być zapomniany przez państwo"". Business Insider (in Polish). 3 February 2019. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
  11. ^ "KW WIOSNA ROBERTA BIEDRONIA" (in Polish). wybory.gov.pl. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  12. ^ "Wyniki głosowania – KOMITET WYBORCZY WIOSNA ROBERTA BIEDRONIA – Okręg wyborczy nr 10 [Kraków]" (in Polish). 27 May 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  13. ^ "Wybory do Sejmu i Senatu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej 2019 r." wybory.gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 27 October 2019.