Kacper Pobłocki

Associate Professor
Institute of the Americas and Europe

Kacper Pobłocki – associate professor at the University of Warsaw, and a social and historical anthropologist. He teaches at the interdisciplinary Center for European Regional and Local Studies at the University of Warsaw. He graduated from the Central European University in Budapest and University College Utrecht and was a scholarship holder at the City University of New York. He is the author of the books Capitalism: A Short-Lived History, Chamstwo, co-author of The Anti-Helplessness Guide to Space (with Lech Mergler and Maciej Wudarski), and Unsustainable Architecture (with Bogna Świątkowska). His doctoral dissertation, The Cunning of Class: Urbanization of Inequality in Post-War Poland, was awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize. His book Capitalism: A Short-Lived History received the Economicus Award for the best Polish economic book of the year, while Chamstwo was a finalist for the Nike Literary Award and the Marcin Król Award. He has also published numerous articles and studies in the fields of anthropology and urban sociology, including in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Between 2009 and 2014, he supported the emergence and development of urban movements in Poland, amongst others as the coordinator of the very first Congress of Urban Movements.