Research interest:

♦ mobilities, transport and migrations

♦ ethno-religious relationships of Georgia

♦ sociolinguistics

♦ borders in South Caucasus

♦ Georgian literature of XX and XXI centuries, folklore, popular culture and film

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Selected publications: 

♦ Kosicińska, K. Azerbaijani-Armenian relations in Georgia after the 2020 Karabakh War – (un)agreeable neighbourliness and uncertain future. (with A. Cieślewska) Book chapter in: From Multi-ethnic Societies to Homogeneous States: Collective Memory and Fiction on Emergence of Modern Nations, edited by Mikail Mamedov. Routledge (forthcoming) 

♦ Kosicińska, K. The Social Dimensions of Ethno-Linguistic Boundaries in the Azerbaijani Community in Georgia’s Kvemo Kartli Region. IdPS Interdisciplinary Political Studies. University of Salento. Department of Human and Social Sciences, Vol 10, No 2 (2024): Vol 10, No 2 (2024): Number 10 Issue 2. 

♦ Kosicińska, K. ”Maybe he is thinking something on the inside but is not showing it to us": The Azerbaijani community in the multi-ethnic region in Georgia after the Nagorno-Karabakh war. Sprawy Narodowościowe. Seria Nowa/nationalities Affairs, no. 55 (2023): ImagiNations. 

Kosicińska, K. About research during closed borders – ethnographic notes. Lud, vol. 104 (2020), p. 339-357. Łódź: Polskie Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze. In Polish. 

♦ Kosicińska, K. Azerbaijani minority and Georgians in Georgia – images of coexistence. Warsaw, post- conference publication in: Między Wschodem a Zachodem, między Północą a Południem. 2018. In Polish. 

 

Popular: 

♦ Kosicińska, K. Sharing and negotiating identity through linguistic landscape in Shulaveri, Southeast Georgia. Blog for Jena-CAUC Studies. Friedrich Schiller University, 2024. (available online: https://www.kaukasiologie.uni-jena.de/517/issue-13) 

♦ Kosicińska, K. Azerbaijanis and Armenians in the Georgian village Tsopi during the Nagorno-Karabakh war. Baltic Worlds 2022:3-4, pp. 66-69 (available online: https://balticworlds.com/tsopi-georgia/) 

♦ Kosicińska, K. Encounters with another Georgia. Podróżuj z antropologią. Pracownia Etnograficzna, 2021 (in Polish) (available online: https://podroze.etnograficzna.pl/spotkania-z-inna-gruzja/) 

♦ Kosicińska, K. Neighbours. New Eastern Europe, December 6 (72)/2020, p. 111-124. In Polish. (available here: https://www.academia.edu/45084504/Sąsiedzi) 

♦ Kosicińska, K. Life after lockdown in Marneuli. Everyday life during the pandemic in southern Georgia. Chai Khana, 2020 (available here: https://www.academia.edu/44933516/Life_after_lockdown_in_Marneuli_Everyday_life_during_the_pandemic_in_southern_Georgia)  

♦ Kosicińska, K. "And the tree bled". The sacred wishing tree of Chinar in Marneuli, Georgia. With Rahim Shaliyev. Chai Khana Media, 2019 (available online: https://chaikhana.media/en/stories/833/and-the-tree-bled). 

♦ Kosicińska, K. Georgia: l'albero che sanguina. In Italian, with Rahim Shaliyev. Osservatorio Balcanico, 2019 (available online: https://www.balcanicaucaso.org/aree/Georgia/Georgia-l-albero-che-sanguina-195243). 

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Projects:

♦ Everyday life between borders. Mobility, translocal practices and neighbourhood in south-east Georgia, 2021-2026, Institute of Slavic Studies Polish Academy of Sciences, research grant of the National Science Centre Preludium project; manager and principal investigator. 

♦ Azerbaijanis and Armenians in Georgia, uncertain peace and conflict mobility in a context of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, Institute of Slavic Studies Polish Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with Tbilisi State University, 2021-2023, Contractor in the National Academic Exchange Agency Urgent Grant; contractor and project co-author.