Luiza Bialasiewicz
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Dr. Luiza Bialasiewicz is an academic, and senior lecturer in Human Geography within the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway. She has held the post since September 2006. From 2000-2006 she was based in the Department of Geography at the University of Durham. Dr. Bialasiewicz obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is currently listed by Royal Holloway as being an expert, available for consultation regarding European identity and European foreign policy.
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[edit] Career at Durham
At Durham, Dr. Bialasiewicz was connected to the International Boundaries Research Unit, and the 'Politics-State-Space' and 'Social/Spatial Theory' research clusters. She was also a member of the 'Centre for the Study of Cities and Regions'. She was actively involved with undergraduate teaching within the department, contributing towards Urban geography and Political geography modules as well as courses on the history and theory of the discipline, while also leading field courses to Poland and Berlin.
[edit] Research Interests
Dr. Bialasiewicz's research interests "lie in political geography and geopolitics, especially the politics and geopolitics of European integration, histories of the European idea, and nationalisms and regionalisms in the new Europe." Most recently she has co-authored Spazio e Politica: Riflessioni di geografia critica with Claudio Minca.
[edit] Full Publication List
Books: Authored
Minca, C. & Bialasiewicz, L. Spazio e Politica: Riflessioni di geografia critica. Padova, Italy: CEDAM; 2004
Books: Sections
L Bialasiewicz Back to Galicia Felix? In: P.R. Magosci & C. Hann Galicia: A Multicultured Land. Toronto: University of Toronto Press; 2005:160-184
L Bialasiewicz Urban Politics and the Geopolitics of Heritage. In: C. Minca Lo Spettacolo della Città/The Spectacle of the City. CEDAM; 2005:75-106
L Bialasiewicz A society to match the scenery? Ordering the spaces of the Veneto città diffusa. In: F. Eckardt & D. Hassenpflug Urbanism and Globalisation. Peter Lang; 2004:297-325
L Bialasiewicz & J. O'Loughlin Re-ordering Europe's Eastern frontier: Galicjan Identities and Political Cartographies on the Polish-Ukranian Border. In: D. Kaplan & J Hakli Boundaries and Place: European Borderlands in Geographical Context. Rowman & Littlefield; 2002
Journal papers: Academic
Bialasiewicz, L., Campbell, D., Elden, S., Graham, S., Jeffrey, A. and Williams, A. 'Performing Security: The Imaginative Geographies of Current US Strategy'. Political Geography. 2007;26(4)
Feakins, M. & Bialasiewicz, L. ‘Trouble in the East: The New Entrants and Challenges to the European Ideal'. Eurasian Geography and Economics. 2006;47:647-661.
Bialasiewicz, L., Geographies of production and the contexts of politics: dis-location and new ecologies of fear in the Veneto città diffusa. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 2006;24:41-67
Bialasiewicz, L., The Death of the West: Samuel Huntington, Oriana Fallaci and a new 'moral' geopolitics of births and bodies. Geopolitics. 2006;11:701-724
Elden, S. & Bialasiewicz, L. 'The New Geopolitics of Division and the Problem of a Kantian Europe'. Review of International Studies 2006;32:623-644.
Bialasiewicz, L., Elden, S. & Painter, J. 'The best defence of our security lies in the spread of our values': Europe, America and the question of values. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 2005;23:159-164
Bialasiewicz, L., Elden, S. & Painter, J. The constitution of EU territory. Comparative European Politics. 2005;3:333-363
Bialasiewicz, L. & Minca, C. Old Europe, New Europe: For a Geopolitics of Translation. Area. 2005;37:365-372
Bialasiewicz, L., Another Europe: remembering Habsburg Galicja. Cultural Geographies. 2003;10:21-44
Bialasiewicz, L., Upper Silesia: Rebirth of a Regional Identity in Poland. Regional and Federal Studies. 2002;12:111-132
Articles: Review
L Bialasiewicz Europa Geopolitikaja. Ter Es Tarsadalom. 2003;2:111-112
C. Minca & L. Bialasiewicz Geografia critica. Rivista Geografica Italiana. 2003;110:561-575
L. Bialasiewicz The many wor(l)ds of difference and dissent. Antipode. 2003;35:14-23
[edit] Web Links
Dr. Bialasiewicz's Royal Holloway Homepage: [1]
Dr. Bialasiewicz's University of Durham Homepage: [2]
