PODCAST
Postcritical Psychogeographies
From Weak Resistance to Weak Avant-Garde
Our conversation with Agata Lisiak concerning feminism, theory, urban and critical studies has been ongoing since more than a decade. This is why it is so complicated to just make a short interview with her. The research she has conducted concerning the feminist critical geographer, Doreen Massey and the Polish-Jewish-German communist economist, Rosa Luxemburg, became a topic of her inspiring podcast, the Spatial Delight, available on the website of the journal Sociological Review.
Her podcast inspired me to begin my own podcast, and while I cannot compete with the elegance and caring approach of what she did there, I hope this is a valid tribute of recognition, along with all the complements I pay to her outstanding work. In our episode, Agata gives us feminist and decolonial insights into the perspective on avant-garde, but also knowledge production, situationism and psychogeography, as well as critical urban studies.
Guests: Agata Lisiak
Host: Ewa Majewska
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postcritical_psychogeographies_Ep_06.mp3 (21.8 MB)
About:
Agata Lisiak
Agata Lisiak is Migration Studies professor and Academic Director of the Internship Program at Bard College Berlin as well as Research Associate at the University of the Witwatersrand. She has held visiting fellowships at National Sun Yat-sen University, The Open University, and the University of Birmingham. She was a postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt University’s Institute of Social Sciences (2013-2017) and a Marie Curie Actions/EURIAS fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna (2013-2014). She works at the intersections of migration studies, urban sociology, and cultural studies. She is particularly interested in everyday urban encounters and imaginaries, feminist theory and practice, and developing creative, multi-sensory, and collaborative methods in urban and migration research. She has written about urban girlhood, migrant motherhood, walking in the city, urban sounds, cultural memory in post-socialist cities, and Rosa Luxemburg's political ecology, among many other topics. Most recently, she was the convener and lead of the OSUN-funded Transnational Feminism, Solidarity, and Social Justice project and served on the Steering Committee of the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network. Agata is the writer, host, and producer of Spatial Delight, a podcast about space, politics, and power inspired by geographer Doreen Massey.
Cite this work:
Majewska, Ewa. “Podcast as care. With Agata Lisiak.” Postcritical Psychogeographies. From Weak Resistance to Weak Avant-Garde. August, 23, 2025. Podcast, episode 6, 27:16.https://ewa-majewska.com/podcast/episode_6/
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