Joanna Hańderek
Joanna Hańderek is a Polish philosopher of culture, associate professor at the Jagiellonian University, opinion journalist, activist and politician.
Biography
Academic work
In 2002 she obtained a PhD in humanities at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University, on the basis of the work Suffering and Time. An attempt to analyze the suffering-time relationship based on the views of Emmanuel Lévinas, supervised by Beata Szymańska. In 2012, she obtained habilitation in humanities. She is an associate professor at the Jagiellonian University. She was the deputy director for student affairs at the Institute of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University.She published two monographs and a number of articles in philosophical journals, including in the Kwartalnik Filozoficzny. She specializes in contemporary philosophy, philosophy of culture, in particular in the issues of postcolonialism, globalization, multiculturalism and social exclusion. She is a member of the editorial board of the Racje quarterly.
Since 2013, she has been the co-organizer of the conference Culture of exclusion?. She has been the mentor of two sections of the Scientific Society of Students of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University.
Social and political activity
She is the founder of the Rewersy Kultury Association, which works for the inclusion of the excluded people. She is a member of the Council of the Congress of Women Association, the Humanist Society and the Congress of Secularism, which advocates the separation of church and state.She co-organized the march against fascism in Krakow. She also participated in the Black Protest.
In the 2019 parliamentary elections in Poland, she ran for a seat in the Sejm from the list of the Democratic Left Alliance in the Kraków constituency, receiving 2,734 votes.