Dembinska Magdalena
Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Montreal
Canada
Biography
Dembinska Magdalena is an Associate Professor Contact : T elephone 514-343-6111 # 39949 Pav. PAV.M.CARON-L.GROULX-3200 JB \ bur. C-4046 at University of Montreal, Department of Political Science, Canada.
Research Interest
As a specialist in comparative politics, my research agenda is in the interdisciplinary field of ethnic politics. It focuses on identity politics, ethnic conflict, inter-ethnic reconciliation and integration in Central Europe and the post-Soviet space. I am particularly interested in the identity transformations included in a relational framework of interactions between political opportunities, elite strategies and societal receptivity. My calendar includes three lines of research. The first explores the policies of recognition and ethno-political movements in post-communist countries. The second examines the process of nation building and focuses on the historical political and armed post- conflict societies and de Fato States, ie Turkish Cyprus, Abkhazia (Georgia) and Transnistria (Moldova). The third axis looks at the institutional and political processes of building inter-ethnic trust in divided societies. With Françoise Montambeault, we study, for example, the mechanisms of deliberation conducive to the formation of collective political identities.
Publications
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"The Making of an Empty Moldovan Category Within a Multiethnic Transnistrian Nation", with Danero Iglasias J., East European Politics and Societies , 2013, vol. 27, no. 3, p. 413-428.
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"Introduction to the Special Section: Minority Politics and the Territoriality Principle in Europe", with L. Maracz and M. Tonk, Nationalities Papers , 2014, vol. 42, no. 3, p. 355-375.
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Live together in cultural diversity. Central and Eastern Europe after 1989 , Les Presses Universitaires de Rennes (2012).
