Dr Rafal Soborski

About

Dr Soborski holds a PhD in Political Science from University of Surrey, MA in European Studies from University of Exeter, and two MAs from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (in Sociology and Religion Studies). He has taught extensively in areas of ideology, global studies, development and political sociology and published several peer-reviewed articles and chapters on globalization, ideology, social movements, the far-right and the paradox of immigrants becoming supporters and activists of far-right groups in their countries of residence.

Dr Soborski is the author of two monographs: Ideology in a Global Age: Continuity and Change(Palgrave Macmillan 2013) and Ideology and the Future of Progressive Social Movements (Rowman & Littlefield 2018) and has published articles in world-leading journals, such as Ethnic and Racial Studies, Nations and Nationalism, Politics, International Migration Review, Journal of Political Ideologies and others. He is the editor of The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Global Studies and chairs the Global Studies Research Network.

Research interests

Political ideologies
Global and transnational studies
Politics of environmentalism
Neoliberalism
Social movements
Diaspora radicalization
Nationalism
The far right

Research outputs

Books

Soborski, R. (2018) Ideology and the Future of Progressive Social Movements. Rowman and Littlefield.
Soborski, R. (2013) Ideology in a Global Age: Continuity and Change. Palgrave Macmillan.

Chapters

Soborski, R. (2024) ‘Prefigurative Activism Today: From Socialist Values via Anarchist Tactics Back to the Neoliberal Status Quo’. In S. Guy, E. Okan, V. Boullet and J. Tranmer (eds) Liberalism and Socialism since the Nineteenth Century: Tensions, Exchanges, and Convergences. Palgrave Macmillan, 275-293.
Soborski, R. (2020) ‘End of Ideology? A Neoliberal Hoax and Lessons for the Left’. In S. A. Hamed Hosseini, James Goodman, Sara C. Motta and Barry K. Gills (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies. Routledge, 108-118.
Flood, C. and Soborski, R. (2018) ‘Euroscepticism as ideology’. In B. Leruth, N. Startin and S. Usherwood (eds) Routledge Handbook of Euroscepticism. Routledge, 36–47.
Soborski, R. (2017) ‘Ideological imbalance following the credit crunch: neoliberalism versus the politics of resistance’. In J. Smith et al. (eds) Social Movements and World-System Transformation. Routledge, 94–111.
Soborski, R. (2006) ‘Alternative localizations: anarchist and ecologist antiglobalisms from a comparative perspective’. In J. Harris (ed.) Alternative Globalizations. Change Maker Press, 369–83.
Soborski, R. (2004) ‘Antiglobalism and ecologism in comparative perspective’. In B. Baxter and R. Dunphy (eds.) Europe, Globalisation and Sustainable Development. Routledge, 31–46.

Editorials

Galent, M and R. Soborski (2020) ‘Globalization Thirty Years On: Promises, Realities and Morals for the Future‘. The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Global studies Volume 15, Issue 4, i-ix

Articles

Papers

Soborski, R, M. P. Garapich and A. Jochymek (2024) ‘Polonization of the British Soil and Home-Making Through Deathscapes: The Far-Right’s Reluctant Transnational Adventures’. Working Paper 8/2024 Toronto Metropolitan Centre for Immigration and Settlement (TMCIS) and the CERC in Migration and Integration at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Flood, C. and R. Soborski (2011) ‘Ideology and the Rights of the Nation in Party Alignments on the EU: A Comparison of Conservative Parties in Britain, France and Poland’, Social Science Research Network Working Paper Series.

Academic Translations

The following chapters from J. Baylis and S. Smith (eds.) The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005):

R. Little, ‘International regimes’;
F. Halliday, ‘Nationalism’;
S. Murden ‘Culture in world affairs’;
J. J. Pettman ‘Gender issues’ (in Polish edition published by University of Krakow Press, 2008)

Dr Rafal Soborski

Professor of International Politics