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Dr Natalia Martini

position: Research Assistant

E-mail: natalia.martini@uj.edu.pl


Natalia Martini has a strong interest in urban everyday life and creative methodological approaches for studying its varied spatialities and temporalities. Her work cuts across sociology and human geography and favors an activist approach to scholarship. Her recent research focuses on everyday practices of inhabiting the city. It uses participatory, mobile, and reflexive methods to discover how homeless dwellers navigate the city and anchor their places in various urban spaces, and how their capabilities for exercising the right to stay put might be enhanced.

Scientific and research interests

  • theories of practice
  • qualitative methods
  • mapping
  • everyday life
  • city
  • homelessness

Publications

  • Martini, Natalia. 2021. Street homelessness, visibility and recognition. Navigating the dilemmas of mapping homeless spatialities. ACME: An International Journal of Critical Geographies 20(5): 460–478.
  • Martini, Natalia. 2021. Mooring in the Homeless City. A Practice Theoretical Account of Homeless Urban Dwelling and Emplacement. Qualitative Sociology Review 17(3):56–75.
  • Martini, Natalia. 2021. Walking with Homeless Persons in Kraków and Łódź. Pp. 91–102 in: Deathworlds to Lifeworlds: Collaboration with Strangers for Personal, Social and Ecological Justice, edited by V. M. Bentz and J. Marlatt. Berlin: De Gruyter Press.
  • Martini, Natalia. 2020. Using GPS and GIS to Enrich the Walk-along Method. Field Methods 32(2):180–92.
  • Smagacz-Poziemska, Marta, Andrzej Bukowski and Natalia Martini. 2020. Social Practice Research in Practice. Some Methodological Challenges in Applying Practice-Based Approach to the Urban Research. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 24(1):65–78.
  • Martini, Natalia. 2017. Capturing the Lived Experience of the City through Methodological Practice of Walking. Pp. 303–17 in: Re-Imagining the City. Municipality and Urbanity Today from a Sociological Perspective, edited by M. Smagacz-Poziemska, K. Frysztacki and A. Bukowski. Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press.
  • Martini, Natalia. 2017. Praktykowanie czasu wolnego w sytuacji niedoboru i nadmiaru. [Eng. Practicing Leisure Under the Conditions of Time Scarcity and Time Abundance]. Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej 13(4):94–112.
  • Bryda, Grzegorz, Natalia Martini. 2016. W stronę pola badań jakościowych [Eng. Towards an Ontology of Qualitative Research Practices]. Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej 12(4):24–40.
  • Nóżka, Marcjanna, Natalia Martini. 2015. Metody mobilne i wizualne w praktyce badawczej. Zastosowanie fotospaceru w socjologicznych badaniach map mentalnych i zachowań terytorialnych ludzi [Eng. Mobile and Visual Methods in Research Practice. Using Photo-Walks in Sociological Research on Mental Maps and Human Territorial Behaviours]. Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej 11(4):34–50.

Currently implemented projects

Research Assistant, Normality under uncertainty. Praxeological approach in research on the (re)production of 'normal' urban life, Faculty of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, National Science Centre Grant no. 2021/41/B/HS6/02718

Completed projects

  • 2020-2021: Co-Researcher, From Deathworlds to Lifeworlds: A Web Based Story Map Pilot Project, Fielding Graduate University
  • 2019: Co-Researcher, From Deathworlds to Lifeworlds: Collaboration with Strangers for Personal, Social and Ecological Transformation, Fielding Graduate University, University of Virgin Islands, University of Lodz
  • 2018-2020: Scholarship Holder, From paradigm to the research method. The domain ontology as a model of knowledge representation about the contemporary field of qualitative research, Faculty of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, National Science Centre Grant no. 2016/23/B/HS6/00301
  • 2018-2019: Scholarship Holder, Cultural mechanisms of structuring of urban local communities, Faculty of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, National Science Centre Grant no. 2016/23/B/HS6/03891
  • 2017-2021: Principal Investigator, City as a lived experience in a homeless situation. A socio-spatial study, Faculty of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, National Science Centre Grant no. 2016/23/N/HS6/00810
  • 2017: Co-Researcher, Differences and boundaries in the process of creating neighborhood communities in large cities. A socio–spatial study, Faculty of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, National Science Centre Grant no. 2014/15/B/HS6/01949
  • 2015-2016: Project Coordinator, Michałowice’s Community Archive, Ministry of Labor and Social Policy Grants no. 1023, no. 2678
  • 2014-2016: Project Coordinator, Bronowice’s Community Archive, Ministry of Labor and Social Policy Grants no. 1199, no. 4867, no. 1651

Research stays

  • 2022-2023: KU Leuven, Centre for Sociological Research, Belgium
  • 2022 Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Centre for Interdisciplinary Regional Studies, Germany
  • 2021-2022 Humboldt University of Berlin, Georg-Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies, Germany
  • 2021 Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Sociology, Hungary
  • 2019 Drexel University, Center for Mobilities Research and Policy, United States
  • 2017 Cardiff University, School of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Membership in professional organizations

  • since 2021 Member of the Editorial Board of the Qualitative Research Journal
  • since 2020 Member of the Steering Committee of the Practice Theory Consortium
  • since 2019 Member of the Arts-Based Research Global Consortium
  • since 2019 Member of the Polish Sociological Association
  • since 2019 Member of Social Practices Lab IS JU
  • since 2016 Member of CAQDAS TM Lab IS JU