• Piotr Żuk and Paweł Żuk. Power, environment and depoliticised conflict in social space: Threats to sustainable development from the perspective of environmental activists in Poland. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 2025. DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2024.2445289
• Piotr Żuk. The European Green Deal and the peasant cause: Class frustration, cultural backlash and right-wing nationalist populism in farmers’ protests in Poland. Journal of Rural Studies 2025, 119, 103708. doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103708.
• Piotr Żuk, J. Mazač, D. Muth, and L. Tichý. 2025. Energy self-defence against official policy: prosumer motives and tactics in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. Energy Research & Social Science 127: 104202. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104202.
• Żuk, P. & Żuk, P. 2025. Glocalisation of environmental challenges: The impact of the war in Ukraine on smog and heating practices in Polish local communities. Geo: Geography and Environment, 12, e70031. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.70031
• Żuk, P., & Żuk, P. 2025. Healthy nation body, foreign viruses and border control: health bordering and biopolitics in the Polish context. Mobilities, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2025.2581040
• Piotr Żuk, Daniele Conversi, and Paweł Żuk. Conceptualising energy nationalism in the context of climate change: framework and review. Frontiers in Energy Research 2024; 12. DOI: 10.3389/fenrg.2024.1349581
• Piotr Żuk and Paweł Żuk. Beyond “geological nature,” fatalistic determinism and Pop-Anthropocene: Social, cultural, and political aspects of the Anthropocene. Earth’s Future 2024; 12(4): e2023EF004045. DOI: 10.1029/2023EF004045
• Piotr Żuk and Paweł Żuk. Ecology for the rich? Class aspects of the green transition and the threat of right-wing populism as a reaction to its costs in Poland. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy 2024; 20(1): 2351231. DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2024.2351231
• Piotr Żuk and Paweł Żuk. The impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic experiences on attitudes towards vaccinations: on the social, cultural and political determinants of preferred vaccination organization models in Poland. Health Research Policy and Systems 2024; 22(1): 128. DOI: 10.1186/s12961-024-01214-7
• Piotr Żuk and Paweł Żuk. The role of trust, information and legal stability in the development of renewable energy: the analysis of non-economic factors affecting entrepreneurs’ investments in green energy in Poland. Environment, Development and Sustainability 2024; 26(7): 18499–18534. DOI: 10.1007/s10668-023-03400-z
• Paweł Żuk and Piotr Żuk. Social and spatial determinants of energy ageism: Calibrating social policy towards older people under the conditions of energy transition in Polish society. Energy Research & Social Science 2024; 118: 103795. DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103795

• Piotr Żuk and Paweł Żuk. Wall-building policy: nationalist space management and borderphobia as right-wing populists’ tools for doing authoritarian politics. Frontiers in Political Science 2024; 6: 1288787. DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2024.1288787
• Kacper Szulecki, Maria Aspen Neerland, Håkon Tomter, Paweł Żuk, and Piotr Żuk. Ageism, welfare, and the energy transition: a comparative analysis of the perceptions among the elderly in Poland and Norway. Energy, Sustainability and Society 2024; 14: 35. DOI: 10.1186/s13705-024-00468-x
• Piotr Żuk. Soft power and the media management of energy transition: Analysis of the media narrative about the construction of nuclear power plants in Poland. Energy Reports 2023; 9: 568–583. DOI: 10.1016/j.egyr.2022.11.192
• Piotr Żuk. The school as a means of changing or reproducing attitudes towards climate protection? Energy education in the context of class differences and “energy habitus.” Journal of Cleaner Production 2023; 390: 136140. DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.136140
• Piotr Żuk. The sense of socio-economic threat and the perception of climate challenges and attitudes towards energy transition among residents of coal basins: The case of Turoszów Basin in Poland. Resources Policy 2023; 82: 103509. DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2023.103509
• Piotr Żuk. The war in Ukraine: Consequences for the economy, labour class and equitable development in Europe and beyond. The Economic and Labour Relations Review 2023; 34(2): 343–356. DOI: 10.1017/elr.2023.18
• Piotr Żuk, Aron Buzogány, Matúš Mišík, Jan Osička, and Kacper Szulecki. Semi-peripheries in the world-system? The Visegrad group countries in the geopolitical order of energy and raw materials after the war in Ukraine. Resources Policy 2023; 85: 104046. DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2023.104046
• Piotr Żuk and Anna Pacześniak. “They attack the family and order”: Right-wing media about feminists and the political consequences of the women’s strike in Poland. Frontiers in Sociology 2023; 7: 1066409. DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2022.1066409
• Piotr Żuk. “Eco-terrorists”: right-wing populist media about “ecologists” and the public opinion on the environmental movement in Poland. East European Politics 2022; 39(1): 101–127. DOI: 10.1080/21599165.2022.2055551
• Piotr Żuk and Paweł Żuk. Energy ageism: The framework of the problem and the challenges of a just energy transition. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 2022; 43: 237–243. DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2022.04.006
• Piotr Żuk and Paweł Żuk. Energy/power as a tool that disciplines and reproduces the energy order and as a critical-analytical perspective on energy policy. Energy Policy 2022; 161: 112750. DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112750
• Piotr Żuk and Paweł Żuk. National energy security or acceleration of transition? Energy policy after the war in Ukraine. Joule 2022; 6(4): 709–712. DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2022.03.009

• Piotr Żuk and Paweł Żuk. The Turów Brown Coal Mine in the shadow of an international conflict: Surveying the actions of the European Union Court of Justice and the populist policies of the Polish government. The Extractive Industries and Society 2022; 10: 101054. DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2022.101054
• Piotr Żuk and Paweł Żuk. Civic energy and the traditions of the idea of civil society: Dilemmas, frames and discussions, Energy Research and Social Science. 92, 102798. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102798.
• Piotr Żuk and Paweł Żuk. Prosumers in action: The analysis of social determinants of photovoltaic development and prosumer strategies in Poland. International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy 2022; 12(4): 294–306. DOI: 10.32479/ijeep.13124
• Piotr Żuk and Paweł Żuk. The Independence Day as a nationalist ritual: Framework of the March of Independence in Poland. Ethnography 2022; 23(1): 14–37. DOI: 10.1177/14661381211073406
• Antje Klitkou, Simon Bolwig, Andreas Huber, Lina Ingeborgrud, Przemysław Pluciński, Harald Rohracher, Doris Schartinger, Mara Thiene, and Piotr Żuk. The interconnected dynamics of social practices and their implications for transformative change: A review. Sustainable Production and Consumption 2022; 31: 603–614. DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2022.03.027
• Paweł Żuk and Piotr Żuk. The precariat pandemic: Exploitation overshadowed by COVID-19 and workers’ strategies in Poland. The Economic and Labour Relations Review 2022; 33(1): 200–223. DOI: 10.1177/10353046211067255
• Piotr Żuk. From the anti-semitic campaign in 1968 to the nationalism of the populist right 50 years later: Anti-semitic narrative in Poland as a tool of politics. Ethnopolitics 2021; 22(1): 69–90. DOI: 10.1080/17449057.2021.1988220
• Piotr Żuk, Przemysław Pluciński, and Paweł Żuk. The Dialectic of Neoliberal Exploitation and Cultural‐Sexual Exclusion: From Special Economic Zones to LGBT‐Free Zones in Poland. Antipode 2021; 53(5): 1571–1595. DOI: 10.1111/anti.12721
• Piotr Żuk and Paweł Żuk. Increasing energy prices as a stimulus for entrepreneurship in renewable energies: Ownership structure, company size and energy policy in companies in Poland. Energies 2021; 14(18): 5885. DOI: 10.3390/en14185885
• Piotr Żuk and Paweł Żuk. “Nation against the system”: nationalist rap as the voice of marginalized classes and losers from the neoliberal transformation in Poland. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 2021; 18(4): 369–389. DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2021.1905168
• Piotr Żuk and Paweł Żuk. On the socio-cultural determinants of Polish entrepreneurs’ attitudes towards the development of renewable energy: business, climate skeptic ideology and climate change. Energies 2021; 14(12): 3418. DOI: 10.3390/en14123418

• Piotr Żuk, Paweł Żuk, and Przemysław Pluciński. Coal basin in Upper Silesia and energy transition in Poland in the context of pandemic: The socio-political diversity of preferences in energy and environmental policy. Resources Policy 2021; 71: 101987. DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2021.101987
• Piotr Żuk. On the role of utopia in social thought and social sciences. History of European Ideas 2020; 46(8), 1047–1058. DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2020.1761650
• Piotr Żuk. One leader, one party, one truth: Public television under the rule of the populist right in Poland in the pre-election period in 2019. Javnost 2020; 27(3): 287–307. DOI: 10.1080/13183222.2020.1794413
• Piotr Żuk and Anna Pacześniak. Sustainable development, energy transition, and climate challenges in the context of gender: The framework of gender determinants of environmental orientation in Poland. Sustainability 2020; 12(21): 9214. DOI: 10.3390/su12219214
• Piotr Żuk and Kacper Szulecki. Unpacking the right-populist threat to climate action: Poland’s pro-governmental media on energy transition and climate change. Energy Research & Social Science 2020; 66: 101485. DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2020.101485
• Piotr Żuk and Jan Toporowski. Capitalism after communism: The triumph of neoliberalism, nationalist reaction and waiting for the leftist wave. The Economic and Labour Relations Review 2020; 31(2): 158–171. DOI: 10.1177/1035304620911121
• Piotr Żuk and Paweł Żuk. Between private property, authoritarian state and democracy: Clearing trees in cities and destroying the Białowieża Forest in Poland. Capitalism Nature Socialism 2020; 32(2): 56–76. DOI: 10.1080/10455752.2020.1849335
• Piotr Żuk and Paweł Żuk. “Democracy is not for everyone”: Nationalist homophobia in Eastern Europe and opposition to liberal democracy in the European Union. Communist and Post-Communist Studies 2020; 53(3): 1–21. DOI: 10.1525/cpcs.2020.53.3.1
• Piotr Żuk and Paweł Żuk. ‘Euro-Gomorrah and Homopropaganda’: The culture of fear and ‘Rainbow Scare’ in the narrative of right-wing populists media in Poland as part of the election campaign to the European Parliament in 2019. Discourse, Context & Media 2020; 33: 100364. DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2019.100364
• Piotr Żuk and Paweł Żuk. Right-wing populism in Poland and anti-vaccine myths on YouTube: political and cultural threats to public health. Global Public Health 2020; 15(6): 790–804. DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2020.1718733
• Piotr Żuk and Paweł Żuk. Spatial, ideological and economic limitations of gynaecological examinations in Poland. Health Care for Women International 2020; 41(10): 1101–1110. DOI: 10.1080/07399332.2020.1716764
• Barbara Komorowska and Piotr Żuk. Leszek Kołakowski on heresy. History of European Ideas 2020; 46(8): 1059–1077. DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2020.1761648

• Piotr Żuk. Edward Abramowski’s concept of stateless socialism and its impact on progressive social movements in Poland in the twentieth century. History of European Ideas 2019; 45(1): 64–82. DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2018.1527559
• Piotr Żuk and Paweł Żuk. Dangerous Liaisons between the Catholic Church and State: the religious and political alliance of the nationalist right with the conservative Church in Poland. Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 2019; 27(2–3), 191–212. DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2019.1692519
• Piotr Żuk and Paweł Żuk. “Murderers of the unborn” and “sexual degenerates”: analysis of the “anti-gender” discourse of the Catholic Church and the nationalist right in Poland. Critical Discourse Studies 2019; 17(5): 566–588. DOI: 10.1080/17405904.2019.1676808
• Piotr Żuk and Paweł Żuk. One of the recent attacks of smallpox in Europe: A massive vaccination campaign during the epidemic in Wrocław in 1963. Vaccine 2019; 37(41): 6125–6131. DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.08.038
• Piotr Żuk and Paweł Żuk. “The national music scene”: the analysis of the Nazi rock discourse and its relationship with the upsurge of nationalism in Poland. Ethnic and Racial Studies 2019; 42(15): 2700–2722. DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2018.1554224
• Piotr Żuk, Paweł Żuk, and Justyna Lisiewicz-Jakubaszko. Labour migration of doctors and nurses and the impact on the quality of health care in Eastern European countries: The case of Poland. The Economic and Labour Relations Review 2019; 30(2): 307–320. DOI: 10.1177/1035304619847335
• Piotr Żuk, Paweł Żuk, and Justyna Lisiewicz-Jakubaszko. The anti-vaccine movement in Poland: The socio-cultural conditions of the opposition to vaccination and threats to public health. Vaccine 2019; 37(11): 1491–1494. DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.01.073
• Piotr Żuk. “A city is not a company, a flat is not a commodity”: urban movements and defenders of tenants’ rights in Poland. Social Movement Studies 2018; 17(2): 251–255. DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2017.1401455
• Piotr Żuk. Nation, national remembrance, and education—Polish schools as factories of nationalism and prejudice. Nationalities Papers 2018; 46(6): 1046–1062. DOI: 10.1080/00905992.2017.1381079
• Piotr Żuk and Paweł Żuk. An “ordinary man’s” protest: self-immolation as a radical political message in Eastern Europe today and in the past. Social Movement Studies 2018; 17(5): 610–617. DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2018.1468245
• Piotr Żuk and Paweł Żuk. Environmental awareness and higher education: Differences in knowledge and the approach to ecology between students of technical sciences and the humanities in Poland. Applied Environmental Education & Communication 2018; 17(2): 150–160. DOI: 10.1080/1533015X.2017.1388196
• Piotr Żuk and Paweł Żuk. Multimodal analysis of the nationalist discourse and historical inspirations of the spectacle of the populist right in Poland between 2015 and 2017. Discourse, Context & Media 2018; 26: 135–143. DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2018.07.005
• Piotr Żuk and Paweł Żuk. Offshoring, labour migration and neo-liberalisation: nationalist responses and alternatives in Eastern Europe. The Economic and Labour Relations Review 2018; 29(1): 97–117. DOI: 10.1177/1035304617739759

• Piotr Żuk and Paweł Żuk. Retirees without pensions and welfare: The social effects of pension privatization in Poland. Critical Social Policy 2018; 38(2): 407–417. DOI: 10.1177/0261018317731982
• Anis Chowdhury and Piotr Żuk. From crisis to crisis: Capitalism, chaos and constant unpredictability. The Economic and Labour Relations Review 2018; 29(4): 375–393. DOI: 10.1177/1035304618811263
• Piotr Żuk. Employment structures, employee attitudes and workplace resistance in neoliberal Poland. The Economic and Labour Relations Review 2017; 28(1): 91–112. DOI: 10.1177/1035304617694798
• Piotr Żuk. Non-alternative reality? On the misery of the Left in Eastern Europe: the case of Poland. Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 2017; 25(1): 63–84. DOI: 10.1080/0965156X.2017.1339976
• Piotr Żuk and Paweł Żuk. Women’s health as an ideological and political issue: Restricting the right to abortion, access to in vitro fertilization procedures, and prenatal testing in Poland. Health Care for Women International 2017; 38(7): 689–704. DOI: 10.1080/07399332.2017.1322595

Scientific Books

• Społeczeństwo w działaniu. Ekolodzy, feministki, skłotersi [Society in Action: Ecologists, Feminists, Squatters]. Warszawa: Scholar, 2001.
• Struktura a kultura. O uwarunkowaniach orientacji emancypacyjnych w społeczeństwie polskim [Structure versus Culture. On Conditionings of Emancipation Orientations in Polish Society]. Warszawa: Scholar, 2008.

Edited Journals

• The meaning of heresy and utopia. History of European Ideas 2020; 46(8).
• Capitalism after Communism: Europe & the World 1989–2019. Special Issue The Economic and Labour Relations Review 2020; 31(2).
• The 2008 Global financial & Economic Crisis: Ten Years On. Special Issue The Economic and Labour Relations Review 2018; 29(4).

Edited Scientific Books

• Integracja europejska a zmiany kulturowe i społeczno-polityczne w Polsce [European Integration and Cultural and Socio-political Changes in Poland]. Warszawa: Książka i Prasa, 2015.
• O kulturze protestu jako rdzeniu tradycji europejskiej [The Culture of Protest as the Core of the European Tradition]. Warszawa: Książka i Prasa, 2015.
• O kulturze strachu i przemyśle bezpieczeństwa [On the Culture of Fear and Security Industry]. Warszawa: Książka i Prasa, 2015.
• O różnorodności kulturowej w monokulturowej Polsce [Cultural diversity in monocultural Poland]. Warszawa: Oficyna Naukowa, 2014.
• Współczesne oblicza autorytaryzmu [Contemporary Faces of Authoritarianism]. Warszawa: Oficyna Naukowa, 2014.
• Kulturowo-polityczny AVATAR? Kultura popularna jako obszar konfliktów i wzorów społecznych [Popular culture as an area of conflicts and social patterns]. Warszawa: Oficyna Naukowa, 2013.
• Wiedza, ideologia, władza. O społecznej funkcji uniwersytetu w społeczeństwie rynkowym [Knowledge, Ideology, Power: On the Social Function of University in the Market Society]. Warszawa: Scholar, 2012.
• O wspólnocie obywatelskiej w cieniu kapitalizmu [A Civic Community in the Shadow of Capitalism]. Warszawa: Oficyna Naukowa, 2010.
• Podziały klasowe i nierówności społeczne [Class Divisions and Social Inequities: Sociological Reflections on Two Decades of Real Capitalism in Poland]. Warszawa: Oficyna Naukowa, 2010.
• Spotkania z utopią w XXI wieku [Meetings with Utopia in the 21st Century]. Warszawa: Oficyna Naukowa, 2008.
• Europa w działaniu: o szansach i zagrożeniach dla projektu europejskiego [Europe in Action: The Opportunities and Threats for the European Project]. Warszawa: Oficyna Naukowa, 2007.
• Media i władza. Demokracja, wolność przekazu i publiczna debata w warunkach globalizacji mediów [The Media and Power. Democracy, Free Media and Public Debate under the Conditions of Media Globalization]. Warszawa: Scholar, 2006.
• Dogmatyzm, rozum, emancypacja. Tradycje Oświecenia we współczesnym społeczeństwie polskim [Dogmatism, Reason, Emancipation. The Traditions of the Enlightenment in Contemporary Polish Society]. Warszawa: Scholar, 2005.
• Demokracja spektaklu? Kondycja polskiego życia publicznego 15 lat po zmianie systemowej [Democracy of Spectacle? Condition of the Polish Public Life 15 Years after the System Change]. Warszawa: Scholar, 2004.
• W poszukiwaniu innych światów. Europa, lewica, socjaldemokracja wobec zmian globalnych [Europe, the Left and Socialdemocracy in the Face of Global Changes]. Warszawa: Scholar, 2003.

Review Articles and Book Reviews

• Piotr Żuk. The Secret War of Intelligence: The Mysterious Mission of “Jack Strong” and its Impact on the Cold War in the 1970s and 1980s. Journal of Cold War Studies 2019; 21(1): 166–185. DOI: 10.1162/jcws_a_00872
• Piotr Żuk and Paweł Żuk. Gender and class: female workers, female resistance and female history in the communist system in Poland. Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 2018; 26(2–3): 283–298. DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2018.1551285
• Piotr Żuk. Inequalities, Social Exclusion and Radical Political Struggle—Some Historical and Social Thoughts on the Interwar Period in Poland (1918–1939). European History Quarterly 2017; 47(3): 509–517. DOI: 10.1177/0265691417703915
• Piotr Żuk. Book Review: Kalecki: A leftist Keynes for the working class. The Economic and Labour Relations Review 2017; 28(2): 340–344. DOI: 10.1177/1035304616688582
• Piotr Żuk. Book Review: Mariana Mazzucato, The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths. The Economic and Labour Relations Review 2017; 28(2): 344–348. DOI: 10.1177/1035304617707888
• Piotr Żuk. Anti-Semitism in Poland, yesterday and today. Race & Class 2017; 58(3): 81–86. DOI: 10.1177/0306396816667045
• Piotr Żuk. The Decarbonization of Society as a System Change. Society & Natural Resources 2017; 30(2): 261–263. DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2016.1209269
• Piotr Żuk. Anti-military protests and campaigns against nuclear power plants: the peace movement in the shadow of the Warsaw Pact in Poland in the 1980s. Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 2017; 25(3): 367–374. DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2017.1401695
• Piotr Żuk. Book review: Marian Filar and Jarosław Utrat-Milecki (eds), Kulturowe uwarunkowania polityki kryminalnej (Cultural Determinants of Criminal Policy), Crime, Media, Culture 2017; 14(1): 124–127. DOI: 10.1177/1741659017699317
• Piotr Żuk. Is there an alternative to neoliberal capitalism in Eastern Europe? The Economic and Labour Relations Review 2016; 27(3): 406–408. DOI: 10.1177/1035304616656540
• Piotr Żuk. Stawka większa niż rynek. U źródeł stagnacji kapitalizmu bez granic [ Stakes Larger than the Market. The Roots Stagnating Capitalism without Borders] by Tadeusz Klementewicz. Capital & Class 2016; 40(2): 392–394. DOI: 10.1177/0309816816661148m
• Piotr Żuk. Prekariat i nowa walka klas [The Precariat and the new class struggle]. By Jarosław Urbański. International Labour Review 2016; 155(1): 166–169. DOI: 10.1111/ilr.12011
• Piotr Żuk. Codename: “Hyacinth” [Kryptonim: “Hiacynt”]. Journal of Homosexuality 2016; 63(8): 1167–1170. DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2016.1186417