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At the page of the Polish Sociological Association you find a link to the 2020 founded Section of Interspecies Relations.

(The FEWD archived here the basic information)  

The first social science articles about the animal advocacy / rights movement in a CEE country constitute the starting point for a planned FEWD workshop at University of Vienna. Written are these pioneering publications by one of the leading Scandinavian sociologists, Prof. Kerstin Jacobsson.

So please start with the very interesting abstracts / introductions of:
 Jacobsson, Kerstin 2012. 
Fragmentation of the collective action space: The animal rights movement in Poland. East European Politics 28 (4): 353-370.

Jacobsson, Kerstin 2013. Channeling and enrollment: The institutional shaping of animal rights activism in Poland. In: Jacobsson, Kerstin / Saxonberg, Steven (ed.) Beyond NGO-ization? The development of social movements in Central and Eastern Europe. Farnham, Ashgate: 1-35

Fröhlich, C., & Jacobsson, K. (2017). States Shaping Civic Activism: Comparing Animal Rights Activism in Poland and RussiaThe Sociological Quarterly58(2): 182–201.

 Additionally important to mention is that Prof. Jacobsson edited with E. Korolczuk 2017 the book Civil Society Revisited: Lessons from Poland. https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/JacobssonCivil

 

See additionally the publications

Korolczuk, E. (2022). Challenging Civil Society Elites in Poland: The Dynamics and Strategies of Civil Society Actors. East European Politics and Societies37(3), 880-902.  https://doi.org/10.1177/08883254221132282 - open access!

Jacobsson, Kerstin; Korolczuk, Elzbieta eds. 2017. Civil Society Revisited: Lessons from Poland. Oxford, Berghahn Books. https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/JacobssonCivil