Barbara Bossak-Herbst, PhD hab., is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Warsaw. Her interests include urban studies, visual culture, horse racing, and multispecies relations. To date, she has published two books: ‘Warszawska enklawa. Świat wyścigów konnych na Służewcu’ [Warsaw Enclave. The Social World of Horse Racing at Służewiec] (2020) and ‘Antropolis. Współczesny Gdańsk w wymiarze symbolicznym’ [Antropolis. Contemporary Gdańsk in a Symbolic Dimension] (2009).