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Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference 28-31 August, 2018 | Cardiff, UK Op... more Royal Geographical Society
Annual International Conference
28-31 August, 2018 | Cardiff, UK

Open panel/Call for papers

Deadline 10 February 2018

by Haris Tsavdaroglou, begüm özden fırat, Fırat Genç, Antigoni Geronta, Philipp Katsinas, Penny Koutrolikou, Mehmet Penpecioglu, Kostas Petrakos, Christy (Chryssanthi) Petropoulou, Myrto Tsilimpounidi, Murat Cemal Yalcintan, Evie Kouroumichaki, and Natalia - Rozalia Avlona

Urban Struggles in Mediterranean Cities: The Right to the City and the Common Space Abstracts ... more Urban Struggles in Mediterranean Cities:
The Right to the City and the Common Space

Abstracts Submission Deadline: January 20th, 2018

International UnConference
Athens, School of Architecture,
National Technical University of Athens
May 31th – June 3th, 2018
https://urbanstruggles.net/

CFP-Conference Organising Committees by Natalia - Rozalia Avlona

Μέλος της οργανωτικής επιτροπής του Διεθνούς Συνεδρίου «Historical Materialism Athens 2019. Rethi... more Μέλος της οργανωτικής επιτροπής του Διεθνούς Συνεδρίου «Historical Materialism Athens 2019. Rethinking crisis, resistance and strategy», που διοργανώθηκε στο Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο με τη συνεργασία του Τμήματος Κοινωνικής Πολιτικής και του Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.

Οργανωτική επιτροπή: Dimitra Alifieraki, Νatalia-Rozalia Avlona, Alexandros Chrysis Angela Dimitrakaki, Eirini Gaitanou, Penny Galani, Costas Gousis, Giorgos Kalampokas, Dimitris Kaltsonis, Angelos Kontogiannis-Mandros, Nikos Kourachanis, Giannis Kouzis, Olga Lafazani, Dimitris Lenis,
Kimon Markatos, Ismini Mathioudaki, Alexandros Minotakis, Despina Papadopoulou, Dimitris Papafotiou, Despina Paraskeva-Veloudogianni, Alkisti Prepi, Spyros Sakellaropoulos, Katerina Sergidou, Sotiris Siamandouras, Panagiotis Sotiris, George Souvlis, Kostas Skordoulis, Giorgos Velegrakis

Teaching Documents by Natalia - Rozalia Avlona

Το εργαστήριο με θέμα ‘Φύλο και Κ.Α.Λ.Ο’ έχει ως στόχο να διερευνήσει τον χώρο της Κοινωνικής και... more Το εργαστήριο με θέμα ‘Φύλο και Κ.Α.Λ.Ο’ έχει ως στόχο να διερευνήσει τον χώρο της Κοινωνικής και Αλληλέγγυας Οικονομίας μέσα απο την οπτική του φύλου. Παρότι η συμμετοχή των γυναικών στον χώρο της ΚΑΛΟ, τόσο στην Ελλάδα όσο και στην Ευρώπη είναι αυξημένη σε σχέση με αυτή των αντρών και ο χώρος της Κοινωνικής και Αλληλέγγυας Οικονομίας ταυτίζεται με αξίες όπως η συμπερίληψη, η αλληλεγγύη και ο κοινωνικός μετασχηματισμός, έχουν παρατηρηθεί οι εξής αντιφάσεις:
Ο ρόλος των γυναικών στην ΚΑΛΟ παραμένει αφανής, η έμφυλη ισότητα σε εγχειρήματα με μικτή σύνθεση δεν είναι αυτονόητη, και δεν υφίσταται εναρμονισμένη και οριζόντια ένταξη της οπτικής του φύλου στους φορείς της ΚΑΛΟ. Επιπροσθέτως, τα φαινόμενα της «γυάλινης οροφή» και το «διάγραμμα της ψαλίδας μεταξύ των φύλων» που έχουν παρατηρηθεί στην κυρίαρχη επιχειρηματικότητα, τείνουν να αναπαράγονται και στον χώρο της ΚΑΛΟ με μικρές διαφοροποιήσεις.
Το εργαστήρι αυτό έχει δύο στόχους: Πρώτον να αναδείξει τα ζητήματα αυτά τόσο στην εσωτερική λειτουργία όσο και στην εξωτερική επικοινωνία των φορέων της ΚΑΛΟ, ειδικά όσων έχουν μικτή σύνθεση. Δεύτερον, να διερευνήσει και κωδικοποιήσει τις διαδικασίες, κουλτούρα και πλούτο εργαλείων που έχουν αναπτύξει οι φορείς της ΚΑΛΟ με έμφυλο πρόσημο.

Papers by Natalia - Rozalia Avlona

Information, Communication and Society Journal, Mar 7, 2024

The increasing digitisation of healthcare services has transformed healthcare provision into a da... more The increasing digitisation of healthcare services has transformed healthcare provision into a data-centric enterprise. Thinking with Joan Tronto and her notion of care, we study medical data practices in the context of a health-tech company developing an algorithmically driven platform to match patients and their physicians with clinical trials. What does it mean to pose the patient in the centre in such a context? In this paper, we show how the enactments of patient-centrism translate to multidimensional enactments of data care for a diversity of domain experts handling medical data, informed by the values and backgrounds of each ‘data handler’ situated within the concerns of their domain expertise. Where data experts engage solely with the patients’ data to facilitate data creation for the platform’s algorithmic system, the quest for data quality depends on the preceding practices of care and affective labour about and for the patients. We show how patients get help to torque their medical records and histories into data to fit the demands of the system to ensure access to experimental treatments and clinical trials. We demonstrate how patient-centrism manifests as care for data quality, shaped throughout by differentiated concerns for regulatory compliance. Finally, we argue that regulatory compliance constitutes a care practice across data work that is diversified in its enactments by the experts’ domain concerns and backgrounds.

Proceedings of the 2023 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society

AIES '23: Proceedings of the 2023 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 2023

One of the core goals of responsible AI development is ensuring high-quality training datasets. M... more One of the core goals of responsible AI development is ensuring
high-quality training datasets. Many researchers have pointed to
the importance of the annotation step in the creation of high-quality
data, but less attention has been paid to the work that enables data
annotation. We define this work as the design of ground truth
schema and explore the challenges involved in the creation of
datasets in the medical domain even before any annotations are
made. Based on extensive work in three health-tech organisations,
we describe five external and internal factors that condition medical
dataset creation processes. Three external factors include regula-
tory constraints, the context of creation and use, and commercial
and operational pressures. These factors condition medical data
collection and shape the ground truth schema design. Two internal
factors include epistemic differences and limits of labelling. These
directly shape the design of the ground truth schema. Discussions
of what constitutes high-quality data need to pay attention to the
factors that shape and constrain what is possible to be created, to
ensure responsible AI design.

Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 2022

The Sharing Economy in Europe

Whilst sharing economy has been enjoying increasing popularity worldwide over the last decade; it... more Whilst sharing economy has been enjoying increasing popularity worldwide over the last decade; its legal definition has been debatable. This is aligning with the fact that the European Union has not provided the legal framework for the sharing economy yet, apart from a European Commission Communication from 2016. This Communication seeks a balance between the support of a Digital Single Market in the EU and the protection of the consumers’ rights and leaves a broad space for national legislations to respond to the phenomenon of sharing economy. The aim of this chapter is to address these issues within the framework of two sharing economy case studies: Airbnb and Uber as the only source at the EU level of applicable law besides the EC Communication.

Cadernos CIMEAC

MARIYA IVANCHEVA é professora de estudos em ensino superior na Universidade de Liverpool (Inglate... more MARIYA IVANCHEVA é professora de estudos em ensino superior na Universidade de Liverpool (Inglaterra). Seus trabalhos analisam o papel da universidade em processos de mudança social, combinando métodos qualitativos e teoria social para discutir o impacto das tecnologias digitais no trabalho acadêmico, precariedade, gênero e mercantilização das instituições acadêmicas. Como socióloga e antropóloga, Ivancheva estudou a Universidade Bolivariana da Venezuela e tem um livro em fase final de preparação (The Alternative University in Question: Lessons from Bolivarian Venezuela). Convidamos Ivancheva para discutir, sobretudo, o cenário do ensino superior e as experiências radicais populares na América Latina, sem perder de vista o quadro mais amplo das políticas de ensino superior e do lugar da universidade no capitalismo globalizado. A entrevista, realizada em setembro de 2020, foi organizada pela pesquisadora grega Natalia-Rozalia Avlona e pelo pesquisador brasileiro Felipe Ziotti Narita....

Cadernos CIMEAC

Entrevista com o sociólogo francês Christian Laval, docente da Universidade Paris-Nanterre. Laval... more Entrevista com o sociólogo francês Christian Laval, docente da Universidade Paris-Nanterre. Laval colabora frequentemente com jornais na França e no exterior, escrevendo sobre política e movimentos sociais. Autor de obras de referência em sociologia da educação, filosofia política, história da educação e teoria sociológica, nesta entrevista o autor discute alguns conceitos e abordagens centrais de suas pesquisas a partir de uma interpretação da conjuntura política e das transformações do capitalismo nas últimas três décadas. A entrevista foi concebida e organizada em inglês e em francês, entre abril e junho de 2019, pelo pesquisador brasileiro Felipe Ziotti Narita e pela pesquisadora grega Natalia-Rozalia Avlona. Tradução: Felipe Ziotti Narita.An interview with French sociologist Christian Laval. Laval is professor of sociology at the Paris Nanterre University (France) and often contributes to newspapers in France and elsewhere analyzing political issues and social movements. Among ...

This policy paper provides an overview of the state of things in the European Union (EU) in the a... more This policy paper provides an overview of the state of things in the European Union (EU) in the area of gender equality in science, research and higher education, and reviews the EU’s efforts over the last twenty years to develop a comprehensive policy of gender mainstreaming in this area. Even though equality between women
and men is a core value that is enshrined in the European Treaties and a large body of related legislation exists, there are persistent gender disparities in academia and scientific research. This paper examines how the EU’s normative and policy guidelines are designed and have evolved over time to tackle such persisting disparities,
particularly as these are manifested in the obstacles that prevent women from advancing in the high ranks of the scientific and academic profession. These disparities are noticeably evidenced in the case of Greece, where despite a permissive constitutional frame and existing legislation, the political will, initiative and resources to
promote gender equality in research and academic have been thoroughly lacking. By reviewing the Greek legal framework regarding gender equality and relevant policy documents on research and higher education, this paper identifies the implementation gaps and suggests possible tools to address the gender imbalances in Greek
research and university structures.

by Anna Saave, Barbara Muraca, Corinna Dengler, Dominique Just, Emily Rose McDonald, Evie Kouroumichaki, Janina Dannenberg, Leah Temper, Lina Hansen, Lindsay Barbieri, Manuela Zechner, Natalia - Rozalia Avlona, Rebecca Rutt, Sophie Sanniti, Stefania Barca, and Susan Paulson

Degrowth.info , 2020

The crisis we face as a global community must be understood not only as a public health crisis, o... more The crisis we face as a global community must be understood not only as a public health crisis, or as an economic crisis of the capitalist mode of production, but also, fundamentally, as a crisis of the reproduction of life. In this sense, it is a crisis of care: the work of caring for humans, non-humans, and the shared biosphere. As a group of activists and scholars from the Feminisms and Degrowth Alliance, we take this opportunity to reflect on how we can, from our diverse positions, face this moment, organize, and collectively imagine radical alternative modes of living: those with more time for community, relationship building, and care for each other as well as the non-human world.

Opinion Articles by Natalia - Rozalia Avlona

The crisis of the covid-19 pandemic has brought us face to face with pre-existing gender discrimi... more The crisis of the covid-19 pandemic has brought us face to face with pre-existing gender discrimination, while increasing social and economic inequalities. Privatization of health and education systems in many countries in Europe and America in recent decades has reduced the ability of states to meet the welfare needs arising from crises. The outbreak of the pandemic presented us with a fundamental contradiction. On the one hand, vulnerable populations, especially women, migrants, refugees, the homeless, people from the LGBT+ community, people with disabilities, and caregivers (of children, patients, the elderly), found themselves in a particularly vulnerable position. They experience multiple discriminations with respect to their access to the public health system and to other necessary services, to paid work, and the use of technology. On the other hand, in the midst of the pandemic, it became clearer than ever that the formal economy, families, communities, our very survival, is based on the chronic, invisible and unpaid work and provision of care by women. It is also based on the underpaid care work by doctors, nurses, caregivers, cleaners, and supermarket employees. Feminist theories and the feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s demonstrated a fundamental deficit in economic theories. From neoclassical to Marxist theories, housework and care work were treated as a natural activity of women, who were considered as affectionate "by nature". But the provision of care is an integral, albeit unrecognized, part of the productive economy and exploitation, with the household as the primary venue of our social reproduction. In the 1970s feminists created the "wages for housework" movement and in the 1980s feminist economists showed that economic theories failed to take into consideration unpaid domestic work in official aggregates such as the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Sixty years later, though domestic work and the provision of care have entered the official map of the economy, we realise that the road to gender equality is still long. Women spend three times the amount of time as men on unpaid care and housework, while 70 % of salaried workers in the health and social welfare sectors are women (UN figure 2020). It is no coincidence that in countries severely affected by the pandemic such as Italy and Spain, 70-75% of health care workers infected by the coronavirus were women. The covid-19 crisis is therefore not just a global health crisis, but clearly a crisis in the field of care provision. Its repercussions are expected to exacerbate existing socioeconomic , but also gender and racial inequalities. It is therefore necessary for crisis and impact management policies to recognize the formal and informal care economy. At the same time, it is critical to create and finance infrastructure for the provision of care, which will relieve women of their invisible and unpaid work at home.

Conference Presentations by Natalia - Rozalia Avlona

European Association for the study of science and Technology, EASST/ 4S 2020 Conference Prague, 18-21 August 2020, Marxist STS (Subsession 1) Theory, 2020

Feminist technoscience perspectives have confronted the theoretical scaffolding of STS, pointing ... more Feminist technoscience perspectives have confronted the theoretical scaffolding of STS, pointing out the impossibility of being impartial, relativist and objective in doing science through notions and strands – e.g. ‘situated knowledge’, ‘standpoint theory’. These elaborations have taken diverse turns (e.g. Feminist New Materialisms) as well as transversed scientific and technological theories and practices. The renewed interest in social reproduction for studying technoscience has revisited one of the most contentious Marxist binaries, i.e. productive/reproductive work.This line of thinking unpack, for example, the interplay between class and gender in technological change, the gendered division of labor in technoscience, the subject-object division in digital technologies, as well as the expropriation of the female body as property for the capitalist accumulation.
This contribution returns to the classic Marxist distinction of productive/reproductive work in the light of feminist-inspired marxist perspectives and feminist new materialisms, in order to conceptualise the insights collected in two research projects. The first one is a European project called Commonfare, which aims to support people experiencing precariousness through the participatory design of digital technologies. The second one is a field study conducted in the makerspaces of Athens, which aims to explore the politics of a southern location and the gendered division of labour on the terrain of the open technologies.
Aim of this presentation is to elaborate on the empirical data on the ground of STS, Feminist Technoscience and Marxist Theory, based on a mutual elucidation basis, towards the cartography of novel entangled perspectives.

Books by Natalia - Rozalia Avlona

Dumančić K., Avlona NR. (2022) The Regulatory Context and Legal Evolution: The Cases of Airbnb and Uber. In: Česnuitytė V., Klimczuk A., Miguel C., Avram G. (eds) The Sharing Economy in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

Papers (articles and chapters) by Natalia - Rozalia Avlona

Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 2022

Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference 28-31 August, 2018 | Cardiff, UK Op... more Royal Geographical Society
Annual International Conference
28-31 August, 2018 | Cardiff, UK

Open panel/Call for papers

Deadline 10 February 2018

Urban Struggles in Mediterranean Cities: The Right to the City and the Common Space Abstracts ... more Urban Struggles in Mediterranean Cities:
The Right to the City and the Common Space

Abstracts Submission Deadline: January 20th, 2018

International UnConference
Athens, School of Architecture,
National Technical University of Athens
May 31th – June 3th, 2018
https://urbanstruggles.net/

Information, Communication and Society Journal, Mar 7, 2024

Proceedings of the 2023 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society

AIES '23: Proceedings of the 2023 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 2023

Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 2022

The Sharing Economy in Europe

Cadernos CIMEAC

Degrowth.info , 2020

European Association for the study of science and Technology, EASST/ 4S 2020 Conference Prague, 18-21 August 2020, Marxist STS (Subsession 1) Theory, 2020