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Research paper thumbnail of Annual series Greek Asylum Service: Miscellaneous writings

Annual series Greek Asylum Service: Miscellaneous writings , 2023

Annual series. Greek Asylum Service miscellaneous writings is a new series created by the Asylum ... more Annual series. Greek Asylum Service miscellaneous writings is a new series created by the Asylum Service, with the participation of researchers, academic professors and Country of Origin Information experts, for the purpose of enhancing our knowledge and understanding on asylum matters. All contents are authentic, previously unpublished, based upon well researched material and subjected to an anonymous peer review process. Every chapter was presented during the Asylum Service monthly tele-meetings, followed by a fruitful discussion which linked academic work to asylum practices. The series is addressed to students, researchers, academics, refugee status determination experts, asylum case officers, policy makers, human rights advocates, members of the appeals authority and judges.

Research paper thumbnail of From Environmentalism to Transenvironmentalism: The Ethnography of an Urban Protest in Modern Istanbul. Oxford: Peter Lang. ISBN: 978-3-03911-947-9.

How can the examination of action groups, such as the one discussed in this book, help to initiat... more How can the examination of action groups, such as the one discussed in this book, help to initiate a discussion of environmental conflicts as societal conflicts? In this work, which is an ethnographic study of a protest born in Istanbul during the late 1990s, the author suggests that the peculiarities of a protest-group should be viewed as social, political and cultural rather than issue-specific. The book offers a close ethnographic examination of the protest, studying it as a product of the particular character of Turkish public life. It illustrates the particular character of the protest itself as a product of the identities evolving, the activities taking place and the community that these have created amidst the struggle. It is a contribution to the anthropology of collective action and brings together recent studies of the anthropology of social movements, environmentalism and urban settings, with wider literature on social movements, civil society and urban studies and anthropological and sociological studies on Turkey.

Research paper thumbnail of Arnavutköy District Initiative. From Environmentalism to Transenvironmentalism: Practicing Democracy in a Neighbourhood of Istanbul

Articles in Journals by Aimilia Voulvouli

Research paper thumbnail of Comment on: Precarious Writings Reckoning the Absences and Reclaiming the Legacies in the Current Poetics/Politics of Precarity

Current Anthropology, 2021

This article by Maribel Casas-Cortés constitutes a theoretical tour de force on the genealogy of ... more This article by Maribel Casas-Cortés constitutes a theoretical tour de force on the genealogy of the concept of precarity and, thus, a valuable contribution to the flourishing study on the subject from the point of view of “autonomous knowledge production”. It is a piece and product of the critical anthropological thinking that has characterized an ethnographic turn in contemporary social movement studies relevant to the radical imagination project of Haiven and Khasnabish, which seeks to catalyze critical dialogues among activists, members of local communities, and researchers, crafting new spaces of debate, imagination, and creativity.

Research paper thumbnail of The vicious circle of precarity

Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, 2019

Based on ethnographic material produced during the last six years in Greece and Turkey, this pape... more Based on ethnographic material produced during the last six years in Greece and Turkey, this paper will discuss the trajectory of three scholars who sought academic refuge in Turkey to escape the precarity that austerity policies created in their own country, Greece. They were forced out of their jobs, and consequently Turkey, when caught in the middle of the Turkish government’s authoritarian outburst following the failed coup attempt of July 2016. Drawing on approaches that construe precarity as a normality in all labour groups, including academics, and the authoritarianism inflicted on academia as an assault on civil liberties by the regime aimed at preventing academics from mounting a serious challenge to the incumbent, I will try to illustrate two things: (a) that for the cognitariat, precarity that results from austerity policies differs little from precarity that results from authoritarian policies and (b) that structural precarity has the tendency to reproduce itself through the disciplining mechanisms of these two types of governmentality.

Research paper thumbnail of From Tarlabaşı to Gezi and beyond: The 2013 Event in the Conjuncture of Neoliberal times (ENGLISH with Greek abstract)

Drawing on ethnographic material from Istanbul prior and during the Gezi uprising of 2013, the pr... more Drawing on ethnographic material from Istanbul prior and during the Gezi uprising of 2013, the present article examines the mass demonstrations that broke out in more than 90 cities in Turkey and lasted for about a month as an event in the sense of the short duration of history (évènement) informed by historical processes of medium length duration (conjoncture) marked by authoritarianism and protest; an event bearing the inevitability of rupture that long-term authoritarianism carries to the present and also the future; a product of a culture of protest traced back to the 1980s and the neoliberal restructuring of the Turkish economy. Furthermore, the paper discusses the rise of the electoral influence of the Democratic People’s Party (Halkların Demokratik Partisi - HDP) as a symptom of the same historical conjuncture.

Research paper thumbnail of Τόπος, Χώρος, Περιβάλλον: Η περίπτωση της μετεγκατάστασης/χωροθέτησης του εργοστασίου της ΔΕΗ στη Λέσβο

Research paper thumbnail of Environmental Criminality in Greece and Cyprus: Towards a Critical Green Criminology of the Eastern Mediterranean

Research paper thumbnail of Από τη Θράκη στα Γιάννενα: Η εμπειρία της στρατιωτικής θητείας ως διαβατήρια τελετή. ΕΘΝΟΛΟΓΙΑ 15: 137-152

Περίληψη Tο παρόν άρθρο επιχειρεί να ερμηνεύσει το βίωμα της στρατιωτικής θητείας δύο νέων ανθρώ... more Περίληψη
Tο παρόν άρθρο επιχειρεί να ερμηνεύσει το βίωμα της στρατιωτικής θητείας δύο νέων ανθρώπων του Μουράτ ο οποίος είναι κάτοικος της δυτικής Θράκης (Κομοτηνή) και του Φατίχ ο οποίος είναι κάτοικος της ανατολικής Θράκης (Ανδριανούπολη – Edirne) και έλληνας πολίτης, ως μία διαβατήρια τελετή η οποία προσδιορίζεται από την έννοια της απόστασης (mesafe) όπως αυτή προκύπτει από τη δράση του ταξιδιού ως γεγονός επανακαθορισμού των συνόρων που διασχίζουν τόσο σε γεωγραφικό όσο και σε κοινωνικό επίπεδο. Με αυτόν τον τρόπο οι συγγραφείς του άρθρου θέλουν να τονίσουν ότι η μελέτη των συνόρων, όπως αυτά βιώνονται από τα δρώντα υποκείμενα/πληροφορητές από ερευνητές εθνογράφους, αποκτά νόημα όχι μόνο μέσα από ιστορικές μακροκοινωνιολογικές προσεγγίσεις αλλά και μέσα από προσεγγίσεις που βασίζονται στις αφηγήσεις καθημερινών ανθρώπων οι οποίες δίνουν περιεχόμενο σε όρους όπως σύνορα, εθνικότητα, ταυτότητα.

Λέξεις κλειδιά: διαβατήρια τελετή, απόσταση, σύνορο, ταξίδι, εθνογραφία, Θράκη

Abstract
The present paper attempts to discuss the experience of military service as narrated by two young people, as a rite of passage. These are Murat, resident of western Thrace (Komotini) and member of the Muslim minority of Greece and Fatih, resident of eastern Thrace (Edirne) of Hellenic nationality and thus obliged to serve in the Greek armed forces. The discussion focuses on the distance (mesafe in Turkish) as it is created by the journey of these two people from their hometown to the town which hosts the military base where they served. By journey we mean not only the geographical distance that it entails but also the social distance created which enables the travelers to redefine the borders that they cross. In this way the authors claim that studying borders and the ways individuals conceive them, is significant not only in terms of historical macro-sociological approaches but also in terms of narratives of lay people who also invest terms such as border, nationality and identity with meanings.

Keywords: rites of passage, distance, border, journey, ethnography, Thrace

Research paper thumbnail of Ελλάδα, Κύπρος, Περιβαλλοντικά Εγκλήματα και Κοινωνία Πολιτών: Προς μια Πράσινη Κριτική Εγκληματολογία της Ανατολικής Μεσογείου. ΝΕΟΙ ΕΓΚΛΗΜΑ ΚΑΙ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ 6: 21-30.

Research paper thumbnail of Transenvironmental Protest: the Arnavutköy anti-bridge campaign in Istanbul

In Istanbul during the late 1990s a mobilisation opposed the construction of a third bridge over ... more In Istanbul during the late 1990s a mobilisation opposed the construction of a third bridge over the Bosphorus Strait to connect the Asian with the European shores of the city. The residents of one of two neighbourhoods over which the bridge would be placed, organised an Arnavutköy District Initiative – ASG (Arnavutköy Semt Girişimi) – claiming that the construction of the bridge would have destructive effects on the natural and cultural environment of the area. The environment is one of the central arguments around which the anti-bridge campaign revolves but closer ethnographic examination reveals that ASG is much more than an environmental group. Therefore, ASG is analysed as a transenvironmental protest, through the consideration of environmentalism as a cultural characteristic appropriated by the setting of which ASG is part. Furthermore, the transenvironmental character of ASG is discussed in relation to its activities, which render it more than a protest but also a community organisation.

Research paper thumbnail of Περιβαλλοντικές Συγκρούσεις στην Τουρκία, Κράτος, Κοινωνία Πολιτών και Δημόσια ζωή

Οι συγκρούσεις που έχουν περιβαλλοντικές διαστάσεις αποτελούν ένα συχνό φαινόμενο στη σύγχρονη Το... more Οι συγκρούσεις που έχουν περιβαλλοντικές διαστάσεις αποτελούν ένα συχνό φαινόμενο στη σύγχρονη Τουρκία. Αποτελέσματα τέτοιων συγκρούσεων είναι οι μεγάλες κινητοποιήσεις εναντίον της κατασκευής υδροηλεκτρικών φραγμάτων στη Νοτιοανατολική Τουρκία, η κινητοποίηση στην Πέργαμο που στρεφόταν κατά της λειτουργίας ενός χρυσωρυχείου, καθώς και η κινητοποίηση εναντίον της κατασκευής μιας γέφυρας στο Βόσπορο της Κωνσταντινούπολης. Σύμφωνα με τους συμμετέχοντες σε τέτοιες κινητοποιήσεις, οι λόγοι που παρακινούν στην αντίδραση τους σχετίζονται με τα καταστρεπτικά αποτελέσματα που η κατασκευή τέτοιων έργων θα έχει στο φυσικό και πολιτισμικό πλούτο των περιοχών τους, καθώς και στη ζωή των κατοίκων τους. Επιπλέον, ωστόσο, με τις κινητοποιήσεις αυτές ασκείται κριτική στον τρόπο που λαμβάνονται οι πολιτικές αποφάσεις στο επίπεδο της κεντρικής πολιτικής και τίθεται το ζήτημα ποιος έχει δικαίωμα να αποφασίζει τι. H παρούσα εργασία, που στηρίζεται στη διεξαγωγή επιτόπιας έρευνας, εστιάζει στην ανάλυση αυτών των κινητοποιήσεων τις οποίες αντιλαμβάνεται ως συλλογικές δράσεις που δρουν στη σφαίρα της δημόσιας ζωής (public life), δίδοντας ιδιαίτερη έμφαση στην πρωτοβουλία κατά της κατασκευής της γέφυρας στο Βόσπορο.

Research paper thumbnail of Grassroots Mobilisations in Turkey: The Transnational Character of Local Environmental Protests

The present work constitutes an analysis of environmental protests in Turkey. Based on 18 months ... more The present work constitutes an analysis of environmental protests in Turkey. Based on 18 months of fieldwork my research suggests that globalisation, through economic liberalisation and media globalisation has affected Turkish activism. Turkish environmental groups are globally informed organisations - through the changes in information technology, world order and the challenge to national sovereignty (Williams 2003) - and are themselves part of, what Hannerz (1996) calls, ‘global interconnectedness’. In other words, they are part of “social economic and demographic processes that not only take place within nations but also transcend them in a way that attention limited to local processes, identities and units of analysis yields incomplete understanding of the local” (Kearney 1995: 547). Besides, environmentalism in developing countries has been influenced - or dominated (Argyrou 2005) – by ideas derived from developed nations through global civil society and the world media (Ignatow 2008). These points suggest that an examination of Turkish environmental groups should not treat them as specifically Turkish groups. As Ahmet Öncü and Gürcan Koçan (2001) write, globalisation is characterised by
the possibilities of the market in a worldwide level and thus, the political and cultural social process of globalisationmust be seen in relation to the logic these possibilities reinforce. This means that supra-national economic powers
dominate in the arena of social rights which in turn results in pressure from citizens whose rights are being
overlooked. These citizens organise themselves in groups with a transnational character since the forces they
oppose to are also transnational. In the Turkish context, the example of the various environmental groups confirms
this tactic (Şimşek 2004).

Key words: Turkey, Environmental Protests,Transnationalism, ASG, Bergama protest, The İlisu Dam Case, The Akkuyu Resistance

Research paper thumbnail of The Cultural Construction of Landscape through Photography: Tourism Photography in Namibia. TOURISMOS  7(2):459-479

Research paper thumbnail of Leftism, Secularism, Transnationalism and Localism: The Identities of an Urban Protest in Contemporary Istanbul. Ethnologia On-Line (http://www.societyforethnology.gr/site/EthnologhiaOnLine.html).

The present article presents an anthropological study of an urban protest group in a neighbourhoo... more The present article presents an anthropological study of an urban protest group in a neighbourhood of Istanbul, Turkey. The mobilisation began following the announcement of plans for the construction of a third (added to the two already existing bridges) bridge over the Bosphorus Strait which would connect the Asian with the European shores of Istanbul. In opposition to the construction of the bridge, the residents of the European neighbourhood (Arnavutköy) in which foundations of the bridge would be placed organised an initiative called Arnavutköy District Initiative – in Turkish ASG (Arnavutköy Semt Girişimi). After a brief presentation of the city‟s development projects, the article focuses on the fact that the changes that took place in Istanbul were “beyond ordinary people‟s control” which, I propose, is the key to understand the opposition against the construction of the Third Bosphorus Bridge. More than that, the article suggests that ASG is an urban group the particular character of which is formed by the identities of the individual participants, the people with roots in Arnavutköy (active participants, less-active participants, non-active participants) and the supporters with sympathies rooted in the ideals of the ASG.

Keywords: ASG, Third Bridge, Istanbul, active participants, less-active participants, non-active participants, supporters of ASG, urban protest.

Research paper thumbnail of Φύλο και Ψυχική Υγεία: Η σχέση των γυναικών με τα ψυχοτρόπα φάρμακα. ΣΚΕΨΥ 2(1):Α321-347

The present article attempts to explore the use of “mild” psychotropic drugs by women in a provin... more The present article attempts to explore the use of “mild” psychotropic drugs by women in a provincial city of Greece, using the analytical took of gender as it has been discussed in the context of the ethnography of Greece. Based on research concerning the family medicine chest which lasted for over a year, on general observations, interviews with women users of psychotropic drugs as well as on their perceptions of such drugs, the present analysis discusses, through the analytical prism of gender, the processes of
use of psychotropic substances: the beginning, the attachment to the drugs and the efforts to stop the use.

Key words: gender, pshychotropic drugs, ethnography of Greece, women and mental health.

Chapters in edited volumes by Aimilia Voulvouli

Research paper thumbnail of Τίγρεις και Μαντίλες της Ανατολίας: Νεο-φιλελεύθερη επιχειρηματικότητα και Νεο-ϊσλαμικά ήθη σε μία πόλη της Κεντρικής Ανατολίας

Τσιμπιρίδου Φωτεινή (επιμέλεια) Εθνογραφία και Καθημερινότητα στην Καθ' ημάς Ανατολή. Εκδόσεις Κριτική, 2020

The region of Central Anatolia (Orta Anadolu) in Turkey with its metropolis Kayseri, seem to clai... more The region of Central Anatolia (Orta Anadolu) in Turkey with its metropolis Kayseri, seem to claim the seal of a new lifestyle in Turkey that combines business with the religious conservatism of the New Islamic worldview. The following chapter, discusses how the Islamic morality of neo-liberal Turkey promoted by current rulers, is experienced as a virtue and way of life in the heartland of Turkey. It is based on a two-year ethnographic research in the city of Kayseri and attempts to capture the characteristics of the Neo-Islamic ethics that run through the routines and everyday politics of the Turks, especially those born after the 1980s. The latter while being crystallized as a neo-Islamatic virtue and a neo-liberal lifestyle is traced back in the early 1930s and the early republican period.

Η Καισάρεια ως μητρόπολη και η ευρύτερη περιοχή της Κεντρικής Ανατολίας (Orta Anadolu) φαίνεται να διεκδικούν τη σφραγίδα ενός νέου τρόπου ζωής στην Τουρκία που συνδυάζει την επιχειρηματική δραστηριότητα με τον θρησκευτικό συντηρητισμό της νέο-ισλαμικής κοσμοθεωρίας. Το κεφάλαιο που ακολουθεί συζητά το πως η ισλαμική ηθική της νεοφιλελεύθερης Τουρκίας την οποία προάγουν οι σημερινοί κυβερνώντες, βιώνεται ως αρετή και τρόπος ζωής στην ενδοχώρα της Τουρκίας. Βασίζεται σε εθνογραφική έρευνα δύο ετών στην πόλη της Καισάρειας με στόχο να αποτυπώσουμε τα χαρακτηριστικά της νέο-ισλαμικής ηθικής που διατρέχει τις συνήθειες και τις πολιτικές της καθημερινότητας των Τούρκων, κυρίως αυτών που γεννήθηκαν μετά τη δεκαετία του 1980. Η τελευταία ενώ αποκρυσταλλώνεται ως νεοϊσλαμική αρετή και νεοφιλελεύθερο lifestyle έλκει τη γενεαλογία της από τις αρχές της δεκαετίας του 1930, την πρώιμη ρεπουμπλικανική περίοδο της Τουρκικής Δημοκρατίας.

Research paper thumbnail of Global Information Society Watch 2018 - Community networks

Global Information Society Watch, 2018

This 2018 edition of GISWatch focuses primarily on community-owned networks for the provision of ... more This 2018 edition of GISWatch focuses primarily on community-owned networks for the provision of physical communications infrastructure.

Affordable and reliable internet access infrastructure has become a vital means of communication and access to information, to exercise fundamental human rights and to support economic, social and human development. However, as the internet becomes more ubiquitous, less is being heard from those who are unconnected –the less wealthy and more marginalised – who are unable to exercise their rights on the same footing. Those who do not have access are doubly excluded: excluded from the “new” world of information and communications that the internet delivers, and also excluded from the “old” analogue world they used to have access to – even if imperfectly – because so many of those services and opportunities are increasingly only available online. Ending digital exclusion is not simply a matter of improving the coverage of mobile broadband services, but also of improving the affordability and coverage of both fixed and mobile local network infrastructures and services, along with building the technical and human capacity to ensure reliability, the ability to deploy low-cost and open-access locally owned network infrastructures, and the ability to use the resulting connectivity in applications and content of local interest and benefit to local communities.

The 2018 edition of GISWatch focuses on local access models, specifically, community networks as self-organised, self-managed or locally developed solutions for local access, based on the conviction that one of the keys to affordable access is giving local people the skills and tools to solve their own connectivity challenges. Instead of buying an access service from a large corporate entity, community networks allow community members to self-provide and share infrastructure.

The 43 country reports included in this year's Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) capture the different experiences and approaches in setting up community networks across the globe. They show that key ideas, such as participatory governance systems, community ownership and skills transfer, as well as the “do-it-yourself” spirit that drives community networks in many different contexts, are characteristics that lend them a shared purpose and approach.

The country reports are framed by eight thematic reports that deal with critical issues such as the regulatory framework necessary to support community networks, sustainability, local content, feminist infrastructure and community networks, and the importance of being aware of “community stories” and the power structures embedded in those stories.

Research paper thumbnail of Making sense: Uncertainties, anxieties and the affective politics of denial in post-coup attempt Turkey

Erdoğan’s ‘New’ Turkey: Attempted Coup d’état and the Acceleration of Political Crisis, 2019

Focusing on the days and weeks following the 15 July 2016 coup attempt in Turkey and based on inf... more Focusing on the days and weeks following the 15 July 2016 coup attempt in Turkey and based on informal discussions and participant observation, this chapter tries to make sense of the overwhelming mood of my interlocutors and myself, by describing the trajectory of their emotions from denial to uncertainty and anxiety and finally denial again. In doing this, my aim as an anthropologist focusing on living social actors who are trying to cope with such an overwhelming state is to stress that a coup d’état (even a failed one) feels exactly like what the term describes in its language of origin, that is, a ‘coup’, a blow, a hit, like a punch in the face that affects every possible expression of public and private life. This is what I will try to describe, albeit inevitably only partly, by engaging in an auto-ethnographic style insofar as I found myself in an affective state to a certain extent very similar to that of my informants, concluding that the affective response of my interlocutors functioned as a mechanism for remaining sovereign over oneself but also as a way of reproducing the state.

Research paper thumbnail of Myths of the other in the Balkans / (eds) by Fotini Tsibiridou & Nikitas Palantzas

by Fotini Tsibiridou, Eftihia Voutira, Aimilia Voulvouli, Raymond Detrez, lambros baltsiotis, Dimitris A Kerkinos, Brunilda Zenelaga, Lyubomir Georgiev, Marica Rombou-Levidi, Anna Apostolidou, Αριστείδης Σγατζός, Georgios Mavrommatis, Maria Koumarianou, and Panos Hatziprokopiou

Selective texts from the Proceedings of the International Conference Organized by the Department ... more Selective texts from the Proceedings of the International Conference Organized by the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies (University of Macedonia-Thessaloniki) in collaboration with Via Egnatia Fountation, organized on the 24th, 25th and 26th of February 2011.

Research paper thumbnail of Annual series Greek Asylum Service: Miscellaneous writings

Annual series Greek Asylum Service: Miscellaneous writings , 2023

Annual series. Greek Asylum Service miscellaneous writings is a new series created by the Asylum ... more Annual series. Greek Asylum Service miscellaneous writings is a new series created by the Asylum Service, with the participation of researchers, academic professors and Country of Origin Information experts, for the purpose of enhancing our knowledge and understanding on asylum matters. All contents are authentic, previously unpublished, based upon well researched material and subjected to an anonymous peer review process. Every chapter was presented during the Asylum Service monthly tele-meetings, followed by a fruitful discussion which linked academic work to asylum practices. The series is addressed to students, researchers, academics, refugee status determination experts, asylum case officers, policy makers, human rights advocates, members of the appeals authority and judges.

Research paper thumbnail of From Environmentalism to Transenvironmentalism: The Ethnography of an Urban Protest in Modern Istanbul. Oxford: Peter Lang. ISBN: 978-3-03911-947-9.

How can the examination of action groups, such as the one discussed in this book, help to initiat... more How can the examination of action groups, such as the one discussed in this book, help to initiate a discussion of environmental conflicts as societal conflicts? In this work, which is an ethnographic study of a protest born in Istanbul during the late 1990s, the author suggests that the peculiarities of a protest-group should be viewed as social, political and cultural rather than issue-specific. The book offers a close ethnographic examination of the protest, studying it as a product of the particular character of Turkish public life. It illustrates the particular character of the protest itself as a product of the identities evolving, the activities taking place and the community that these have created amidst the struggle. It is a contribution to the anthropology of collective action and brings together recent studies of the anthropology of social movements, environmentalism and urban settings, with wider literature on social movements, civil society and urban studies and anthropological and sociological studies on Turkey.

Research paper thumbnail of Arnavutköy District Initiative. From Environmentalism to Transenvironmentalism: Practicing Democracy in a Neighbourhood of Istanbul

Research paper thumbnail of Comment on: Precarious Writings Reckoning the Absences and Reclaiming the Legacies in the Current Poetics/Politics of Precarity

Current Anthropology, 2021

This article by Maribel Casas-Cortés constitutes a theoretical tour de force on the genealogy of ... more This article by Maribel Casas-Cortés constitutes a theoretical tour de force on the genealogy of the concept of precarity and, thus, a valuable contribution to the flourishing study on the subject from the point of view of “autonomous knowledge production”. It is a piece and product of the critical anthropological thinking that has characterized an ethnographic turn in contemporary social movement studies relevant to the radical imagination project of Haiven and Khasnabish, which seeks to catalyze critical dialogues among activists, members of local communities, and researchers, crafting new spaces of debate, imagination, and creativity.

Research paper thumbnail of The vicious circle of precarity

Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, 2019

Based on ethnographic material produced during the last six years in Greece and Turkey, this pape... more Based on ethnographic material produced during the last six years in Greece and Turkey, this paper will discuss the trajectory of three scholars who sought academic refuge in Turkey to escape the precarity that austerity policies created in their own country, Greece. They were forced out of their jobs, and consequently Turkey, when caught in the middle of the Turkish government’s authoritarian outburst following the failed coup attempt of July 2016. Drawing on approaches that construe precarity as a normality in all labour groups, including academics, and the authoritarianism inflicted on academia as an assault on civil liberties by the regime aimed at preventing academics from mounting a serious challenge to the incumbent, I will try to illustrate two things: (a) that for the cognitariat, precarity that results from austerity policies differs little from precarity that results from authoritarian policies and (b) that structural precarity has the tendency to reproduce itself through the disciplining mechanisms of these two types of governmentality.

Research paper thumbnail of From Tarlabaşı to Gezi and beyond: The 2013 Event in the Conjuncture of Neoliberal times (ENGLISH with Greek abstract)

Drawing on ethnographic material from Istanbul prior and during the Gezi uprising of 2013, the pr... more Drawing on ethnographic material from Istanbul prior and during the Gezi uprising of 2013, the present article examines the mass demonstrations that broke out in more than 90 cities in Turkey and lasted for about a month as an event in the sense of the short duration of history (évènement) informed by historical processes of medium length duration (conjoncture) marked by authoritarianism and protest; an event bearing the inevitability of rupture that long-term authoritarianism carries to the present and also the future; a product of a culture of protest traced back to the 1980s and the neoliberal restructuring of the Turkish economy. Furthermore, the paper discusses the rise of the electoral influence of the Democratic People’s Party (Halkların Demokratik Partisi - HDP) as a symptom of the same historical conjuncture.

Research paper thumbnail of Τόπος, Χώρος, Περιβάλλον: Η περίπτωση της μετεγκατάστασης/χωροθέτησης του εργοστασίου της ΔΕΗ στη Λέσβο

Research paper thumbnail of Environmental Criminality in Greece and Cyprus: Towards a Critical Green Criminology of the Eastern Mediterranean

Research paper thumbnail of Από τη Θράκη στα Γιάννενα: Η εμπειρία της στρατιωτικής θητείας ως διαβατήρια τελετή. ΕΘΝΟΛΟΓΙΑ 15: 137-152

Περίληψη Tο παρόν άρθρο επιχειρεί να ερμηνεύσει το βίωμα της στρατιωτικής θητείας δύο νέων ανθρώ... more Περίληψη
Tο παρόν άρθρο επιχειρεί να ερμηνεύσει το βίωμα της στρατιωτικής θητείας δύο νέων ανθρώπων του Μουράτ ο οποίος είναι κάτοικος της δυτικής Θράκης (Κομοτηνή) και του Φατίχ ο οποίος είναι κάτοικος της ανατολικής Θράκης (Ανδριανούπολη – Edirne) και έλληνας πολίτης, ως μία διαβατήρια τελετή η οποία προσδιορίζεται από την έννοια της απόστασης (mesafe) όπως αυτή προκύπτει από τη δράση του ταξιδιού ως γεγονός επανακαθορισμού των συνόρων που διασχίζουν τόσο σε γεωγραφικό όσο και σε κοινωνικό επίπεδο. Με αυτόν τον τρόπο οι συγγραφείς του άρθρου θέλουν να τονίσουν ότι η μελέτη των συνόρων, όπως αυτά βιώνονται από τα δρώντα υποκείμενα/πληροφορητές από ερευνητές εθνογράφους, αποκτά νόημα όχι μόνο μέσα από ιστορικές μακροκοινωνιολογικές προσεγγίσεις αλλά και μέσα από προσεγγίσεις που βασίζονται στις αφηγήσεις καθημερινών ανθρώπων οι οποίες δίνουν περιεχόμενο σε όρους όπως σύνορα, εθνικότητα, ταυτότητα.

Λέξεις κλειδιά: διαβατήρια τελετή, απόσταση, σύνορο, ταξίδι, εθνογραφία, Θράκη

Abstract
The present paper attempts to discuss the experience of military service as narrated by two young people, as a rite of passage. These are Murat, resident of western Thrace (Komotini) and member of the Muslim minority of Greece and Fatih, resident of eastern Thrace (Edirne) of Hellenic nationality and thus obliged to serve in the Greek armed forces. The discussion focuses on the distance (mesafe in Turkish) as it is created by the journey of these two people from their hometown to the town which hosts the military base where they served. By journey we mean not only the geographical distance that it entails but also the social distance created which enables the travelers to redefine the borders that they cross. In this way the authors claim that studying borders and the ways individuals conceive them, is significant not only in terms of historical macro-sociological approaches but also in terms of narratives of lay people who also invest terms such as border, nationality and identity with meanings.

Keywords: rites of passage, distance, border, journey, ethnography, Thrace

Research paper thumbnail of Ελλάδα, Κύπρος, Περιβαλλοντικά Εγκλήματα και Κοινωνία Πολιτών: Προς μια Πράσινη Κριτική Εγκληματολογία της Ανατολικής Μεσογείου. ΝΕΟΙ ΕΓΚΛΗΜΑ ΚΑΙ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ 6: 21-30.

Research paper thumbnail of Transenvironmental Protest: the Arnavutköy anti-bridge campaign in Istanbul

In Istanbul during the late 1990s a mobilisation opposed the construction of a third bridge over ... more In Istanbul during the late 1990s a mobilisation opposed the construction of a third bridge over the Bosphorus Strait to connect the Asian with the European shores of the city. The residents of one of two neighbourhoods over which the bridge would be placed, organised an Arnavutköy District Initiative – ASG (Arnavutköy Semt Girişimi) – claiming that the construction of the bridge would have destructive effects on the natural and cultural environment of the area. The environment is one of the central arguments around which the anti-bridge campaign revolves but closer ethnographic examination reveals that ASG is much more than an environmental group. Therefore, ASG is analysed as a transenvironmental protest, through the consideration of environmentalism as a cultural characteristic appropriated by the setting of which ASG is part. Furthermore, the transenvironmental character of ASG is discussed in relation to its activities, which render it more than a protest but also a community organisation.

Research paper thumbnail of Περιβαλλοντικές Συγκρούσεις στην Τουρκία, Κράτος, Κοινωνία Πολιτών και Δημόσια ζωή

Οι συγκρούσεις που έχουν περιβαλλοντικές διαστάσεις αποτελούν ένα συχνό φαινόμενο στη σύγχρονη Το... more Οι συγκρούσεις που έχουν περιβαλλοντικές διαστάσεις αποτελούν ένα συχνό φαινόμενο στη σύγχρονη Τουρκία. Αποτελέσματα τέτοιων συγκρούσεων είναι οι μεγάλες κινητοποιήσεις εναντίον της κατασκευής υδροηλεκτρικών φραγμάτων στη Νοτιοανατολική Τουρκία, η κινητοποίηση στην Πέργαμο που στρεφόταν κατά της λειτουργίας ενός χρυσωρυχείου, καθώς και η κινητοποίηση εναντίον της κατασκευής μιας γέφυρας στο Βόσπορο της Κωνσταντινούπολης. Σύμφωνα με τους συμμετέχοντες σε τέτοιες κινητοποιήσεις, οι λόγοι που παρακινούν στην αντίδραση τους σχετίζονται με τα καταστρεπτικά αποτελέσματα που η κατασκευή τέτοιων έργων θα έχει στο φυσικό και πολιτισμικό πλούτο των περιοχών τους, καθώς και στη ζωή των κατοίκων τους. Επιπλέον, ωστόσο, με τις κινητοποιήσεις αυτές ασκείται κριτική στον τρόπο που λαμβάνονται οι πολιτικές αποφάσεις στο επίπεδο της κεντρικής πολιτικής και τίθεται το ζήτημα ποιος έχει δικαίωμα να αποφασίζει τι. H παρούσα εργασία, που στηρίζεται στη διεξαγωγή επιτόπιας έρευνας, εστιάζει στην ανάλυση αυτών των κινητοποιήσεων τις οποίες αντιλαμβάνεται ως συλλογικές δράσεις που δρουν στη σφαίρα της δημόσιας ζωής (public life), δίδοντας ιδιαίτερη έμφαση στην πρωτοβουλία κατά της κατασκευής της γέφυρας στο Βόσπορο.

Research paper thumbnail of Grassroots Mobilisations in Turkey: The Transnational Character of Local Environmental Protests

The present work constitutes an analysis of environmental protests in Turkey. Based on 18 months ... more The present work constitutes an analysis of environmental protests in Turkey. Based on 18 months of fieldwork my research suggests that globalisation, through economic liberalisation and media globalisation has affected Turkish activism. Turkish environmental groups are globally informed organisations - through the changes in information technology, world order and the challenge to national sovereignty (Williams 2003) - and are themselves part of, what Hannerz (1996) calls, ‘global interconnectedness’. In other words, they are part of “social economic and demographic processes that not only take place within nations but also transcend them in a way that attention limited to local processes, identities and units of analysis yields incomplete understanding of the local” (Kearney 1995: 547). Besides, environmentalism in developing countries has been influenced - or dominated (Argyrou 2005) – by ideas derived from developed nations through global civil society and the world media (Ignatow 2008). These points suggest that an examination of Turkish environmental groups should not treat them as specifically Turkish groups. As Ahmet Öncü and Gürcan Koçan (2001) write, globalisation is characterised by
the possibilities of the market in a worldwide level and thus, the political and cultural social process of globalisationmust be seen in relation to the logic these possibilities reinforce. This means that supra-national economic powers
dominate in the arena of social rights which in turn results in pressure from citizens whose rights are being
overlooked. These citizens organise themselves in groups with a transnational character since the forces they
oppose to are also transnational. In the Turkish context, the example of the various environmental groups confirms
this tactic (Şimşek 2004).

Key words: Turkey, Environmental Protests,Transnationalism, ASG, Bergama protest, The İlisu Dam Case, The Akkuyu Resistance

Research paper thumbnail of The Cultural Construction of Landscape through Photography: Tourism Photography in Namibia. TOURISMOS  7(2):459-479

Research paper thumbnail of Leftism, Secularism, Transnationalism and Localism: The Identities of an Urban Protest in Contemporary Istanbul. Ethnologia On-Line (http://www.societyforethnology.gr/site/EthnologhiaOnLine.html).

The present article presents an anthropological study of an urban protest group in a neighbourhoo... more The present article presents an anthropological study of an urban protest group in a neighbourhood of Istanbul, Turkey. The mobilisation began following the announcement of plans for the construction of a third (added to the two already existing bridges) bridge over the Bosphorus Strait which would connect the Asian with the European shores of Istanbul. In opposition to the construction of the bridge, the residents of the European neighbourhood (Arnavutköy) in which foundations of the bridge would be placed organised an initiative called Arnavutköy District Initiative – in Turkish ASG (Arnavutköy Semt Girişimi). After a brief presentation of the city‟s development projects, the article focuses on the fact that the changes that took place in Istanbul were “beyond ordinary people‟s control” which, I propose, is the key to understand the opposition against the construction of the Third Bosphorus Bridge. More than that, the article suggests that ASG is an urban group the particular character of which is formed by the identities of the individual participants, the people with roots in Arnavutköy (active participants, less-active participants, non-active participants) and the supporters with sympathies rooted in the ideals of the ASG.

Keywords: ASG, Third Bridge, Istanbul, active participants, less-active participants, non-active participants, supporters of ASG, urban protest.

Research paper thumbnail of Φύλο και Ψυχική Υγεία: Η σχέση των γυναικών με τα ψυχοτρόπα φάρμακα. ΣΚΕΨΥ 2(1):Α321-347

The present article attempts to explore the use of “mild” psychotropic drugs by women in a provin... more The present article attempts to explore the use of “mild” psychotropic drugs by women in a provincial city of Greece, using the analytical took of gender as it has been discussed in the context of the ethnography of Greece. Based on research concerning the family medicine chest which lasted for over a year, on general observations, interviews with women users of psychotropic drugs as well as on their perceptions of such drugs, the present analysis discusses, through the analytical prism of gender, the processes of
use of psychotropic substances: the beginning, the attachment to the drugs and the efforts to stop the use.

Key words: gender, pshychotropic drugs, ethnography of Greece, women and mental health.

Research paper thumbnail of Τίγρεις και Μαντίλες της Ανατολίας: Νεο-φιλελεύθερη επιχειρηματικότητα και Νεο-ϊσλαμικά ήθη σε μία πόλη της Κεντρικής Ανατολίας

Τσιμπιρίδου Φωτεινή (επιμέλεια) Εθνογραφία και Καθημερινότητα στην Καθ' ημάς Ανατολή. Εκδόσεις Κριτική, 2020

The region of Central Anatolia (Orta Anadolu) in Turkey with its metropolis Kayseri, seem to clai... more The region of Central Anatolia (Orta Anadolu) in Turkey with its metropolis Kayseri, seem to claim the seal of a new lifestyle in Turkey that combines business with the religious conservatism of the New Islamic worldview. The following chapter, discusses how the Islamic morality of neo-liberal Turkey promoted by current rulers, is experienced as a virtue and way of life in the heartland of Turkey. It is based on a two-year ethnographic research in the city of Kayseri and attempts to capture the characteristics of the Neo-Islamic ethics that run through the routines and everyday politics of the Turks, especially those born after the 1980s. The latter while being crystallized as a neo-Islamatic virtue and a neo-liberal lifestyle is traced back in the early 1930s and the early republican period.

Η Καισάρεια ως μητρόπολη και η ευρύτερη περιοχή της Κεντρικής Ανατολίας (Orta Anadolu) φαίνεται να διεκδικούν τη σφραγίδα ενός νέου τρόπου ζωής στην Τουρκία που συνδυάζει την επιχειρηματική δραστηριότητα με τον θρησκευτικό συντηρητισμό της νέο-ισλαμικής κοσμοθεωρίας. Το κεφάλαιο που ακολουθεί συζητά το πως η ισλαμική ηθική της νεοφιλελεύθερης Τουρκίας την οποία προάγουν οι σημερινοί κυβερνώντες, βιώνεται ως αρετή και τρόπος ζωής στην ενδοχώρα της Τουρκίας. Βασίζεται σε εθνογραφική έρευνα δύο ετών στην πόλη της Καισάρειας με στόχο να αποτυπώσουμε τα χαρακτηριστικά της νέο-ισλαμικής ηθικής που διατρέχει τις συνήθειες και τις πολιτικές της καθημερινότητας των Τούρκων, κυρίως αυτών που γεννήθηκαν μετά τη δεκαετία του 1980. Η τελευταία ενώ αποκρυσταλλώνεται ως νεοϊσλαμική αρετή και νεοφιλελεύθερο lifestyle έλκει τη γενεαλογία της από τις αρχές της δεκαετίας του 1930, την πρώιμη ρεπουμπλικανική περίοδο της Τουρκικής Δημοκρατίας.

Research paper thumbnail of Global Information Society Watch 2018 - Community networks

Global Information Society Watch, 2018

This 2018 edition of GISWatch focuses primarily on community-owned networks for the provision of ... more This 2018 edition of GISWatch focuses primarily on community-owned networks for the provision of physical communications infrastructure.

Affordable and reliable internet access infrastructure has become a vital means of communication and access to information, to exercise fundamental human rights and to support economic, social and human development. However, as the internet becomes more ubiquitous, less is being heard from those who are unconnected –the less wealthy and more marginalised – who are unable to exercise their rights on the same footing. Those who do not have access are doubly excluded: excluded from the “new” world of information and communications that the internet delivers, and also excluded from the “old” analogue world they used to have access to – even if imperfectly – because so many of those services and opportunities are increasingly only available online. Ending digital exclusion is not simply a matter of improving the coverage of mobile broadband services, but also of improving the affordability and coverage of both fixed and mobile local network infrastructures and services, along with building the technical and human capacity to ensure reliability, the ability to deploy low-cost and open-access locally owned network infrastructures, and the ability to use the resulting connectivity in applications and content of local interest and benefit to local communities.

The 2018 edition of GISWatch focuses on local access models, specifically, community networks as self-organised, self-managed or locally developed solutions for local access, based on the conviction that one of the keys to affordable access is giving local people the skills and tools to solve their own connectivity challenges. Instead of buying an access service from a large corporate entity, community networks allow community members to self-provide and share infrastructure.

The 43 country reports included in this year's Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) capture the different experiences and approaches in setting up community networks across the globe. They show that key ideas, such as participatory governance systems, community ownership and skills transfer, as well as the “do-it-yourself” spirit that drives community networks in many different contexts, are characteristics that lend them a shared purpose and approach.

The country reports are framed by eight thematic reports that deal with critical issues such as the regulatory framework necessary to support community networks, sustainability, local content, feminist infrastructure and community networks, and the importance of being aware of “community stories” and the power structures embedded in those stories.

Research paper thumbnail of Making sense: Uncertainties, anxieties and the affective politics of denial in post-coup attempt Turkey

Erdoğan’s ‘New’ Turkey: Attempted Coup d’état and the Acceleration of Political Crisis, 2019

Focusing on the days and weeks following the 15 July 2016 coup attempt in Turkey and based on inf... more Focusing on the days and weeks following the 15 July 2016 coup attempt in Turkey and based on informal discussions and participant observation, this chapter tries to make sense of the overwhelming mood of my interlocutors and myself, by describing the trajectory of their emotions from denial to uncertainty and anxiety and finally denial again. In doing this, my aim as an anthropologist focusing on living social actors who are trying to cope with such an overwhelming state is to stress that a coup d’état (even a failed one) feels exactly like what the term describes in its language of origin, that is, a ‘coup’, a blow, a hit, like a punch in the face that affects every possible expression of public and private life. This is what I will try to describe, albeit inevitably only partly, by engaging in an auto-ethnographic style insofar as I found myself in an affective state to a certain extent very similar to that of my informants, concluding that the affective response of my interlocutors functioned as a mechanism for remaining sovereign over oneself but also as a way of reproducing the state.

Research paper thumbnail of Myths of the other in the Balkans / (eds) by Fotini Tsibiridou & Nikitas Palantzas

by Fotini Tsibiridou, Eftihia Voutira, Aimilia Voulvouli, Raymond Detrez, lambros baltsiotis, Dimitris A Kerkinos, Brunilda Zenelaga, Lyubomir Georgiev, Marica Rombou-Levidi, Anna Apostolidou, Αριστείδης Σγατζός, Georgios Mavrommatis, Maria Koumarianou, and Panos Hatziprokopiou

Selective texts from the Proceedings of the International Conference Organized by the Department ... more Selective texts from the Proceedings of the International Conference Organized by the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies (University of Macedonia-Thessaloniki) in collaboration with Via Egnatia Fountation, organized on the 24th, 25th and 26th of February 2011.

Research paper thumbnail of Urban and Regional Social Movements

by Athina Vitopoulou, Haris Tsavdaroglou, Aimilia Voulvouli, Ana Vilenica, Theodoros Karyotis, Michail Psimitis, Dražen Crnomat, Marvi Maggio, Maddalena Gretel Cammelli, Myrto Tsilimpounidi, Karla Helena Guzmán Velázquez, and Chara Kokkinou

Research Group: Invisible Cities, 2016

Κοινωνικά Κινήµατα Πόλης και Περιφέρειας Urban and Regional Social Movements Aπρίλιος 2016, ... more Κοινωνικά Κινήµατα Πόλης και Περιφέρειας

Urban and Regional Social Movements

Aπρίλιος 2016, Θεσσαλονίκη, σ. 488, ISBN 978-618-82533-0-8

April 2016, Thessaloniki, 488 p., ISBN 978-618-82533-0-8

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Κρίστη (Χρυσάνθη) Πετροπούλου / Christy (Chryssanthi) Petropoulou

Αθηνά Βιτοπούλου / Athina Vitopoulou

Χαράλαµπος Τσαβδάρογλου/ Charalampos Tsavdaroglou

Ερευνητική Οµάδα / Research Group

Αόρατες Πόλεις / Invisible Cities

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Research paper thumbnail of LGBT Movements, Biopolitics and New Criminology: A preliminary research in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Even though sexuality emerges as a strictly personal, individual attribute of one’s identity, it ... more Even though sexuality emerges as a strictly personal, individual attribute of one’s identity, it surely involves socio-political aspects. Especially when sexual preferences appear as manifested responses to policy-making (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender - LGBT movements), the latter is quite apparent. This paper aims at discussing the suppression of gay identity in countries of the Eastern Mediterranean - where at first glance, sexual repression stems from religious-oriented cultures – as a result of the uneven contact with the West (Drucker 1996). In addition, the pages that follow will attempt to exemplify, using the case of Greece and Cyprus, that LGBT movements in former colonies and cryptocolonies (see below) resist not only to sexual but also to general social repression. As Drucker (ibid) claims, along with economic came the sexual domination of the colonisers, in terms of what is ‘normal’ and what is ‘unnatural’ in sexual behaviour. On the contrary in countries like Turkey which the orientalist mind would classify as more prejudiced against homosexuality, as far as legislation is concerned, anti-gay laws had been abolished a long before the Christian West. That is not to suggest, that in predominantly Muslim countries homosexual behaviour is not being repressed. It is just to claim that anti-gay prejudice and legislation is mostly related to geopolitics and economic hierarchies rather than to tradition (religious or not).

Research paper thumbnail of Κινήματα ΛΟΑΤ, Βιοπολιτική και Νέα Εγκληματολογία: Μία προκαταρτική έρευνα σε χώρες της Ανατολικής Μεσογείου. Στο Φέλλας, Κ., Κάψου, Μ. και Επαμεινώνδας, Ε. (επιμ.) Σεξουαλικότητες: Απόψεις, Μελέτες και Βιώματα στον κυπριακό και ελλαδικό χώρο. Αθήνα: Πολύχρωμος Πλανήτης

ΠΕΡΙΛΗΨΗ: Παρόλο που η σεξουαλικότητα προβάλλεται ως ένα αυστηρά προ-ΣΕΞΟΥΑΛΙΚΟΤΗΤΑ: ΑΠΟΨΕΙΣ, ΜΕΛ... more ΠΕΡΙΛΗΨΗ: Παρόλο που η σεξουαλικότητα προβάλλεται ως ένα αυστηρά προ-ΣΕΞΟΥΑΛΙΚΟΤΗΤΑ: ΑΠΟΨΕΙΣ, ΜΕΛΕΤΕΣ ΚΑΙ ΒΙΩΜΑΤΑ 337 στη συζήτηση για την οµοφυλοφιλία παρουσιάζοντας την όχι ως 'πρόβληµα' αλλά ως κοινωνική κατασκευή και άρα ως κοινωνιολογικό ζήτηµα.

Research paper thumbnail of  Mediterranean Environmentalism: The ‘Transenvironmental’ Character of Environmental Associations in Countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region. In: Maas, Α. et al (eds.) Global Environmental Change: New Drivers for Resistance, Crime and Terrorism? Berlin, Nomos.

Research paper thumbnail of Place as Matter, Matter as Identity: Objectifying Istanbul in the context of an urban struggle. In: ter Keurs, P. and Babilis, T. (eds.) Social Matter(s): Anthropological Approaches to Materiality. Berlin, LIT Verlag.

The present paper is based on fieldwork in Istanbul – Turkey concerning the urban resistance of a... more The present paper is based on fieldwork in Istanbul – Turkey concerning the urban resistance of a neighbourhood of the city (Arnavutköy) against the construction of a third bridge over the Bosphorus strait. The reason, amongst others, that Arnavutköylites reject the construction of the bridge stems from the fact that the construction of the bridge would detach them from their ‘place’ in which they ‘dwell’ and with wich they feel united existentially. For them Arnavutköy ‘is’ part of their existence and hende their identity. As one of my informants put it:
“Arnavutköy is my home. Now when we finish (our conversation) I am going to go back to Arnavutköy and I feel very happy there. I walk very happily in the streets, I run early in the morning along the coast, I go to my barber and we chat a lot and he says: “why didn’t you come? It’s been a long time since I last saw you!”. That sort of thing, it’s my life. And like everybody else I would like to protect my life with the best possible means I have. That’s why I fight. I am a school teacher by accident. I am Arnavutköylü first and then a school teacher. And it happens that the school I work in is not very far from Arnavutköy! But the important thing is that I would like to save the life and the world that I love”.
In this sense, place, in this case Arnavutköy, assumes a material aspect through which the residents of the neighbourhood negotiate their identity, culture and their locality providing for an excellent example to discuss issues of power relationships between people and the state, individual, collectve and local identities.

Research paper thumbnail of Within our walls: white collar crime in Greek academia. In: The Routledge Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime in Europe. London: Routledge

Research paper thumbnail of Η διαμαρτυρία ενάντια στην Τρίτη Γέφυρα του Βοσπόρου: Κομμάτι μιας Πόλης, κομμάτι ενός κινήματος

Το παρόν κείμενο αποτελεί μια ανθρωπολογική μελέτη μιας κινητοποίησης βάσης (grassroots mobilizat... more Το παρόν κείμενο αποτελεί μια ανθρωπολογική μελέτη μιας κινητοποίησης βάσης (grassroots mobilization) σε μια γειτονιά της Κωνσταντινούπολης. Η κινητοποίηση ακολούθησε την ανακοίνωση της κατασκευής μιας τρίτης γέφυρας πάνω από το Στενό του Βοσπόρου που θα ένωνε τις ασιατικές με τις ευρωπαϊκές ακτές της Κων-σταντινούπολης. Ως απάντηση στην ανακοίνωση αυτού του σχεδίου, οι κάτοικοι της ευρωπαϊκής συνοικίας, όπου θα τοποθετούνταν οι πυλώνες της γέφυρας, οργάνω-σαν μία κίνηση που ονομάστηκε Πρωτοβουλία Περιοχής Arnavutköy (Arnavutköy District Initiative) – στα Τουρκικά ASG (Arnavutköy Semt Girişimi). Τα μέλη της κίνησης υποστηρίζουν ότι οι λόγοι αντίδρασής τους στην κατασκευή της γέφυρας αφορούν στις καταστροφικές συνέπειες που θα είχε η κατασκευή της στο φυσικό και πολιτισμικό περιβάλλον της περιοχής καθώς και στην ζωή των κατοίκων.

Research paper thumbnail of Ethnography and the Commons: A few notes before the field of Heteropolitics

Proceedings from the “International Workshop on the commons and political theory” , 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Εντός των τειχών: Θεωρητικά Σχόλια για το Έγκλημα του Λευκού Κολάρου στο Ελληνικό Πανεπιστήμιο.

Ο σκοπός του παρόντος είναι να γίνει μια πρώτη προσπάθεια χαρτογράφησης ενός φαινομένου που είναι... more Ο σκοπός του παρόντος είναι να γίνει μια πρώτη προσπάθεια χαρτογράφησης ενός φαινομένου που είναι υπαρκτό και διακριτό, παράγει κοινωνική βλάβη, κατανοείται σε συγκεκριμένες επιστημονικές μελέτες άλλων επιστημονικών χώρων, έχει μια διαλεκτική σχέση με την εξελισσόμενη κοινωνική πραγματικότητα, εντούτοις δεν έχει αρκούντος ερευνηθεί με τη χρήση του ερμηνευτικού εργαλείου του εγκλήματος του λευκού κολλάρου. Κατά τη γνώμη μας, η συγκεκριμένη οπτική προσέγγισης μπορεί να είναι επωφελής και στο πλαίσιο της επιστημονικής έρευνας για την τριτοβάθμια εκπαίδευση, αλλά και ως προς τη σύνδεση της με συγκεκριμένες προσεγγίσεις αντεγκληματικής και εκπαιδευτικής πολιτικής. Λέξεις κλειδιά: Νέο Ελληνικό Πανεπιστήμιο, έγκλημα λευκού κολάρου, παραβιάσεις δικαιωμάτων, οικονομικά σκάνδαλα, πειθαρχημένα σώματα

Research paper thumbnail of «“İlk ve en önemli çevreci”:Environmentalism and Secularism in contemporary Istanbul». Proceedings from the International Conference “Myths of the Others in the Balkans: representation, social practices and performances”

The present paper aims at discussing the ways in which the participants of an initiative in Istan... more The present paper aims at discussing the ways in which the participants of an initiative in Istanbul, namely the Arnavutköy District Initiative, protesting against the construction of a bridge over the Bosphorus strait, mobilise around the secularist figure of Atatürk who according to them was "The first and the most important environmentalist" (İlk ve en önemli çevreci). In doing this, the activists of ASG attepmt to differentiate themselves from the current Islamist and -according to their opinion -less environmental-friendly administration. Based on the above, my aim is to present how sameness and difference is represented in the context of a protest using alleged incidents that accompany the cult of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in relation with the environmental concerns of the initiative.

Research paper thumbnail of Local Protests in Global Cities: The case of the Arnavutköy District Initiative in Istanbul. Proceedings from the CUA ANNUAL CONFERENCE “Market vs Society? Human principles and economic rationale in changing times”.

In 1975, Jack Rollwagen wrote that in order for the study to become significant anthropologists m... more In 1975, Jack Rollwagen wrote that in order for the study to become significant anthropologists must place their investigations "of one social form, of one neighbourhood, of one city, and/or of one region within a nation, into the context of the nation-state or a region larger than the nation-state" (Rollwagen 1975: 4). I find his comment quite relevant to my study as I believe that the Arnavutköy initiative should not be seen as isolated from larger geographical, historical and political contexts, but as part of what Kemper calls "international urban systems through time and space" (1991b: 374). After all, Arnavutköy is part of one the largest cities on the planet, Istanbul; according to the 2000 Census, the main city's population is listed at 8,803,468 inhabitants, and 10,018,735 if the peripheral provincial areas are included (http://en.wikipedia.org). In addition, as Moore (1996) argues, there are certain organizing principles shared by all cities which create an urban network of distinctive social-cultural and political-economic domains (Kemper 1991b: 374). Keeping in mind the similarities which Istanbul and Arnavutköy, as part of it, share with other large metropolitan centres, in socio-cultural as well as political and economic domains, my methodological approaches during fieldwork followed a pattern wherein ethnography moved from its conventional single-site location contextualised by macro-constructions of a larger social order (such as the capitalist world system) to multiple sites of observation and participation (Marcus 1995: 95) 3 .

Research paper thumbnail of «Environmental Protests in Turkey: The Transnational Character of Local Social Movements” Proceedings from the International Conference “Shaping Europe in a Globalized World: Protest Movements and the Rise of a Global Civil Society” (pp. 404-409).

Research paper thumbnail of Περιβαλλοντικές συγκρούσεις στην Τουρκία: Ανάμεσα στην 'Κοινωνία Πολιτών' και στο Κράτος. Πρακτικά του Συνεδρίου "Περιβαλλοντική Πολιτική και Διαχείριση"

Research paper thumbnail of “Environmentalism as Social Critique: The case of ASG”. Proceedings of the International Conference on Nature, Science and Social Movements. Department of Sociology, Univeristy of the Aegean, 25 -28 June 2004.

Research paper thumbnail of The "Anatolian Revolution" and the "Spirit of Capitalism"

It was during a visit to a private hospital in Kayseri, a central Anatolian city in Turkey, homet... more It was during a visit to a private hospital in Kayseri, a central Anatolian city in Turkey, hometown of Abdullah Gül (former President of the Republic and founding member of the ruling Justice and Development Party, Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, or AKP) -a city considered to represent the so-called New Turkey (Yeni Türkiye) -that I saw a headscarved woman wearing a short-sleeved t-shirt. To me, that was very unusual. As an outsider, it was my understanding that pious Muslim women were not supposed to show their skin . During my years in Istanbul working for a conservative university, I had witnessed my colleagues and students coming to class wearing their trenchcoats (pardesü) even during summer, in 30-35 degrees celsius. Yet even one of these colleagues confessed to me, when I told her that I was moving to Kayseri: "I could never live in a such a conservative place."

Research paper thumbnail of From Gezi Park to Standing Rock: It's never just about a tree

Research paper thumbnail of #TurkeyCoupAttempt: The 'social poetics' of an attempted coup

Research paper thumbnail of Greek debt and bailouts as a white collar crime (?)

August Newsletter of the European Working Group on Organisational Crime

Research paper thumbnail of "Greek Academia and the Violation of Human Rights". August Newsletter of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control

Research paper thumbnail of Practical Guide on Political Opinion - EUAA

Practical Guide on Political Opinion - EUAA, 2022

Political opinion is often considered to be the most ‘straightforward’ of the five Geneva Convent... more Political opinion is often considered to be the most ‘straightforward’ of the five Geneva Convention grounds. the layperson often associates the term ‘refugee’ with the term ‘political’. Yet, decision makers continue to encounter specific challenges when dealing with international protection claims based on this ground.

Among other difficulties, misconceptions remain about what may qualify as a ‘political opinion’. In addition, of key importance, and something that is often overlooked, is the actor of persecution’s perception of what constitutes a political opinion and the political opinions imputed to the applicant. It is also not an easy task for case officers to identify the relevant topics to explore or elements to consider depending on the general context in the country of origin and the personal circumstances of an applicant who relies on (imputed) political opinions in their asylum claim. the identification of the nexus between the feared act of persecution and the ground of political opinion raises its own challenges. these are but a few of the difficulties faced.

Against this background, the aim of this practical guide is to provide case officers with a framework for the examination of applications for international protection based on political opinion.

Research paper thumbnail of #otheranthropolitics - LIST OF ABSTRACTS

Here is a list of abstracts of our presentations in our #otheranthropolitics Workshop, Volos 15 -... more Here is a list of abstracts of our presentations in our #otheranthropolitics Workshop, Volos 15 - 16 April, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of #Otheranthropolitics Workshop, Volos 15-16 April

‘Ηeteropolitics’ (ERC COG 2017 – 2020) is a research project on alternative forms of political se... more ‘Ηeteropolitics’ (ERC COG 2017 – 2020) is a research project on alternative forms of political self-organization at the grassroots and the local level, mainly. It discusses and partly compares processes of alternative politics around participatory democracy and the commons in Spain, Italy and Greece. The aim is to acquire, from different perspectives, a broad and nuanced understanding of messy, contradictory but also promising new modes of civic engagement, institutional participation and administration on the city level, examining the extent to which they can help catalyse wider processes of democratic transformation. The aims and the perspective of the research are not narrowly academic. Our intention is to gather and disseminate knowledge on democratic social transformation, civic politics and initiatives and the commons in the three countries, in the hope of boosting activities of socio-political and economic democratic change in the Mediterranean South and more broadly.

In this context, we are organising an international workshop of the project entitled #otheranthrpolitics to be held in Volos on 15th – 16th of April. The event is co-organized and hosted by the Department of Social Anthropology History and Social Anthropology of the University of Thessaly with the participation of researchers and volunteering and institutional activists.

Organising Committee: Aimilia Voulvouli, Alexandros Kioupkiolis, Penelope Papailias, Petros Petridis, Maria Deligannidou

If you are on Facebook, you can find more information about the workshop at https://www.facebook.com/events/282386455993154/

Research paper thumbnail of Interviews of activists from Sarantaporo.gr (In Greek)

From October 2017 to June 2018, in the framework of the Heteropolitics ERC COG (2017-2020) Resear... more From October 2017 to June 2018, in the framework of the Heteropolitics ERC COG (2017-2020) Research Project, we conducted ethnographic research in Elassona, where over the past nine years eleven villages have built, run and maintain a Wireless Community Network (WCN), sarantaporo.gr. The aim of our research is to contribute to the debate on Commons through feedback from the field where such ventures take place. More specifically, the aim of Heteropolitics is to highlight alternative, self-organised communities of Commons. In the case-study of sarantaporo.gr, we have focused on the community created around a Digital Commons and the perceptions emerging from participation in the WCN concerning the infrastructure, which is provided by all participants to all the inhabitants of the villages that belong on the network, either they are participants or not. The following narratives (in Greek) from interviews we held answer questions such as:

How do the Commons emerge as everyday politics?
How do the Commons differ from bureaucratic state policies?
How do the subjectivities of participants emerge and get transformed in the contexts of such endeavours?
How do participants understand their role in the endeavour and in the wider society they belong to?
You can read the full interviews (in Greek) here.

Research paper thumbnail of Connecting the unconnected in rural Greece: The case of Sarantaporo.gr

GLOBAL INFORMATION SOCIETY WATCH: COMMUNITY NETWORKS, 2018

A report (co-authored with members of sarantaporo.gr team) focusing on the case of Sarantaporo.gr... more A report (co-authored with members of sarantaporo.gr team) focusing on the case of Sarantaporo.gr as a community network.

Research paper thumbnail of HETEROPOLITICS Principal Investigator: Alexandros Kioupkiolis  FULL HETEROPOLITICS INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS

This is the final version of the Proceedings from the Heteropolitics International Workshop on th... more This is the final version of the Proceedings from the Heteropolitics International Workshop on the Commons and Political Theory, which took place in 13-15 September 2017, at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Amfitheatro I, ELKE, 3rd Septemvriou street, Thessaloniki, 54636). The contributions of individual authors are presented here in form in which they have been submitted, with minor edits. This final version is published on-line at heteropolitics.net.
Video recordings of all sessions of the conference, from 13/09/2017 till 15/09/2017, are available at http://heteropolitics.net/index.php/2017/09/20/video-recordings-from- heteropoltics -international-workshop-13-15-September-2017/

Research paper thumbnail of Alter-politics, Commons and Ethnographies for Another World - Panel for EASA 2018 (Convenors: Aimilia Voulvouli, Alexandros Kioupkiolis, Maribel Casas-Cortes)

Recent times have been marked by a global financial crisis and a neoliberal hegemony that have dr... more Recent times have been marked by a global financial crisis and a neoliberal hegemony that have driven large parts of the population into depression, resignation, and escape, spreading disaffection with the current state of democracy across the world. Nevertheless, alongside resignation and escape, we can also witness the rise of alternative practices of self-governance, community building and democratic politics.

Emerging community initiatives that self-organise around common endeavours such as social economy initiatives, civic engagement in municipal politics, digital networks, communities of migrants and solidarity groups that self-organise to face the defects of official migrant policy realise and propose different paradigms of political engagement. Based on principles of self-reconstruction and self-governance, such communities practice alternative politics that revolve around shared/common resources, produced and managed by the community itself. At the same time, they engage in knowledge production around alternative notions of the political.

Our panel aims at exploring ethnographic engagement with such 'alter-political' communities. Our aspiration is to contribute to the emerging field of the anthropology of the commons but also to address the wider ethnographic literature on alternative politics with a radical democratic potential. We seek contributions examining the character and the practices of collective action which revolves around shared resources and promotes alternative politics beyond the established mainstream political and market apparatus. Key questions to be tackled include, among others:
- How can we articulate already existing anthropological knowledge of collective action with fieldwork on the commons?
- How do people, involved in such practices, understand 'the political'?
- Which modus vivendi and forms of subjectivity are unfolding in the context of such collectivities?
- Which political strategies are being developed?
- How is the collective subject constituted through practices and knowledge production in the framework of such groups?
- How does contemporary anthropological literature on alternative politics renew our understanding of the political?
- How do contemporary ethnographies of political processes problematize or stimulate and enrich political theory?

Research paper thumbnail of Preliminary Workshop Proceedings (Thessaloniki 13 - 15 September 2017)

This preliminary version of the ‘Proceedings’ has been prepared immediately after the end of the ... more This preliminary version of the ‘Proceedings’ has been prepared immediately after the end of the conference in 15 September 2017, only for the purposes of the deliverables of WP 1. The contributions of individual authors and panellists have not been edited. They are presented here in the form in which they have been submitted by the authors. A fuller and edited version of the ‘Proceedings’ will be published on-line, at heteropolitics.net, in February 2018.
Video recordings of all sessions of the conference, from 13/09/2017 till 15/09/2017, are available at http://heteropolitics.net/index.php/2017/09/20/video-recordings-from- heteropoltics -international-workshop-13-15-September-2017/

Main Authors: Alexandros Kioupkiolis, Natalia-Rozalia Avlona

Research paper thumbnail of Programme: International Workshop on the Commons and Political Theory, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 13-15 September

'Heteropolitics' is a project funded by ERC (P.I. Dr Alexandros Kioupkiolis) in contemporary poli... more 'Heteropolitics' is a project funded by ERC (P.I. Dr Alexandros Kioupkiolis) in contemporary political theory which purports to contribute to the renewal of political thought on the ‘common’ (communities and the commons) and the political in tandem. The common implies a variable interaction between differences which communicate and collaborate in and through their differences, converging partially on practices and particular pursuits. The political pertains to processes through which plural communities manage themselves in ways which enable mutual challenges, deliberation, decision-making, and creative agency.

My post in Heteropolitics is that of Post-doctoral Fellow,, responsible for conducting ethnography with self-organised communities and their commoning practices in Greece.

From 13 to 15 September 2017, we are organizing the first international workshop of the project in Thessaloniki.

Research paper thumbnail of Αλλαγή παραδείγματος και ο διαφαινόμενος ρόλος της τουρκικής Αριστεράς, ΑΥΓΗ 1 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ 2018

Η διπλή εκλογική αναμέτρηση της περασμένης Κυριακής στην Τουρκία, η πέμπτη τα τελευταία τέσσερα χ... more Η διπλή εκλογική αναμέτρηση της περασμένης Κυριακής στην Τουρκία, η πέμπτη τα τελευταία τέσσερα χρόνια, είχε αδιαμφισβήτητα μεγάλο ενδιαφέρον, καθώς επισφράγισε τη συνταγματική αναθεώρηση που αποφασίστηκε με το δημοψήφισμα του Απριλίου 2017, η οποία δίνει διευρυμένες εκτελεστικές εξουσίες στον Πρόεδρο της χώρας. Άλλωστε το ποσοστό συμμετοχής στις εκλογές, το οποίο σύμφωνα με επίσημα στοιχεία άγγιξε το 87%, έδειξε ότι η σημασία τους αναγνωρίστηκε και από το ίδιο το εκλογικό σώμα, το οποίο, μακριά από κάθε οριενταλιστική αντίληψη, ανέδειξε τη σημασία που αποδίδουν και την προσήλωση που επιδεικνύουν οι Τούρκοι στη δημοκρατική διαδικασία των εκλογών, γενικότερα. Ο Ρετζέπ Ταγίπ Ερντογάν βγήκε για ακόμη μία φορά νικητής και το κόμμα του αναδείχθηκε πρώτο από τις κάλπες. Τόσο ο ίδιος όσο και το κόμμα του αποδείχθηκαν πολύ ανθεκτικοί αν σκεφτεί κανείς τι έχει συμβεί στη χώρα από το αποτυχημένο πραξικόπημα του Ιουλίου του 2016 και μετά. Βέβαια, το Κόμμα Δικαιοσύνης και Ανάπτυξης (ΚΔΑ) δεν κατάφερε να εξασφαλίσει αυτοδυναμία και αυτό οφείλεται κατά κύριο λόγο στον άθλο του αριστερού φιλοκουρδικού Κόμματος της Δημοκρατίας των Λαών (ΚΔΛ), η είσοδος του οποίου στην Τουρκική Εθνοσυνέλευση, ξεπερνώντας το όριο του 10% όπως απαιτείται, σε συνθήκες κρατικής τρομοκρατίας, διώξεων και ιδεολογικού πολέμου, θα πρέπει να θεωρείται μια μεγάλη επιτυχία. Το ΚΔΛ κατάφερε όχι μόνο να διατηρήσει αλλά και να αυξήσει το ποσοστό του κατά 1% και να εδραιώσει την τουρκική Αριστερά ως τρίτη εκλογική δύναμη για τρίτη συνεχή εκλογική αναμέτρηση. Ο ίδιος ο συμπρόεδρος του κόμματος, ο φυλακισμένος εδώ και είκοσι μήνες Σελαχατίν Ντεμιρτάς, και υποψήφιος πρόεδρος για δεύτερη φορά ήρθε τρίτος, όπως και στις εκλογές του 2014, στις προτιμήσεις του εκλογικού σώματος, κάνοντας προεκλογική εκστρατεία από τη φυλακή. Το ποσοστό του είναι ελαφρώς μειωμένο από την προηγούμενη φορά, ωστόσο πήρε 250.000 ψήφους παραπάνω και βγήκε όχι απλώς αλώβητος,

Research paper thumbnail of Η προτεσταντική Νέα Τουρκία και η ενδεχόμενη υποψηφιότητα Γκιουλ, ΑΥΓΗ 29 Απριλίου 2018

Μία είδηση που αποτέλεσε έκπληξη για πολλούς εμφανίστηκε πριν λίγες μέρες στα ειδησεογραφικά πρακ... more Μία είδηση που αποτέλεσε έκπληξη για πολλούς εμφανίστηκε πριν λίγες μέρες στα ειδησεογραφικά πρακτορεία σχετικά με το ενδεχόμενο της υποψηφιότητας του Αμπντουλάχ Γκιουλ για την προεδρία της χώρας, όχι όμως με το κυβερνών Κόμμα της Δικαιοσύνης και Ανάπτυξης (ΑΚΡ) που συνίδρυσε πριν από 17 χρόνια μαζί με τον σημερινό Πρόεδρο της χώρας Ρ.Τ. Ερντογάν, αλλά ως κοινός υποψήφιος της αντιπολίτευσης.

Research paper thumbnail of Η επόμενη ημέρα σε περίπτωση επικράτησης το "Όχι"

Τα σενάρια σε περίπτωση ήττας του «ναι» αφορούν πρόωρες εκλογές προκειμένου να συγκρατηθεί το ενδ... more Τα σενάρια σε περίπτωση ήττας του «ναι» αφορούν πρόωρες εκλογές προκειμένου να συγκρατηθεί το ενδεχόμενο κύμα αμφισβήτησης από την εκλογική του βάση, που ήδη βλέπει την οικονομία να κλονίζεται, γεγονός που αποτελεί άλλον έναν επιβαρυντικό παράγοντα για τα σχέδια του προέδρου της Τουρκίας αλλά και των φυγόκεντρων δυνάμεων στο ίδιο το ΑΚΡ

Research paper thumbnail of Συνέντευξη στην εφημερίδα "Η ΑΥΓΗ" για την Τουρκία μετά την απόπειρα πραξικοπήματος της 15ης Ιουλίου

Η κυβέρνηση του Κόμματος Δικαιοσύνης και Ανάπτυξης έχει καταφέρει να αντιστρέψει το αφήγημα περί ... more Η κυβέρνηση του Κόμματος Δικαιοσύνης και Ανάπτυξης έχει καταφέρει να αντιστρέψει το αφήγημα περί μιας Τουρκίας -τμήματος της Δύσης και να το αντικαταστήσει με εκείνο της Τουρκίας άξιας απογόνου της Οθωμανικής Αυτοκρατορίας» «Αυτό που ο Ερντογάν επιχειρεί να πετύχει είναι η εδραίωση του ίδιου ως του μεγαλύτερου ηγέτη που είχε ποτέ η χώρα, απονομιμοποιώντας στη συνείδηση των Τούρκων τις επιλογές του ιδρυτή του τουρκικού κράτους Μουσταφά Κεμάλ Ατατούρκ» «Δεν μπορώ να προβλέψω την αντίδραση του κουρδικού στοιχείου. Η επαφή που έχω με μέλη και ψηφοφόρους του HDP δεν μου επιτρέπει να είμαι βραχυπρόθεσμα αισιόδοξη. Ο φόβος και η αβεβαιότητα κυριαρχούν, αν και το κόμμα συνεχίζει τη λειτουργία και την -όσο είναι δυνατόν κοινοβουλευτική δραστηριότητά του»

Research paper thumbnail of Ο Τράμπ, ο Ερντογάν, ο Φάρατζ και η αριστερά της ελίτ. Δρόμος της Αριστεράς

Πριν από μερικές εβδομάδες είχα παρευρεθεί σ' ένα διεθνές συνέδριο το οποίο διοργανώνεται κάθε χρ... more Πριν από μερικές εβδομάδες είχα παρευρεθεί σ' ένα διεθνές συνέδριο το οποίο διοργανώνεται κάθε χρόνο από μία ευρωπαϊκή ένωση κριτικής εγκληματολογίας. Για τους μη γνωρίζοντες το Πολυμέσα Επικοινωνία «σύστημα ΤΕΕ» επιβιώνει

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Research paper thumbnail of Όταν οι Σκουριές γίνονται...χρυσάφι: Η παρέμβαση των "από κάτω" έναυσμα για μια αριστερή περιβαλλοντική νομοθεσία - Δρόμος της Αριστεράς

Της Αιμιλίας Βουλβούλη* Την προηγούμενη εβδoμάδα έγινε γνωστό ότι το υπουργείο Παραγωγικής Ανασυγ... more Της Αιμιλίας Βουλβούλη* Την προηγούμενη εβδoμάδα έγινε γνωστό ότι το υπουργείο Παραγωγικής Ανασυγκρότησης αποφάσισε να ανακαλέσει την θεώρηση της Αρχιτεκτονικής και Ηλεκτρομηχανολογικής Μελέτης της Μονάδας Εμπλουτισμού Σκουριών, προκειμένου να διενεργηθεί έλεγχος για το κατά πόσο αυτές οι μελέτες είναι σύμφωνες με τις κείμενες πολεοδομικές και περιβαλλοντικές διατάξεις. Η απόφαση αυτή κρίθηκε επιβεβλημένη, εξαιτίας της ύπαρξης έγγραφων καταγγελιών που αφορούν την παραβίαση της περιβαλλοντικής νομοθεσίας και κατ' επέκταση του δημόσιου συμφέροντος, αφού η προστασία του περιβάλλοντος κρίνεται ωφέλιμη για το δημόσιο συμφέρον.

Research paper thumbnail of If not now, when? If not us, who?: The new Greek government and its negotiation strategy

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Research paper thumbnail of TRNN interviews Maria Nikolakaki, key organizer of the CROSSING BORDERS Conference taking place July 7-10 in Lesvos, Greece

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The Cooperative Institute for Transnational Studies in collaboration with the University of Aegean (Laboratory EKNEXA-Department of Sociology) announce the world conference

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Lesvos, 7-10th July

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September 28 – October 1, 2017

International Conference

Mytilene, Lesvos (Greece)

Urban Geography and Planning Laboratory,

“Invisible Cities” research team & Population Movements Laboratory

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The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control 45th Annual Conference, 2017

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Uncovering Harms: States, corporations and organizations as criminals

31 August – 3 September, Mytilene, Lesbos, Greece
Organised by

European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control University of the Aegean (Laboratory EKNEXA- Department of Sociology)

Scientific Committee:
Stratos Georgoulas, Ida Nafstad, Samantha Fletcher, Aimilia Voulvouli, Georgios Papanikolaou, Christina Pantazis, Simon Pemberton, Victoria Canning, Alejandro Forero Cuéllar, Daniel jimenez Franco, Ignasi Bernat, Robert Jones, David Scott

Organizing Committee:
Stratos Georgoulas, Ida Nafstad, Christos Kouroutzas, Dimitris Paraskevopoulos, Kostas Ganotis, Kanlis Paraschos

Secretariat:
Elizaveta Mourzidou, Anastasia Tsakaloglou, Kostas Leros, Maria Apostolou, Vasiliki Laxana, Paraskevi Ouzounoglou, Triada Dimatsa, Maria Tzanaki, Kontelis Stathis, Eleftherios Kolokouras, Kolokouras Nikolaos, Salomidis Charis

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Research paper thumbnail of Call for papers "The Everyday Life of Riders in Platform Capitalism" - 17th EASA Biennial Conference EASA2022: Transformation, Hope and the Commons School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast 26-29 July 2022

In recent years, the rise of platform capitalism and the gig economy has generated multiple trans... more In recent years, the rise of platform capitalism and the gig economy has generated multiple transformations in the spaces and temporariness of daily lives in cities. A myriad of mobile applications overflow the boundaries of the urban and the digital and give rise to sociomaterial entanglements that are articulated on the move, between the courier's smartphone, his/her delivery itinerary, and the consumer's doorstep. This panel invites to explore how these economic and work-related transformations are impacting the everyday lives of 'riders' enlisted with on-demand labor companies such as Uber, Lyft, Glovo, Deliveroo etc. In this context, what kind of vulnerabilities and opportunities are these 'workers' exposed to? What kind of precarious livelihoods are emerging under this platform framework? In this panel, we are aiming to expand and nuance conventional meanings of precarity, pointing towards a condition and ethics of mobile precarity in late capitalism. We welcome papers that ethnographically emphasize the itinerant, ambivalent and uncertain character of daily life at the heart of the platform economy, addressing the following questions: What are the defining characteristics of gig economy work compared to other precarious jobs? What kind of transformations are taking place in the field of subjectivities? Who are the subjects that embody them and what are their life trajectories? What strategies of care do they deploy in the workplace and in everyday life? How do they engage affectively with their work? What are their tactics of resistance and alternative politics or 'commoning' and how do they express and materialize them?

Research paper thumbnail of Call for papers "The Everyday Life of Riders in Platform Capitalism"

In recent years, the rise of platform capitalism and the gig economy has generated multiple trans... more In recent years, the rise of platform capitalism and the gig economy has generated multiple transformations in the spaces and temporariness of daily lives in cities. A myriad of mobile applications overflow the boundaries of the urban and the digital and give rise to sociomaterial entanglements that are articulated on the move, between the courier's smartphone, his/her delivery itinerary, and the consumer's doorstep. This panel invites to explore how these economic and work-related transformations are impacting the everyday lives of 'riders' enlisted with on-demand labor companies such as Uber, Lyft, Glovo, Deliveroo etc. In this context, what kind of vulnerabilities and opportunities are these 'workers' exposed to? What kind of precarious livelihoods are emerging under this platform framework?

In this panel, we are aiming to expand and nuance conventional meanings of precarity, pointing towards a condition and ethics of mobile precarity in late capitalism. We welcome papers that ethnographically emphasize the itinerant, ambivalent and uncertain character of daily life at the heart of the platform economy, addressing the following questions: What are the defining characteristics of gig economy work compared to other precarious jobs? What kind of transformations are taking place in the field of subjectivities? Who are the subjects that embody them and what are their life trajectories? What strategies of care do they deploy in the workplace and in everyday life? How do they engage affectively with their work? What are their tactics of resistance and alternative politics or 'commoning' and how do they express and materialize them?