Athena
Athanasiou.
Professor of Social Anthropology and Gender Theory
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Panteion University
Athena Athanasiou is Professor of Social Anthropology and Gender Theory at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Athens, Greece). She is currently Dean of the School of Social Sciences.
She has been a fellow at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, at Brown University, and at the Center for the Study of Social Difference, at Columbia University. Her research interests include: contemporary critical theory, gender studies, feminist and queer theory, politics of memory and mourning, biopolitics, citizenship, vulnerability and resistance, theories of performativity, decolonial critique, and ethics and politics of witnessing.
Among her publications are the books: Agonistic Mourning: Political Dissidence and the Women in Black (Edinburgh University Press, 2017); Dispossession: The Performative in the Political (with Judith Butler, Polity Press, 2013); Crisis as a ‘State of Exception’ (Athens, 2012); Life at the Limit: Essays on Gender, Body and Biopolitics (Athens, 2007).
She has been principal investigator or member of research teams funded by: European Research Council (ERC), Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI), Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs (University of California Berkeley and Mellon Foundation), European Commission (Action grants, Seventh Framework Programme, Sixth Framework Programme), Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (academic adviser). She has been serving on the editorial or advisory board of several international journals (Critical Times, Feminist Formations, Philosophy Politics
Dr Georgina
Christou.
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
Panteion University
Georgina Christou is Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Anthropology, at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. She has taught at the University of Sussex and the University of Cyprus on Political Anthropology, Environmental Politics and Social Movements. Her doctoral research explored the autonomous horizontal collective politics and processes of radical political subjectivization of youth in Cyprus, as well as the role of public space in such processes of political becoming. Her research interests include: childhood studies, children’s geographies, politics of space, decolonization, youth social movements, urban social movements and right to the city struggles, as well as gentrification policies and resistance. She has published widely on youth social movements and the politics of youth and childhood as well as on politics of space.
Her recent publications include:
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Christou, G. (2023).
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Christou, G., Theodorou, E. and Spyrou, S. (2022).
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Christou, G. (2021).