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Professor in Sociology ( Development and Environment)

CONTACT
University of Crete
Department of Sociology
Gallos Campus
74100 Rethymno Greece
Tel: +302831077477
Fax: +302831077467
e-mail:kousis.m at uoc.gr

CV

http://crete.academia.edu/MariaKousis/
GGCRISI, The Greeks, the Germans and the Crisis
Reinventing Democracy in Europe: Youth Doing Politics in Times of Increasing Inequalities
LIVING WITH HARD TIMES
EUROPEAN PATHS TO TRANSNATIONAL SOLIDARITY
Google Scholar Link/Profile: https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=Pc_1poMAAAAJ&hl=el&oi=ao

Education

  • 1979 B.A. La Salle University (Sociology and History, cum laude)
  • 1980 M.A. University of Michigan (Sociology)
  • 1984 Ph.D. University of Michigan (Sociology)

Teaching & Academic Positions
Since 1987, she teaches Sociology at the University of Crete. Recent course topics include: Environmental Sociology; Environmental Movements; Society and Bioethics; Social Research Methods. She was Director, of the University of Crete Research Center (UCRC) for the Humanities, the Social and Education Sciences (9/2014-11/2021). She is former Chair of the Department of Sociology (2002-2006), former Director of Graduate Studies in Sociology (2004-08) and Vice Director of the MSc program in Bioethics at the University of Crete (2010-2012)

Fields of academic interests and research specialization

  • Social Change, Social Movements, Economic & Political Contention Environment, Society & Politics, Sustainable Development
  • Protest Event/Case Analysis, Action Organization Analysis, Political Claims Analysis
  • Bioethics and Society
  • Tourism, Rural/Island Societies & Social Change
  • Southern Europe, Mediterranean, Greece

Selected Publications

  • 2022 Kalogeraki, Stefania and Maria Kousis (eds) Youth Political Participation in Greece: A Multiple Methods Perspective, Palgrave.
    https://link.springer.com/book/9783031099045
  • 2022 Kousis, M., A. Chatzidaki and K. Kafetsios (eds) Challenging Mobilities in and to the EU during Times of Crises: the case of Greece, IMISCOE-Springer Research Series, open access at: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-11574-5
  • 2022 Fernández G.G. Eva, M. Kousis and C. Lahusen. Measuring organisational practices of solidarity across sectors and countries, SAGE Research Methods Case Studies.  http://dx.doi.org/https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529799255
  • 2021 Kousis, M., & Uba, K. (Non) Environmental Alternative Action Organizations under the Impacts of the Global Financial Crisis: A Comparative European Perspective. Sustainability, 13(16), 8989.
    https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/16/8989/htm [open access]
  • 2021 Kousis, M. and C. Lahusen (guest editors) Transnational Solidarity Organizations in Times of Crises – Comparative European Perspectives, special issue, Sociological Research Online https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780419872215
  • 2020 Lahusen, C., U. Zschache and M. Kousis, (eds) Transnational Solidarity in Times of Crises: Citizen organisations and collective learning in Europe. Palgrave; open access at: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-49659-3
  • 2019 Kousis, M. and M. Giugni (guest editors) “Claiming and Framing Youth in the Public Domain during Times of Increasing Inequalities” American
    Behavioral Scientist
    https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764219885423
  • 2018    Roose, J., M. Kousis, M. Sommer, F. Scholl, K. Kanellopoulos, A. Loukakis “New Rage, New Perspectives? Protest in the Eurozone Crisis in Greece and Germany” Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie (forthcoming)
  • 2017    Kousis, M. (guest editor) “Alternative Forms of Resilience Confronting Hard Economic Times. A South European Perspective” special section PArtecipazione e COnflitto
    http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/view/17118/0
  • 2017    Kousis, M. and M. Paschou “Alternative Forms of Resilience: A Typology of approaches for the study of Citizen Collective Responses in Hard Economic Times,” in special section Alternative Forms of Resilience Confronting Hard Economic Times. A South European Perspective, PArtecipazione e COnflitto, 10(1), 136-168
    http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/view/17119
  • 2016   Lahusen, C., M. Kousis, J. Kiess and M. Paschou “Political Claims and Discourse Formations: A Comparative Account on Germany and Greece in the Eurozone Crisis”, Politics & Policy, special issue Citizens’ Responses to the European Economic Crisis in the Public Domain edited by M. Cinalli and M.Giugni. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/polp.12162/pdf
  • 2014 Diani, M. and M. Kousis “The Duality of Claims and Events: The Greek Campaign against Troika’s Memoranda and Austerity, 2010-2012” Mobilization special issue “Researching Collective Action through Networks: Taking Stock and the Way Forward”, 19(4), 387-404. https://doi.org/10.17813/maiq.19.4.d865w28177575673
  • 2013 Lekakis, J. N. and M. Kousis “Economic Crisis and the Environment: the case of Greece”, South European Society and Politics. May 31, 18(3), 305-331. DOI:10.1080/13608746.2013.799731 http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MJrXYra6PDYjxQYYvQgi/full
  • 2005 Kousis, M. and Charles Tilly (eds). Economic and Political Contention in Comparative Perspective Boulder, Colorado: Paradigm Publishers.
    http://www.paradigmpublishers.com/books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=98647 Translated in Greek and published in 2008 by Epikentro, Thessaloniki.