Eugenia Petropoulou

Assistant Professor in Sociology (Social Transformations in Contemporary Rural Space)

CONTACT
University of Crete
Department of Sociology
Gallos Campus
74100 Rethymno Greece
Tel: +302831077476
Fax: +302831077467
e-mail: petrope@uoc.gr
CV

Education – Teaching -Research Interests

Eugenia Petropoulou (female) is Assistant Professor in Rural Sociology at the Department of Sociology, University of Crete, Greece. She acquired her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Manchester, UK specialising in Rural Sociology while she holds an MA in Sociology and Social Policy from the University of Durham, UK. She started teaching Rural Sociology at the University of Crete in 2003-2006 as an adjunct lecturer and since 2011 as a permanent lecturer, while since 2018 she has been an Assistant Professor in the same department. She has been working as a researcher and research associate in different EU-funded projects. Her recent research and writing (both Greek and English) have focused on rural social transformations, sustainable livelihoods in rural space, social innovation and short food supply chains as an alternative dimension of development and the construction of qualitative interview guidelines and analysis.

Selected Publications

  • Petropoulou, E.A and Paschou, M. (2022). Towards understanding SFSC and the pillars of its conceptualization: Building upon the Community of Practice approach, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, vol. 6, DOI: 3389/fsufs.2022.915571
  • Petropoulou, EA. Papadaki, M. Kalogeraki, S. (2022). Political Participation of Greek Youth: Exploring Rural, Semi-Urban and Urban Disparities, IN S. Kalogeraki and M. Kousis (eds.) Youth Political Participation in Greece: Empirical Evidence and Methodological Implications, Palgrave Studies in Young People and Politics, Ch.7, pp. 183-215, DOI: 1007/978-3-031-09905-2_7
  • Benos, T., Burket, M., Hüttle-Maack, V. and Petropoulou, E.A. (2022). When mindful consumption meets short food supply chains: Empirical evidence on higher-level motivations influence consumers, Sustainable Production and Consumption, vol. 33, pp. 520-530, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2022.07.028
  • Petropoulou, E.A. Benos, T, Theodorakopoulou, I. Iliopoulos, C. Castellini, A. Xhakollari, V. and Canavari, M. (2022) Understanding social innovation in short food supply chains: An exploratory analysis, International Journal of Food Studies, vol.11, pp.182-195, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7455/ijfs/11.SI.2022.a5
  • Petropoulou, E.A. (2018) Social and Solidarity Economy. The Case of an Urban Consumption Co-operative in Greece, PArtecipazione e COnflitto, Special issue: Socio-political Responses during Recessionary Times in Greece, vol. 11, no. 1, pp.70-94. http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/view/19128/16335, DOI Code: 10.1285/i20356609v11i1p70
  • Petropoulou, E.A, Petousi, V. and Theodorakopoulou, I. (2018) To cultivate or not to cultivate? An exploratory analysis of what influences Greek farmers’ decisions towards the cultivation of bio-energy crops, In Towards a Sustainable Bioeconomy: Principles, Challenges and Perspectives, (eds.) Walter Leal Filho, ‎Diana Mihaela Pociovălișteanu, ‎Paulo Roberto Borges de Brito, Springer International Publishing AG, Springer, pp. 435-456. DOI: 1007/978-3-319-73028-8_22
  • Mantziaris, S., Iliopoulos, C. Theodorakopoulou, I. and Petropoulou, E (2017) Perennial energy crops vs durum wheat in low input lands: Economic analysis of a Greek case study, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, vol. 80, pp.789-800.DOI information:10.1016/j.rser.2017.05.263, https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1V8eM4s9Hvq7wf
  • Petropoulou, E.A. (2016) Aspects of ecological marginalization and alternative local responses in rural Greece, IN Social Ecology, Journal for Environmental Thought and Sociological Research, vol.25, no.1-2, pp.121-141. (ISSN 1849-0360 online, ISSN 1330-0113 print). http://dx.doi.org/10.17234/SocEkol.25.1.8
  • Petropoulou, E.Α (2016) «The role of local food chains in Greece. What opportunities for sustainable, just and democratic food systems at times of crisis?», Sociology and Anthropology, vol. 4, no.5, 337-346, (ISBN 2331-6187). DOI: 10.13189/sa.2016.040506
  • Petropoulou, E.A. (2007) «Indigenous Resource Management and Environmental Degradation, Southern Greece», Management and Environmental Quality, March, Vol. 18, No.2, pp. 152-166. ISSN: 1477-7835.
  • Daoutopoulos, A.G., Pyrovetsi, M. and Petropoulou, E. (2001) «Greek Rural Society and Sustainable Development», στο Eder, K and Kousis, M. (eds.), Environmental Politics in Southern Europe: Actors, Institutions and Discourses in a Europeanising Society, Klauwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, chapter 6, pp: 151-173.