Assistant Professor in «Sociology of the Global South»

Contact
University of Crete
Department of Sociology
Gallos Campus
741 00 Rethymno, Greece
Tel: +302831077487
Fax: +302831077487
e-mail: l.oikonomakis at uoc.gr

Office hours: Tuesdays 16.00-18.00

Personal website

CVΛήψη

Education

  • 2016: PhD: Department of Social and Political Sciences, European University Institute,Florence, Italy: ‘Which way to social change compas? Exploring how revolutionary movements form their political strategies through the experiences of the Zapatistas and the Bolivian cocaleros.’
  • 2012: MRes in Social and Political Sciences, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
  • 2006: MA in International Development: poverty, conflict, reconstruction pathway, Institute for Development Policy and Management (Global Development Institute), University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
  • 2005: BA International and European Studies, Department of International and European Studies, University of Piraeus

Professional Experience

  • 2024 Assistant Professor of Sociology of the Global South, Sociology Department, University of Crete
  • 2023-2024: MSCA Postdoctoral Researcher , Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions (MSCA-Individual Fellowship), Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology,Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • 2023 to date: Adjunct Lecturer, BA Spanish Language and Culture, Hellenic Open University, module ‘History of Latin American States’
  • 2017 to date: Adjunct Lecturer, MRes Social Solidarity Economy, Hellenic Open University, module ‘Social Movements, the State and Social Solidarity Economy’
  • 2020-2023: Adjunct Lecturer, Sociology Department, University of Crete
  • 2018-2019: Postdoctoral Researcher- Marie Curie COFUND Junior Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Durham University, UK
  • 2017-2018: Adjunct Lecturer, Sociology Department, University of Crete
  • 2016-2017: Postdoctoral Researcher, Center on Social Movement Studies (COSMOS), Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Florence, Italy
  • 2016-2017: Researcher, NCCR Democracy Project ‘Populist strategies in current election campaigns’, Department of Political Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2015-2015: Researcher, POLCON Project, Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Florence, Italy

Research Interests

  • Sociology of the Global South, Global Sociology, Latin American Sociology and Politics
  • Commons, Social and Solidarity Economy, Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)
  • Social Movements, Social Change, Revolutions, Autonomy, Indigenous Peoples Movements
    • – Mobilizing for Democracy: Democratization Processes and the Mobilization of Civil Society (ERC) (postdoctoral researcher, 2016-17)
  • Political Ecology, Political Ontology/Cosmology, Beyond-human sociology, Extractivisms, Buen Vivir
  • Political/Sociological Ethnography – Visual Sociology/Ethnography
    • Σκουριές: Ένα εθνογραφικό κόμικς για τις υποδομές εξόρυξης στη Χαλκιδική. Εκδόσεις του Κάμπου.
    • “Utopia on the Horizon,” Ethnographic Documentary on the Greek financial crisis and the Real Democracy Movement of Syntagma Square.

Selected Publications (see CV for a more detailed list)

Books/Monographs

  • 2024 Οικονομάκης, Λ. & Δαλάκογλου, Δ. & Ιωάννου, Α. Σκουριές: Ένα εθνογραφικό κόμικς για τις υποδομές εξόρυξης στη Χαλκιδική. Εκδόσεις του Κάμπου.
  • 2022 Sergi, V. & L. Oikonomakis. Autonomía en el sureste europeo, sus referencias y relaciones con el zapatismo del sureste Mexicano. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales; San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas: Coo-perativa Editorial Retos; Guadalajara, Jalisco: Cátedra Jorge Alonso: Universidad de Guadalajara, 2022.ISBN Colección: 978-607-8800-20-9
  • 2020 Οικονομάκης, Λ. Σαν τον Ζαπάτα και τον Τσε; Η εμπειρίες των Ζαπατίστας και των Βολιβιάνων κοκαλέρος. Ακυβέρνητες Πολιτείες.
  • 2019 Oikonomakis, L. Political Strategies and Social Movements in Latin America. The Zapatistas and Bolivian Cocaleros. Palgrave Macmillan

Peer-Reviewed Articles

CoEdited Volumes

  • 2010 Oikonomakis, L., Barou, J., A. a. V. Walliser, S. (Eds.). Faith -based organisations and social exclusion in Greece, in France and in Portugal. Uitgeverij Acco, Leuven, 2010

Chapters in Edited Volumes

  • 2023 Oikonomakis, L. “Revolutionary Movements and Guerrillas in Latin America. From Revolutions to revolutions” In Rossi, F. (ed) The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements. Oxford University Press. [By Editor’s Invitation.]
  • 2022 Οικονομάκης, Λ. “Εγχειρήματα Κ.Αλ.Ο στη Λατινική Αμερική και τη Νότια Ευρώπη σε περιόδους κρίσης” στο Ζαϊμάκης, Γ & Ε. Νικολαϊδης, 2022. Μελέτες για την Κοινωνική και Αλληλέγγυα Οικονομία:προσεγγίσεις, φορείς, προκλήσεις.Περιφέρεια και Πανεπιστήμιο Κρήτης.
  • 2021 Oikonomakis, L. and Yiannis Zaimakis, 2021. ‘Walls of resistance in turbulent times. Political graffity and visual protest in Southern Europe and Latin America.’ In Zaimakis et al. (eds) Street politics in critical times: Street art, graffiti and visual protest across the world. Berghahn Books
  • 2020 Oikonomakis, L. “MAS’ election, its egalitarian potentials, and its contradictions. Lessons from Bolivia.”In Gold, M. and A.Zagato (eds.) After the Pink Tide: Corporate State Fromation and New Egalitarianisms in Latin America. Berghahn books.
  • 2020 Oikonomakis, L. “Die Regierung der Hoffnung, die Hoffnung, an der Regierung zu sein, und die Rolle der Wahlen als Wellenbrecher radikaler präfigurativer politischer Prozesse.” in Holloway et al. (eds.) Über die Krise hinaus, Unrast Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
  • 2018 Oikonomakis, L. 2018. “The Government of Hope, the hope of government, and the role of elections as wave-breakers of radical prefigurative political processes.” In Beyond Crisis: After the collapse of institutional hope in Greece, what? edited by John Holloway, Panagiotis Doulos, and Katerina Nasioka. Publisher: PM Press
  • 2018 Οικονομάκης, Λ. 2018. Από τη Λατινοαμερικανική ροζ παλίρροια μέχρι τη Μεσόγειο. Οι επιπτώσεις των εκλογών στις ριζοσπαστικές πολιτικές διαδικασίες. Στο :Σεντεδάκις και Τομπάζος (επιμέλεια) Όψεις της ελληνικής κρίσης. Συγκρουσιακός κύκλος και θεσμικές εκβάσεις. Εκδόσεις Gutenberg-Δαρδάνος. 2018.
  • 2018 Oikonomakis, L. 2018. “Solidarity in transition. The case of Greece.” Chapter in Donatella della Porta (ed.): Solidarity mobilizations in the ‘Refugee crisis’. Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
  • 2017 Οικονομάκης, Λ. 2017. «Η Κυβέρνηση της Ελπίδας, η Ελπίδα της Κυβέρνησης και ο ρόλος των εκλογών ως κυματοθραυστών των ριζοσπαστικών, προεικονιστικών πολιτικών διαδικασιών,» Κεφάλαιο στον συλλογικό τόμο Πέρα από την Κρίση: Μετά την κατάρρευση της θεσμικής ελπίδας, τι; υπο την επιμέλεια των John Holloway, Κατερίνας Νασιόκα, Παναγιώτη Δούλου. Εκδόσεις: Futura.
  • 2017 Milan, C. and L.Oikonomakis, “Seeing the forest through the trees. From single issue protests to resonant mass movements in Greece, Turkey, and Bosnia Herzegovina.” In Bieber, F. Rebellion and Protest in the Balkans. London: Routledge, 2017
  • 2016 Oikonomakis, L. and J. Roos, 2016. “From Diffusion to Resonance. How the Global Movement for Real Democracy spread across borders.” In Dufour, Ancelovici, and Nez, 2016. Street Politics in the Age of Austerity. Amsterdam University Press.
  • 2014 Oikonomakis, L. and J. Roos, 2014. “They don’t represent us. The Global Resonance of the Real Democracy Movement from the Indignados to Occupy.” In Della Porta, D. and A. Matoni, 2014. The transnational diffusion of protest from the Indignados to Occupy Wall Street. ECPR Press.