Professor in Sociology of Culture, Sport and Community, Director at Laboratory of Social Analysis and Applied Social Research
CONTACT
Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Crete,
Gallos Campus
74100 Rethymno Greece
Tel.+302831077495
Fax: +302831077467
e-mail:zaimakis at uoc.gr
Office hours: to be announce with the beginning of the teaching classes
http://crete.academia.edu/YiannisZaimakis
CV
Education
1996 Ph.D. in Psychology, (Thesis: Urban area and cultural differentiation: the social world of brothels of Lakkos and the poetics of maghia), Department of Psychology, Panteion University.
1991 BSc, Department of Sociology, Panteion University of Social Science
1986 BSc, Department of Social Work, Technological Institute of Crete
Research Interests
Music, politics and social movements: Popular culture and rebetika, Sociology of leisure and youth culture, Social and cultural history of sport and fandom culture, Community work, social and solidarity economy, Urban landscapes, touristification and change, Visual culture, street art and graffiti
Teaching Appointment
Present Appointment
2016- Professor in Sociology of Local Society and Culture, University of Crete, Department of Sociology
Previous Appointment
2022-2024 Tutor in the inter-institutional master’s degree program: Community Work and Social Economy. Department of Sociology (University of Crete) in cooperation with the Department of Social Work (Hellenic Mediterranean University)
2017-2020 Tutor in the post-graduate program Sport Studies: Sociology, History and Anthropology, Hellenic Open University
2011-2016 Associate Professor, University of Crete, Department of Sociology
2016-2020 Tutor in the inter-institutional Postgraduate Program “Community Work and Social Economy”, University of Crete, Department of Sociology – Hellenic Mediterranean University, Department of Social Work
2012-2016 Tutor in Hellenic Open University, School of Humanities, Greek Culture Studies program
2004-2010 Assistant Professor in Sociology of local societies and culture, University of Crete, Department of Sociology
1999-2003 Lecturer in Social and Community Work, University of Thrace, Department of Social Administration
2004-2012 Tutor at Technological Institute of Crete, Department of Social Work
1993-1998 Tutor at Technological Institute of Crete, Department of Social Work
Selected Publications
Zaimakis Y. & Papadaki M. (2025) Voices of protest and the right to the city in the context of overtourism: reflections from the historic city of Chania, Crete (Greece), City, 29 (3-4), 459-484. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13604813.2025.2517978
Zaimakis Y. (2024) Reflections on embodiment and pandemic pedagogies in Greek higher education: lessons from students’ considerations/Reflexiones sobre la corporeidad y las pedagogías de la pandemia en la educación superior griega: lecciones extraídas de las opiniones de los estudiantes. Culture and Education: Cultura y Educación 36, (4), 970-1004. https://doi.org/10.1177/11356405241291959
Zαϊμάκης Γ. (2023) «Οπαδισμός, ταυτότητες και αντιπαλότητες: στάσεις οργανωμένων οπαδών για τη βία και το ελληνικό ποδόσφαιρο». Άθληση και Κοινωνία 72 (2): 18-45.. http://ojs.staff.duth.gr/index.php/ExSoc
Zaimakis Y. & C. Kokkinou (2023) Digital and social inequalities and the post-coronial university: A Greek Case. Urbanities–Journal of Urban Ethnography, 13 (1): 19-36. https://www.anthrojournal-urbanities.com/vol-13-1-may-2023/
Zaimakis Y. (2023) Reclaiming the football commons: self-organized Antifa sport clubs against modern football in crisis-stricken Greece. Soccer & Society, 24 (5): 682-697. https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2022.2106975
Zaimakis Y. & Papadaki M. (2022). On the digitalisation of higher education in times of the pandemic crisis: techno‑philic and techno‑sceptic attitudes of social science students in Crete (Greece), SN Social Sciences 2:77 https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-022-00380-1
Campos, R., Zaimakis Y. & Pavoni A. (2021) Political Graffiti in Critical Times: The Aesthetics of Street Politics, New York-Oxford: Berghahn.
Zaimakis Y. (2020), Sport sociability, adventure and competitions the Zimmelian sociology of the senses in the sport study. Dokimes 23-24: 263-288. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344377245_Athletike_koinonikoteta_peripeteia_antagonismoi_E_koinoniologia_ton_aistheseon_tou_Zimel_ste_melete_tou_athletismou In Greek.
Zaimakis Y. (2019) The Cretan Muslims and their Music Traditions: Paths of memory and oblivion from Crete to Turkey. Proceeding of 12th Congress of Cretan Studies, Association of Historical Cretan Studies, 1-12 [21-25-9-2016], 2019, 1-12. https://12iccs.proceedings.gr/ In Greek.
Zaimakis Y. (2018) “Football fan culture and politics in modern Greece: the process of fandom radicalization during the austerity era”, Soccer & Society, 19 (2): 252-270. https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2016.1171214
Zaimakis Y. (2018) Autonomy, degrowth and prefigurative politics: Voices of solidarity economy activists amid economic crisis in Greece. PACO PArtecipazione e COnflitto 11 (1), 2018, 95-120 (http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/viewFile/19129/16336).
Zaimakis Y. (2018 Research paths in Social Sciences: Theoretical and methodological Contributions and case studies, Herakleion, University of Crete, Social Analysis and Applied Social Research. In Greek https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340899118_Ereunetikes_diadromes_stis_koinonikes_epistemes_theoretikesmethodologikes_symboles_kai_meletes_periptoses_Research_paths_in_the_social_sciences_Theoretical-methodological_contributions_and_case_studie
Zaimakis Y. (2016) Youth precariat worlds and protest graffiti in the dystopia of the Greek economic crisis: a cross-disciplinary perspective. Punctum International Journal of Semiotics 2 (2), 66-84. https://10.18680/hss.2016.0014
Zaimakis Y., Ben P. (2016) “Cultural imperialism and sport in the Eastern Mediterranean and Crete: the role of British forces 1880-1912” (with Peter Ben), Cretica Chronika XXXVI, 183-206. https://www.academia.edu/104537755/Cultural_Imperialism_and_Sport_in_the_Eastern_Mediterranean_and_Crete_Ae_Role_of_British_Forces_1880_1912_
Zaimakis Y. (2015) Sport and Greek Society in Greece: Sociological, Anthropological and Historical perspectives, (co-editing with E. Fournaraki) Athens, Alexandria (https://sociology.soc.uoc.gr/ekaeke/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/zaimakis_web2.pdf). (In Greek)
Zaimakis Y. 2015 “‘Welcome to the civilization of fear’: On political graffiti heterotopias in Greece in times of crisis”. Visual Communication 13 (4): 373-396. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470357215593845
Zaimakis Y. (2015) Voices of protest on the streets of cities. Perceptions of crisis through the expressive-existential graffiti, Sociological Review 2-3, 119-143. https://student.cc.uoc.gr/uploadFiles/181 In Greek
Zaimakis Y. (2013) Football and fan communities: contestations and politics of identity, Athens: Plethron, (editor along with Nikos Kotaridis) (https://www.academia.edu/3250511). In Greek.
Zaimakis Y. (2011) Community work and local societies: development, collective action and multiculturalism, Plethron. Second enriched edition (first edition Ellininka Grammata, 2002). (https://www.academia.edu/1189763). In Greek.
Zaimakis Y. 2011 “Music-making in the social world of a Cretan town (Heraklion 1900-1960): a contribution to the study of non-commercial oral rebetika”, Popular Music 30 (1): 1-24, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1017/S026114301000070X
Zaimakis Y. 2010 “The ‘forbidden fruits’ and the communist paradise: Marxism, rebetiko and the “purity” of popular song», Music and Politics 4 (1): 1-22.www.music.ucsb.edu/projects/musicandpolitics
Zaimakis Y. 2009 “Bawdy Songs and Virtuous politics’: Ambivalence and Controversy in the Discourse of the Greek Left on rebetiko”. History and Anthropology 20(1): 15-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757200802650496
2008 “Flourished dens”: Deviation, cultural creation, anonymous rebetiko in Lakkos of Heraclion (1900-1940), Athens: Plethron, [first edition 1999]. (https://www.academia.edu/1271872). In Greek.