Assistant Professor in Sociology of Gender
CONTACT
University of Crete
Department of Sociology
Gallos Campus
74100 Rethymno Greece
Τηλ.:+3028310-77482
Fax: +3028310-77482
e-mail: a.zavvou@uoc.gr
CV A. Zavvou
Education
Alexandra Zavvou (Zavos in english) received her PhD in Gender and Migration Studies from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2010. The topic of her dissertation was “The Politics of Gender and Migration in an Anti-Racist Group in Athens”. She holds a BA in Sociology from Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences.
Career
2017 Lecturer in the Department of Sociology of the School of Social Sciences of the University of Crete, acc. to P.D. 407/1980
2017-2020 Lecturer in the Department of Sociology of the School of Social Sciences of the University of Crete, acc. to the program “Acquisition of academic teaching experience by young scientists holding a PhD”
2021 Elected Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology of the School of Social Sciences of the University of Crete in the subject of “Sociology of Gender” (GG 1452 / 30-6-2021, vol. C’)
Research interests
She has many years of experience in international research programs related to gender and migration in Greece and South-East Europe, the educational integration of migrants and the humanitarian governance of refugees. Her research interests include the sociology of gender, feminist research and methodology, the study of discrimination and racism.
Selected publications
Edited volumes
Zavos A., Koutrolikou P., Siatitsa D. (eds.), Changing Landscapes of Urban Citizenship: Southern Europe in Times of Crisis, Routledge, London, 2018, 134 pages.
Zavvou A., Kampouri N., Stratigaki M. (eds.), Gender, migration, intercultural relations, Nisos, Athens 2013, 240 p. (in greek)
Edited special issues
Zavos A., Koutrolikou P., Siatitsa D., “Changing Landscapes of Urban Citizenship: Southern Europe in Times of Crisis”, Special Issue, Citizenship Studies, 21 (4), 2017, pp. 379-507.
Zavos A., Biglia B., Clark J., Motzkau J., “Feminisms and Activisms”, Special Issue, Annual Review of Critical Psychology, 2005, 198 p.
Journal articles (refereed)
Zavvou A., “The feminist problematic of intersectionality”, The Greek Review of Social Research, 156, 2021, pp. 55-86 (in greek). https://doi.org/10.12681/grsr.25947
Zavvou, A. (2013), “Endangered Lives, Dangerous Lives: Reflections on the Biopolitical Stakes of a Migrant Hunger Strike”, Special Issue: “Displacements and Emplacements: Migration, Gender, and Precarious Subjectivities in Conditions of Aggressive Neoliberalism”, edited by A. Athanassiou and G. Tsimouris, The Greek Review of Social Research, 140 -141 B – C ‘, 2013, pp. 87-103 (in greek). https://doi.org/10.12681/grsr.58
Kambouri N., Zavos A., “On the Frontiers of Citizenship: Considering the Case of Konstantina Kuneva and the Intersections Between Gender, Migration and Labor in Greece”, Feminist Review, 94, 2010, pp. 148-155. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40664134
Zavos A., Biglia B., “Embodying Feminist Research: Learning from Action Research, Political Practices, Diffractions and Collective Knowledge”, Qualitative Research in Psychology, 6 (1), 2009, pp. 153-172. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14780880902901380
Chapters in edited volumes
Zavos A., “Gendering the Crisis: Claiming New Values and Agencies Beyond Destitution”, in E. Doxiadis, A. Placas (eds.) Living Under Austerity: Greek Society in Crisis, Berghahn, Oxford and New York 2018, pp. 253 -279.
Zavos A., “Gender and the Politics of Immigrant Protest in Greece”, in K. Marciniak, I. Tyler (eds.) Immigrant Protest: Politics, Aesthetics, and Everyday Dissent, SUNY, New York 2014, pp. 225-242.
Zavvou A., “The construction of identity and otherness in school: cultural discourse and the representations of gender and migration”, in A. Zavvou, N. Kampouri, M. Stratigaki (eds.), Gender, migration, intercultural relations, Nisos, Athens 2013, pp. 157-180 (in greek).
Zavos A., “Intersecting Relations of Power and Difference in Anti-racist Activist Research”, in Knowledge Politics and Intercultural Dynamics: Actions, Innovations, Transformations. Proceedings of the V Training Seminar of Young Researchers in Intercultural Dynamics, CIDOB and United Nations University, Barcelona 2012, pp. 77-88.
Zavos A., “Gender, Migration and Anti-racist Politics in the Continued Project of the Nation”, in I. Palmary, E. Burman, K. Chantler, P. Kiguwa (eds.), Gender and Migration: Feminist Perspectives, Political Interventions, Zed, London 2010, pp. 15-30.
Zavvou A., “Looking for new political subjects: Gender and migration in the context of the anti-racist movement”, in D. Vaiou, M. Stratigaki (eds.), The gender of migration, Metaichmio, Athens 2009, pp. 125-162 (in greek).