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Associate Professor in Sociology of Illness and Medical Institutions

CONTACT
University of Crete
Department of Sociology
Gallos Campus
74100 Rethymno Greece
Tel:+302831077494
Fax: +302831077467
e-mail:tzanakism at uoc.gr
https://crete.academia.edu/TzanakisManolis
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Education

  • 2003: PhD, University of Crete, Department of Sociology.
  • 1997: B.A. University of Crete, Department of Sociology
  • 1992: Diploma in Journalism, Laboratory of Professional Journalism of Athens.

Teaching Experience

  • 2009-present, Lecturer, Assistant Professsor and from 2020 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology at the University of Crete.
  • 2006-2008: Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Sociology at the University of Crete.
  • 2005-2006: Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Social and Philosophical Studies, University of Crete.
  • 2003- 2005: Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Social Work, Technical Educational Institute of Crete.

Fields of academic and research specialization

  • Sociology of Health and Illness.
  • Sociology of Mental Health.
  • Qualitative Methodology.
  • Epistemology of Social Science.
  • Health and Weal Fear Systems.
  • Sociology of the Body
  • Sociology of Sport and Leisure

Selected Publications

Books

  • Tzanakis, M. (2008). Beyond of Asylum. The Community Psychiatry and the Question of Subject. Athens: Synapseis (in Greek).
  • Tzanakis, M. (2012). Mental Ill and Modern Practices of the Self. Athens: Pedio (in Greek).

Edited Volumes

  • Alexias, G., Tzanakis, M., Chatzouli, A. (Eds.) (2014). The body under supervision. Ethical and political dimensions of medical technology and care. Athens : Pedio, (in Greek).
  • Liodakis, A., Tzanakis, M. & Tsourtou B. (Eds.) (2007). Art and Psychiatry. Athens: EPEKEINA/Focus On Health (in Greek).
  • Papastefanaki, L., Tzanakis, M. & Troubeta, S. (Eds.) (2013). Exploring Social Relationships by Health Conditions and Diseases. The Social History of Medicine as a Research Field. Rethymnon: Department of Sociology-University of Crete, (in Greek).

Journal publications and Chapters in Edited Volumes

  • Fragkiadaki, E., Triliva, S., Natsopoulou, O. & Tzanakis, E. (2019). From Social Workers to Socio-therapists: The Transformative Journey of Substance Abuse Therapists, Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 20(2) : 89-104.
  • Tzanakis, Μ., Valasaki, M., Moraitou, M., Kelemen, G., Gavrila-Ardelean, M., Deloyer, J., Hanon, C., Hunstinx, N., Tournier, I., Vaseur-Bacle, S., Maes, C. & Fond-Harmant, L. (2019). Sociocultural and Organizational Dimentions of Mental Health Networks for Older Adults towards new Formations, Agora psycho-pragmatica, 13(1) : 55-63.
  • Sools, An., Triliva, S., Fragkiadaki, Ev., Tzanakis, M. & Gkinopoulos, Th. (2018). The Greek Referendum Vote of 2015 as a Paradoxical Communicative Practice : A Narrative, Future‐Making Approach, Political Psychology, 39(5): 1141-1156.
  • Tzanakis, M. (2016). La plongée sous-marine comme pratique de soi, Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure 39, (3) : 551-466. (in French).
  • Tzanakis, M., Savvakis, M. and Alexias, G. (2016). Mastectomy and Voluntarism: From the Individualized Self to Solidarity Groups in Greek Women with Breast Cancer, in Wendell Armstrong (Ed.), Breast Cancer: Risk Assessment, Treatment and New Developments, New York: Nova Science Publishers, pp. 51-88.
  • Alexias, G., Lavdas, M. & Tzanakis, M. (2015). “I do not allow myself to be harmed, it is a luxury; I have two children who need”: Remarks for planning an experiential research methodology in women who have undergone mastectomy due to breast cancer, Italian Sociological Review, 5 (1): 1-20.
  • Alexias, G., Tzanakis, M. & Savvakis, M. (2015). Biographic Strategies of Greek Women with Breast Cancer: From the “Injured” to the “Contributing” Body, Sociology and Social Work, 2(1): 90-97.
  • Tzanakis M. (2015). Body and Self in Scuba Diving. In Zaimakis, G. & Fournaraki, E. (ed.), Society and Sports in Greece. Sociological and historical approaches, Athens: Alexandria Publications, pp. 203-223 (in Greek).
  • Tzanakis, M. (2014). Gérer son ‘soi souffrant’ : pédagogie d’autonomie et expérience psychiatrique, Socio-logos, http://sociologos. revues.org/2872.
  • Savvakis, M., Tzanakis, M. (2004). The Researcher, the Field and the Issue of Entry: Two Cases of Ethnographic Research Concerning Asylums in Greece, Sociology Research on line, 9(2).
  • Serdedakis, N. Tsiolis G. Tzanakis, M. & Papaioannou, S. (2003). Strategies of Social Integration in the Biographies of Greek Female Immigrants coming from the Former Soviet Union. Self-employment as an alternative, International Review of Sociology, 13(1): 145-162.