I am Professor at Vrije University Amsterdam, where I hold the Chair of Social Anthropology and I co-direct the research lab on Infrastructures, Sustainability and Commons. My research focus is on anthropology of infrastructures and collective action, my regional expertise is on the Balkans, Albania, Greece and Eastern Europe.
In 2023, I was awarded a Stimulation grant for ISC: A Global Studies perspective from the Dutch Ministry of Education. Between 2017 and 2022 I ran the project infra-demos.net a VIDI-Research Talent grant, awarded from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). In 2012 I was awarded an ESRC-Future Research Leaders grant for the project crisis-scape.net which run betwenn 2012 and 2014. Meanwhile I was awarded twice the Sussex Teaching Excellence award (2010 and 2012).
My books include: An Anthropology of Crisis (2024), Skouries (2024), Infrastructural Harm (2023), On the Road (2022), Critical Times in Greece (2018), The Road (2017), Crisis-scapes (2014), Roads and Anthropology, (2014, 2012) Revolt and Crisis in Greece (2011). Over 100 articles and book chapters of mine have been published since 2010, whilst I was also an associate and advisory editor of the International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest.
I have co-researched and have co-produced the documentaries, Colony (2022), Agrafa Untrodden (2020) Wasting the West (2019), Future Suspended (2014), the Politics of Knives (2013), and Landscapes of Emergency (2013) see also Athens Social Meltdown (2012).
I am in the editorial boards of the journals City, Anthropology and Materialism and ANUAC Rivista.
In 2023, I was awarded a Stimulation grant for ISC: A Global Studies perspective from the Dutch Ministry of Education. Between 2017 and 2022 I ran the project infra-demos.net a VIDI-Research Talent grant, awarded from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). In 2012 I was awarded an ESRC-Future Research Leaders grant for the project crisis-scape.net which run betwenn 2012 and 2014. Meanwhile I was awarded twice the Sussex Teaching Excellence award (2010 and 2012).
My books include: An Anthropology of Crisis (2024), Skouries (2024), Infrastructural Harm (2023), On the Road (2022), Critical Times in Greece (2018), The Road (2017), Crisis-scapes (2014), Roads and Anthropology, (2014, 2012) Revolt and Crisis in Greece (2011). Over 100 articles and book chapters of mine have been published since 2010, whilst I was also an associate and advisory editor of the International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest.
I have co-researched and have co-produced the documentaries, Colony (2022), Agrafa Untrodden (2020) Wasting the West (2019), Future Suspended (2014), the Politics of Knives (2013), and Landscapes of Emergency (2013) see also Athens Social Meltdown (2012).
I am in the editorial boards of the journals City, Anthropology and Materialism and ANUAC Rivista.
