Τμήμα Κοινωνικών και Πολιτικών Επιστημών / Department of Social and Political Sciences: Recent submissions
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Do media systems matter? A comparative study of editorials on the migration crisis in the UK, German and Greek traditional press
(Sage journals, 2023)This study compares the editorial coverage of the 2015 migration crisis in major centre-left and centre-right newspapers in three European countries affected (the UK, Germany and Greece). We test the empirical validity of ...
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Against Eurocentric Anti-Eurocentrism: International Relations, Historical Sociology and Political Marxism
(Springer, 2020)The critique of Eurocentrism has become one of the main benchmarks for critical scholarship in International Relations (IR). Unsurprisingly, the effort to overcome Eurocentric conceptions of world history has been at the ...
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Book Chapter
The Political Economy of the Transition to Capitalism in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey: Towards a New Interpretation
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)This chapter takes issue with the common view that the Ottoman Empire and Turkey transitioned to capitalism during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing on Political Marxism, I argue that there was no ...
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Book Chapter
Ecology, democracy, and COVID-19 Rereading and radicalizing Karl Polanyi
(Routledge, 2021)This chapter argues that Karl Polanyi’s economic sociology offers foundational concepts for a radical analysis of the social and ecological conditions that have caused the coronavirus pandemic. Furthermore, it shows that ...
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Debating ‘uneven and combined development’: beyond Ottoman patrimonialism
(Springer Nature Limited, 2022)Within the field of International Historical Sociology, much has been done to theorise the ‘international’ in historical–sociological terms. In particular, the theory of uneven and combined development (UCD) has taken ...
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The dynamics of influence on press freedom in different media systems: A comparative study
(Informa UK Limited, 2023)This study focuses on contributing to the emerging internationalresearch agenda regarding press freedom, moving beyond thealready established factors that relate to political and industrialnorms as influences on press ...
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Towards the individuated journalistic worker in pandemic times: Reflections from Greece and Cyprus
(Sage Journals, 2023)Drawing on a comparative qualitative analysis using semi-structured interviews, this study examines the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on journalists’ working conditions and practices in Greece and Cyprus. The findings ...
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Book Chapter
Antimonies of the ‘Double Movement’: From Polanyi to the Polanyi Debate
(Routledge, 2024)
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Article Open Access
Radicalising Global IR: Modernity, Capitalism, and the Question of Eurocentrism
(Oxford University Press, 2022)Theorising a non-Eurocentric “global international relations” has been a main preoccupation of scholars associated with international political sociology (IPS). In this article, I argue that scholars within the IPS tradition ...
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Southern European press challenges in a time of crisis: A cross-national study of Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece and Malta
(Sage Journals, 2023-10)The implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for newsrooms across the world range from severe economic hardship to increased threats to press freedom. The “perfect storm” that engulfed the media and journalists globally has ...
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Book
Capitalism, Jacobinism and International Relations: Revisiting Turkish Modernity
(Cambridge University Press, 2022-06-30)This book offers a radical reinterpretation of the development of the modern world through the concept of Jacobinism. It argues that the French Revolution was not just another step in the construction of capitalist modernity, ...
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“It’s the Economy, Stupid!”, Is it not? The Relationship between Press Freedom and the Status of the Economy in Western Media Systems.
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2023)The existing literature presents several studies which show that thelevels of press freedom can affect the state of the economy. Whathas not thus far been investigated is whether the economy canaffect the levels of ...
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Globalization, glocalization and the ICT revolution
(SAGE, 2023)The article explores the relationship between globalization and the information and communications technology (ICT) revolution. The impact of ICTs does not conform to the globalization paradigm’s suggestions. To address ...
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Digital glocalization: theorizing the twenty-first-century ICT revolution
(Frontiers, 2023)This paper oers an overview and theorization of digital glocalization that transcends past interpretations concerning the eects of ICT on techno-social relationships. It outlines a general theoretical framework that uses ...
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Book
Orthodox Christianity in 21st Century Greece: The role of religion in politics, ethnicity and culture
(Routledge, 2021)One of the predominantly Orthodox countries that has never experienced communism is Greece, a country uniquely situated to offer insights about contemporary trends and developments in Orthodox Christianity. This volume ...
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Review
The invention of Byzantium in early modern Europe
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2023)
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Queer in Cyprus? The LGBTIQ Movement, Normativity, and Resistance in a Changing (Trans)national Landscape
(MDPI, 2023)The literature on lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) politics has established the interplay between domestic and transnational norms and political tactics. However, knowledge about how local LGBTIQ ...
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Feminism contested and co-opted: Women, agency and politics of gender in the Greek and Greek-Cypriot far right
(SAGE, 2023)The literature on the gender dimension of far-right politics has established the constitutive role of gender and women’s involvement in the far right. However, knowledge about how far-right women negotiate and condition ...
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‘When one doesn't even exist’: Europeanization, trans* subjectivities and agency in Cyprus
(SAGE Publications, 2021)In the context of Europeanization, transnational LGBTI rights and politics discourses and paradigms interact with local ones. However, the effects of this interaction on trans* people in the margins of ‘Europe’ have received ...
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Feminism in Cyprus: women’s agency, gender, and peace in the shadow of nationalism
(International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2020)This article explores the ways in which feminist and women’s agency is articulated in the Cypriot context through the paradigms of nationalism, peace, and conflict. It does so to broaden our understanding of gendered and ...