The Author
Dimitris Dalakoglou is a professor at VU University Amsterdam, where he holds the Chair of Social Anthropology.
His research foci are: Infrastructures, Mobility, Urban Spaces and Anthropology of Development. In 2017 he was awarded a VIDI Innvoative Research grant for his project infra-demos studying commons and infrastructures. In 2012 he was awarded an ESRC-Future Research Leaders grant for the project The City at a time of Crisis: Transformations of Urban Spaces in Athens.
His books include Critical Times in Greece (2018), The Road (2017), Roads and Anthropology (2014, 2012); Revolt and Crisis in Greece (2011) and Crisis-scapes: Athens and Beyond (2014). He has published over 70 articles and book chapters since 2010 and he was an Associate and Advisory editor of the International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest.
He Co-researched and co-produced the documentaries Future Suspended, The Politics of Knives, and Landscapes of Emergency. See also Athens Social Meltdown.
His PhD thesis was called: An Anthropology of the Road (University of London [UCL] 2009). He is Seeger fellow at the Univesity of Princeton (2017-2018) and was visiting scholar at Material Culture at UCL, Department of Anthropology (2008-2014), visiting scholar at CUNY Graduate Center, Center for Place, Culture and Politics (2013-2014), and fellow in the Department of History at Ca Foscari University of Venice (2005-2006).
See personal website.
Contact: d.dalakolgou@vu.nl
His research foci are: Infrastructures, Mobility, Urban Spaces and Anthropology of Development. In 2017 he was awarded a VIDI Innvoative Research grant for his project infra-demos studying commons and infrastructures. In 2012 he was awarded an ESRC-Future Research Leaders grant for the project The City at a time of Crisis: Transformations of Urban Spaces in Athens.
His books include Critical Times in Greece (2018), The Road (2017), Roads and Anthropology (2014, 2012); Revolt and Crisis in Greece (2011) and Crisis-scapes: Athens and Beyond (2014). He has published over 70 articles and book chapters since 2010 and he was an Associate and Advisory editor of the International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest.
He Co-researched and co-produced the documentaries Future Suspended, The Politics of Knives, and Landscapes of Emergency. See also Athens Social Meltdown.
His PhD thesis was called: An Anthropology of the Road (University of London [UCL] 2009). He is Seeger fellow at the Univesity of Princeton (2017-2018) and was visiting scholar at Material Culture at UCL, Department of Anthropology (2008-2014), visiting scholar at CUNY Graduate Center, Center for Place, Culture and Politics (2013-2014), and fellow in the Department of History at Ca Foscari University of Venice (2005-2006).
See personal website.
Contact: d.dalakolgou@vu.nl