Publications by the School of Liberal Arts & Sciences
► Department of Communication
Miliopoulou, G.‐Z., & Kapareliotis, I. (2021). The toll of success: Female leaders in the “women‐friendly” Greek advertising agencies. Gender, Work & Organization. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12636
This paper examines the views and attitudes of senior female executives in Greek advertising agencies. Using intersectionality as a theoretic lens, the authors study the intersection of sex, age, profession, and ethnicity, within a patriarchal, Southern European society and a male dominated industry. Research findings from 12 interviews reaffirm the motherhood penalty but also demonstrate how successful women refuse to be part of the boys' club, deconstruct the male stereotype, and engage in fierce counter-stereotyping while showing lack of solidarity and empathy toward other women. After years at the intersection of two male-dominated cultural contexts, these women have limited visibility of the barriers they encounter and see themselves as an embodied exception proving the rule, not as agents of change. Thus, individual success leads to collective defeat and to the prevalence of male dominance. This research contributes by presenting the view of successful women in adverse intersections, who demonstrate accumulated frustration, lack of collective gender consciousness, and lack of a sense of self-fulfillment. The paper calls for further research that combines intersectionality with emotional transfers and defense mechanisms; research that explores the influence of intersectional conscientiousness, especially in the southern context.
Nevradakis, M. (2021). Radio’s role as an alternative online medium and site of activism during a time of crisis: The case of Greece’s Radiobubble. Journal of Radio & Audio Media. https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2020.1863408
The economic crisis in Greece saw an increase in activist movements, with numerous alternative media and civil society initiatives arose. Many such efforts went online to bypass media gatekeepers. One example is Radiobubble, an online radio station which attained prominence for its alternative news programming and coverage of social movements. Radiobubble served as an incubator for new civil society initiatives, while its social media presence became a hub for activists. However, did Radiobubble’s alternative programming model demonstrate longevity? Based on interviews conducted with Radiobubble volunteers between 2012–2017, the difficulties Radiobubble encountered in maintaining its early momentum are highlighted.
► Department of English and Modern Languages
Kyriakaki, M. (2020). Definite expression and degrees of definiteness. In B. M. Bjorkman & D. C. Hall (Eds.), Contrast and representations in syntax (pp. 99–137). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198817925.003.0005
This chapter studies definite determiners formerly treated as semantic expletives and challenges the view that they can be uniformly treated as such. Assuming that definiteness consists of two features, uniqueness (iota) and familiarity (Fam), and depending on the features spelled out by the determiner, it proposes that definite articles can be fully specified for definiteness spelling out both features (full definiteness), partially specified, spelling out Fam (partial definiteness), or, in the case of true expletives, not specified at all (zero definiteness). Fully definite expressions cannot be modified by other definite nominals. In contrast, partially definite expressions form predicative FamPs, which can be modified by other definite nominals. Fam can also introduce proper names and generic kind-denoting nouns. Finally, true expletives appear even in non-definite contexts. An explanatory and descriptive account is offered that provides new insights on the properties of definiteness.
Logotheti, A. (2020a). Ian McEwan: Science. In R. Clark (Ed.), The literary encyclopedia: Vol. 1.2.1.09: English writing and culture: Postwar and contemporary Britain, 1945-present. The Literary Dictionary Company. https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=39333
Logotheti, A. (2020b). Ian McEwan: Solar. In R. Clark (Ed.), The literary encyclopedia: Vol. 1.2.1.09: English writing and culture: Postwar and contemporary Britain, 1945-present. The Literary Dictionary Company. https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=29661
Logotheti, A. (2020c). “So far no other”: Alterity in Forster’s “The other boat.” Language and Literary Studies of Warsaw, 10(Special E. M. Forster issue), 213–223. http://doi.org/10.17613/xn7r-3364
Posthumously published in the collection The Life to Come and Other Stories (1972), the story “The Other Boat” (began in 1913 and completed in 1957–8) has long been considered “a worthy finale to Forster’s fiction” (Stallybrass 1987, xvii). This essay explores the foregrounding of alterity in “The Other Boat” within the context of imperialist politics. The significant use of the term “other” in the story problematizes hierarchies and interrogates binaries of inclusion/exclusion. Highlighting alterity, “The Other Boat” engages with the colonizer/colonized dichotomy in ways suggestive of postcolonial conceptualizations of otherness. Thus, the story explores ideologies predicated upon what Edward Said in Orientalism (1978) terms the Orient’s “foreignness” and illustrates the conditions which preserve the Orient’s “permanent estrangement from the West” (Said 1978, 244).
► Department of History, Philosophy, and the Ancient World
Kondylis, P. (2020). Monodimensional versus multi-dimensional interpretation of the enlightenment (R. Petridis, Introd. & Trans.; & S. Stafford, Trans.; I. Iliopoulos, Ed.). Pelopas: Interdisciplinary Journal of the University of Peloponnese, 4(2), 71–89. http://library.uop.gr/magazine/index.php/pelopas/issue/view/12
Panajotis Kondylis’s essay unearths the ideological character of predominant monodimensional interpretations or normative curtailments of the Enlightenment (Vorlander, Cassirer, Hazard, Adorno & Horkheimer et al) and counter-proposes a – heuristically prolific – multidimensional reading of said ideal-type, capable of explaining how heterogeneous intellectual formations pertain to a single historical- sociological phenomenon. Said reading can be attained when a theorist refrains from the instrumentalization of the identity of the Enlightenment movement and, in effect, “cleanses” his descriptive account from deficiencies such as e.g. the examination of the Enlightenment sub specie philosophiae kantianae or the programmatic assessment of the Enlightenment as a period of the apotheosis of instrumental reason, the widespread confusion between Enlightenment’s rationalism and intellectualism or the precarious association of a unidimensionally perceived and hypostatized Enlightenment with an equally hypostatized Revolution. The current piece, written in 1990, outlines basic positions propounded by Kondylis in his monumental monograph Die Aufklarung im Rahmen des neuzeitlichen Rationalismus (1981) in which the Enlightenment is apprehended as the Era of the reinstatement of sensibilia that disclosed the (incurable) divide between the causal and normative viewpoint along with the internal contradictions marking the practical indispensability of hovering between the theological and the relativistic or nihilistic adversary – and the Age that essentially paved the way for the undermining of the “autonomy of Spirit” brought in the 19th century by the thinkers of suspicion.
Simpson, A. (2020). Niketas Choniates. In A. Mallett (Ed.), Franks and Crusades in medieval eastern Christian historiography (pp. 93–123). Brepols Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1484/m.outremer-eb.5.121107
This volume is an introduction to eleven of the main medieval Eastern Christian historians used by modern scholars to reconstruct the events and personalities of the crusading period in the Levant. Each of the chapters examines one historian and their work(s), and first contains an introductory examination of their life, background and influences. This is then followed by a study of their work(s) relevant to the Crusades, including the reasons for writing, themes, and methodology. Such an approach will allow modern researchers to better understand the background and contexts to these texts, and thus to reconstruct the past in a more nuanced and detailed way. Written by eleven eminent scholars in their fields, and examining chronicles written in Armenian, Greek, Syriac, and Arabic, this book will be essential reading for anybody engaged in research on the Crusades, as well as Eastern Christian and Islamic history, and medieval historiography.
Simpson, A. (2021). The imperial feminine in Niketas Choniates’ History. In V. N. Vlyssidou (Ed.), Byzantine authors and their times (pp. 267–284). National Hellenic Research Foundation Institute of Historical Research. https://history-bookstore.eie.gr/en/section-byzantine-research/research-library/b09-008-0/
In the present volume, historians and literacy scholars, studying sources dating from the 5th to the 14th century and focusing on issues relating to literary expression, ideology and society, highlight the ways in which Byzantine authors perceived and presented events and situations, which for some belonged to the distant past, while for others constituted personal experiences. Comparisons between texts of the same period often reveal the significant changes that occurred at the ideological, political, social and religious level, while comparisons among works of the same author can bring into view the said author as a individual and distinctive entity, expressing personal views and perspectives for the events of his/her own lifetime.
Vintiadis, E. (2020). Ta zōa kai emeis [Animals and us]. EPBooks. https://www.epbooks.gr/shop/biblia-gia-enilikes/mikres-eisagoges/ta-zoa-kai-emeis/
What is the moral status of animals? What moral status should they have? Equal to humans? Different? Should we eat meat or abstain from it? And if we abstain, what is the impact on the environment? Is it smaller or bigger than the one caused by meat eating? How should we treat zoos? As shameful detention camps or as shelters for endangered species? What about our pets? As much as we adore and care for them, do we maybe fail to properly serve their interests and desires? In any case, how do animal rights conflict with our obligations toward them?
In an extremely fascinating, accessible, and informed text, philosopher Elli Vintiadis presents a complete overview of the arguments we use to justify our attitudes towards animals. Her text is surprising: what may seem obvious to us is refuted, and what we thought of as absurd, suddenly, seems to be logical.
A text of high intelligence and unlimited respect for all animals, including humans.
Vintiadis, E. (2021a). Introduction. In E. Vintiadis (Ed.), Philosophy by women: 22 philosophers reflect on philosophy and its value (pp. 1–12). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003025719
In the introduction I address the reasons that this book came into being. I address the lack of inclusivity in philosophy and why an anthology entirely comprised of contributions by women philosophers is a necessity right now.
Vintiadis, E. (Ed.). (2021b). Philosophy by women: 22 philosophers reflect on philosophy and its value. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003025719
What is philosophy, why does it matter, and how would it be different if women wrote more of it? At a time when the importance of philosophy, and the humanities in general, is being questioned and at a time when the question of gender equality is a huge public question, 22 women in philosophy lay out in this book how they think of philosophy, what they actually do, and how that is applied to actual problems. By bringing together accounts of the personal experiences of women in philosophy, this book provides a new understanding of the ways in which the place of women in philosophy has changed in recent decades while also introducing the reader to the nature and the value of philosophy.
Vintiadis, E. (2021c). What philosophy is and what it could be. In E. Vintiadis (Ed.), Philosophy by women: 22 philosophers reflect on philosophy and its value (pp. 83–90). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003025719
In this essay I identify three characteristics that I think make philosophy the distinctive discipline that it is: its breadth, the fundamentality of the question it raises and its concern with the question of the difference of what appears to be the case from what is the case. I then argue that philosophy is necessary because it is at heart a very practical discipline. I end by arguing that philosophy has to a large extent lost its characteristic breadth and that it should regain it in order to be able to make a difference in the world.
Zatta, C. (2020). Is matter alive? Between roots and daemons: Empedocles’ philosophy of life. Civiltà E Religioni, 6, 49–72. https://www.libreriauniversitaria.it/civilta-religioni-2020-6/rivista/24213152/2020/6/civilta-religioni-2020-6.htm
The article aims to reconcile Empedocles’ physical and eschatological philosophy by rejecting the latter considers metempsychosis and demonstrating how both approaches concur on metensomatosis. In Section 1, I examine the revelational nature of Empedocles’ physical doctrine according to which birth and death are considered in terms of aggregation and disaggregation of the roots, thus suggesting it is about the continuity of life. In Section 2, I focus on fragment 115 and argue that the incarnations of demons too progress through metensomatosis. It so appears that Empedocles’ philosophy of life reflects a tension between a synchronic-objective view and a diachronic-subjective one. The two points of view are complementary to the Pre-Socratic philosopher, who engages the problem of pain and death by means of an eschatological analysis within a global perspective which includes all living beings and delivers soteriological wisdom.
► Department of Psychology
Konsolaki, E., Koropouli, E., Tsape, E., Pothakos, K., & Zagoraiou, L. (2020). Genetic inactivation of cholinergic C bouton output improves motor performance but not survival in a mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Neuroscience, 450, 71–80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2020.07.047
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease that affects upper and lower motor neurons and leads to death a few years after symptom onset. Despite its high morbidity and mortality, its underlying pathogenic mechanisms still remain poorly understood. Although there is increasing evidence for significant changes in the structure and function of synapses on motor neurons, there is a need for a systematic investigation of the role of each synapse subtype in the course of the disease. Here, we focus on large cholinergic synapses on motor neurons, known as C boutons, and investigate their role during ALS progression. We implement a genetic strategy for inactivation of the cholinergic output of C boutons in the SOD1G93A transgenic mouse model of ALS. We demonstrate that although C bouton cholinergic inactivation does not alter mouse survival, it exerts a beneficial effect on motor performance in the rotarod motor task, as evidenced by an increased latency to fall in SOD1G93A mice lacking C bouton cholinergic output. Our results suggest that C bouton cholinergic transmission exerts a negative effect on motor neuron function in ALS, possibly via aberrant excitation, and render C boutons a potential target for future pharmacological intervention.
Takis, N. (2020). Reflections on Moreno’s ambivalent view on Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis. The Journal of Psychodrama, Sociometry, and Group Psychotherapy, 67(1), 9–18. https://meridian.allenpress.com/jpsgp/article-abstract/67/1/i/450398/Table-of-Contents
Jacob Levy Moreno, the father of psychodrama, has often referred to the ideas of Sigmund Freud and psychoanalytic theory in his writings. He aspired to develop his ideas to a thorough theoretical system based on creativity and spontaneity, in opposition into the psychoanalytic principle of the drives of life and death. In the present paper the major “encounters” between Moreno and Sigmund Freud and his disciples are presented. The main hypothesis is that those encounters functioned as a blank screen on which Jacob Levy’s relationship to his father was projected and re- enacted. The related incidents, as presented by Moreno in his autobiography, will be discussed in the light of this hypothesis.
Tselebis, A., Bratis, D., Konsolaki, E., Roubi, A., Baras, S., Vouraki, G., Giotakis, K., & Pachi, A. (2020). Neurobiological approach to paranoid spectrum disorders: Review article. Encephalos, 57(1), 13–28. http://www.encephalos.gr/pdf/57-1-02e.pdf
In Kraepelin’s psychiatric nosology three types of paranoid conditions are described, that conceptually approach diagnostic entities according to modern classification systems: paranoid schizophrenia, delusional disorder, and paranoid personality disorder. A lengthy debate, maintained until today, is whether less ‘serious’ paranoid disorders, such as paranoid personality disorder and delusional disorder are included in schizophrenia spectrum, or if they form a distinct nosological entity which is different from schizophrenia. Genetic epidemiological, neuropsychological, neurophysiological and neuroimaging studies have been gathered to review the research data available to date regarding the question on the paranoid spectrum disorders.
► Department of Science and Mathematics
Lytras, M. D., Papadopoulou, P., & Sarirete, A. (2020). Smart healthcare: Emerging technologies, best practices, and sustainable policies. In M. D. Lytras & A. Sarirete (Eds.), Innovation in health informatics: A smart healthcare primer (pp. 3–38). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819043-2.00001-0
The integration of innovation within healthcare is a key aspect of the so-called next generation medical systems. Toward this direction the contribution of this volume is multifold. First demystifies the new wave of emerging and streamline technologies and uncovers the added value of their components. Second underlines a new policy-based era of health governance, since the integration of innovation within healthcare must be understood from the key stakeholders and needs to be implemented taking into account various limitations. Last but not least, innovation in healthcare must be seen as a human-centric process where complicated and sophisticated, distributed medical services and processes are utilized. The adoption of advanced Healthcare Information Systems and Medical Informatics requires an integrated approach sensitive to various social, economic, political, and cultural factors. The challenges that the adoption and use sophisticated information and communication technologies (ICTs) generate need to be considered too. Smart Data and Data Analytics along with cognitive computing are the promising technologies with great value added for the domain of healthcare. The focus of this edited volume is to examine the social, economic, political, and cultural impacts, and challenges emerging sophisticated ICT bear for patient-centric systems in healthcare. By offering a detailed comprehensive and comparative insight into diverse advances in ICT and their application across issues and domains, this edited volume occupies a unique position on the market. This is because it brings together not only a discussion on the most promising technologies and their current and prospective uses, but also dwells on managerial and policymaking challenges and opportunities this process creates.
Marouli, C., Papadopoulou, P., & Misseyanni, A. (2020). Current environmental health challenges: Part 2 – Moving toward a healthy and sustainable future. In G. Duca & A. Vaseashta (Eds.), Handbook of research on emerging developments and environmental impacts of ecological chemistry (pp. 38–67). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1241-8.ch002
This is part two of two overview chapters of the most important contemporary environmental health challenges. This second chapter discusses environmental health as a socio-political and ethical issue. It argues that effectively moving towards healthier and sustainable societies requires not only sound scientific knowledge but also policies, medical practices, healthcare systems, and health-related attitudes and behaviors that are informed by a deep socio-political understanding and that reflect a new integrated approach to environment and health. The need for contemporary technological societies to develop mechanisms like education, environmental and health governance, and public accountability for environmental health equity and justice is highlighted. The chapter concludes by proposing a multidimensional framework, based on both natural and social sciences, for the transition to healthy and sustainable societies and for improving the welfare of all people, as well as future research directions for environmental health sciences.
Misseyanni, A., Marouli, C., & Papadopoulou, P. (2020). How teaching affects student attitudes towards the environment and sustainability in higher education: An instructors’ perspective. European Journal of Sustainable Development, 9(2), 172–182. https://doi.org/10.14207/ejsd.2020.v9n2p172
In the rapidly changing, 21st century globalized world, with increasing environmental pressures and challenges, education for the environment and sustainability is a priority at all levels; from kindergarten to higher education. It is the education that will create the environmentally aware and socially responsible individuals, capable of addressing existing and future environmental challenges. Courses on the environment and/or sustainability are now an essential element of all Higher Education Institutions with a sustainability vision. But, does teaching about the environment and sustainability lead to a change in student attitudes? What teaching and learning methods seem to have a more significant effect on attitudes and behaviors and what are the challenges for instructors? In this study, instructors reflect on which educational methods seem most effective in promoting change in student attitudes and behaviors towards the environment and sustainability. This reflection is based on instructor experiences from selected courses or course activities (learning objects) and it focuses on the goals, teaching methods and effect on student learning and attitudes; changes in student attitudes in the course of the last years are also discussed. Suggestions are offered and implications for higher education institutions are outlined.
Papadopoulou, P., Marouli, C., & Misseyanni, A. (2020). Sustaining healthcare: Bridging education with biomedical and healthcare challenges. European Journal of Sustainable Development, 9(2), 211–223. https://doi.org/10.14207/ejsd.2020.v9n2p211
Major advances and breakthroughs in Medicine and Healthcare are transforming our world. How will we manage to tackle our disease burden to improve our day-to-day well-being especially if in developed countries the global population of people over 80 will more than triple by 2050 and in the less developed ones the youth profile will escalate? Will Europeans as an example, find ways to balance budgets and restrain spending and come up with a sustainable survival strategy for Europe’s healthcare systems? This work addresses a number of challenging questions and offers “smart” solutions and a framework on how to develop and sustain new models of care and improve the public services profile with the vision to become globally leading healthcare institutions mainly in Europe and particularly in Greece. The nature of programs in biomedical and healthcare sciences, the kind of educators and healthcare professionals and how to technologically and practically support such programs is considered. How to connect Biomedical programs with Medical Centers and what kind of student internships can be developed is discussed. What it means to have patient-centered medical centers which abide by strict European and international guidelines and certifications and how to provide top quality medical services is also examined.
Papadopoulou, P., Misseyanni, A., & Marouli, C. (2020). Current environmental health challenges: Part I - Exposures and research trends. In G. Duca & A. Vaseashta (Eds.), Handbook of research on emerging developments and environmental impacts of ecological chemistry (pp. 1–37). IGI Global. http://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1241-8.ch001
This is the first of two overview chapters of important contemporary environmental health challenges. The exciting developments in the environmental health fields are approached in an interdisciplinary manner covering cutting-edge scientific developments and research. In the first chapter, environmental exposures to a variety of toxins, diseases, and stressors that challenge the individual and affect public health are examined. The handling, storage, big data management related to medical and health-informatics are discussed. Issues such as single gene polymorphisms, gene expression, transcriptomics, epigenetics, metabolomics, exposure to carcinogens, endocrine disruptors, heavy metals, physical hazards, airborne particulates, quality of food and water, toxin metabolism, bioinformatics, and exposome analysis are considered. Important recommendations and solutions are provided emphasizing the collaboration between researchers/scientists and the community.
► Department of Sociology
Balodimas-Bartolomei, A., & Katsas, G. A. (2020). Promoting heritage, ethnicity, and cultural identity in diasporic communities: The case of the Heritage Greece Program. In F. K. Soumakis & T. G. Zervas (Eds.), Educating Greek Americans: Historical perspectives and contemporary pathways (pp. 155–173). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39827-9_7
This study focuses on the Heritage Greece Program that was launched in 2010 by the National Hellenic Society and hosted by the American College of Greece. It examines the nine-year long program’s impact in developing heritage and ethnic identity through experiential learning and immersion. The study provides an overview of heritage birthright programs while describing the Heritage Greece program in detail. It then analyzes the student participant reflections along with data gathered from pre-post surveys. Finally, it concludes by confirming the program’s impact as a catalyst of dramatic change in the students’ connection with their Hellenic heritage and identity.
Gangas, S. (2020). Cinematic “fragments of modernity”: Film and society revisited. In G. Giannakopoulou & G. Gilloch (Eds.), The detective of modernity: Essays on the work of David Frisby (pp. 67–78). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429201370
In his seminal Theory of Film (1960) Kracauer made a forceful case for film’s normative role in salvaging the fragment from its instrumental moorings. Film’s capability to magnify the snapshot experiences of modern life and place them in a cinematic frame of unparalleled complexity and density of denotations opened a technological realm of normativity at odds with instrumental rationality. “Touching reality with our fingertips”, as Kracauer put it, figures as a modernist skill and aesthetic lens appropriate to the fragmentation of urban life—a view thematized by Simmel, Benjamin and Bloch. Film’s instrumental capacity to engage with reality’s fragments retains for Kracauer a utopian function condensed in his famous ‘redemption of physical reality’ thesis. This chapter will address the relevance of Kracauer’s paradigm of reading film normatively in the context, as I argue, of Simmel’s impressionist utopianism. Systematized by David Frisby the problematic of a sociological aesthetics in a fragmentary urban experience is compatible with important cinematic vistas—classical, modernist and contemporary. Drawing on the work of John Orr, Yvette Biró and Gilles Deleuze among others, I shall argue that film’s unique capacity to ‘photograph’ utopia in the cinematic fragment (a characteristically Simmelian trope)—either in the cinematic frame (mise-en-scène) or in the relationship between frames (montage)—functions as apposite normative counterweight to contemporary approaches of linking film to society (i.e. Žižek’s critical reconstruction of Hollywood cinema), which fail to redeem reality, precisely because they do not consider the utopian potential of the cinematic frame itself and its preservation of transcendence.
Giannakopoulou, G. (2020). Peri mnēmeiōn kai archaiotētōn [On monuments and antiquities]. In G. S. Filippotēs (Ed.), Athēnaiko ēmerologio 2021 [Athenian calendar 2021] (pp. 1–17). Filippotēs.
Giannakopoulou, G., & Gilloch, G. (2020a). Introduction. In G. Giannakopoulou & G. Gilloch (Eds.), The detective of modernity: Essays on the work of David Frisby (pp. 1–14). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429201370
The Detective of Modernity: Essays on the Work of David Frisby is a festschrift celebrating David Frisby’s (1944–2010) profound legacy in social and cultural theory. Showcasing an international, interdisciplinary symposium of sociologists, cultural theorists, urban geographers and designers, and architectural historians and theorists, it offers the first wide-ranging engagement with Frisby’s work. Matthias Benzer, Iain Boyd Whyte, Massimo Cerulo, Mike Featherstone, Christian Hermansen Cordua, Spyros Gangas, Günter Gassner, Georgia Giannakopoulou, Graeme Gilloch, Fabio La Rocca, Jaeho Kang, Changnam Lee, Esther Leslie, Antonio Rafele, Stéphane Symons, Elizabeth Wilson and Janet Wolff all testify to the power and potential of the kinds of scholarly inquiry and critical thought, which Frisby bequeathed to us. In line with his approach to ‘fragments’, the essays collected in this volume are intentionally autonomous and yet intriguingly interconnected. Individually and collectively they are all dedicated to Frisby’s perceptive, provocative and profound sociological imagination. Together we invite the reader to interrogate and (re)imagine our ever-astonishing social world.
Giannakopoulou, G., & Gilloch, G. (Eds.). (2020b). The detective of modernity: Essays on the work of David Frisby. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429201370
This book explores the thought of – and is dedicated to – David Frisby, one of the leading sociologists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Presenting original examinations of his unique social theory and underlining his interdisciplinary approach to the critical interpretation of modern metropolitan society and culture, it emphasises Frisby’s legacy in highlighting the role of the social researcher as a collector, reader, observer, detective and archivist of the phenomena and ideas that exemplify the modern metropolis as society. With contributions from sociologists, cultural theorists, historians of the city, urban geographers and designers, and architectural historians and theorists, The Detective of Modernity constitutes a wide-ranging engagement with Frisby’s profound legacy in social and cultural theory.
Lagoumitzi, G. (2020). Narratives of trauma across generations of Pontic Greeks and their impact on national identity. In S. S. Magliveras (Ed.), Agency and immigration policy (pp. 91–103). Transnational Press London. https://www.ceeol.com/search/chapter-detail?id=919505
Karl Mannheim’s 1928 essay ‘The Problem of Generations’ introduced a unique perspective on the dynamic development of social relations, social knowledge and social action. In this essay, he maintained that simple generational separation performed by positivist demographers on the basis of simple biological facts was meaningless. Instead, he defined a generation in terms of distinct collective experiences of given age groups, which stamp those age groups with a permanent separate identity. These experiences, in turn, give a new meaning to both, individual (subjective) and historical (objective) time. Mannheim distinguished between the ‘generation location’, actual generations comprised of individuals bound together by a common destiny, and the ‘generation unit’, establishing in this way the dialectical relationship between history and subjective knowledge. The conceptualization of diaspora as a ‘narrative of displacement’ provides the opportunity to assess the impact of such traumatic experiences on the separate ‘generation units’ among Pontic Greeks. Sharing the experience of successive displacements from the Ottoman Empire to Russia, from Caucasus to Kazakhstan under the Stalinist regime, and finally from the ex-Soviet Union to Greece in the wake of the 1989 Revolutions, they constitute an ideal-typical group for the study of the way in which different generations perceive a common past and face new challenges. Moreover, we explore the mediating role of genocide narratives in the perception of trauma and suffering by different generation units and their impact on their diasporic identity. In doing so, we affirm Stuart Hall’s interpretation of “identities… [as] projects and practices, not properties. Finally, we assess the importance of diasporic memory for the nation.