Dimitris Dalakoglou was born in Athens. He is Professor of Social Anthropology at Vrije University Amsterdam. He has been working ethnographically in the borders and urban spaces of the Balkans and Greece since 2003. In 2017 he was awarded an NWO Vidi grant for his project “Infra-Demos” studying infrastructural participation in Greece of crisis. In 2012 he was awarded an ESRC Future Research Leaders grant for his project “Crisis-Scapes,” studying public urban spaces in Athens. He has co-produced five mini-documentary films and he has occasionally taken and developed his own black and white photos since 2001.
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Camps and Ruins: Notes from Greece on the Visual Representation of the 2015 “Refugee Crisis”
My grandmother had very few photographs from her childhood; I believe there were only two.1 The first photo was one taken in an unknown studio, depicting her en... More
The Movement and the “Movement” of Syntagma Square
The late 1990s and early 2000s was the era of so-called "Strong Greece," or as another governmental slogan put it, the period of "Modernization." Under this ban... More
The Irregularities of Violence in Athens
The so called 'Greek crisis' is linked with enormous structural violence, exercised by the state apparatuses and international institutions (IMF, EU, ECB), agai... More