Dr Lazaros Karaliotas
- Senior Lecturer (School of Geographical & Earth Sciences)
telephone:
01413305038
email:
Lazaros.Karaliotas@glasgow.ac.uk
University of Glasgow, Main Building, East Quad, Room 507
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897Research interests
My research explores the intersections between the urban and the political. I am interested in:
- the role of cities in process of de-politicization and re-politicization and in the relations between cities, nature and politics
- urban geography
- political philosophy
- urban uprisings and movements
- urban commons
- geographies of populism
- urban governance and politics, with particular reference to urban infrastructures
- geographies of neoliberalization and austerity
- geographies of post-democratization
- urban political ecology, with particular reference to the politics of urban sustainability, climate change, and the Anthropocene
Publications
2024
Featherstone, D., Gowland, B. and Karaliotas, L. (2024) Solidarity, worldmaking and inter-connected geographies of authoritarianism: Trade unions and the multiple trajectories of Chile solidarity. Alternautas, 11(1), pp. 16-58. (doi: 10.31273/an.v11i1.1592)
Gowland, B., Featherstone, D. and Karaliotas, L. (2024) Labour, democracy and the post-colonial state: Spaces of union organising and the ‘duppy state'. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 114(1), pp. 21-38. (doi: 10.1080/24694452.2023.2240875)
2021
Karaliotas, L. (2021) Geographies of politics and the police: post-democratization, SYRIZA, and the politics of the “Greek debt crisis”. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39(3), pp. 491-511. (doi: 10.1177/2399654419876650)
Karaliotas, L. and Kapsali, M. (2021) Equals in solidarity: Orfanotrofio’s housing squat as a site for political subjectification across differences amid the “Greek crisis”. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 53(2), pp. 399-421. (doi: 10.1111/anti.12653)
2020
Karaliotas, L. (2020) Ronan Paddison on public space and the post-political. Space and Polity, 24(2), pp. 252-261. (doi: 10.1080/13562576.2020.1787136)
2019
Featherstone, D. and Karaliotas, L. (2019) Populism. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 72, pp. 31-47. (doi: 10.3898/SOUN.72.02.2019)
Karaliotas, L. and Swyngedouw, E. (2019) Exploring insurgent urban mobilizations: from urban social movements to urban political movements? In: Schwanen, Tim and van Kempen, Ronald (eds.) Handbook of Urban Geography. Series: Research handbooks in geography. Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA, pp. 369-382. ISBN 9781785364594 (doi: 10.4337/9781785364600.00037)
2017
Karaliotas, L. (2017) Performing neoliberalization through urban infrastructure: twenty years of privatization policies around Thessaloniki's port. Environment and Planning A, 49(7), pp. 1556-1574. (doi: 10.1177/0308518X17699609)
Kaika, M. and Karaliotas, L. (2017) Athens's Syntagma Square reloaded: from staging disagreement towards instituting democratic spaces. In: Hou, Jeffrey and Knierbein, Sabine (eds.) City Unsilenced: Urban Resistance and Public Space in the Age of Shrinking Democracy. Routledge: New York, NY. ISBN 9781138125803
Karaliotas, L. (2017) Staging equality in Greek squares: hybrid spaces of political subjectification. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 41(1), pp. 54-69. (doi: 10.1111/1468-2427.12385)
Karaliotas, L. (2017) Towards commoning institutions in, against and beyond the 'Greek crisis'. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 64, pp. 93-99.
2016
Kaika, M. and Karaliotas, L. (2016) The spatialization of democratic politics: Insights from Indignant Squares. European Urban and Regional Studies, 23(4), pp. 556-570. (doi: 10.1177/0969776414528928)
Karaliotas, L. and Bettini, G. (2016) Urban resilience, the local and the politics of the Anthropocene: reflections on the future of the urban environment. In: Archer, Kevin and Bezdency, Kris (eds.) Handbook of Cities and the Environment. Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, pp. 65-83. ISBN 9781784712259
2014
Kaika, M. and Karaliotas, L. (2014) Spatialising politics: antagonistic imaginaries of indignant squares. In: Wilson, Japhy and Swyngedouw, Erik (eds.) The Post-Political and Its Discontents: Spaces of Depoliticization, Spectres of Radical Politics. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 244-260. ISBN 9780748682973
2013
Bettini, G. and Karaliotas, L. (2013) Exploring the limits of peak oil: naturalising the political, de-politicising energy. Geographical Journal, 179(4), pp. 331-341. (doi: 10.1111/geoj.12024)
Articles
Featherstone, D., Gowland, B. and Karaliotas, L. (2024) Solidarity, worldmaking and inter-connected geographies of authoritarianism: Trade unions and the multiple trajectories of Chile solidarity. Alternautas, 11(1), pp. 16-58. (doi: 10.31273/an.v11i1.1592)
Gowland, B., Featherstone, D. and Karaliotas, L. (2024) Labour, democracy and the post-colonial state: Spaces of union organising and the ‘duppy state'. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 114(1), pp. 21-38. (doi: 10.1080/24694452.2023.2240875)
Karaliotas, L. (2023) Infrastructures of dissensus: repartitioning the sensible and articulating the political through the occupation of Greece’s public broadcasting service. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, (doi: 10.1177/23996544221150077) (Early Online Publication)
Karaliotas, L. (2021) Geographies of politics and the police: post-democratization, SYRIZA, and the politics of the “Greek debt crisis”. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39(3), pp. 491-511. (doi: 10.1177/2399654419876650)
Karaliotas, L. and Kapsali, M. (2021) Equals in solidarity: Orfanotrofio’s housing squat as a site for political subjectification across differences amid the “Greek crisis”. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 53(2), pp. 399-421. (doi: 10.1111/anti.12653)
Karaliotas, L. (2020) Ronan Paddison on public space and the post-political. Space and Polity, 24(2), pp. 252-261. (doi: 10.1080/13562576.2020.1787136)
Featherstone, D. and Karaliotas, L. (2019) Populism. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 72, pp. 31-47. (doi: 10.3898/SOUN.72.02.2019)
Featherstone, D. and Karaliotas, L. (2018) Challenging the spatial politics of the European crisis: nationed narratives and trans-local solidarities in the post-crisis conjuncture. Cultural Studies, 32(2), pp. 286-307. (doi: 10.1080/09502386.2017.1354050)
Karaliotas, L. (2017) Performing neoliberalization through urban infrastructure: twenty years of privatization policies around Thessaloniki's port. Environment and Planning A, 49(7), pp. 1556-1574. (doi: 10.1177/0308518X17699609)
Karaliotas, L. (2017) Staging equality in Greek squares: hybrid spaces of political subjectification. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 41(1), pp. 54-69. (doi: 10.1111/1468-2427.12385)
Karaliotas, L. (2017) Towards commoning institutions in, against and beyond the 'Greek crisis'. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 64, pp. 93-99.
Kaika, M. and Karaliotas, L. (2016) The spatialization of democratic politics: Insights from Indignant Squares. European Urban and Regional Studies, 23(4), pp. 556-570. (doi: 10.1177/0969776414528928)
Bettini, G. and Karaliotas, L. (2013) Exploring the limits of peak oil: naturalising the political, de-politicising energy. Geographical Journal, 179(4), pp. 331-341. (doi: 10.1111/geoj.12024)
Book Sections
Karaliotas, L. and Swyngedouw, E. (2019) Exploring insurgent urban mobilizations: from urban social movements to urban political movements? In: Schwanen, Tim and van Kempen, Ronald (eds.) Handbook of Urban Geography. Series: Research handbooks in geography. Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA, pp. 369-382. ISBN 9781785364594 (doi: 10.4337/9781785364600.00037)
Kaika, M. and Karaliotas, L. (2017) Athens's Syntagma Square reloaded: from staging disagreement towards instituting democratic spaces. In: Hou, Jeffrey and Knierbein, Sabine (eds.) City Unsilenced: Urban Resistance and Public Space in the Age of Shrinking Democracy. Routledge: New York, NY. ISBN 9781138125803
Karaliotas, L. and Bettini, G. (2016) Urban resilience, the local and the politics of the Anthropocene: reflections on the future of the urban environment. In: Archer, Kevin and Bezdency, Kris (eds.) Handbook of Cities and the Environment. Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, pp. 65-83. ISBN 9781784712259
Kaika, M. and Karaliotas, L. (2014) Spatialising politics: antagonistic imaginaries of indignant squares. In: Wilson, Japhy and Swyngedouw, Erik (eds.) The Post-Political and Its Discontents: Spaces of Depoliticization, Spectres of Radical Politics. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 244-260. ISBN 9780748682973
Grants
Hallsworth Research Fellowship – University of Manchester. Project title: Exploring urban re-politicization: Urban political movements and solidarity networks in the aftermath of the ‘Greek crisis’
The Leverhulme Trust - Early Career Fellowship. Project title: Exploring the politicising urban in, against and beyond austerity urbanism. I declined the offer to take up a post at the University of Manchester as the Hallsworth Research Fellow.
Carnegie Trust Research Incentive Grant Project title: Urban Political Movements in times of crisis and austerity: The case of Thessaloniki.
The project explored the emancipatory socio-spatial experiments unfolding in the midst of the “Greek crisis”, particularly focusing on the network of Solidarity Health Clinics and the occupation and self-management of the country’s Public Broadcasting Service.
The Lipman-Milibant Trust PI: David Featherstone, Co-I: Lazaros Karaliotas "After Neoliberalism: Scotland and Alternative Political Futures"
Supervision
PhD research:
- Ben Gowland "The spatial politics of Caribbean Black Power: Praxis, Theory and Transnational Exchange" (with Dr David Featherstone and Dr Ian Shaw)
- Ana Santamarina Guerrero "Building translocal solidarities: Glasgow and Madrid contesting urban neoliberal geopolitics of racism" (with Dr David Featherstone)
- Viktoria Noka "Geographies of anti-nuclear energy movements" (with Dr David Featherstone)
- Josephine Zimba "Assessing the effect of climate variability and urbanisation on sustainable livelihoods in urban areas" (with Professor Deborah Dixon)
- Hwang, Jeongha
Disclosing an ‘design city’ from below: urban transformation and labour actors in Dongdaemun, Seoul
