Olga Demetriou
@olgademetriou.bsky.social
Anthropologist @Durham university, peace and justice scholar, researching migration activism, Durham Global Security Institute director
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Our final monthly pick for November is the #OpenAccess article "Counter-Conduct and the Everyday: Anthropological Engagements with Philosophy" by @olgademetriou.bsky.social (@sgiadurham.bsky.social). Be sure to give it a read!
#CounterConduct #Greece #Cyprus
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#CounterConduct #Greece #Cyprus
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Our final monthly pick for November is the #OpenAccess article "Counter-Conduct and the Everyday: Anthropological Engagements with Philosophy" by @olgademetriou.bsky.social (@sgiadurham.bsky.social). Be sure to give it a read!
#CounterConduct #Greece #Cyprus
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#CounterConduct #Greece #Cyprus
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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RETHINKING A RADICAL REPUTATION: An Athens Neighbourhood between Media Hype and Social Experience by Maria Kenti-Kranidioti has now been published!
Find out more here: bit.ly/45t89Uy
Review by @olgademetriou.bsky.social
#Anthropology #Sociology #UrbanStudies
Find out more here: bit.ly/45t89Uy
Review by @olgademetriou.bsky.social
#Anthropology #Sociology #UrbanStudies
September 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
RETHINKING A RADICAL REPUTATION: An Athens Neighbourhood between Media Hype and Social Experience by Maria Kenti-Kranidioti has now been published!
Find out more here: bit.ly/45t89Uy
Review by @olgademetriou.bsky.social
#Anthropology #Sociology #UrbanStudies
Find out more here: bit.ly/45t89Uy
Review by @olgademetriou.bsky.social
#Anthropology #Sociology #UrbanStudies
August 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!
#Varieties of #Political #Ethnography: Caring for the Far Right?
By @olgademetriou.bsky.social & Antonis A. Ellinas
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
#Varieties of #Political #Ethnography: Caring for the Far Right?
By @olgademetriou.bsky.social & Antonis A. Ellinas
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
August 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!
#Varieties of #Political #Ethnography: Caring for the Far Right?
By @olgademetriou.bsky.social & Antonis A. Ellinas
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
#Varieties of #Political #Ethnography: Caring for the Far Right?
By @olgademetriou.bsky.social & Antonis A. Ellinas
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
DGSi's 2nd Annual Conference on Peace and Conflict methodologies ponders 25 years of Women, Peace and Security. Durham, 2-3 June 2025. Do join!
May 30, 2025 at 7:51 AM
DGSi's 2nd Annual Conference on Peace and Conflict methodologies ponders 25 years of Women, Peace and Security. Durham, 2-3 June 2025. Do join!
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You make an award
winning film. You win a prize. You go home and get beaten by non state actors. The state shows up, arrests you and not them. Where is this ?
winning film. You win a prize. You go home and get beaten by non state actors. The state shows up, arrests you and not them. Where is this ?
March 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM
You make an award
winning film. You win a prize. You go home and get beaten by non state actors. The state shows up, arrests you and not them. Where is this ?
winning film. You win a prize. You go home and get beaten by non state actors. The state shows up, arrests you and not them. Where is this ?
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Quite something that UK is issuing travel advisories against its key ally! Actually though, the Visa Waiver Form most people sign (the one that asks if you are a war criminal or are guilty of moral turpitude) puts you beyond the legal process, not if you break the law -but if THEY SAY you have.
March 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Quite something that UK is issuing travel advisories against its key ally! Actually though, the Visa Waiver Form most people sign (the one that asks if you are a war criminal or are guilty of moral turpitude) puts you beyond the legal process, not if you break the law -but if THEY SAY you have.
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Let’s talk about the way a name
becomes a crime,
the way a crime
becomes an argument,
the way an argument
becomes a theory,
the way a theory
sits safely
in a syllabus
far from the fire.
publicanthropologist.cmi.no/2025/03/14/i...
becomes a crime,
the way a crime
becomes an argument,
the way an argument
becomes a theory,
the way a theory
sits safely
in a syllabus
far from the fire.
publicanthropologist.cmi.no/2025/03/14/i...
IT’S TOO COMPLICATED, THEY SAY | Public Anthropologist
A Reckoning in Seven Movements I. To Begin With Fire There are nights I wake with my hands curled into fists,nights when I cannot unclench…
publicanthropologist.cmi.no
March 15, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Let’s talk about the way a name
becomes a crime,
the way a crime
becomes an argument,
the way an argument
becomes a theory,
the way a theory
sits safely
in a syllabus
far from the fire.
publicanthropologist.cmi.no/2025/03/14/i...
becomes a crime,
the way a crime
becomes an argument,
the way an argument
becomes a theory,
the way a theory
sits safely
in a syllabus
far from the fire.
publicanthropologist.cmi.no/2025/03/14/i...
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When I first went to Law School, the pictures on the walls were all of white men.
In all the universities that I taught for the first two decades of my career the pictures on the wall were all mostly of white men & now we face erasure again, the unmaking of the collective “us” who are not white men.
In all the universities that I taught for the first two decades of my career the pictures on the wall were all mostly of white men & now we face erasure again, the unmaking of the collective “us” who are not white men.
War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon's DEI purge
References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and women and minorities are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts m...
apnews.com
March 8, 2025 at 7:24 AM
When I first went to Law School, the pictures on the walls were all of white men.
In all the universities that I taught for the first two decades of my career the pictures on the wall were all mostly of white men & now we face erasure again, the unmaking of the collective “us” who are not white men.
In all the universities that I taught for the first two decades of my career the pictures on the wall were all mostly of white men & now we face erasure again, the unmaking of the collective “us” who are not white men.
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Antipode Foundation "Right to the Discipline" grants, Call for Proposals, due date 31 March 2025 antipodeonline.org/a-right-to-t...
“Right to the Discipline” grants - Antipode Online
Call for Proposals, October 2024 Last year we received 225 strong applications with a success rate of 6.2%. We anticipate funding a similar number of 10-12 grants in the next application year. Antipod...
antipodeonline.org
March 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Antipode Foundation "Right to the Discipline" grants, Call for Proposals, due date 31 March 2025 antipodeonline.org/a-right-to-t...
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We’re running an advanced workshop for political geography students on the geographies of settler colonialism and this is definitely top of the list to screen.
The Palestinian-Israeli film "No Other Land" has won the Oscar for best documentary feature at this year's Academy Awards.
Watch our interviews with two of the co-directors.
Basel Adra: www.democracynow.org/2025/2/18/ba...
Yuval Abraham: www.democracynow.org/2024/4/5/no_...
Watch our interviews with two of the co-directors.
Basel Adra: www.democracynow.org/2025/2/18/ba...
Yuval Abraham: www.democracynow.org/2024/4/5/no_...
March 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
We’re running an advanced workshop for political geography students on the geographies of settler colonialism and this is definitely top of the list to screen.
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[/] Our latest with @omniatv.com and @efsyntakton.bsky.social on the Pylos shipwreck. TLDR; there was indeed a rope. And it was blue. And it was tied on the fishing vessel, as the survivors claim for the past couple of years. Read below:
#Pylos
📌 New evidence revealed: The piece of rope hanging from the bow of the fishing vessel points to its towing
📌 The Hellenic Coast Guard captain did not submit this picture to the authorities
A joint publication with @efsyntakton.bsky.social
omniatv.com/en/7476/a-bl...
📌 New evidence revealed: The piece of rope hanging from the bow of the fishing vessel points to its towing
📌 The Hellenic Coast Guard captain did not submit this picture to the authorities
A joint publication with @efsyntakton.bsky.social
omniatv.com/en/7476/a-bl...
A blue rope tightens the noose around the Hellenic Coastguard for the Pylos shipwreck - omniatv english
Today, omniatv and EFSYN reveal a shocking photo depicting, for the first time, the fishing boat carrying refugees, shortly before sinking off Pylos, with a piece of blue rope hanging from the bow, sn...
omniatv.com
February 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
[/] Our latest with @omniatv.com and @efsyntakton.bsky.social on the Pylos shipwreck. TLDR; there was indeed a rope. And it was blue. And it was tied on the fishing vessel, as the survivors claim for the past couple of years. Read below:
normalising the erosion of IL: "the deal was a decision based on a security assessment and not by a desire to adhere to the principles of international law"
Starmer to tell Trump that UK’s Chagos deal will avoid tensions with China
Starmer to tell Trump that UK’s Chagos deal will avoid tensions with China
PM to claim if US rejects Mauritius’s claim to own the islands, Beijing will be drawn into the regional dispute
Keir Starmer is to urge Donald Trump to recognise that a US rejection of Mauritius’s legal claim to own the Chagos Islands including the…
www.theguardian.com
February 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
normalising the erosion of IL: "the deal was a decision based on a security assessment and not by a desire to adhere to the principles of international law"
Lovely to host Feargal Cochrane's talk on Belfast yesterday at DGSi, discussing covered rivers and covered histories and the hope ahead; thank you Bahar Baser for organising! @feargalc.bsky.social @baharbaser.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Lovely to host Feargal Cochrane's talk on Belfast yesterday at DGSi, discussing covered rivers and covered histories and the hope ahead; thank you Bahar Baser for organising! @feargalc.bsky.social @baharbaser.bsky.social
@neophytosloizides.bsky.social only because Feargal follows you ! :)
February 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
@neophytosloizides.bsky.social only because Feargal follows you ! :)
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Incredible. Trump put tariffs to coerce Mexico, and she got the US to commit to solve the more urgent problem (who knows whether the US will actually do anything).
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
February 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Incredible. Trump put tariffs to coerce Mexico, and she got the US to commit to solve the more urgent problem (who knows whether the US will actually do anything).
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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New #OpenAccess Intervention — "A Gas-Industrial Complex: Tracing the Colonial Cartography of the Eastern Mediterranean" by #WeSmellGas antipodeonline.org/2025/01/28/a... wesmellgas.org
Intervention — “A Gas-Industrial Complex: Tracing the Colonial Cartography of the Eastern Mediterranean” - Antipode Online
WeSmellGas (collective@wesmellgas.org) Gas is expected to fuel the transition and time is fundamental. So we are here pushing to unlock as much gas as possible in the shortest time. (Managing Direct...
antipodeonline.org
January 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM
New #OpenAccess Intervention — "A Gas-Industrial Complex: Tracing the Colonial Cartography of the Eastern Mediterranean" by #WeSmellGas antipodeonline.org/2025/01/28/a... wesmellgas.org
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Right on.
There’s at least one person in Washington with courage and conviction right now.
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Right on.
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At long last, my new book, Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land, is now out!
Based on a decade of research, it documents the realities of sovereign abandonment and the many forms of political liveliness that persist in abandonment’s wake.
Published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social
Based on a decade of research, it documents the realities of sovereign abandonment and the many forms of political liveliness that persist in abandonment’s wake.
Published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social
Edges of Care
A firsthand look at the lives of those who reside in no man’s land—the violence they endure and their immense resilience. “No man’s land” invokes stretches of barren landscape, twisted barbed wire, ...
press.uchicago.edu
January 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
At long last, my new book, Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land, is now out!
Based on a decade of research, it documents the realities of sovereign abandonment and the many forms of political liveliness that persist in abandonment’s wake.
Published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social
Based on a decade of research, it documents the realities of sovereign abandonment and the many forms of political liveliness that persist in abandonment’s wake.
Published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social
Ending the term with a packed week of Emma Rimpilainen speaking on displacement in Ukraine, Janina Pescinski on migration activism in Lampedusa and Trieste, and German Otalora Gallego brilliantly defending his PhD photovoice thesis on transformative justice in Colombia!
December 12, 2024 at 11:35 AM
Ending the term with a packed week of Emma Rimpilainen speaking on displacement in Ukraine, Janina Pescinski on migration activism in Lampedusa and Trieste, and German Otalora Gallego brilliantly defending his PhD photovoice thesis on transformative justice in Colombia!
It's been a whirlwind of events at the Durham Global Security Institute this term: public lectures on cybersecurity, WWI war graves, the Nigerian Civil War and reflections on 2+ decades in the Royal Air Force.
December 12, 2024 at 11:29 AM
It's been a whirlwind of events at the Durham Global Security Institute this term: public lectures on cybersecurity, WWI war graves, the Nigerian Civil War and reflections on 2+ decades in the Royal Air Force.
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Powerful piece looking at experiences of those who were trapped in Diego Garcia. Here the thing, the Diego Garcia saga is just one of many examples of how people seeking asylum continue to be abandoned in horrendous conditions and without support by the UK, and elsewhere.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Diego Garcia: Stranded mum's three-year ordeal on military island
Shanthi tried her best to create a sense of normality for her children on the secretive military island Diego Garcia
www.bbc.com
December 8, 2024 at 8:14 AM
Powerful piece looking at experiences of those who were trapped in Diego Garcia. Here the thing, the Diego Garcia saga is just one of many examples of how people seeking asylum continue to be abandoned in horrendous conditions and without support by the UK, and elsewhere.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...