About infra-demos
infra-demos is a 5-year anthropological project that studies infrastructural gap, infrastructural contestation and infrastructural commons in Greece. infra-demos is funded by a Research Talent Vidi grant of the Dutch Research Council, held by Dimitris Dalakoglou (2017-2022).
The infra-demos team
Dimitris Dalakoglou
Dimitris is the Principal Investigator and director of infra-demos. He is the Professor of Social Anthropology at Vrije University Amsterdam, where he founded and directs the Lab on Infrastructures, Sustainability and the Commons. He is the author of more than one hundred publications including ethnographic monographs, edited volumes, peer-reviewed articles, media articles, documentary films etc. See full list of outcomes in the link and his personal website.
Yannis Kallianos
Yannis is the postdoctoral researcher of the Infra-demos project. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Vrije University Amsterdam. He obtained his PhD in social anthropology from the University of St Andrews. His work has focused on the relationship between (de)legitimation, social contestation and political imagination in Greece. His research interests also explore the politics of public space, waste and infrastructure in Athens.
Christos Giovanopoulos
Christos is PhD researcher of infra-demos. He is a PhD candidate in Social and Cultural Anthropology at Vrije University Amsterdam. He holds an MA from the University of Westminster, London, where he taught Media and Critical Theory as a visiting lecturer. Among other publications he has edited the books Democracy Under Construction: from the street to the squares and Loaded Cameras: Cinema and ’68.
Ioannis Athanasiadis
Ioannis is helping infra-demos to develop its quantitative datasets and its utilisation digital tools. He is Assistant Professor at the Information Technology group of Wageningen University. He teaches Data Management, Models for ecological systems and Software engineering. His research interests are about ecoinformatics, intelligent information systems, decision support systems, knowledge engineering, metadata and ontologies and machine learning. Since 2010, he serves as an Editor of Environmental Modelling and Software.
Spyros Gerousis
Spyros is the audio-visual practitioner of infra-demos project. He holds an MA in Visual Anthropology, from the University of Manchester's Granada Centre. His collaborative work Nosso Morro, (Brazil, 2016) has been featured in a number of ethnographic and documentary film festivals and was awarded the 2017 Student Krafta Doc Award. His first feature documentary Every Single Day (Greece, 2017) has been screened in festivals and was also released in cinemas but also was broadcasted by the Greek national tv network (ΕΡΤ 3).
Dimitris is the Principal Investigator and director of infra-demos. He is the Professor of Social Anthropology at Vrije University Amsterdam, where he founded and directs the Lab on Infrastructures, Sustainability and the Commons. He is the author of more than one hundred publications including ethnographic monographs, edited volumes, peer-reviewed articles, media articles, documentary films etc. See full list of outcomes in the link and his personal website.
Yannis Kallianos
Yannis is the postdoctoral researcher of the Infra-demos project. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Vrije University Amsterdam. He obtained his PhD in social anthropology from the University of St Andrews. His work has focused on the relationship between (de)legitimation, social contestation and political imagination in Greece. His research interests also explore the politics of public space, waste and infrastructure in Athens.
Christos Giovanopoulos
Christos is PhD researcher of infra-demos. He is a PhD candidate in Social and Cultural Anthropology at Vrije University Amsterdam. He holds an MA from the University of Westminster, London, where he taught Media and Critical Theory as a visiting lecturer. Among other publications he has edited the books Democracy Under Construction: from the street to the squares and Loaded Cameras: Cinema and ’68.
Ioannis Athanasiadis
Ioannis is helping infra-demos to develop its quantitative datasets and its utilisation digital tools. He is Assistant Professor at the Information Technology group of Wageningen University. He teaches Data Management, Models for ecological systems and Software engineering. His research interests are about ecoinformatics, intelligent information systems, decision support systems, knowledge engineering, metadata and ontologies and machine learning. Since 2010, he serves as an Editor of Environmental Modelling and Software.
Spyros Gerousis
Spyros is the audio-visual practitioner of infra-demos project. He holds an MA in Visual Anthropology, from the University of Manchester's Granada Centre. His collaborative work Nosso Morro, (Brazil, 2016) has been featured in a number of ethnographic and documentary film festivals and was awarded the 2017 Student Krafta Doc Award. His first feature documentary Every Single Day (Greece, 2017) has been screened in festivals and was also released in cinemas but also was broadcasted by the Greek national tv network (ΕΡΤ 3).