Ilektra Kyriazidou holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Kent, and has completed undergraduate and postgraduate studies in philosophy and social anthropology. Her research interests include the anthropology of affect and emotions, Greek ethnography, political anthropology, the concept of intimacy, the anthropology of the body and gender, social movements and migration. Her doctoral research on the impact of economic austerity measures in an area of the city of Thessaloniki in Greece, was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Based on ethnographic research in realms of the family and the neighbourhood, her thesis examined how global economic policies insert themselves in people’s intimate daily experiences and relations and how they articulate with intersectional inequalities and local cultural practices. How they produce precarious conditions but also the moments people resist precarity, in the urban Greek context. Ilektra’s current research investigates the precarity experienced by female refugees in Thessaloniki, paying attention to practices of hospitality and care.

email: ilektrakyriazidou@gmail.com

Latest Publications

Kyriazidou Ι. (2021). Neighbouring in Times of Austerity Crisis: Intimacy, Gender and the Noikokyrio. In Kolehmainen M., Lahad K., Lahti A. (eds) Affective Intimacies. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Kyriazidou, I. (2020). [Review] Tradition in the Frame: Photography, Power and Imagination in Sfakia, Crete by Konstantinos Kalantzis. Entanglements, 3(1), 81-84, 2020.

Kyriazidou, I. (2019). Complex Intimacies in a Thessaloniki Refugee Neighborhood. Lo Squaderno, 53, 67-70.