Anna Apostolidou
Biographic Data
| ID | 128518 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Apostolidou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Apostolidou |
| SIGNATURE | APOSTOLIDOU A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Panteion University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8793-5308 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The mental health burden of LGBT+ refugees and asylum seekers in Greece
Precarity Factors of Street-Based Sex Work Within Criminalised Contexts: A Study in Athens, Greece
This community research study aims to investigate the intersecting self-identified precarity factors and identities associated with street-based sex work in a criminalised context, specifically in Athens, Greece, to improve the effectiveness of individualised care interventions. Interviews of 264 cis and trans female sex workers were conducted from June 2021 to December 2022, at a community day centre for sex workers in Athens. The community-base…
Art and/as open education: A collaborative action with refugee artists
The article illustrates the potential of engaged arts-based pedagogies in higher education with respect to integration interventions for young refugees in Europe. It discusses the conception and implementation of the collaborative initiative “Find Refuge in Art”, which was part of the research Project PRESS at the Hellenic Open University. This example shows how artistic synergy may become an integral part of research design, framing both awarene…
The Distinction Between Chemsex and Sexualized Drug Use Among Men Who have Sex with Men
Digitally situated knowledge: Connectivism, anthropology and epistemological pluralism
Sexualized Drug Use and Chemsex: Their Association with Sexual Health Among Men who have Sex with Men Living in Greece
Objectives: The study aims to investigate rates of sexualized drug use (SDU) and chemsex, a type of SDU involving specifically the use of crystal methamphetamine, mephedrone, or GHB/GBL and their association with the rates of negative sexual health outcomes among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Greece. Methods: Survey of 485 MSM in internal disease departments and community testing centers. Results: Twenty-eight percent of participants were in…
Reproducing Fictional Ethnographies: Surrogacy and Digitally Performed Anthropological Knowledge
This book explores the relationship between new reproductive technologies and new ethnographic writing technologies, using the case of surrogate motherhood
Digital Encounters of Surrogacy: Nodes of a Fictional Ethnography
The article addresses the question of alternative ways to writing ethnography and more specifically, the ethnography of surrogacy. It focuses on the example of a digital ethnographic artifact that was created in order to host fictional representations of surrogacy practices. The article presents ethnographic material from a recent research project that focused on experiences of surrogate parenthood of Greek and Cypriot intended parents. The digit…
Parenting and Education: The Example of Refugee Parents in Greece
This article focuses on the interplay between parenthood and refugee status and documents the approaches that parents employ to become educational agents and enrich their children’s language knowledge and cultural capital while residing in refugee camps in northern Greece. It discusses the prominent role that encampment times play in structuring the disempowering refugee condition, and describes the parents’ strategies of managing time and teachi…
Gendered Spaces and Educational Expectations: The Case of the Former Refugee Camp "Elliniko" in Athens
Greek nationhood and ‘Greek love: Sexualizing the nation and multiple readings of the glorious Greek past
The paper addresses the ways in which the idea of homosexuality has been expelled from local dominant narrations about the Modern Greek nation and seeks to culturally frame this historical erasure. The ancient past and Ottoman rule are viewed as the two key moments of negotiating (and repeatedly placing in oblivion) any link between ‘Greekness’ and homoeroticism. Placing this institutional silence in juxtaposition to multiple Western readings of …
The nomads of Mykonos: Performing liminalities in a 'queer' space - Pola Bousiou
Greek nationhood and ‘Greek love: Sexualizing the nation and multiple readings of the glorious Greek past
The paper addresses the ways in which the idea of homosexuality has been expelled from local dominant narrations about the Modern Greek nation and seeks to culturally frame this historical erasure. The ancient past and Ottoman rule are viewed as the two key moments of negotiating (and repeatedly placing in oblivion) any link between ‘Greekness’ and homoeroticism. Placing this institutional silence in juxtaposition to multiple Western readings of …
The Distinction Between Chemsex and Sexualized Drug Use Among Men Who have Sex with Men
Gendered Spaces and Educational Expectations: The Case of the Former Refugee Camp "Elliniko" in Athens
The nomads of Mykonos: Performing liminalities in a 'queer' space - Pola Bousiou
Greek nationhood and ‘Greek love: Sexualizing the nation and multiple readings of the glorious Greek past
The paper addresses the ways in which the idea of homosexuality has been expelled from local dominant narrations about the Modern Greek nation and seeks to culturally frame this historical erasure. The ancient past and Ottoman rule are viewed as the two key moments of negotiating (and repeatedly placing in oblivion) any link between ‘Greekness’ and homoeroticism. Placing this institutional silence in juxtaposition to multiple Western readings of …
Parenting and Education: The Example of Refugee Parents in Greece
This article focuses on the interplay between parenthood and refugee status and documents the approaches that parents employ to become educational agents and enrich their children’s language knowledge and cultural capital while residing in refugee camps in northern Greece. It discusses the prominent role that encampment times play in structuring the disempowering refugee condition, and describes the parents’ strategies of managing time and teachi…
Gendered Spaces and Educational Expectations: The Case of the Former Refugee Camp "Elliniko" in Athens
Digital Encounters of Surrogacy: Nodes of a Fictional Ethnography
The article addresses the question of alternative ways to writing ethnography and more specifically, the ethnography of surrogacy. It focuses on the example of a digital ethnographic artifact that was created in order to host fictional representations of surrogacy practices. The article presents ethnographic material from a recent research project that focused on experiences of surrogate parenthood of Greek and Cypriot intended parents. The digit…
Digitally situated knowledge: Connectivism, anthropology and epistemological pluralism
Sexualized Drug Use and Chemsex: Their Association with Sexual Health Among Men who have Sex with Men Living in Greece
Objectives: The study aims to investigate rates of sexualized drug use (SDU) and chemsex, a type of SDU involving specifically the use of crystal methamphetamine, mephedrone, or GHB/GBL and their association with the rates of negative sexual health outcomes among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Greece. Methods: Survey of 485 MSM in internal disease departments and community testing centers. Results: Twenty-eight percent of participants were in…
Reproducing Fictional Ethnographies: Surrogacy and Digitally Performed Anthropological Knowledge
This book explores the relationship between new reproductive technologies and new ethnographic writing technologies, using the case of surrogate motherhood
Art and/as open education: A collaborative action with refugee artists
The article illustrates the potential of engaged arts-based pedagogies in higher education with respect to integration interventions for young refugees in Europe. It discusses the conception and implementation of the collaborative initiative “Find Refuge in Art”, which was part of the research Project PRESS at the Hellenic Open University. This example shows how artistic synergy may become an integral part of research design, framing both awarene…
The Distinction Between Chemsex and Sexualized Drug Use Among Men Who have Sex with Men
Precarity Factors of Street-Based Sex Work Within Criminalised Contexts: A Study in Athens, Greece
This community research study aims to investigate the intersecting self-identified precarity factors and identities associated with street-based sex work in a criminalised context, specifically in Athens, Greece, to improve the effectiveness of individualised care interventions. Interviews of 264 cis and trans female sex workers were conducted from June 2021 to December 2022, at a community day centre for sex workers in Athens. The community-base…
The mental health burden of LGBT+ refugees and asylum seekers in Greece
Sociology (10 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Social science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Political science (4 works)