Lazaros Karaliotas
Biographic Data
| ID | 184699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lazaros Karaliotas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lazaros |
| FAMILY NAME | Karaliotas |
| SIGNATURE | KARALIOTAS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1473-1897 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Housing struggles in Athens, Barcelona and Glasgow: Discussing convergencies and divergencies in collective strategies for claim-making
Housing is a multidimensional issue: it is at once a fundamental human need, a critical resource, a pillar of urban economies, and a claimed human and/or social right. Radical claims articulated through housing struggles often shed new light on different facets of the ongoing housing crisis, while also functioning as meaning-making, performative practices in their own right. In January 2025, as part of the HousInC research project, we organised a…
Housing struggles challenging racial capitalism: The politics of the No Evictions Network in Glasgow
This article engages with the struggles of the ‘No Evictions Network’ (NEN) in Glasgow, a migrant- and activist-led organisation set up to resist the eviction of 300 asylum seekers by the multinational company Serco, which held a £1 billion-pound contract to provide housing to 17,000 asylum seekers in the UK. The NEN constituted the coming together of migrants’ and tenants’ struggles in the city. Drawing on the NEN’s experiences, the article high…
Interview with Nicos Poulantzas (April 1979)
Nicos Poulantzas talks to Stuart Hall and Alan Hunt New introduction by Dave Featherstone and Lazaros Karaliotas Nicos Poulantzas was one of the most influential figures in the renewal in European Marxism in the 1970s, and this interview shows some of the ways in which left political discourse in Europe in the 1970s was shaped by widely shared trajectories and contexts. Poulantzas was a member of the Greek Communist Party of the Interior, which, …
Labor, Democracy, and the Postcolonial State: Spaces of Union Organizing and the Duppy State in Britain and Trinidad
This article examines the democratic political praxes and contestations developed by trade unions in relations with the postcolonial state in both the Global North and South. Our work is informed by the scholarship of Richard Iton on the postcolonial duppy state and notions of the colonial past haunting the postcolonial present through the rearticulation of racialized, imperial labor regimes and relations in a postcolonial context. We engage with…
Infrastructures of dissensus: Repartitioning the sensible and articulating the political through the occupation of Greece’s public broadcasting service
This article engages with contemporary debates around the politics of space and the spatiality of politics by exploring how the fabrication of emancipatory infrastructures shapes the articulation and reconfiguration of the (urban) political. Moving beyond the prevailing emphasis on urban uprisings, the article focuses on the occupation and self-management of Greece’s Public Broadcasting Service (ERT) in response to New Democracy’s government deci…
Reflections on the spaces of populist politics in Europe
A discussion of the record of left- and right-wing populist parties in Europe in response to the austerity policies that followed on from the financial crisis of 2007-8, focusing both on the populist right and on the trajectories of Syriza and Podemos. Questions discussed include: the issue of definition - whether populism is more than a mobilising strategy/understanding it as a hybrid political practice; what happens to left populist parties whe…
Equals in Solidarity: Orfanotrofio’s Housing Squat as a Site for Political Subjectification Across Differences Amid the “Greek Crisis”
This article engages with the political struggles staged by illegalised migrants and activists in solidarity amid the long summer of migration and the “Greek crisis”. Grounding its analysis on Orfanotrofio’s housing squat in Thessaloniki, it narrates how such struggles are articulated to politicise migration and stage the equality of newcomers—migrants and refugees—and locals. Drawing on Jacques Rancière’s political writings and contemporary geog…
Ronan Paddison on public space and the post-political
Ronan Paddison’s work on urban public space and the post-political moved beyond the polarization that marks much of the ongoing debate around post-politics. This article briefly delineates three key propositions in Paddison’s engagement with the post-political: a critical dialogical reading of the thesis; a call for nuanced empirical engagement; and an ability to draw from deep personal engagement with local urban politics. Paddison’s proposition…
Geographies of politics and the police: Post-democratization, Syriza, and the politics of the “Greek debt crisis”
This paper explores the entangled dynamics of de-politicization and re-politicization in the midst of the “Greek debt crisis.” Critically revisiting Jacques Rancière’s political writings, it argues that, despite common criticisms to the contrary, his oeuvre foregrounds the impurity of democratic politics. Rancière, the paper contends, offers critical heuristic tools in understanding and engaging with how processes of post-democratization and demo…
Challenging the spatial politics of the European crisis: Nationed Narratives and Trans-Local Solidarities in the Post-Crisis Conjuncture
This paper explores the potential for the formation of political solidarities across the spatial divisions being intensified by dominant responses to the European crisis. In doing so, it takes inspiration from Doreen Massey’s thinking around the contested terms on which space and politics are articulated and her engagement with the 2008 crisis through projects such as the Kilburn manifesto. We argue that her book World city powerfully articulates…
Staging Equality in Greek Squares: Hybrid Spaces of Political Subjectification
This article stages a dialogue between Jacques Rancière's political writings and the squares movement in Greece. From May to July 2011, a heterogeneous multitude of protesters reclaimed the squares of the country from their allocation in the police order and articulated a multiplicity of divergent discursive, organizational and spatial repertoires. This was an urban political event that reasserted the importance of urban spaces in expressing poli…
Performing neoliberalization through urban infrastructure: Twenty years of privatization policies around Thessaloniki's port
This paper mobilizes the trajectory of privatization policies around Thessaloniki's port as an entry point to explore the neoliberalization of urban infrastructure politics in Greece since the late 1990s. It asks how neoliberalization policies around the port were conceptually legitimized and traces their implications for urban infrastructure governance. In doing so, it draws from a reading of neoliberalism as a performative discourse. This under…
The spatialization of democratic politics: Insights from Indignant Squares
This article departs from accounts that either deify Indignant Squares as a model for 21st century political praxis or demonize them as apolitical/post-political crowd gatherings. By performing a closer ethnographic reading of the Indignants’ protests at Athens’ Syntagma Square, we depict the Indignant Squares as a consensual and deeply spatialized staging of dissent, which nevertheless harbours in its underbelly internally conflicting and often …
Exploring the limits of peak oil: Naturalising the Political, De‐politicising Energy
Peak oil has acquired prominence in the political lexicon of an increasing number of critical and radical perspectives during the ongoing ecological and economic crisis. By examining examples within academia as well as initiatives such as the D egrowth M ovement and the T ransition N etwork, this paper documents how a series of red‐green discourses and movements mobilise the narrative of peak oil as an alarm bell that signals the inevitability of…
The spatialization of democratic politics: Insights from Indignant Squares
This article departs from accounts that either deify Indignant Squares as a model for 21st century political praxis or demonize them as apolitical/post-political crowd gatherings. By performing a closer ethnographic reading of the Indignants’ protests at Athens’ Syntagma Square, we depict the Indignant Squares as a consensual and deeply spatialized staging of dissent, which nevertheless harbours in its underbelly internally conflicting and often …
Equals in Solidarity: Orfanotrofio’s Housing Squat as a Site for Political Subjectification Across Differences Amid the “Greek Crisis”
This article engages with the political struggles staged by illegalised migrants and activists in solidarity amid the long summer of migration and the “Greek crisis”. Grounding its analysis on Orfanotrofio’s housing squat in Thessaloniki, it narrates how such struggles are articulated to politicise migration and stage the equality of newcomers—migrants and refugees—and locals. Drawing on Jacques Rancière’s political writings and contemporary geog…
Staging Equality in Greek Squares: Hybrid Spaces of Political Subjectification
This article stages a dialogue between Jacques Rancière's political writings and the squares movement in Greece. From May to July 2011, a heterogeneous multitude of protesters reclaimed the squares of the country from their allocation in the police order and articulated a multiplicity of divergent discursive, organizational and spatial repertoires. This was an urban political event that reasserted the importance of urban spaces in expressing poli…
Performing neoliberalization through urban infrastructure: Twenty years of privatization policies around Thessaloniki's port
This paper mobilizes the trajectory of privatization policies around Thessaloniki's port as an entry point to explore the neoliberalization of urban infrastructure politics in Greece since the late 1990s. It asks how neoliberalization policies around the port were conceptually legitimized and traces their implications for urban infrastructure governance. In doing so, it draws from a reading of neoliberalism as a performative discourse. This under…
Exploring the limits of peak oil: Naturalising the Political, De‐politicising Energy
Peak oil has acquired prominence in the political lexicon of an increasing number of critical and radical perspectives during the ongoing ecological and economic crisis. By examining examples within academia as well as initiatives such as the D egrowth M ovement and the T ransition N etwork, this paper documents how a series of red‐green discourses and movements mobilise the narrative of peak oil as an alarm bell that signals the inevitability of…
Infrastructures of dissensus: Repartitioning the sensible and articulating the political through the occupation of Greece’s public broadcasting service
This article engages with contemporary debates around the politics of space and the spatiality of politics by exploring how the fabrication of emancipatory infrastructures shapes the articulation and reconfiguration of the (urban) political. Moving beyond the prevailing emphasis on urban uprisings, the article focuses on the occupation and self-management of Greece’s Public Broadcasting Service (ERT) in response to New Democracy’s government deci…
Geographies of politics and the police: Post-democratization, Syriza, and the politics of the “Greek debt crisis”
This paper explores the entangled dynamics of de-politicization and re-politicization in the midst of the “Greek debt crisis.” Critically revisiting Jacques Rancière’s political writings, it argues that, despite common criticisms to the contrary, his oeuvre foregrounds the impurity of democratic politics. Rancière, the paper contends, offers critical heuristic tools in understanding and engaging with how processes of post-democratization and demo…
Challenging the spatial politics of the European crisis: Nationed Narratives and Trans-Local Solidarities in the Post-Crisis Conjuncture
This paper explores the potential for the formation of political solidarities across the spatial divisions being intensified by dominant responses to the European crisis. In doing so, it takes inspiration from Doreen Massey’s thinking around the contested terms on which space and politics are articulated and her engagement with the 2008 crisis through projects such as the Kilburn manifesto. We argue that her book World city powerfully articulates…
Labor, Democracy, and the Postcolonial State: Spaces of Union Organizing and the Duppy State in Britain and Trinidad
This article examines the democratic political praxes and contestations developed by trade unions in relations with the postcolonial state in both the Global North and South. Our work is informed by the scholarship of Richard Iton on the postcolonial duppy state and notions of the colonial past haunting the postcolonial present through the rearticulation of racialized, imperial labor regimes and relations in a postcolonial context. We engage with…
Ronan Paddison on public space and the post-political
Ronan Paddison’s work on urban public space and the post-political moved beyond the polarization that marks much of the ongoing debate around post-politics. This article briefly delineates three key propositions in Paddison’s engagement with the post-political: a critical dialogical reading of the thesis; a call for nuanced empirical engagement; and an ability to draw from deep personal engagement with local urban politics. Paddison’s proposition…
Housing struggles challenging racial capitalism: The politics of the No Evictions Network in Glasgow
This article engages with the struggles of the ‘No Evictions Network’ (NEN) in Glasgow, a migrant- and activist-led organisation set up to resist the eviction of 300 asylum seekers by the multinational company Serco, which held a £1 billion-pound contract to provide housing to 17,000 asylum seekers in the UK. The NEN constituted the coming together of migrants’ and tenants’ struggles in the city. Drawing on the NEN’s experiences, the article high…
Exploring the limits of peak oil: Naturalising the Political, De‐politicising Energy
Peak oil has acquired prominence in the political lexicon of an increasing number of critical and radical perspectives during the ongoing ecological and economic crisis. By examining examples within academia as well as initiatives such as the D egrowth M ovement and the T ransition N etwork, this paper documents how a series of red‐green discourses and movements mobilise the narrative of peak oil as an alarm bell that signals the inevitability of…
The spatialization of democratic politics: Insights from Indignant Squares
This article departs from accounts that either deify Indignant Squares as a model for 21st century political praxis or demonize them as apolitical/post-political crowd gatherings. By performing a closer ethnographic reading of the Indignants’ protests at Athens’ Syntagma Square, we depict the Indignant Squares as a consensual and deeply spatialized staging of dissent, which nevertheless harbours in its underbelly internally conflicting and often …
Staging Equality in Greek Squares: Hybrid Spaces of Political Subjectification
This article stages a dialogue between Jacques Rancière's political writings and the squares movement in Greece. From May to July 2011, a heterogeneous multitude of protesters reclaimed the squares of the country from their allocation in the police order and articulated a multiplicity of divergent discursive, organizational and spatial repertoires. This was an urban political event that reasserted the importance of urban spaces in expressing poli…
Performing neoliberalization through urban infrastructure: Twenty years of privatization policies around Thessaloniki's port
This paper mobilizes the trajectory of privatization policies around Thessaloniki's port as an entry point to explore the neoliberalization of urban infrastructure politics in Greece since the late 1990s. It asks how neoliberalization policies around the port were conceptually legitimized and traces their implications for urban infrastructure governance. In doing so, it draws from a reading of neoliberalism as a performative discourse. This under…
Challenging the spatial politics of the European crisis: Nationed Narratives and Trans-Local Solidarities in the Post-Crisis Conjuncture
This paper explores the potential for the formation of political solidarities across the spatial divisions being intensified by dominant responses to the European crisis. In doing so, it takes inspiration from Doreen Massey’s thinking around the contested terms on which space and politics are articulated and her engagement with the 2008 crisis through projects such as the Kilburn manifesto. We argue that her book World city powerfully articulates…
Geographies of politics and the police: Post-democratization, Syriza, and the politics of the “Greek debt crisis”
This paper explores the entangled dynamics of de-politicization and re-politicization in the midst of the “Greek debt crisis.” Critically revisiting Jacques Rancière’s political writings, it argues that, despite common criticisms to the contrary, his oeuvre foregrounds the impurity of democratic politics. Rancière, the paper contends, offers critical heuristic tools in understanding and engaging with how processes of post-democratization and demo…
Ronan Paddison on public space and the post-political
Ronan Paddison’s work on urban public space and the post-political moved beyond the polarization that marks much of the ongoing debate around post-politics. This article briefly delineates three key propositions in Paddison’s engagement with the post-political: a critical dialogical reading of the thesis; a call for nuanced empirical engagement; and an ability to draw from deep personal engagement with local urban politics. Paddison’s proposition…
Equals in Solidarity: Orfanotrofio’s Housing Squat as a Site for Political Subjectification Across Differences Amid the “Greek Crisis”
This article engages with the political struggles staged by illegalised migrants and activists in solidarity amid the long summer of migration and the “Greek crisis”. Grounding its analysis on Orfanotrofio’s housing squat in Thessaloniki, it narrates how such struggles are articulated to politicise migration and stage the equality of newcomers—migrants and refugees—and locals. Drawing on Jacques Rancière’s political writings and contemporary geog…
Reflections on the spaces of populist politics in Europe
A discussion of the record of left- and right-wing populist parties in Europe in response to the austerity policies that followed on from the financial crisis of 2007-8, focusing both on the populist right and on the trajectories of Syriza and Podemos. Questions discussed include: the issue of definition - whether populism is more than a mobilising strategy/understanding it as a hybrid political practice; what happens to left populist parties whe…
Infrastructures of dissensus: Repartitioning the sensible and articulating the political through the occupation of Greece’s public broadcasting service
This article engages with contemporary debates around the politics of space and the spatiality of politics by exploring how the fabrication of emancipatory infrastructures shapes the articulation and reconfiguration of the (urban) political. Moving beyond the prevailing emphasis on urban uprisings, the article focuses on the occupation and self-management of Greece’s Public Broadcasting Service (ERT) in response to New Democracy’s government deci…
Interview with Nicos Poulantzas (April 1979)
Nicos Poulantzas talks to Stuart Hall and Alan Hunt New introduction by Dave Featherstone and Lazaros Karaliotas Nicos Poulantzas was one of the most influential figures in the renewal in European Marxism in the 1970s, and this interview shows some of the ways in which left political discourse in Europe in the 1970s was shaped by widely shared trajectories and contexts. Poulantzas was a member of the Greek Communist Party of the Interior, which, …
Labor, Democracy, and the Postcolonial State: Spaces of Union Organizing and the Duppy State in Britain and Trinidad
This article examines the democratic political praxes and contestations developed by trade unions in relations with the postcolonial state in both the Global North and South. Our work is informed by the scholarship of Richard Iton on the postcolonial duppy state and notions of the colonial past haunting the postcolonial present through the rearticulation of racialized, imperial labor regimes and relations in a postcolonial context. We engage with…
Housing struggles challenging racial capitalism: The politics of the No Evictions Network in Glasgow
This article engages with the struggles of the ‘No Evictions Network’ (NEN) in Glasgow, a migrant- and activist-led organisation set up to resist the eviction of 300 asylum seekers by the multinational company Serco, which held a £1 billion-pound contract to provide housing to 17,000 asylum seekers in the UK. The NEN constituted the coming together of migrants’ and tenants’ struggles in the city. Drawing on the NEN’s experiences, the article high…
Housing struggles in Athens, Barcelona and Glasgow: Discussing convergencies and divergencies in collective strategies for claim-making
Housing is a multidimensional issue: it is at once a fundamental human need, a critical resource, a pillar of urban economies, and a claimed human and/or social right. Radical claims articulated through housing struggles often shed new light on different facets of the ongoing housing crisis, while also functioning as meaning-making, performative practices in their own right. In January 2025, as part of the HousInC research project, we organised a…
Sociology (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (6 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (5 works) · Critical Theory and Political Philosophy (4 works) · Performative utterance (4 works)