Myrto Tsilimpounidi
Biographic Data
| ID | 192969 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Myrto Tsilimpounidi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Myrto |
| FAMILY NAME | Tsilimpounidi |
| SIGNATURE | TSILIMPOUNIDI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Slovak Academy of Sciences (SASPRO), Bratislava, Slovakia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2706-4824 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Watching Photographs: Inhabiting a Queer Feminist Perspective to Contest Reproductions of the 'Refugee Crisis
Journalists have claimed that the 2015 European ‘refugee crisis’ is one of the most photographed crises in human history. It is important to understand what kind of messages these photographs convey, how they reproduce the hegemonic narrative, and how they become commodities. In this paper, we critique the visual economy of the ‘refugee crisis’ from a queer feminist perspective through the lens of reproduction. We show how the reproduction of ima…
Vulnerable Refugees' and 'Voluntary Deportations: Performing the Hotspot, Embodying Its Violence
In this paper, we intervene in naturalised distinctions based on problematic assumptions about agency and choice that underpin the global regime of migration management: namely, that categories of human mobility can be ontologically and juridically distinguished from one another in terms of the degrees or forms of freedom they embody, and that different rights legitimately adhere to each. Focussing on the ‘hotspots’ instituted on 5 islands in the…
A Periegesis through the Greek Crisis in Five Graffiti Acts: Cartographic and Photographic Dialogues
Against the wall: Introduction to the Special Feature: Inscriptions of ‘crisis’: Street art, graffiti, and urban interventions
In the imaginary of nation-states, and in much (forced) migration and border studies, the wall is the metaphor par excellence of ‘hardened, securitised’ and, ultimately, ‘violent borders’ (Jones 2016). It is not incidental that the previous US President’s attempts to further institutionalise virulent anti-immigrant racism found purchase in the rallying cry ‘Build a Wall.’ While they function to restrict movement, walls, fences, and other border b…
Reproducing Refugees: Photographia of a Crisis
Since 2015, the ‘refugee crisis’ is possibly the most photographed humanitarian crises in history. Photographs taken, for instance, in Lesvos, Greece, and Bodrum, Turkey, were instrumental in generating waves of public support for, and populist opposition to “welcoming refugees” in Europe. But photographs do not circulate in a vacuum; this book explores the visual economy of the ‘refugee crisis,’ showing how the reproduction of images is structur…
Methodological heteronormativity and the “refugee crisis”
All migration politics is reproductive politics. The nation-state project of controlling migration secures the racialised demographics of the nation, understood as a reproducible fact of the social
Crisis, What Crisis? Immigrants, Refugees, and Invisible Struggles
Different evocations of “crisis” create distinct categories that in turn evoke certain social reactions. After 2008 Greece became the epicentre of the “financial crisis”; since 2015 with the advent of the “refugee crisis,” it became the “hotspot of Europe.” What are the different vocabularies of crisis? Moreover, how have both representations of crisis facilitated humanitarian crises to become phenomena for European and transnational institutiona…
Dear Tina: Protesting Institutions in Times of Crisis
Speaking from within a time of economic crisis, It's a Beautiful Thing, the Destruction of Wor(l)ds investigates how scholarly activities reflect activist identities and the affect of experiencing social change in the Greek crisis. In Dear TINA, we write through and about workplaces: correctional institutions and higher education, and their effects on our ways of knowing. These two performance lectures by Ministry of Untold Stories offer a workin…
Graffiti and Street Art: Reading, Writing and Representing the City
Graffiti and street art have captured a global following in recent years, and the result is a proliferation of tags, paintings, stickers and stencils in slick metropolitan cities as well as unexpected locales in impoverished areas. Part of their appeal is that the forms allow viewers an understanding of the subtext of a city without resorting to mainstream accounts, or official histories. They offer an alternative history; a mapping of social tra…
Virtues of Violence: A Testimonial Performance, or an Affidavit of Lies, Excuses, and Justifications
This is a performance of statements/records/made up lies. We collected testimonies that spoke of some of the violences that we are facing-from Greece and Turkey-but these glimpses of frustration, bruising, broken dreams are evident everywhere, with different masks and excuses: 'neoliberalism'/'extremism'/'unionism.' All have the common suggestion: that this is how we play the game. The mediated moral panic about urban insurrections demonstrates h…
Merry Crisis-mas (from Greece)
25 December 2011: While families were sitting down to a Christmas f(e)ast, we were grappling with a tough slice of life in Athens. We devoured a delicious side dish of ethical questions and a desse
Athens 2012: Performances ‘in crisis’ or what happens when a city goes soft
Resistant performances in Athens have gathered momentum over the last year, transforming the fixed landscape of a city into a platform for negotiation and dialogue. The singular compelling imagery of 'occupying’ as a form of resistance is its multiplicity of voices—the collective mobilisation of the 'multitude’. Yet, the force and urgency of a collective resistance lies in the individual untold stories of its proponents. Rather than glorify the m…
Vulnerable Refugees' and 'Voluntary Deportations: Performing the Hotspot, Embodying Its Violence
In this paper, we intervene in naturalised distinctions based on problematic assumptions about agency and choice that underpin the global regime of migration management: namely, that categories of human mobility can be ontologically and juridically distinguished from one another in terms of the degrees or forms of freedom they embody, and that different rights legitimately adhere to each. Focussing on the ‘hotspots’ instituted on 5 islands in the…
Crisis, What Crisis? Immigrants, Refugees, and Invisible Struggles
Different evocations of “crisis” create distinct categories that in turn evoke certain social reactions. After 2008 Greece became the epicentre of the “financial crisis”; since 2015 with the advent of the “refugee crisis,” it became the “hotspot of Europe.” What are the different vocabularies of crisis? Moreover, how have both representations of crisis facilitated humanitarian crises to become phenomena for European and transnational institutiona…
Against the wall: Introduction to the Special Feature: Inscriptions of ‘crisis’: Street art, graffiti, and urban interventions
In the imaginary of nation-states, and in much (forced) migration and border studies, the wall is the metaphor par excellence of ‘hardened, securitised’ and, ultimately, ‘violent borders’ (Jones 2016). It is not incidental that the previous US President’s attempts to further institutionalise virulent anti-immigrant racism found purchase in the rallying cry ‘Build a Wall.’ While they function to restrict movement, walls, fences, and other border b…
Methodological heteronormativity and the “refugee crisis”
All migration politics is reproductive politics. The nation-state project of controlling migration secures the racialised demographics of the nation, understood as a reproducible fact of the social
Athens 2012: Performances ‘in crisis’ or what happens when a city goes soft
Resistant performances in Athens have gathered momentum over the last year, transforming the fixed landscape of a city into a platform for negotiation and dialogue. The singular compelling imagery of 'occupying’ as a form of resistance is its multiplicity of voices—the collective mobilisation of the 'multitude’. Yet, the force and urgency of a collective resistance lies in the individual untold stories of its proponents. Rather than glorify the m…
Watching Photographs: Inhabiting a Queer Feminist Perspective to Contest Reproductions of the 'Refugee Crisis
Journalists have claimed that the 2015 European ‘refugee crisis’ is one of the most photographed crises in human history. It is important to understand what kind of messages these photographs convey, how they reproduce the hegemonic narrative, and how they become commodities. In this paper, we critique the visual economy of the ‘refugee crisis’ from a queer feminist perspective through the lens of reproduction. We show how the reproduction of ima…
Merry Crisis-mas (from Greece)
25 December 2011: While families were sitting down to a Christmas f(e)ast, we were grappling with a tough slice of life in Athens. We devoured a delicious side dish of ethical questions and a desse
Athens 2012: Performances ‘in crisis’ or what happens when a city goes soft
Resistant performances in Athens have gathered momentum over the last year, transforming the fixed landscape of a city into a platform for negotiation and dialogue. The singular compelling imagery of 'occupying’ as a form of resistance is its multiplicity of voices—the collective mobilisation of the 'multitude’. Yet, the force and urgency of a collective resistance lies in the individual untold stories of its proponents. Rather than glorify the m…
Virtues of Violence: A Testimonial Performance, or an Affidavit of Lies, Excuses, and Justifications
This is a performance of statements/records/made up lies. We collected testimonies that spoke of some of the violences that we are facing-from Greece and Turkey-but these glimpses of frustration, bruising, broken dreams are evident everywhere, with different masks and excuses: 'neoliberalism'/'extremism'/'unionism.' All have the common suggestion: that this is how we play the game. The mediated moral panic about urban insurrections demonstrates h…
Graffiti and Street Art: Reading, Writing and Representing the City
Graffiti and street art have captured a global following in recent years, and the result is a proliferation of tags, paintings, stickers and stencils in slick metropolitan cities as well as unexpected locales in impoverished areas. Part of their appeal is that the forms allow viewers an understanding of the subtext of a city without resorting to mainstream accounts, or official histories. They offer an alternative history; a mapping of social tra…
Dear Tina: Protesting Institutions in Times of Crisis
Speaking from within a time of economic crisis, It's a Beautiful Thing, the Destruction of Wor(l)ds investigates how scholarly activities reflect activist identities and the affect of experiencing social change in the Greek crisis. In Dear TINA, we write through and about workplaces: correctional institutions and higher education, and their effects on our ways of knowing. These two performance lectures by Ministry of Untold Stories offer a workin…
Methodological heteronormativity and the “refugee crisis”
All migration politics is reproductive politics. The nation-state project of controlling migration secures the racialised demographics of the nation, understood as a reproducible fact of the social
Crisis, What Crisis? Immigrants, Refugees, and Invisible Struggles
Different evocations of “crisis” create distinct categories that in turn evoke certain social reactions. After 2008 Greece became the epicentre of the “financial crisis”; since 2015 with the advent of the “refugee crisis,” it became the “hotspot of Europe.” What are the different vocabularies of crisis? Moreover, how have both representations of crisis facilitated humanitarian crises to become phenomena for European and transnational institutiona…
Reproducing Refugees: Photographia of a Crisis
Since 2015, the ‘refugee crisis’ is possibly the most photographed humanitarian crises in history. Photographs taken, for instance, in Lesvos, Greece, and Bodrum, Turkey, were instrumental in generating waves of public support for, and populist opposition to “welcoming refugees” in Europe. But photographs do not circulate in a vacuum; this book explores the visual economy of the ‘refugee crisis,’ showing how the reproduction of images is structur…
A Periegesis through the Greek Crisis in Five Graffiti Acts: Cartographic and Photographic Dialogues
Against the wall: Introduction to the Special Feature: Inscriptions of ‘crisis’: Street art, graffiti, and urban interventions
In the imaginary of nation-states, and in much (forced) migration and border studies, the wall is the metaphor par excellence of ‘hardened, securitised’ and, ultimately, ‘violent borders’ (Jones 2016). It is not incidental that the previous US President’s attempts to further institutionalise virulent anti-immigrant racism found purchase in the rallying cry ‘Build a Wall.’ While they function to restrict movement, walls, fences, and other border b…
Vulnerable Refugees' and 'Voluntary Deportations: Performing the Hotspot, Embodying Its Violence
In this paper, we intervene in naturalised distinctions based on problematic assumptions about agency and choice that underpin the global regime of migration management: namely, that categories of human mobility can be ontologically and juridically distinguished from one another in terms of the degrees or forms of freedom they embody, and that different rights legitimately adhere to each. Focussing on the ‘hotspots’ instituted on 5 islands in the…
Watching Photographs: Inhabiting a Queer Feminist Perspective to Contest Reproductions of the 'Refugee Crisis
Journalists have claimed that the 2015 European ‘refugee crisis’ is one of the most photographed crises in human history. It is important to understand what kind of messages these photographs convey, how they reproduce the hegemonic narrative, and how they become commodities. In this paper, we critique the visual economy of the ‘refugee crisis’ from a queer feminist perspective through the lens of reproduction. We show how the reproduction of ima…
Political science (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works) · Refugee (5 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Criminology (3 works)