Yiannis Zaimakis
Biographic Data
| ID | 199300 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yiannis Zaimakis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yiannis |
| FAMILY NAME | Zaimakis |
| SIGNATURE | ZAIMAKIS Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Crete |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3145-4086 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The wrath of the oppressed: Protest mobilisation and visual infrapolitics of sports supporters after the Tempi train crash (Greece)
This study provides sociological insight into contemporary fandom activism by examining how subaltern groups seek visibility through displaying innovative banners during ritualised performances in football stadium stands. Employing a netnographic approach, the study analyses the political reflections and visualities of campaigns by sports supporters following the deadliest train crash in Greek history: the Tempi train crash of 2023. The study arg…
Voices of protest and the right to the city in the context of overtourism: Reflections from the historic city of Chania, Crete (Greece)
Reflections on embodiment and pandemic pedagogies in Greek higher education: Lessons from students’ considerations / Reflexiones sobre la corporeidad y las pedagogías de la pandemia en la educación su…
Using quantitative and qualitative findings from a study conducted at a large Greek university, the article observes the COVID-19 pandemic pedagogies through students’ perspectives and lived experiences and examines emergent online learning as both an opportunity and a danger. The study reveals students’ divergent views of emergency online learning. These views include both concerns about the further digitalization of higher education eroding the…
On the digitalisation of higher education in times of the pandemic crisis: Techno-philic and techno-sceptic attitudes of social science students in Crete (Greece)
Reclaiming the football commons: Self-organized Antifa sport clubs against modern football in crisis-stricken Greece
Employing conceptual considerations through the lens of the commons, this study explores the emergence and expansion of the self-organized Antifa sport clubs movement in crisis-stricken Greece. The analysis elaborates how groups of politicized fans found bottom-up Antifa sport clubs, implement practices of commoning and articulat a counter-discourse which give meaning to the football experience from the particular perspective of grassroots social…
Political Graffiti in Critical Times
Whether aesthetically or politically inspired, graffiti is among the oldest forms of expression in human history, one that becomes especially significant during periods of social and political upheaval. With a particular focus on the demographic, ecological, and economic crises of today, this volume provides a wide-ranging exploration of urban space and visual protest. Assembling case studies that cover topics such as gentrification in Cyprus, th…
Political Graffiti in Critical Times: The Aesthetics of Street Politics
Political Graffiti in Critical Times: The Aesthetics of Street Politics
Walls of Resistance in Critical Times: A Reflection on Political Graffiti and Visual Protest in Southern Europe and Latin America
Football fan culture and politics in modern Greece: The process of fandom radicalization during the austerity era
The article explores the intersection between politics and football focusing on political activism in football fandom starting from its origin in late 1970s to the contemporary mass protests against austerity policies. The analysis focused on ideological conflicts between fascist and anti-fascist fans within football lifeworlds and the ways organized fans use current political circumstances to negotiate and re-interpret their identities. In the c…
Υouth precariat worlds and protest graffiti in the dystopia of the Greek economic crisis: A cross-disciplinary perspective
Yiannis Zaimakis Punctum, 2(2): 66-84, 2016 DOI: 10.18680/hss.2016.0014 Abstract Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork during the times of economic crisis, this article addresses protest graffiti created by young people, often living in precarious conditions. The text explores the uncertain living conditions of Greek youth in the era of austerity and investigates the graffiti act as a cultural [...]
Welcome to the civilization of fear’: On political graffiti heterotopias in Greece in times of crisis
Drawing upon ethnographical research carried out in Greek cities, this article discusses the use of political graffiti as a creative, playful response to the economic depression, social upheavals and precariousness surrounding the writers and as an act of civil disobedience and political protest in the context of the Greek economic crisis. The graffiti creation releases a flood of cultural responses to the crisis and gives an insight into the liv…
Music-making in the social world of a Cretan town (Heraklion 1900-1960): A Contribution to the Study of Non-Commercialrebetiko
Drawing on a range of biographical, historical, ethnographical and musicological sources, this article presents the social and historical factors contributing to the evolution in the early 20th century of a local variant ofrebetikoaround theLakkosbrothel district in Heraklion, the largest city in Crete. It explores the influence of a wider multicultural context on local music-making and reveals the relationship between the social life and economy…
Bawdy Songs and Virtuous Politics: Ambivalence and Controversy in the Discourse of the Greek Left on rebetiko
This paper explores the interrelations between politics and music as they appear in the ongoing debate about the rebetiko genre, within the intellectual circles of the left‐wing movement in the post‐war era. Through the analysis of the rebetika texts and biographical material, the ambivalent attitude of the Greek Left movement about the political context and the class affiliation of rebetiko are exposed. The Left saw popular music as a pedagogic …
Welcome to the civilization of fear’: On political graffiti heterotopias in Greece in times of crisis
Drawing upon ethnographical research carried out in Greek cities, this article discusses the use of political graffiti as a creative, playful response to the economic depression, social upheavals and precariousness surrounding the writers and as an act of civil disobedience and political protest in the context of the Greek economic crisis. The graffiti creation releases a flood of cultural responses to the crisis and gives an insight into the liv…
Football fan culture and politics in modern Greece: The process of fandom radicalization during the austerity era
The article explores the intersection between politics and football focusing on political activism in football fandom starting from its origin in late 1970s to the contemporary mass protests against austerity policies. The analysis focused on ideological conflicts between fascist and anti-fascist fans within football lifeworlds and the ways organized fans use current political circumstances to negotiate and re-interpret their identities. In the c…
Bawdy Songs and Virtuous Politics: Ambivalence and Controversy in the Discourse of the Greek Left on rebetiko
This paper explores the interrelations between politics and music as they appear in the ongoing debate about the rebetiko genre, within the intellectual circles of the left‐wing movement in the post‐war era. Through the analysis of the rebetika texts and biographical material, the ambivalent attitude of the Greek Left movement about the political context and the class affiliation of rebetiko are exposed. The Left saw popular music as a pedagogic …
Reclaiming the football commons: Self-organized Antifa sport clubs against modern football in crisis-stricken Greece
Employing conceptual considerations through the lens of the commons, this study explores the emergence and expansion of the self-organized Antifa sport clubs movement in crisis-stricken Greece. The analysis elaborates how groups of politicized fans found bottom-up Antifa sport clubs, implement practices of commoning and articulat a counter-discourse which give meaning to the football experience from the particular perspective of grassroots social…
Bawdy Songs and Virtuous Politics: Ambivalence and Controversy in the Discourse of the Greek Left on rebetiko
This paper explores the interrelations between politics and music as they appear in the ongoing debate about the rebetiko genre, within the intellectual circles of the left‐wing movement in the post‐war era. Through the analysis of the rebetika texts and biographical material, the ambivalent attitude of the Greek Left movement about the political context and the class affiliation of rebetiko are exposed. The Left saw popular music as a pedagogic …
Music-making in the social world of a Cretan town (Heraklion 1900-1960): A Contribution to the Study of Non-Commercialrebetiko
Drawing on a range of biographical, historical, ethnographical and musicological sources, this article presents the social and historical factors contributing to the evolution in the early 20th century of a local variant ofrebetikoaround theLakkosbrothel district in Heraklion, the largest city in Crete. It explores the influence of a wider multicultural context on local music-making and reveals the relationship between the social life and economy…
Welcome to the civilization of fear’: On political graffiti heterotopias in Greece in times of crisis
Drawing upon ethnographical research carried out in Greek cities, this article discusses the use of political graffiti as a creative, playful response to the economic depression, social upheavals and precariousness surrounding the writers and as an act of civil disobedience and political protest in the context of the Greek economic crisis. The graffiti creation releases a flood of cultural responses to the crisis and gives an insight into the liv…
Υouth precariat worlds and protest graffiti in the dystopia of the Greek economic crisis: A cross-disciplinary perspective
Yiannis Zaimakis Punctum, 2(2): 66-84, 2016 DOI: 10.18680/hss.2016.0014 Abstract Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork during the times of economic crisis, this article addresses protest graffiti created by young people, often living in precarious conditions. The text explores the uncertain living conditions of Greek youth in the era of austerity and investigates the graffiti act as a cultural [...]
Football fan culture and politics in modern Greece: The process of fandom radicalization during the austerity era
The article explores the intersection between politics and football focusing on political activism in football fandom starting from its origin in late 1970s to the contemporary mass protests against austerity policies. The analysis focused on ideological conflicts between fascist and anti-fascist fans within football lifeworlds and the ways organized fans use current political circumstances to negotiate and re-interpret their identities. In the c…
Political Graffiti in Critical Times
Whether aesthetically or politically inspired, graffiti is among the oldest forms of expression in human history, one that becomes especially significant during periods of social and political upheaval. With a particular focus on the demographic, ecological, and economic crises of today, this volume provides a wide-ranging exploration of urban space and visual protest. Assembling case studies that cover topics such as gentrification in Cyprus, th…
Political Graffiti in Critical Times: The Aesthetics of Street Politics
Political Graffiti in Critical Times: The Aesthetics of Street Politics
Walls of Resistance in Critical Times: A Reflection on Political Graffiti and Visual Protest in Southern Europe and Latin America
On the digitalisation of higher education in times of the pandemic crisis: Techno-philic and techno-sceptic attitudes of social science students in Crete (Greece)
Reclaiming the football commons: Self-organized Antifa sport clubs against modern football in crisis-stricken Greece
Employing conceptual considerations through the lens of the commons, this study explores the emergence and expansion of the self-organized Antifa sport clubs movement in crisis-stricken Greece. The analysis elaborates how groups of politicized fans found bottom-up Antifa sport clubs, implement practices of commoning and articulat a counter-discourse which give meaning to the football experience from the particular perspective of grassroots social…
Reflections on embodiment and pandemic pedagogies in Greek higher education: Lessons from students’ considerations / Reflexiones sobre la corporeidad y las pedagogías de la pandemia en la educación su…
Using quantitative and qualitative findings from a study conducted at a large Greek university, the article observes the COVID-19 pandemic pedagogies through students’ perspectives and lived experiences and examines emergent online learning as both an opportunity and a danger. The study reveals students’ divergent views of emergency online learning. These views include both concerns about the further digitalization of higher education eroding the…
Voices of protest and the right to the city in the context of overtourism: Reflections from the historic city of Chania, Crete (Greece)
The wrath of the oppressed: Protest mobilisation and visual infrapolitics of sports supporters after the Tempi train crash (Greece)
This study provides sociological insight into contemporary fandom activism by examining how subaltern groups seek visibility through displaying innovative banners during ritualised performances in football stadium stands. Employing a netnographic approach, the study analyses the political reflections and visualities of campaigns by sports supporters following the deadliest train crash in Greek history: the Tempi train crash of 2023. The study arg…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Context (archaeology (5 works) · History (5 works) · History (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Graffiti (4 works)