Dimitris Papadopoulos
Biographic Data
| ID | 203225 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dimitris Papadopoulos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dimitris |
| FAMILY NAME | Papadopoulos |
| SIGNATURE | PAPADOPOULOS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3759-3343 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 495 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Extracurricular Activities and Academic Performance: A Systematic Review with a Focus on AI and Machine-Learning Applications in Education
Extracurricular activities (ECAs) are widely recognized as contributors to holistic student development, although the nature and magnitude of their associations with academic performance remain context-dependent across educational levels. At the same time, artificial intelligence and machine learning are increasingly used in many educational settings, while variables that are not directly related to academic content, such as participation in extr…
The importance of early primary relationships in the development and psychoanalytic understanding of emptiness: Connecting developmental theory with practice
The object relations theory and the dead mother concept both can offer a valuable psychoanalytic perspective for understanding the intersubjective experience of emptiness
Reparations for border deaths: Enforced Disappearance, Reparations From Below , and Border Abolitionist Horizons
Politicizing, policizing and beyond neoliberalism: Understanding Chinese city branding from the case of Chongqing
Ecological Reparation: Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict
Ecological Reparation engages with social-environmental degradation by attempting to rethink concepts and practices that may be needed to repair damaged ecologies and to claim reparations for persistent inequities and injustices. The volume brings together a multiplicity of original contributions of international scholars in science and technology studies, environmental studies, ecological humanities, art and design, geography, anthropology and o…
Ecological Reparation: Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict
How do we engage with the threat of social and environmental degradation while creating and maintaining liveable and just worlds? Researchers from diverse backgrounds unpack this question through a series of original and committed contributions to this wide-ranging volume. The authors explore practices of repairing damaged ecologies across different locations and geographies and offer innovative insights for the conservation, mending, care and em…
Affecting Infrastructures: Crafting and Weaving as Alternative Repairs
As two traditional practices performed by rural communities in Colombia, crafting and weaving can be reframed as ontologies that embody alternative material orders and forms of repair. In this context, we explore two specific initiatives: the Crafted Empathy Chair developed by members of campesino social movements in Cauca and Nariño, and Interweaving Material Encounters, a series of collaborative spaces involving women from textile collectives f…
Organizing the precarious: Autonomous work, real democracy and ecological precarity
In 2008, just as the movement of the precarious seemed to be winning one political battle after the next, the fight against precarization suddenly dwindled. The cycle of struggles of the precarious that began in 2000 had seemingly come to an end. Ironically this was also the moment that precarity as a concept became widely known in popular opinion, media commentary and academia. This paper focuses on the movement of the precarious from its incept…
Memorial reparation: Women’s work of remembrance, repair and restoration in rural Colombia
The article discusses the reparative textile-making practices of three women’s sewing collectives in Colombia. Textile making and crafting is also a memory work which intersects and negotiates with different geographies, temporalities and scales of human subjectivity, social interaction and ecological belonging. We approach textile memory work as a practice embedded in a complex net of other everyday practices, spaces, and human and non-human bei…
Introduction. Elements: From Cosmology to Episteme and Back
Chemicals, Ecology, and Reparative Justice
Ungovernable Earth: Resurgence, Translocal Infrastructures and More-than-Social Movements
How do social movements respond to the ecological crisis? In this paper, we reframe social movements as ‘more-than-social movements’ to highlight the fact that many contemporary mobilisations do much more than target recognised social institutions and political governance; indeed, they are practically transforming eco-societies with and within both the human and the nonhuman world. What constitutes the core of more-than-social movements’ action i…
Crafting ecologies of existence: More than human community making in Colombian textile craftivism
Based on ethnographic work with several women's textile making collectives in Colombia, this article approaches their crafting practices as everyday doings of socio-ecological reparation, in the midst of social and environmental devastation caused by the armed conflict. Rather than focusing on the relevance of their activities for political activism and historical memory, an ecological perspective allows us to emphasise their work as a mundane, m…
Implicated by scale: Anthropochemicals and the experience of ecology
If our worlds are unimaginable, or, ironically, perhaps even unsustainable without anthropogenic chemicals, what does it mean to live and navigate the toxic regime, this historical moment where human-made substances are so entangled with ecologies and societies that a clean up and an 'after' to our polluted worlds is almost unthinkable? Anthropogenic chemicals are produced and used at such scale that humans need a tremendous scale of alternative …
Elements: From Cosmology to Episteme and Back
Chemicals, Ecology, and Reparative Justice
The ontology of resistance: Power, tactics and making do in the Vila Rubim market
We re-examine the relation between power and resistance by investigating the reconstruction of the Vila Rubim market, one of the established markets in the city of Vitória in Brazil. Following a fire that destroyed large parts of the market – probably the most significant event in its history – the market had to be fully rebuilt and the broader local area had to be redeveloped. Empirical materials were collected through ethnographic fieldwork, in…
Reactivating Elements: Chemistry, Ecology, Practice
The contributors to Reactivating Elements examine chemicals as they mix with soil, air, water, and fire to shape Earth's troubled ecologies today. They invoke the elements with all their ambivalences as chemical categories, material substances, social forms, forces and energies, cosmological entities, and epistemic objects. Engaging with the nonlinear historical significance of elemental thought across fields—chemistry, the biosciences, engineeri…
Thinking the Problematic: Genealogies and Explorations between Philosophy and the Sciences
The notion of »the problematic« has changed its meaning within the history of power and knowledge since the early 20th century, leading up to today's performative, neocybernetic fascination with generalized management ideas and technocratic models of science. This book explores central scenes, conceptual elaborations, and practical affiliations of what historically has been called »the problem« or »the problematic«. By way of considering modes of…
Experimental Practice: Technoscience, Alterontologies, and More-Than-Social Movements
In Experimental Practice Dimitris Papadopoulos explores the potential for building new forms of political and social movements through the reconfiguration of the material conditions of existence. Rather than targeting existing institutions in demands for social justice, Papadopoulos calls for the creation of alternative ontologies of everyday life that would transform the meanings of politics and justice. Inextricably linked to technoscience, the…
The two endings of the precarious movement
This chapter mentions that the precarious movement embodied a cry against precarity and a vision for a better life outside the instituted social provision and the Fordist labour arrangement. Biofinancialisation, or rather the realisation of its unstoppable pervasiveness, put a halt to the possibility of freedom and justice that was so crucial for the success of the precarious movement. The effect of biofinancialisation is that it created the grou…
Social epigenetics: A science of social science
Epigenetics has considerable potential to transform social science by embedding mutually regulative reciprocal connections between biological and social processes within the human activities it studies. This paper highlights common epigenetic methods and outlines practical considerations in the design of ‘social epigenetics’ research addressing the identification of biomolecular pathways, statistical inference of causality, conceptualization of t…
Social Epigenetics: A Science of Social Science
Epigenetics has considerable potential to transform social science by embedding mutually regulative reciprocal connections between biological and social processes within the human activities it studies. This paper highlights common epigenetic methods and outlines practical considerations in the design of 'social epigenetics' research addressing the identification of biomolecular pathways, statistical inference of causality, conceptualization of t…
Politics of Matter: Justice and Organisation in Technoscience
The technoscientific capacity to manipulate and remake the material substance of being is at the core of an expanding ontological imaginary that permeates culture in Global North societies. What are the political implications of this imaginary? What are the absences, the residues, the invisibilised practices and actors of technoscience’s ontological politics? The paper interrogates this form of politics, argues for the radical democratisation of …
From Publics to Practitioners: Invention Power and Open Technoscience
In technoscientific conditions what counts as knowledge creation is not primarily the individual experimental achievement that gives coherence to scientific practice and separates science from its publics; rather, it is a form of dispersed experimentation in more than human worlds: distributed invention power. Distributed invention power is organised and regulated through the pervasive securitisation of technoscience: surveillance and control of …
After citizenship: Autonomy of Migration, Organisational Ontology and Mobile Commons
This paper explores the relevance of the autonomy of migration approach for understanding the role of citizenship in the sovereign control of mobility. There is an insurgent configuration of ordinary experiences of mobility emerging against this regime of control. At its core is the sharing of knowledge and infrastructures of connectivity, affective cooperation, mutual support and care among people on the move. The sovereign regime of mobility co…
Creating Subjectivities
Experimental Practice: Technoscience, Alterontologies, and More-Than-Social Movements
In Experimental Practice Dimitris Papadopoulos explores the potential for building new forms of political and social movements through the reconfiguration of the material conditions of existence. Rather than targeting existing institutions in demands for social justice, Papadopoulos calls for the creation of alternative ontologies of everyday life that would transform the meanings of politics and justice. Inextricably linked to technoscience, the…
Alter-ontologies: Towards a constituent politics in technoscience
This paper identifies four recent conceptualizations of politics in relation to technoscience that focus on expertise, institutional participation, the inclusion of non-human others and the importance of marginalized experiences. The paper argues that each of these forms of politics is mainly concerned with renegotiating the already constituted terms of inclusion in a specific technoscientific field. In many cases such a strategy is necessary, bu…
Reactivating Elements: Chemistry, Ecology, Practice
The contributors to Reactivating Elements examine chemicals as they mix with soil, air, water, and fire to shape Earth's troubled ecologies today. They invoke the elements with all their ambivalences as chemical categories, material substances, social forms, forces and energies, cosmological entities, and epistemic objects. Engaging with the nonlinear historical significance of elemental thought across fields—chemistry, the biosciences, engineeri…
Material Returns: Cultures of Valuation, Biofinancialisation and the Autonomy of Politics
The ascent of biofinancialisation since the 1980s brought with it a culture of valuation that spread well beyond financial markets and came to pervade everyday life, subjectivity, ecology and materiality. At the same time, and as a response to the social conflicts of the previous decades, value production shifts to incorporate the extended lifeworld of working people, their networks of sociality and the commons. The article examines the conflicts…
The Imaginary of Plasticity: Neural Embodiment, Epigenetics and Ecomorphs
Every epoch has its brain. The embodied brain seems to be today at the forefront of attempts to establish post-positivistic approaches in social science and social theory as well as non-reductionist conceptions of the brain and body in neuroscience, developmental science and psychology. But embodiment not only challenges prevalent epistemic and cultural assumptions in these disciplines; it also opens avenues for exploring the plasticity and the e…
Politics of Matter: Justice and Organisation in Technoscience
The technoscientific capacity to manipulate and remake the material substance of being is at the core of an expanding ontological imaginary that permeates culture in Global North societies. What are the political implications of this imaginary? What are the absences, the residues, the invisibilised practices and actors of technoscience’s ontological politics? The paper interrogates this form of politics, argues for the radical democratisation of …
How to Do Sovereignty without People? The Subjectless Condition of Postliberal Power
Research Article| February 01 2007 How to Do Sovereignty without People? The Subjectless Condition of Postliberal Power Dimitris Papadopoulos; Dimitris Papadopoulos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Vassilis Tsianos Vassilis Tsianos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2007) 34 (1): 135–172. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2006-030 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video…
Crafting ecologies of existence: More than human community making in Colombian textile craftivism
Based on ethnographic work with several women's textile making collectives in Colombia, this article approaches their crafting practices as everyday doings of socio-ecological reparation, in the midst of social and environmental devastation caused by the armed conflict. Rather than focusing on the relevance of their activities for political activism and historical memory, an ecological perspective allows us to emphasise their work as a mundane, m…
This Is Class War from Above and They Are Winning It: What Is to Be Done
What is to be done in conditions where capitalo-normativity is so pervasive? Escape Routes was written as an attempt to think the possibility of politics from below against this ubiquitous capitalist spell over life. The book does not look for social transformation in existing organized forms of resistance. It tries to think how transformative occasions emerge that allow those who have no part to enter and change the conditions of existence altog…
Activist Materialism
This paper explores a form of activism that operates with and within matter. For more than 150 years materialism has informed activist practice through materialist conceptions of history and modes of production. The paper discusses the ambivalences of these previous configurations of activism and materialism and explores possibilities for enacting activist interventions in conditions where politics is not only performed as a politics of history b…
Social Epigenetics: A Science of Social Science
Epigenetics has considerable potential to transform social science by embedding mutually regulative reciprocal connections between biological and social processes within the human activities it studies. This paper highlights common epigenetic methods and outlines practical considerations in the design of 'social epigenetics' research addressing the identification of biomolecular pathways, statistical inference of causality, conceptualization of t…
The ontology of resistance: Power, tactics and making do in the Vila Rubim market
We re-examine the relation between power and resistance by investigating the reconstruction of the Vila Rubim market, one of the established markets in the city of Vitória in Brazil. Following a fire that destroyed large parts of the market – probably the most significant event in its history – the market had to be fully rebuilt and the broader local area had to be redeveloped. Empirical materials were collected through ethnographic fieldwork, in…
From Publics to Practitioners: Invention Power and Open Technoscience
In technoscientific conditions what counts as knowledge creation is not primarily the individual experimental achievement that gives coherence to scientific practice and separates science from its publics; rather, it is a form of dispersed experimentation in more than human worlds: distributed invention power. Distributed invention power is organised and regulated through the pervasive securitisation of technoscience: surveillance and control of …
Implicated by scale: Anthropochemicals and the experience of ecology
If our worlds are unimaginable, or, ironically, perhaps even unsustainable without anthropogenic chemicals, what does it mean to live and navigate the toxic regime, this historical moment where human-made substances are so entangled with ecologies and societies that a clean up and an 'after' to our polluted worlds is almost unthinkable? Anthropogenic chemicals are produced and used at such scale that humans need a tremendous scale of alternative …
Politicizing, policizing and beyond neoliberalism: Understanding Chinese city branding from the case of Chongqing
Social epigenetics: A science of social science
Epigenetics has considerable potential to transform social science by embedding mutually regulative reciprocal connections between biological and social processes within the human activities it studies. This paper highlights common epigenetic methods and outlines practical considerations in the design of ‘social epigenetics’ research addressing the identification of biomolecular pathways, statistical inference of causality, conceptualization of t…
The Ordinary Superstition of Subjectivity: Liberalism and Technostructural Violence
This paper attempts to provide evidence for the thesis that the concept of subjectivity is linked to contemporary liberal geoculture, especially new regulation practices and new forms of violence that started to become visible during the 1980s and 1990s. Two conceptualizations of subjectivity will be examined: traditional Marxist accounts, which focus on the notion of interest, and post-structuralist accounts, which emphasize the self-referential…
Analysing Everyday Experience
Could researching experience contribute to creating socio-political change or does it simply open new avenues for post-Fordist self-regulation? This book illustrates the emergence of plural historical
Analysing Everyday Experience: Social Research and Political Change
Interest in researching experience continues to grow in sociology, cultural studies, feminist theory and psychology. However there is a crisis over the representation of experience - evident in epistemological debates, in everyday life and in global politics. Could researching experience contribute to creating socio-political change or does it simply open new avenues for post-Fordist self-regulation? Analysing Everyday Experience illustrates the …
How to Do Sovereignty without People? The Subjectless Condition of Postliberal Power
Research Article| February 01 2007 How to Do Sovereignty without People? The Subjectless Condition of Postliberal Power Dimitris Papadopoulos; Dimitris Papadopoulos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Vassilis Tsianos Vassilis Tsianos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2007) 34 (1): 135–172. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2006-030 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video…
In the ruins of representation: Identity, individuality, subjectification
This paper explores a threefold shift in our understanding of identity formation and self‐relationality: from an essentialist understanding of identity, to discursive and constructivist approaches, to, finally, the notion of embodied subjectification. The main target of this paper is to historicize these ideas and to localize them in the current social and political conditions of North‐Atlantic societies. The core argument is that these three ste…
Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the Twenty-First Century
Creating Subjectivities
Klaus Holzkamp's Critical Social Science
1964, 1968, 1973, 1983, 1993, 1995: This essay examines key moments in the formation of Klaus Holzkamp's critical take on social science and psychology. The main target of Holzkamp's work is to craft concepts which enable an immanent interrogation of relations of power and social control sustained through the operations of social science and psychology. Understanding power and control as an immanent question means dealing with power and control a…
Alter-ontologies: Towards a constituent politics in technoscience
This paper identifies four recent conceptualizations of politics in relation to technoscience that focus on expertise, institutional participation, the inclusion of non-human others and the importance of marginalized experiences. The paper argues that each of these forms of politics is mainly concerned with renegotiating the already constituted terms of inclusion in a specific technoscientific field. In many cases such a strategy is necessary, bu…
Activist Materialism
This paper explores a form of activism that operates with and within matter. For more than 150 years materialism has informed activist practice through materialist conceptions of history and modes of production. The paper discusses the ambivalences of these previous configurations of activism and materialism and explores possibilities for enacting activist interventions in conditions where politics is not only performed as a politics of history b…
Exit from the Regime of Life Control: Biopolitics, Anticipatory Risk and the Excess of Experience
In its early 20th century materialisation, risk was calculable and these calculations were primarily based on assessments of the past. By the end of the century, risk was increasingly considered to be fundamentally incalculable and it has become the object of the work of anticipation. This paper elucidates this shift by examining three regimes of life control. The Life/Culture System pervades early 20th century cultural and political thinking: wo…
The Imaginary of Plasticity: Neural Embodiment, Epigenetics and Ecomorphs
Every epoch has its brain. The embodied brain seems to be today at the forefront of attempts to establish post-positivistic approaches in social science and social theory as well as non-reductionist conceptions of the brain and body in neuroscience, developmental science and psychology. But embodiment not only challenges prevalent epistemic and cultural assumptions in these disciplines; it also opens avenues for exploring the plasticity and the e…
Interpretations of excess: An interview with The Free Association
This Is Class War from Above and They Are Winning It: What Is to Be Done
What is to be done in conditions where capitalo-normativity is so pervasive? Escape Routes was written as an attempt to think the possibility of politics from below against this ubiquitous capitalist spell over life. The book does not look for social transformation in existing organized forms of resistance. It tries to think how transformative occasions emerge that allow those who have no part to enter and change the conditions of existence altog…
After citizenship: Autonomy of Migration, Organisational Ontology and Mobile Commons
This paper explores the relevance of the autonomy of migration approach for understanding the role of citizenship in the sovereign control of mobility. There is an insurgent configuration of ordinary experiences of mobility emerging against this regime of control. At its core is the sharing of knowledge and infrastructures of connectivity, affective cooperation, mutual support and care among people on the move. The sovereign regime of mobility co…
Politics of Matter: Justice and Organisation in Technoscience
The technoscientific capacity to manipulate and remake the material substance of being is at the core of an expanding ontological imaginary that permeates culture in Global North societies. What are the political implications of this imaginary? What are the absences, the residues, the invisibilised practices and actors of technoscience’s ontological politics? The paper interrogates this form of politics, argues for the radical democratisation of …
From Publics to Practitioners: Invention Power and Open Technoscience
In technoscientific conditions what counts as knowledge creation is not primarily the individual experimental achievement that gives coherence to scientific practice and separates science from its publics; rather, it is a form of dispersed experimentation in more than human worlds: distributed invention power. Distributed invention power is organised and regulated through the pervasive securitisation of technoscience: surveillance and control of …
Material Returns: Cultures of Valuation, Biofinancialisation and the Autonomy of Politics
The ascent of biofinancialisation since the 1980s brought with it a culture of valuation that spread well beyond financial markets and came to pervade everyday life, subjectivity, ecology and materiality. At the same time, and as a response to the social conflicts of the previous decades, value production shifts to incorporate the extended lifeworld of working people, their networks of sociality and the commons. The article examines the conflicts…
Social epigenetics: A science of social science
Epigenetics has considerable potential to transform social science by embedding mutually regulative reciprocal connections between biological and social processes within the human activities it studies. This paper highlights common epigenetic methods and outlines practical considerations in the design of ‘social epigenetics’ research addressing the identification of biomolecular pathways, statistical inference of causality, conceptualization of t…
Social Epigenetics: A Science of Social Science
Epigenetics has considerable potential to transform social science by embedding mutually regulative reciprocal connections between biological and social processes within the human activities it studies. This paper highlights common epigenetic methods and outlines practical considerations in the design of 'social epigenetics' research addressing the identification of biomolecular pathways, statistical inference of causality, conceptualization of t…
The two endings of the precarious movement
This chapter mentions that the precarious movement embodied a cry against precarity and a vision for a better life outside the instituted social provision and the Fordist labour arrangement. Biofinancialisation, or rather the realisation of its unstoppable pervasiveness, put a halt to the possibility of freedom and justice that was so crucial for the success of the precarious movement. The effect of biofinancialisation is that it created the grou…
Experimental Practice: Technoscience, Alterontologies, and More-Than-Social Movements
In Experimental Practice Dimitris Papadopoulos explores the potential for building new forms of political and social movements through the reconfiguration of the material conditions of existence. Rather than targeting existing institutions in demands for social justice, Papadopoulos calls for the creation of alternative ontologies of everyday life that would transform the meanings of politics and justice. Inextricably linked to technoscience, the…
Thinking the Problematic: Genealogies and Explorations between Philosophy and the Sciences
The notion of »the problematic« has changed its meaning within the history of power and knowledge since the early 20th century, leading up to today's performative, neocybernetic fascination with generalized management ideas and technocratic models of science. This book explores central scenes, conceptual elaborations, and practical affiliations of what historically has been called »the problem« or »the problematic«. By way of considering modes of…
Elements: From Cosmology to Episteme and Back
Chemicals, Ecology, and Reparative Justice
Sociology (29 works) · Political science (25 works) · Epistemology (18 works) · Law (18 works) · Politics (17 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Aesthetics (11 works) · Environmental ethics (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works)