Maria Kousis
Biographic Data
| ID | 243050 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Kousis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Kousis |
| SIGNATURE | KOUSIS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Crete |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6388-3408 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 238 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
From Protesting Against Troika Bailouts to Pro‐EU Governing in Greece and Portugal: Europeanisation and Institutionalisation Processes
Following bailouts by the Troika (EC, ECB and IMF) due to the 2008 global financial crisis, between 2010 and 2013, new anti‐austerity movements, left‐wing parties and trade unions led large mobilisations against austerity policies in Greece and Portugal, with a deep impact in the political landscape of both countries. Besides the relevance of transnational decisions, these mobilisations mostly addressed national political institutions, whereas th…
Transnational Solidarity Organisations with Asian and non-Asian Migrants in Eight European Countries: Searching for the Commons
With migration waves from Asia increasing in the past decade, numerous studies focus on how civil society organizations have responded. However, there is a lack of systematic research on the solidarity approach different organizations follow and whether specific types of solidarity approaches are related to constituency groups of Asian origin. Using primary systematic data from the TransSOL (EC Horizon 2020) research project, the paper first exam…
Youth Political Participation in Greece: A Multiple Methods Perspective
Challenging Mobilities in and to the EU during Times of Crises: The Case of Greece
This open access book offers a cross-disciplinary view of challenging mobility issues for migrants and refugees in Europe during times of crisis. Free read
Introduction: Comparative European Perspectives on Transnational Solidarity Organisations
Solidarity with the deprived is a mission that many civic organisations share throughout Europe. The various crises, to which the European Union has been exposed to, have fueled and constrained this collective action at the same time. This article offers an introduction into this special issue. It highlights that the objective is to provide sound empirical findings about the magnitude and structure of the organisational field and to offer theoret…
Transnational Solidarity Organisations and their Main Features, before and since 2008: Adaptive and/or Autonomous
This article highlights the importance of crisis-related transformations experienced during the 2008-2016 period by transnationally oriented, citizen-led solidarity organisations, a topic that has received scant scholarly attention. It offers an exploratory, comparative analysis of the main features of these Transnational Solidarity Organisations (TSOs) which rests on a comprehensive conceptual framework of 'alternative forms of resilience', refe…
Transnational Solidarity, Migration, and the Refugee Crisis: (In)Formal Organising and Political Environments in Greece, Germany, and Denmark
Over the last decade, the unprecedented influx of refugees and migrants into the European Union has posed a significant challenge to Europe, with solidarity being contested at two fronts: first, the question of solidarity with refugees in terms of meeting adequate measures of protection and satisfying their elementary needs; and second, the question of solidarity within the European Union in terms of sharing the costs and burden of hosting these …
Waves of transnational solidarity organisations in times of crises: Actions, obstacles and opportunities in Europe
Although transnational solidarity organisations have a long history and cover a wide repertoire of activities This is particularly true when examining recent transnational solidarity activism in fields exposed to severe alterations and grievances, such as migration and unemployment. This analysis is overdue and promises important insights, given the recent crises that have affected the European Union and its member states and have thus spurred so…
Does Organisation Matter? Solidarity Approaches among Organisations and Sectors in Europe
European citizens continue to engage in solidarity activities in support of vulnerable groups within and beyond their own countries. Many of these organised practices of transnational solidarity provide research with important insights into the features and conditions of organisational forms of support. This article makes use of a unique dataset of transnational solidarity organisations in eight European countries during a period of economic rece…
The Spatial Scope of Youth-Related Claims Making in Nine European Countries
This comparative examination sheds light on the spatial scope of actors making youth-related claims in mainstream media. Drawing on the “political opportunity structure” approach, our main argument is that the spatial scope of political debates on youth-related issues are driven by institutional arrangements reflecting windows of opportunities for the representation of various youth interests. Methodologically, we draw on “claim-making” analysis …
Claiming and Framing Youth in the Public Domain During Times of Increasing Inequalities
Aiming to contribute to research on youth representation in the mainstream media, this special issue provides eight articles offering fresh empirical comparative analyses of the ways in which young people as well as issues concerning them are dealt with in the public domain. Applying political claims analysis on original data from the EURYKA project (European Commission, Horizon 2020), the special issue is focused on how youth-related claims are …
Looking for the Way Out: The Attribution of Treatment Responsibility among Greek and German Actors in the Eurozone Crisis Debate
In times of crisis, the attribution of responsibility is at the core of public debates. Next to the question of blame, collective interpretations of who should impose remedies are contested. In the Eurozone crisis, Germany was an obvious addressee for this attribution of "treatment responsibility." After years of relative reluctance, Germany had occupied a new role as it strongly pressured for harsh austerity in Greece and other crisis-hit countr…
Protest, Elections, and Austerity Politics in Greece
New Rage, New Perspectives: Protest in the Eurozone Crisis in Greece and Germany
Alternative Action Organizations During Hard Economic Times: A Comparative European Perspective
The aim of this Special Issue is to offer new systematic analyses on European alternative (non)economic solidarity practices since the global financial crisis, that have attracted limited media and scholarly attention. Its seven articles are devoted to multidimensional analyses providing complementary perspectives on alternative action organizations across Europe and rest on Action Organization Analysis, a new hubs-website approach extending Prot…
Born to Die Online? A Cross-National Analysis of the Rise and Decline of Alternative Action Organizations in Europe
Alternative collective initiatives often emerge during hard times, supporting citizens and helping them meet their increasing needs through nonmainstream economic activities. To this end, citizens organize formal and informal alternative action organizations (AAOs). Recent studies have shown that the economic crisis was a trigger for the founding of a wide variety of new AAOs, especially in the countries most affected, such as Greece and Spain. O…
Constituency Groups of Alternative Action Organizations During Hard Times: A Comparison at the Solidarity Orientation and Country Levels
Alternative action organizations (AAO) usually rise during economic crises to offer direct support and solidarity to their constituency groups. These groups may be less involved recipient beneficiary groups or more participative groups collaborating and creating networks of support to sustain the needs of their members. This article compensates for the lack of empirical knowledge about such groups by systematically describing AAOs' constituency g…
Action Organization Analysis: Extending Protest Event Analysis Using Hubs-Retrieved Websites
The comprehensive and systematic study of collective action organizations (AOs) requires a new methodological approach that takes into account the rise of online sources as well as the new ways in which people interact and participate in politics. This article aims to present and situate in the related literature such an approach, which was recently created and applied in two European Commission funded research projects, LIVEWHAT and TransSOL, ac…
The Spatial Dimensions of the Greek Protest Campaign against the Troika’s Memoranda and Austerity, 2010-2013
Political Claims and Discourse Formations: A Comparative Account on Germany and Greece in the Eurozone Crisis
The economic crisis following the financial meltdown in 2007 had disparate impacts for citizens of the southern and northern Eurozone member states. In this study, we analyze public debates in Germany and Greece, two countries that have attracted global attention during the crisis, through a political claims analysis based on newspaper articles published between 2005 and 2014. The article makes use of multiple correspondence analysis to detect th…
Economic and Political Contention in Comparative Perspective
Introduction. ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, AND OTHER OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURES. - Cultural - Economic: Specifying the Concept of Opportunity Structures for Contentious Politics. law, relations of production and exploitation, and structured possibilities for contention, or Using three Tillys to Make One Argument. Wrestling with the Minotaur: Tillian Structuralism, Factors and Environmental Movement Mobilization in Japan. HOW POLITICS AND ECONOMICS CHANGE OPP…
The Duality of Claims and Events: The Greek Campaign Against the Troika's Memoranda and Austerity, 2010-2012
Protest campaigns consist of connected public events to which participants assign shared meanings. Data from thirty-one large protest events that occurred in Greece between January 2010 and December 2012—protests challenging neoliberal austerity policies and the "Troika's" bailout package—enable us to illustrate a network-analytic approach to identify those connections. We treat claims as the linkages that assign a common meaning to different epi…
Economic Crisis, Troika and the Environment in Greece
The article constitutes a preliminary attempt to address the effects of the current economic crisis on the Greek environment. The austerity policies and other conditions imposed by the Memoranda of Understanding with the troika of international lenders are undermining the progress made in the pre-crisis years in the framework of European Union (EU) environmental policy. The latter conflicts with the EU's new priorities in the context of the Greek…
Southern European Environmental Movements in Comparative Perspective
Differential national responses to the European Union's environmental policy have led to the idea that two worlds of environmentalism exist in Europe. In its harsh version, Europe is divided into North and South, with the South suffering from a Mediterranean syndrome. Southern European countries are viewed as environmental laggards, a perception attributed to, among other factors, a weak civil society intertwined with political systems characteri…
Local environmental protest in Greece, 1974-94: Exploring the Political Dimension
By focusing on the grassroots and offering a systematic empirical exposition of political party participation in environmental protest, the ways in which political fluidity and alliances with the left impact upon protest waves in Greece are examined. Sensitive to the limitations of national newspaper data, a protest case analysis is discussed in comparison to protest data drawn from public agency archives and a major local environmental activist …
The Duality of Claims and Events: The Greek Campaign Against the Troika's Memoranda and Austerity, 2010-2012
Protest campaigns consist of connected public events to which participants assign shared meanings. Data from thirty-one large protest events that occurred in Greece between January 2010 and December 2012—protests challenging neoliberal austerity policies and the "Troika's" bailout package—enable us to illustrate a network-analytic approach to identify those connections. We treat claims as the linkages that assign a common meaning to different epi…
Tourism and the family in a rural Cretan community
Economic Crisis, Troika and the Environment in Greece
The article constitutes a preliminary attempt to address the effects of the current economic crisis on the Greek environment. The austerity policies and other conditions imposed by the Memoranda of Understanding with the troika of international lenders are undermining the progress made in the pre-crisis years in the framework of European Union (EU) environmental policy. The latter conflicts with the EU's new priorities in the context of the Greek…
Tourism and the environment
Action Organization Analysis: Extending Protest Event Analysis Using Hubs-Retrieved Websites
The comprehensive and systematic study of collective action organizations (AOs) requires a new methodological approach that takes into account the rise of online sources as well as the new ways in which people interact and participate in politics. This article aims to present and situate in the related literature such an approach, which was recently created and applied in two European Commission funded research projects, LIVEWHAT and TransSOL, ac…
Sustaining local environmental mobilisations: Groups, actions and claims in Southern Europe
Using Tilly's definition of ‘ad hoc social movements’, this study employs protest‐case analysis in order to bring to the surface the differences and similarities between grassroots environmental activism and community‐based environmental movements as they appear in post‐dictatorial Greece, Portugal and Spain. The analysis centres on community‐group profiles, networks, action and claim repertoires concerning the source of environmental degradation…
Economic and Political Contention in Comparative Perspective
Introduction. ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, AND OTHER OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURES. - Cultural - Economic: Specifying the Concept of Opportunity Structures for Contentious Politics. law, relations of production and exploitation, and structured possibilities for contention, or Using three Tillys to Make One Argument. Wrestling with the Minotaur: Tillian Structuralism, Factors and Environmental Movement Mobilization in Japan. HOW POLITICS AND ECONOMICS CHANGE OPP…
Environmental Protest Cases: The City, The Countryside, and The Grassroots in Southern Europe
Systematic cross-national analysis of environmental activism in urban and rural communities is nonexistent for Southern Europe. This article uses protest-case analysis to trace local environmental protest cases (not events) of urban and rural communities in Greece, Spain, and Portugal from the end of their dictatorial periods in the 1970s until 1994. The findings show a convergence between urban and rural environmental claims and protest actions,…
Ecological Marginalization in Rural Areas: Actors, Impacts, Responses
Ecological marginalization entails the take‐over of local natural resources by powerful private and/or state interests, and the gradual or immediate disorganization of the ecosystem via withdrawals and additions. The disruption of biological processes, loss of local people’s resource base and the generation of socio‐economic and public health risks are the inevitable results of this process. This paper aims to shed light on the consequences of co…
Collective Resistance and Sustainable Development in Rural Greece: The Case of Geothermal Energy on the Island of Milos
Political Claims and Discourse Formations: A Comparative Account on Germany and Greece in the Eurozone Crisis
The economic crisis following the financial meltdown in 2007 had disparate impacts for citizens of the southern and northern Eurozone member states. In this study, we analyze public debates in Germany and Greece, two countries that have attracted global attention during the crisis, through a political claims analysis based on newspaper articles published between 2005 and 2014. The article makes use of multiple correspondence analysis to detect th…
Southern European Environmental Movements in Comparative Perspective
Differential national responses to the European Union's environmental policy have led to the idea that two worlds of environmentalism exist in Europe. In its harsh version, Europe is divided into North and South, with the South suffering from a Mediterranean syndrome. Southern European countries are viewed as environmental laggards, a perception attributed to, among other factors, a weak civil society intertwined with political systems characteri…
Local environmental protest in Greece, 1974-94: Exploring the Political Dimension
By focusing on the grassroots and offering a systematic empirical exposition of political party participation in environmental protest, the ways in which political fluidity and alliances with the left impact upon protest waves in Greece are examined. Sensitive to the limitations of national newspaper data, a protest case analysis is discussed in comparison to protest data drawn from public agency archives and a major local environmental activist …
Economic opportunities and threats in contentious environmental politics: A view from the European South
Transnational Solidarity, Migration, and the Refugee Crisis: (In)Formal Organising and Political Environments in Greece, Germany, and Denmark
Over the last decade, the unprecedented influx of refugees and migrants into the European Union has posed a significant challenge to Europe, with solidarity being contested at two fronts: first, the question of solidarity with refugees in terms of meeting adequate measures of protection and satisfying their elementary needs; and second, the question of solidarity within the European Union in terms of sharing the costs and burden of hosting these …
New Rage, New Perspectives: Protest in the Eurozone Crisis in Greece and Germany
Does Organisation Matter? Solidarity Approaches among Organisations and Sectors in Europe
European citizens continue to engage in solidarity activities in support of vulnerable groups within and beyond their own countries. Many of these organised practices of transnational solidarity provide research with important insights into the features and conditions of organisational forms of support. This article makes use of a unique dataset of transnational solidarity organisations in eight European countries during a period of economic rece…
From Protesting Against Troika Bailouts to Pro‐EU Governing in Greece and Portugal: Europeanisation and Institutionalisation Processes
Following bailouts by the Troika (EC, ECB and IMF) due to the 2008 global financial crisis, between 2010 and 2013, new anti‐austerity movements, left‐wing parties and trade unions led large mobilisations against austerity policies in Greece and Portugal, with a deep impact in the political landscape of both countries. Besides the relevance of transnational decisions, these mobilisations mostly addressed national political institutions, whereas th…
Introduction: Comparative European Perspectives on Transnational Solidarity Organisations
Solidarity with the deprived is a mission that many civic organisations share throughout Europe. The various crises, to which the European Union has been exposed to, have fueled and constrained this collective action at the same time. This article offers an introduction into this special issue. It highlights that the objective is to provide sound empirical findings about the magnitude and structure of the organisational field and to offer theoret…
Constituency Groups of Alternative Action Organizations During Hard Times: A Comparison at the Solidarity Orientation and Country Levels
Alternative action organizations (AAO) usually rise during economic crises to offer direct support and solidarity to their constituency groups. These groups may be less involved recipient beneficiary groups or more participative groups collaborating and creating networks of support to sustain the needs of their members. This article compensates for the lack of empirical knowledge about such groups by systematically describing AAOs' constituency g…
Unravelling Environmental Claim-Making at the Roots: Evidence from a Southern European County
The Spatial Scope of Youth-Related Claims Making in Nine European Countries
This comparative examination sheds light on the spatial scope of actors making youth-related claims in mainstream media. Drawing on the “political opportunity structure” approach, our main argument is that the spatial scope of political debates on youth-related issues are driven by institutional arrangements reflecting windows of opportunities for the representation of various youth interests. Methodologically, we draw on “claim-making” analysis …
Claiming and Framing Youth in the Public Domain During Times of Increasing Inequalities
Aiming to contribute to research on youth representation in the mainstream media, this special issue provides eight articles offering fresh empirical comparative analyses of the ways in which young people as well as issues concerning them are dealt with in the public domain. Applying political claims analysis on original data from the EURYKA project (European Commission, Horizon 2020), the special issue is focused on how youth-related claims are …
Looking for the Way Out: The Attribution of Treatment Responsibility among Greek and German Actors in the Eurozone Crisis Debate
In times of crisis, the attribution of responsibility is at the core of public debates. Next to the question of blame, collective interpretations of who should impose remedies are contested. In the Eurozone crisis, Germany was an obvious addressee for this attribution of "treatment responsibility." After years of relative reluctance, Germany had occupied a new role as it strongly pressured for harsh austerity in Greece and other crisis-hit countr…
Born to Die Online? A Cross-National Analysis of the Rise and Decline of Alternative Action Organizations in Europe
Alternative collective initiatives often emerge during hard times, supporting citizens and helping them meet their increasing needs through nonmainstream economic activities. To this end, citizens organize formal and informal alternative action organizations (AAOs). Recent studies have shown that the economic crisis was a trigger for the founding of a wide variety of new AAOs, especially in the countries most affected, such as Greece and Spain. O…
Returning Migrant Characteristics and Labor Market Demand in Greece
Returning Migrant Characteristics and Labor Market Demand in Greece
Immigrants who repatriate bring with them modern work skills which many observers in labor exporting regions describe as a great contribution to the mother country. Using data from two samples of Greek repatriates as well as projections of industrial labor force demands in Greece for the 1980s, this article challenges this concept. We find that the uneven regional development and stunted industrial growth which pushed these workers abroad are als…
Tourism and the family in a rural Cretan community
Sociological Perspectives on Rural Society in Postwar Greece
Collective Resistance and Sustainable Development in Rural Greece: The Case of Geothermal Energy on the Island of Milos
Unravelling Environmental Claim-Making at the Roots: Evidence from a Southern European County
Ecological Marginalization in Rural Areas: Actors, Impacts, Responses
Ecological marginalization entails the take‐over of local natural resources by powerful private and/or state interests, and the gradual or immediate disorganization of the ecosystem via withdrawals and additions. The disruption of biological processes, loss of local people’s resource base and the generation of socio‐economic and public health risks are the inevitable results of this process. This paper aims to shed light on the consequences of co…
Environmental Protest Cases: The City, The Countryside, and The Grassroots in Southern Europe
Systematic cross-national analysis of environmental activism in urban and rural communities is nonexistent for Southern Europe. This article uses protest-case analysis to trace local environmental protest cases (not events) of urban and rural communities in Greece, Spain, and Portugal from the end of their dictatorial periods in the 1970s until 1994. The findings show a convergence between urban and rural environmental claims and protest actions,…
Sustaining local environmental mobilisations: Groups, actions and claims in Southern Europe
Using Tilly's definition of ‘ad hoc social movements’, this study employs protest‐case analysis in order to bring to the surface the differences and similarities between grassroots environmental activism and community‐based environmental movements as they appear in post‐dictatorial Greece, Portugal and Spain. The analysis centres on community‐group profiles, networks, action and claim repertoires concerning the source of environmental degradation…
Tourism and the environment
Economic opportunities and threats in contentious environmental politics: A view from the European South
Introduction: Current routes to the study of contentious politics and social change
Local environmental protest in Greece, 1974-94: Exploring the Political Dimension
By focusing on the grassroots and offering a systematic empirical exposition of political party participation in environmental protest, the ways in which political fluidity and alliances with the left impact upon protest waves in Greece are examined. Sensitive to the limitations of national newspaper data, a protest case analysis is discussed in comparison to protest data drawn from public agency archives and a major local environmental activist …
Southern European Environmental Movements in Comparative Perspective
Differential national responses to the European Union's environmental policy have led to the idea that two worlds of environmentalism exist in Europe. In its harsh version, Europe is divided into North and South, with the South suffering from a Mediterranean syndrome. Southern European countries are viewed as environmental laggards, a perception attributed to, among other factors, a weak civil society intertwined with political systems characteri…
Economic Crisis, Troika and the Environment in Greece
The article constitutes a preliminary attempt to address the effects of the current economic crisis on the Greek environment. The austerity policies and other conditions imposed by the Memoranda of Understanding with the troika of international lenders are undermining the progress made in the pre-crisis years in the framework of European Union (EU) environmental policy. The latter conflicts with the EU's new priorities in the context of the Greek…
The Duality of Claims and Events: The Greek Campaign Against the Troika's Memoranda and Austerity, 2010-2012
Protest campaigns consist of connected public events to which participants assign shared meanings. Data from thirty-one large protest events that occurred in Greece between January 2010 and December 2012—protests challenging neoliberal austerity policies and the "Troika's" bailout package—enable us to illustrate a network-analytic approach to identify those connections. We treat claims as the linkages that assign a common meaning to different epi…
Economic and Political Contention in Comparative Perspective
Introduction. ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, AND OTHER OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURES. - Cultural - Economic: Specifying the Concept of Opportunity Structures for Contentious Politics. law, relations of production and exploitation, and structured possibilities for contention, or Using three Tillys to Make One Argument. Wrestling with the Minotaur: Tillian Structuralism, Factors and Environmental Movement Mobilization in Japan. HOW POLITICS AND ECONOMICS CHANGE OPP…
The Spatial Dimensions of the Greek Protest Campaign against the Troika’s Memoranda and Austerity, 2010-2013
Political Claims and Discourse Formations: A Comparative Account on Germany and Greece in the Eurozone Crisis
The economic crisis following the financial meltdown in 2007 had disparate impacts for citizens of the southern and northern Eurozone member states. In this study, we analyze public debates in Germany and Greece, two countries that have attracted global attention during the crisis, through a political claims analysis based on newspaper articles published between 2005 and 2014. The article makes use of multiple correspondence analysis to detect th…
Protest, Elections, and Austerity Politics in Greece
New Rage, New Perspectives: Protest in the Eurozone Crisis in Greece and Germany
Alternative Action Organizations During Hard Economic Times: A Comparative European Perspective
The aim of this Special Issue is to offer new systematic analyses on European alternative (non)economic solidarity practices since the global financial crisis, that have attracted limited media and scholarly attention. Its seven articles are devoted to multidimensional analyses providing complementary perspectives on alternative action organizations across Europe and rest on Action Organization Analysis, a new hubs-website approach extending Prot…
Born to Die Online? A Cross-National Analysis of the Rise and Decline of Alternative Action Organizations in Europe
Alternative collective initiatives often emerge during hard times, supporting citizens and helping them meet their increasing needs through nonmainstream economic activities. To this end, citizens organize formal and informal alternative action organizations (AAOs). Recent studies have shown that the economic crisis was a trigger for the founding of a wide variety of new AAOs, especially in the countries most affected, such as Greece and Spain. O…
Constituency Groups of Alternative Action Organizations During Hard Times: A Comparison at the Solidarity Orientation and Country Levels
Alternative action organizations (AAO) usually rise during economic crises to offer direct support and solidarity to their constituency groups. These groups may be less involved recipient beneficiary groups or more participative groups collaborating and creating networks of support to sustain the needs of their members. This article compensates for the lack of empirical knowledge about such groups by systematically describing AAOs' constituency g…
Action Organization Analysis: Extending Protest Event Analysis Using Hubs-Retrieved Websites
The comprehensive and systematic study of collective action organizations (AOs) requires a new methodological approach that takes into account the rise of online sources as well as the new ways in which people interact and participate in politics. This article aims to present and situate in the related literature such an approach, which was recently created and applied in two European Commission funded research projects, LIVEWHAT and TransSOL, ac…
Political science (33 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Law (21 works) · Politics (21 works) · Economics (19 works) · Political economy (14 works) · Geography (13 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (11 works) · Collective action (9 works) · Social movement (9 works)