Dina Vaiou
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673762 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dina Vaiou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dina |
| FAMILY NAME | Vaiou |
| SIGNATURE | VAIOU D |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Technical University of Athens |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 197 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Feminist geographies in Greece: A personal trajectory between ‘local’ and ‘international’
Feminist debates in the context of an active women's/feminist movement found their way into the Greek academy in the second half of the 1970s, initially in history. Urban studies and geography were ‘late-comers’ in these debates which took place in different disciplinary environments where geography courses were taught. The article presents a personal account in and through the development of feminist approaches in urban geography, drawing from m…
Maria Dolors Garcia- Ramon: Geografía y género, disidencia e innovación [Maria Dolors Garcia Ramon: Geography and gender, dissidence and innovation]
The book at hand is the thirteenth of the very important series “EspaciosCriticos” (Critical Spaces), which started in 2012 and is edited by Abel Albet and Nuria Benach for the Barcelona-based publ
Intersectionality: Old and new endeavours
This short comment on intersectionality raises three points for further thought and discussion: The first has to do with the rich tradition of feminist interventions in academe and in political struggles which adopted intersectional approaches before a field of ‘intersectionality studies’ was developed. The second is a note about the difficult and complex passage from individual subject formation to the constitution of collective identities, foll…
Practices of solidarity in Athens: Reconfigurations of Public Space and Urban Citizenship
The multi-faceted crisis that has hit Greece and other (southern) European countries has had severe consequences on people’s everyday lives. In an attempt to cope with, but also resist, dramatic changes in lifestyles, incomes and welfare, several initiatives have sprung up all over the country at many different scales, with diverse targets, varying actors and outcomes. Many people have abandoned their privacy to participate in public actions of s…
Entre attachements ordinaires et constructions médiatiques dans les quartiers du centre d’Athènes durant la crise
La crise de la société grecque a provoqué des changements radicaux qui s’accompagnent de violents bouleversements sociaux et de transformations urbaines brutales. L’intention de cet article est d’explorer les changements en cours, en se focalisant sur les conflits et les mutations des attachements, d’une part quotidiens, c’est-à-dire produits par de multiples pratiques socio-spatiales fréquemment conflictuelles mais aussi dynamiques, et d’autre p…
Practices of collective action and solidarity: Reconfigurations of the public space in crisis-ridden Athens, Greece
Is the crisis in Athens (also) gendered: Facets of access and (in)visibility in everyday public spaces
As the Greek crisis deepens and ‘recovery’ is constantly postponed to an unknown future, a dominant discourse seems to consolidate which focuses almost exclusively on macro-economic arguments and concerns. Other aspects of the crisis, among which are its gendered facets and unequal effects on women and men, rarely permeate the allegedly ‘central’ understandings. With the possible exception of unemployment which fares high among left-wing analysts…
Tracing aspects of the Greek crisis in Athens: Putting women in the picture
In the political fluidity of our times, the dismal economic situation in Greece is perhaps extreme but indicative of a deepening crisis in Europe, which is expanding, both geographically and socially. Contrary to the dominant rhetoric, austerity measures and pacts imposed on Greece, Portugal, Spain – and later Cyprus – do not seem to provide effective remedies. On the contrary, they seem to plunge entire areas and groups of people into a vicious …
Les aspects genrés de la crise à Athènes
Dans les évolutions politiques propres à l’ère néolibérale, la situation catastrophique de l’économie grecque témoigne de l’expansion, à la fois géographique et sociale, de la crise en Europe tandis que l’Union européenne se consolide comme le bastion du « néolibéralisme réellement existant » (Brenner, 2002). Les politiques d’austérité et les coups successifs portés à l’État-providence mènent à une nouvelle récession et à l’aggravation de la cris…
Ethnic’ neighbourhoods? Practices of belonging and claims to the city
The formation or consolidation of ‘ethnic’ neighbourhoods in European cities has made ethnic/racial differences more visible in urban space and has brought back to the forefront of both academic and political debate questions about the spatial concentration of ‘strangers’ (segregation), citizenship rights and ‘integration’. The women and men who live in the city have, or may claim, a right to the city that includes on the one hand the right to ap…
Gendered mobilities and border-crossings: From Elbasan to Athens
The study of migratory movements, with all their changing features in the context of post-1989 political, economic and geographical restructurings, offers a prime site for reflection on the gendered meaning/s and content of mobilities and borders. Particularly in human geography, new questions and different approaches to established themes in migration research are elaborated in this ‘era of globalisation’. Negotiations of geographical and social…
Cities of "others": Public space and everyday practices
This paper deals with the concept of «public space». It works with the ambiguities embedded therein, contrasting material space/s – the streets, squares, parks, public buildings of the city – with the other spaces created through the functions and institutions of the «public sphere» as a site of public deliberation. Focussing on the ambiguities of the concept allow questions of access, interaction, participation, cultural and symbolic rights of p…
To phylo tēs metanasteusēs
Fron `Settlement' to `Integration: Informal Practices and Social Services for Women Migrants in Athens
In recent European literature on migration, two main trends characterize the ways in which migrants are increasingly portrayed. The first tends to define migrants in terms of their belonging to `communities' while, in the second trend, migrants and refugees epitomize ideas of diaspora and hybridity, as resistance to constructions of place-bound `communities'. In the context of these trends, women migrants hold ambivalent positions as particular `…
Women, Neighbourhoods and Everyday Life
The paper discusses everyday life in urban neighbourhoods from a feminist perspective. It aims to engage theoretically and through reference to research in progress with everyday life as a concept which brings to the foreground of enquiry the richness and variety of everyday experience and helps to approach urban life and urban development as 'peopled and gendered' processes. Everyday life is connected to places where women and men live, work, co…
Country report: The ambiguities of social and cultural geography in Greece
The contested and negotiated dominance of Anglophone geography in Greece
Writing (Across) Europe: On Writing Spaces and Writing Practices
In this paper we explore how existing, loosely geographical, English-language journals constitute Europe within their writing/publishing spaces. Focusing on two sets of journals - British/British-North American and those which are explicitly (pro) European in their orientation/content - we show how some of these journals appear to write contemporary Europe out of their spaces, casting Europe instead through the homogenizing lens of 19th-century c…
Writing (Across) Europe: On Writing Spaces and Writing Practices
In this paper we explore how existing, loosely geographical, English-language journals constitute Europe within their writing/publishing spaces. Focusing on two sets of journals - British/British-North American and those which are explicitly (pro) European in their orientation/content - we show how some of these journals appear to write contemporary Europe out of their spaces, casting Europe instead through the homogenizing lens of 19th-century c…
In the Interstices of the City: Albanian Women in Athens
In the aftermath of 1989, Southern European countries including Greece, former places of out-migration, have become the destination of massive waves of migrants. By now numerous estimates, reports and studies point to the high presence of women in these migratory movements - which challenges established stereotyped images of the migrant as a young male single person. The "discovery" of women migrants, with different presence in various migrant co…
Whose Economy for Whose Culture? Moving Beyond Oppositional Talk in European Debate about Economy and Culture
This paper provides an overview of the economy‐culture debate as currently rehearsed within European urban and regional change circles, explores some of the key theoretical inadequacies of this debate and outlines and illustrates one possible way of moving debate forward. The paper begins by identifying the different ways in which economy and culture, and economy‐culture articulations, are thought about within this debate and by arguing that what…
Whose Culture and Economy in What Europe
The Meaning of Work: Some Arguments for the Importance of Culture within Formulations of Work in Europe
This paper is concerned with examining the meaning of different forms of work found within the EU. Existing research, both academic and policy-related, is shown to be characterized by a bewildering terminology, which is often used interchangeably, and which works to reinscribe existing lines of power within the EU. Moreover, this work is shown to be theoretically problematic. The centrality of distinct measurable categories to representations of …
Women's Lives and the Making of the City: Experiences from ‘North’ and ‘South’ of Europe
In mainstream debates on 'the urban question', both at the peak period of the 'new urban theory' in the 1970s and in the more recent. analyses of urban restructuring, certain biases can be observed along the following two lines of argument. First, there is a deprioritization of the social practices and social lives of urban citizens as relevant dimensions in urban development. Second, the dominant themes, pertaining to be gender-neutral, are none…
Women's Work and Informal Activities in Southern Europe
In Southern European countries, much of women's work lies out of the realm of ‘wage labour’ in forms of work which include agricultural labour in family farms, homeworking, unpaid domestic and caring labour, family helpers, and/or informal work in tourism, industry, or personal services. The importance of these forms of work is very likely to increase and several regions in Southern Europe present ‘ideal conditions’ for their proliferation. The b…
Tracing aspects of the Greek crisis in Athens: Putting women in the picture
In the political fluidity of our times, the dismal economic situation in Greece is perhaps extreme but indicative of a deepening crisis in Europe, which is expanding, both geographically and socially. Contrary to the dominant rhetoric, austerity measures and pacts imposed on Greece, Portugal, Spain – and later Cyprus – do not seem to provide effective remedies. On the contrary, they seem to plunge entire areas and groups of people into a vicious …
Women, Neighbourhoods and Everyday Life
The paper discusses everyday life in urban neighbourhoods from a feminist perspective. It aims to engage theoretically and through reference to research in progress with everyday life as a concept which brings to the foreground of enquiry the richness and variety of everyday experience and helps to approach urban life and urban development as 'peopled and gendered' processes. Everyday life is connected to places where women and men live, work, co…
Practices of collective action and solidarity: Reconfigurations of the public space in crisis-ridden Athens, Greece
The contested and negotiated dominance of Anglophone geography in Greece
The Meaning of Work: Some Arguments for the Importance of Culture within Formulations of Work in Europe
This paper is concerned with examining the meaning of different forms of work found within the EU. Existing research, both academic and policy-related, is shown to be characterized by a bewildering terminology, which is often used interchangeably, and which works to reinscribe existing lines of power within the EU. Moreover, this work is shown to be theoretically problematic. The centrality of distinct measurable categories to representations of …
Ethnic’ neighbourhoods? Practices of belonging and claims to the city
The formation or consolidation of ‘ethnic’ neighbourhoods in European cities has made ethnic/racial differences more visible in urban space and has brought back to the forefront of both academic and political debate questions about the spatial concentration of ‘strangers’ (segregation), citizenship rights and ‘integration’. The women and men who live in the city have, or may claim, a right to the city that includes on the one hand the right to ap…
Writing (Across) Europe: On Writing Spaces and Writing Practices
In this paper we explore how existing, loosely geographical, English-language journals constitute Europe within their writing/publishing spaces. Focusing on two sets of journals - British/British-North American and those which are explicitly (pro) European in their orientation/content - we show how some of these journals appear to write contemporary Europe out of their spaces, casting Europe instead through the homogenizing lens of 19th-century c…
Gendered mobilities and border-crossings: From Elbasan to Athens
The study of migratory movements, with all their changing features in the context of post-1989 political, economic and geographical restructurings, offers a prime site for reflection on the gendered meaning/s and content of mobilities and borders. Particularly in human geography, new questions and different approaches to established themes in migration research are elaborated in this ‘era of globalisation’. Negotiations of geographical and social…
Intersectionality: Old and new endeavours
This short comment on intersectionality raises three points for further thought and discussion: The first has to do with the rich tradition of feminist interventions in academe and in political struggles which adopted intersectional approaches before a field of ‘intersectionality studies’ was developed. The second is a note about the difficult and complex passage from individual subject formation to the constitution of collective identities, foll…
Fron `Settlement' to `Integration: Informal Practices and Social Services for Women Migrants in Athens
In recent European literature on migration, two main trends characterize the ways in which migrants are increasingly portrayed. The first tends to define migrants in terms of their belonging to `communities' while, in the second trend, migrants and refugees epitomize ideas of diaspora and hybridity, as resistance to constructions of place-bound `communities'. In the context of these trends, women migrants hold ambivalent positions as particular `…
Flexible labour markets and regional development in northern Greece
Practices of solidarity in Athens: Reconfigurations of Public Space and Urban Citizenship
The multi-faceted crisis that has hit Greece and other (southern) European countries has had severe consequences on people’s everyday lives. In an attempt to cope with, but also resist, dramatic changes in lifestyles, incomes and welfare, several initiatives have sprung up all over the country at many different scales, with diverse targets, varying actors and outcomes. Many people have abandoned their privacy to participate in public actions of s…
Is the crisis in Athens (also) gendered: Facets of access and (in)visibility in everyday public spaces
As the Greek crisis deepens and ‘recovery’ is constantly postponed to an unknown future, a dominant discourse seems to consolidate which focuses almost exclusively on macro-economic arguments and concerns. Other aspects of the crisis, among which are its gendered facets and unequal effects on women and men, rarely permeate the allegedly ‘central’ understandings. With the possible exception of unemployment which fares high among left-wing analysts…
Women's Lives and the Making of the City: Experiences from ‘North’ and ‘South’ of Europe
In mainstream debates on 'the urban question', both at the peak period of the 'new urban theory' in the 1970s and in the more recent. analyses of urban restructuring, certain biases can be observed along the following two lines of argument. First, there is a deprioritization of the social practices and social lives of urban citizens as relevant dimensions in urban development. Second, the dominant themes, pertaining to be gender-neutral, are none…
Changing patterns of uneven regional development and forms of social reproduction in Greece
The period 1970-73 was a turning point after which certain intermediate regions and cities in Greece stopped declining and began to develop new productive activities. After 1974, the slowdown of economic growth rates coincided with the increasing economic, social, and political dynamism of these intermediate areas. These phenomena are poorly explained by many liberal and Marxist regional development approaches. Their almost exclusive attention to…
Gender Divisions in Urban Space: Beyond the Rigidity of Dualist Classifications
The paper discusses the absence of gender from the analysis and understanding of urban development as a result of dichotomies, implicit or explicit, in much of urban research: private space vs public space, home life vs politics, domestic labor vs paid employment, reproduction vs production. It is argued that urban analysis and theorizing have focused almost exclusively on the latter part of such dichotomies, the one associated with men and mascu…
Whose flexibility? the politics of informalisation in Southern Europe
Drawing on a wide range of empirical and historical material, the authors argue that informal working is neither a historic survival nor a response to new technologies. Rather informal working is a long standing and integral, if subordinate, aspect of labour in Southern Europe
Whose Economy for Whose Culture? Moving Beyond Oppositional Talk in European Debate about Economy and Culture
This paper provides an overview of the economy‐culture debate as currently rehearsed within European urban and regional change circles, explores some of the key theoretical inadequacies of this debate and outlines and illustrates one possible way of moving debate forward. The paper begins by identifying the different ways in which economy and culture, and economy‐culture articulations, are thought about within this debate and by arguing that what…
Diffused Industrialization in Thessaloniki: From Expansion to Crisis
Until recently, defensive practices of restructuring have been adopted in many industrial cities of southern Europe, based on diffused industrialization, the availability of cheap labour, non-planning and illegal modes of operation. This paper examines to what extent emerging crisis and the prospect of the Single Market are likely to modify this 'model' of restructuring and under what conditions policy proposals, such as 'endogenous development',…
Country report: The ambiguities of social and cultural geography in Greece
Women's Work and Informal Activities in Southern Europe
In Southern European countries, much of women's work lies out of the realm of ‘wage labour’ in forms of work which include agricultural labour in family farms, homeworking, unpaid domestic and caring labour, family helpers, and/or informal work in tourism, industry, or personal services. The importance of these forms of work is very likely to increase and several regions in Southern Europe present ‘ideal conditions’ for their proliferation. The b…
The challenge of feminist geography: (In search of) feminist geography in Greece
Changing patterns of uneven regional development and forms of social reproduction in Greece
The period 1970-73 was a turning point after which certain intermediate regions and cities in Greece stopped declining and began to develop new productive activities. After 1974, the slowdown of economic growth rates coincided with the increasing economic, social, and political dynamism of these intermediate areas. These phenomena are poorly explained by many liberal and Marxist regional development approaches. Their almost exclusive attention to…
The challenge of feminist geography: (In search of) feminist geography in Greece
Whose flexibility? the politics of informalisation in Southern Europe
Drawing on a wide range of empirical and historical material, the authors argue that informal working is neither a historic survival nor a response to new technologies. Rather informal working is a long standing and integral, if subordinate, aspect of labour in Southern Europe
Flexible labour markets and regional development in northern Greece
Eighth Urban Change and Conflict Conference, Lancaster University, September 1991
Gender Divisions in Urban Space: Beyond the Rigidity of Dualist Classifications
The paper discusses the absence of gender from the analysis and understanding of urban development as a result of dichotomies, implicit or explicit, in much of urban research: private space vs public space, home life vs politics, domestic labor vs paid employment, reproduction vs production. It is argued that urban analysis and theorizing have focused almost exclusively on the latter part of such dichotomies, the one associated with men and mascu…
European Cities in the New Europe‐to‐be
Diffused Industrialization in Thessaloniki: From Expansion to Crisis
Until recently, defensive practices of restructuring have been adopted in many industrial cities of southern Europe, based on diffused industrialization, the availability of cheap labour, non-planning and illegal modes of operation. This paper examines to what extent emerging crisis and the prospect of the Single Market are likely to modify this 'model' of restructuring and under what conditions policy proposals, such as 'endogenous development',…
Women's Work and Informal Activities in Southern Europe
In Southern European countries, much of women's work lies out of the realm of ‘wage labour’ in forms of work which include agricultural labour in family farms, homeworking, unpaid domestic and caring labour, family helpers, and/or informal work in tourism, industry, or personal services. The importance of these forms of work is very likely to increase and several regions in Southern Europe present ‘ideal conditions’ for their proliferation. The b…
Women's Lives and the Making of the City: Experiences from ‘North’ and ‘South’ of Europe
In mainstream debates on 'the urban question', both at the peak period of the 'new urban theory' in the 1970s and in the more recent. analyses of urban restructuring, certain biases can be observed along the following two lines of argument. First, there is a deprioritization of the social practices and social lives of urban citizens as relevant dimensions in urban development. Second, the dominant themes, pertaining to be gender-neutral, are none…
Whose Culture and Economy in What Europe
The Meaning of Work: Some Arguments for the Importance of Culture within Formulations of Work in Europe
This paper is concerned with examining the meaning of different forms of work found within the EU. Existing research, both academic and policy-related, is shown to be characterized by a bewildering terminology, which is often used interchangeably, and which works to reinscribe existing lines of power within the EU. Moreover, this work is shown to be theoretically problematic. The centrality of distinct measurable categories to representations of …
Whose Economy for Whose Culture? Moving Beyond Oppositional Talk in European Debate about Economy and Culture
This paper provides an overview of the economy‐culture debate as currently rehearsed within European urban and regional change circles, explores some of the key theoretical inadequacies of this debate and outlines and illustrates one possible way of moving debate forward. The paper begins by identifying the different ways in which economy and culture, and economy‐culture articulations, are thought about within this debate and by arguing that what…
In the Interstices of the City: Albanian Women in Athens
In the aftermath of 1989, Southern European countries including Greece, former places of out-migration, have become the destination of massive waves of migrants. By now numerous estimates, reports and studies point to the high presence of women in these migratory movements - which challenges established stereotyped images of the migrant as a young male single person. The "discovery" of women migrants, with different presence in various migrant co…
Writing (Across) Europe: On Writing Spaces and Writing Practices
In this paper we explore how existing, loosely geographical, English-language journals constitute Europe within their writing/publishing spaces. Focusing on two sets of journals - British/British-North American and those which are explicitly (pro) European in their orientation/content - we show how some of these journals appear to write contemporary Europe out of their spaces, casting Europe instead through the homogenizing lens of 19th-century c…
Writing (Across) Europe: On Writing Spaces and Writing Practices
In this paper we explore how existing, loosely geographical, English-language journals constitute Europe within their writing/publishing spaces. Focusing on two sets of journals - British/British-North American and those which are explicitly (pro) European in their orientation/content - we show how some of these journals appear to write contemporary Europe out of their spaces, casting Europe instead through the homogenizing lens of 19th-century c…
The contested and negotiated dominance of Anglophone geography in Greece
Country report: The ambiguities of social and cultural geography in Greece
Women, Neighbourhoods and Everyday Life
The paper discusses everyday life in urban neighbourhoods from a feminist perspective. It aims to engage theoretically and through reference to research in progress with everyday life as a concept which brings to the foreground of enquiry the richness and variety of everyday experience and helps to approach urban life and urban development as 'peopled and gendered' processes. Everyday life is connected to places where women and men live, work, co…
Fron `Settlement' to `Integration: Informal Practices and Social Services for Women Migrants in Athens
In recent European literature on migration, two main trends characterize the ways in which migrants are increasingly portrayed. The first tends to define migrants in terms of their belonging to `communities' while, in the second trend, migrants and refugees epitomize ideas of diaspora and hybridity, as resistance to constructions of place-bound `communities'. In the context of these trends, women migrants hold ambivalent positions as particular `…
Cities of "others": Public space and everyday practices
This paper deals with the concept of «public space». It works with the ambiguities embedded therein, contrasting material space/s – the streets, squares, parks, public buildings of the city – with the other spaces created through the functions and institutions of the «public sphere» as a site of public deliberation. Focussing on the ambiguities of the concept allow questions of access, interaction, participation, cultural and symbolic rights of p…
To phylo tēs metanasteusēs
Ethnic’ neighbourhoods? Practices of belonging and claims to the city
The formation or consolidation of ‘ethnic’ neighbourhoods in European cities has made ethnic/racial differences more visible in urban space and has brought back to the forefront of both academic and political debate questions about the spatial concentration of ‘strangers’ (segregation), citizenship rights and ‘integration’. The women and men who live in the city have, or may claim, a right to the city that includes on the one hand the right to ap…
Gendered mobilities and border-crossings: From Elbasan to Athens
The study of migratory movements, with all their changing features in the context of post-1989 political, economic and geographical restructurings, offers a prime site for reflection on the gendered meaning/s and content of mobilities and borders. Particularly in human geography, new questions and different approaches to established themes in migration research are elaborated in this ‘era of globalisation’. Negotiations of geographical and social…
Is the crisis in Athens (also) gendered: Facets of access and (in)visibility in everyday public spaces
As the Greek crisis deepens and ‘recovery’ is constantly postponed to an unknown future, a dominant discourse seems to consolidate which focuses almost exclusively on macro-economic arguments and concerns. Other aspects of the crisis, among which are its gendered facets and unequal effects on women and men, rarely permeate the allegedly ‘central’ understandings. With the possible exception of unemployment which fares high among left-wing analysts…
Political science (28 works) · Sociology (26 works) · Geography (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Politics (13 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works)