Kostas Gourzis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3721608 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kostas Gourzis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kostas |
| FAMILY NAME | Gourzis |
| SIGNATURE | GOURZIS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Aegean |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7434-9270 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Tourism-driven spatial fixes and labour flexibilisation
This article examines spatial fixes and their dialectical relationship with poor forms of flexible work, positioning touristification as a key contemporary form of capital's spatial fixes. Drawing on a multi-scalar methodological framework that integrates Gross Fixed Capital Formation with employment data, it offers a systematic account of shifting patterns of capital allocation between sectors and across regions of Greece, tracing how these may …
The gentrification, touristification and housing financialization nexus in Southern European cities
Over the past decade, Southern European cities have experienced an acute housing affordability crisis, manifested in escalating rents, intensifying displacement pressures and deepening socio-spatial inequalities. Far from representing an isolated malfunction of housing markets, this crisis is embedded in broader processes of urban restructuring, variously conceptualized as gentrification, touristification and housing financialization. Although th…
The evolving modalities of gentrification in Athens vis-à-vis Greece’s shifting growth models
Gentrification theory remains highly relevant, particularly amid an escalating international housing crisis. Yet, in Southern Europe, despite soaring rents and deepening dependence on tourism, the analytical rigour of gentrification theory is contested. This article draws on early accounts from within critical geography and employs a novel, multi-scalar approach, combining secondary, primary and policy analysis, to examine waves of gentrification…
Touristification Geographies in the EU during the 2010 s Recession
Youth employment amid successive crises and the low-carbon transition
Over the last decade, the EU has entered a phase of transition to a low-carbon economy, which has led to a decline in the competitiveness of coal. Despite efforts to restructure their energy sectors, coal regions continue to struggle with the lingering effects of the 2008/09 Global Crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic, which affect their economies and decarbonisation trajectories. In this context, the paper examines the role of youth in the local lab…
Youth labour markets in the Southern European Union, 2009-2021
This paper adopts a Geographical Political Economy perspective to critically investigate how successive economic crises occurring from 2009 onwards (including the COVID-19 pandemic) affected youth labour markets in Greece, Italy, and Spain. To do so, it first calculates a Resilience Index for three youth employment types (total, part-time, and temporary employment). It then employs Shift-Share Analysis to quantify the effect of national trends, s…
Quite promising yet marginal? A comparative study of social economy in the EU South
On the recursive relationship between gentrification and labour market precarisation
Gentrification and labour precarisation constitute prominent responses to urban capitalist crises. They have typically been addressed in the literature as distinct processes. Even though they can indeed occur independently of one another, here we argue that they are also often deeply interconnected. To do so, we utilise a mix of fieldwork and secondary data to investigate how gentrification has both fostered labour precarisation but also how it h…
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic upon employment and inequality in the Mediterranean EU
COVID-19 is a global pandemic but has a particular geography to it, differentially affecting people and places. Here we explore its impact upon labour markets in the Mediterranean European Union (EU) countries. Our analysis is part of a collective work-in-progress monitoring the pandemic’s effects upon workers since early March 2020. First we note that there is a geographical political economy to pandemics. We then scrutinise the current pandemic…
Inter-regional underemployment and the industrial reserve army
We explore the 2008/2009 economic crisis in Greece and its impact upon employment precarity. Specifically, we focus upon changing regional patterns of waged part-timerism during three periods: the 2005–2008 pre-crisis period; the 2009–12 deep recession; and the 2013–2016 period of mild stabilization. Our analysis reveals important geographical and sectoral variations in the growth of this type of underemployment. In particular, we find that metro…
Linking Gentrification and Labour Market Precarity in the Contemporary City
The interplay between intensifying labour market precarity and gentrification constitutes a hitherto under‐researched topic in the fields of labour and urban geography. To rectify this lacuna, we argue that gentrification and labour flexibilisation are both socio‐spatial manifestations of capital's efforts to confront crises of accumulation. Distinguishing between what we call “weak” and “strong” links between them, and drawing upon the concepts …
Dismantled Spatial Fixes in the Aftermath of Recession
The article offers a fresh, empirically grounded look at the spatialities of crisis-triggered employment forms-a largely overlooked issue in contemporary critical geography literature. Specifically, it discusses the interconnection between investment flows from manufacturing to the built environment (capital switching) and underemployment in urban metropolitan regions to substantiate its impact on emerging spatial fixities. The article, which is …
Going under-employed’
The paper explores the regional dimensions of under-employment by analysing the uneven dispersion of part-time jobs in Greece. It understands under-employment as an integral dimension of contemporary flexible labour trends, triggered by devaluation and expanding amid crisis, although in diverse geographical and sectoral terms. It follows a methodology that comparatively analyses statistical data, relevant secondary sources and previous case studi…
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic upon employment and inequality in the Mediterranean EU
COVID-19 is a global pandemic but has a particular geography to it, differentially affecting people and places. Here we explore its impact upon labour markets in the Mediterranean European Union (EU) countries. Our analysis is part of a collective work-in-progress monitoring the pandemic’s effects upon workers since early March 2020. First we note that there is a geographical political economy to pandemics. We then scrutinise the current pandemic…
Dismantled Spatial Fixes in the Aftermath of Recession
The article offers a fresh, empirically grounded look at the spatialities of crisis-triggered employment forms-a largely overlooked issue in contemporary critical geography literature. Specifically, it discusses the interconnection between investment flows from manufacturing to the built environment (capital switching) and underemployment in urban metropolitan regions to substantiate its impact on emerging spatial fixities. The article, which is …
Inter-regional underemployment and the industrial reserve army
We explore the 2008/2009 economic crisis in Greece and its impact upon employment precarity. Specifically, we focus upon changing regional patterns of waged part-timerism during three periods: the 2005–2008 pre-crisis period; the 2009–12 deep recession; and the 2013–2016 period of mild stabilization. Our analysis reveals important geographical and sectoral variations in the growth of this type of underemployment. In particular, we find that metro…
On the recursive relationship between gentrification and labour market precarisation
Gentrification and labour precarisation constitute prominent responses to urban capitalist crises. They have typically been addressed in the literature as distinct processes. Even though they can indeed occur independently of one another, here we argue that they are also often deeply interconnected. To do so, we utilise a mix of fieldwork and secondary data to investigate how gentrification has both fostered labour precarisation but also how it h…
Linking Gentrification and Labour Market Precarity in the Contemporary City
The interplay between intensifying labour market precarity and gentrification constitutes a hitherto under‐researched topic in the fields of labour and urban geography. To rectify this lacuna, we argue that gentrification and labour flexibilisation are both socio‐spatial manifestations of capital's efforts to confront crises of accumulation. Distinguishing between what we call “weak” and “strong” links between them, and drawing upon the concepts …
Going under-employed’
The paper explores the regional dimensions of under-employment by analysing the uneven dispersion of part-time jobs in Greece. It understands under-employment as an integral dimension of contemporary flexible labour trends, triggered by devaluation and expanding amid crisis, although in diverse geographical and sectoral terms. It follows a methodology that comparatively analyses statistical data, relevant secondary sources and previous case studi…
Touristification Geographies in the EU during the 2010 s Recession
Going under-employed’
The paper explores the regional dimensions of under-employment by analysing the uneven dispersion of part-time jobs in Greece. It understands under-employment as an integral dimension of contemporary flexible labour trends, triggered by devaluation and expanding amid crisis, although in diverse geographical and sectoral terms. It follows a methodology that comparatively analyses statistical data, relevant secondary sources and previous case studi…
Linking Gentrification and Labour Market Precarity in the Contemporary City
The interplay between intensifying labour market precarity and gentrification constitutes a hitherto under‐researched topic in the fields of labour and urban geography. To rectify this lacuna, we argue that gentrification and labour flexibilisation are both socio‐spatial manifestations of capital's efforts to confront crises of accumulation. Distinguishing between what we call “weak” and “strong” links between them, and drawing upon the concepts …
Dismantled Spatial Fixes in the Aftermath of Recession
The article offers a fresh, empirically grounded look at the spatialities of crisis-triggered employment forms-a largely overlooked issue in contemporary critical geography literature. Specifically, it discusses the interconnection between investment flows from manufacturing to the built environment (capital switching) and underemployment in urban metropolitan regions to substantiate its impact on emerging spatial fixities. The article, which is …
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic upon employment and inequality in the Mediterranean EU
COVID-19 is a global pandemic but has a particular geography to it, differentially affecting people and places. Here we explore its impact upon labour markets in the Mediterranean European Union (EU) countries. Our analysis is part of a collective work-in-progress monitoring the pandemic’s effects upon workers since early March 2020. First we note that there is a geographical political economy to pandemics. We then scrutinise the current pandemic…
Inter-regional underemployment and the industrial reserve army
We explore the 2008/2009 economic crisis in Greece and its impact upon employment precarity. Specifically, we focus upon changing regional patterns of waged part-timerism during three periods: the 2005–2008 pre-crisis period; the 2009–12 deep recession; and the 2013–2016 period of mild stabilization. Our analysis reveals important geographical and sectoral variations in the growth of this type of underemployment. In particular, we find that metro…
Quite promising yet marginal? A comparative study of social economy in the EU South
On the recursive relationship between gentrification and labour market precarisation
Gentrification and labour precarisation constitute prominent responses to urban capitalist crises. They have typically been addressed in the literature as distinct processes. Even though they can indeed occur independently of one another, here we argue that they are also often deeply interconnected. To do so, we utilise a mix of fieldwork and secondary data to investigate how gentrification has both fostered labour precarisation but also how it h…
Youth labour markets in the Southern European Union, 2009-2021
This paper adopts a Geographical Political Economy perspective to critically investigate how successive economic crises occurring from 2009 onwards (including the COVID-19 pandemic) affected youth labour markets in Greece, Italy, and Spain. To do so, it first calculates a Resilience Index for three youth employment types (total, part-time, and temporary employment). It then employs Shift-Share Analysis to quantify the effect of national trends, s…
Youth employment amid successive crises and the low-carbon transition
Over the last decade, the EU has entered a phase of transition to a low-carbon economy, which has led to a decline in the competitiveness of coal. Despite efforts to restructure their energy sectors, coal regions continue to struggle with the lingering effects of the 2008/09 Global Crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic, which affect their economies and decarbonisation trajectories. In this context, the paper examines the role of youth in the local lab…
Touristification Geographies in the EU during the 2010 s Recession
Tourism-driven spatial fixes and labour flexibilisation
This article examines spatial fixes and their dialectical relationship with poor forms of flexible work, positioning touristification as a key contemporary form of capital's spatial fixes. Drawing on a multi-scalar methodological framework that integrates Gross Fixed Capital Formation with employment data, it offers a systematic account of shifting patterns of capital allocation between sectors and across regions of Greece, tracing how these may …
The gentrification, touristification and housing financialization nexus in Southern European cities
Over the past decade, Southern European cities have experienced an acute housing affordability crisis, manifested in escalating rents, intensifying displacement pressures and deepening socio-spatial inequalities. Far from representing an isolated malfunction of housing markets, this crisis is embedded in broader processes of urban restructuring, variously conceptualized as gentrification, touristification and housing financialization. Although th…
The evolving modalities of gentrification in Athens vis-à-vis Greece’s shifting growth models
Gentrification theory remains highly relevant, particularly amid an escalating international housing crisis. Yet, in Southern Europe, despite soaring rents and deepening dependence on tourism, the analytical rigour of gentrification theory is contested. This article draws on early accounts from within critical geography and employs a novel, multi-scalar approach, combining secondary, primary and policy analysis, to examine waves of gentrification…
Economics (9 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (8 works) · Economic geography (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Regional resilience and development (6 works) · European union (4 works) · Gentrification (4 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (4 works)