Katherine Pendakis
Biographic Data
| ID | 379673 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katherine Pendakis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Pendakis |
| SIGNATURE | PENDAKIS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-8817-3421 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Talk of failure as critique
Mnemonic naturalism
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, debates on how to remember the communist past have gained prominence, focusing on symbolic, moral, and mnemonic capitals. Aligning with an “international current” of anti-communist commemoration, Canada’s Memorial to the Victims of Communism extends these debates to a country with no history of state-led communism. Using frameworks in cultural sociology and memory studies, this article analyzes the Memorial to t…
Migrant Advocacy under Austerity
With the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ declaration of an emergency in 2016, Thessaloniki’s refugee regime began to develop rapidly. Local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) were transformed from underfunded initiatives to institutions managing large budgets and requiring staff with intercultural competencies and experience with migrant populations. For this, they turned to the ‘lost generation’— Greek youth who had come of age…
Migration, morals, and memory
In this article, I explore the memory narratives of political migrants who fled the Greek junta in the 1960s and 1970s and established an anti-dictatorship movement in Toronto, Canada. Drawing from recent contributions in cultural sociology, I track the political genealogies that emerge in accounts and highlight the evaluative grammars that underpin both representations of the past and understandings of the contemporary economic crisis in Greece.…
On the value of failing and keeping a distance
In the years after the Greek Junta, activists who had been involved in anti-dictatorship movements abroad returned as the country’s new pool of left-leaning, well-educated political actors. Drawing on interviews with former activists and borrowing from recent developments in cultural sociology, I analyse these returns as political projects fraught with moral conundrums. I argue that the contemporary crisis structure accounts of returns by placing…
Living in the File
Little attention has been paid to the ways in which political surveillance practices have historically intersected with a cultural logic of kinship or actual kin relationships, despite the fact that intergenerational effects of state surveillance have been observed. This article aims to open up this important avenue of research through a reflection on the relationship between kinship, political surveillance and state persecution in post-civil war…
Vietnamese Daughters in Transition
This paper assesses the social implications of employment opportunities in manufacturing for rural young unmarried Vietnamese women. Interested in the ways in which intimate relations, identities and structures of exchange within the family are reconfigured through the migration and work experience, we interview young, single daughters who had obtained employment as garment factory workers in Hanoi. Our focus is on the ambiguities and shifting pe…
Migrant Advocacy under Austerity
With the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ declaration of an emergency in 2016, Thessaloniki’s refugee regime began to develop rapidly. Local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) were transformed from underfunded initiatives to institutions managing large budgets and requiring staff with intercultural competencies and experience with migrant populations. For this, they turned to the ‘lost generation’— Greek youth who had come of age…
Migration, morals, and memory
In this article, I explore the memory narratives of political migrants who fled the Greek junta in the 1960s and 1970s and established an anti-dictatorship movement in Toronto, Canada. Drawing from recent contributions in cultural sociology, I track the political genealogies that emerge in accounts and highlight the evaluative grammars that underpin both representations of the past and understandings of the contemporary economic crisis in Greece.…
Living in the File
Little attention has been paid to the ways in which political surveillance practices have historically intersected with a cultural logic of kinship or actual kin relationships, despite the fact that intergenerational effects of state surveillance have been observed. This article aims to open up this important avenue of research through a reflection on the relationship between kinship, political surveillance and state persecution in post-civil war…
Vietnamese Daughters in Transition
This paper assesses the social implications of employment opportunities in manufacturing for rural young unmarried Vietnamese women. Interested in the ways in which intimate relations, identities and structures of exchange within the family are reconfigured through the migration and work experience, we interview young, single daughters who had obtained employment as garment factory workers in Hanoi. Our focus is on the ambiguities and shifting pe…
On the value of failing and keeping a distance
In the years after the Greek Junta, activists who had been involved in anti-dictatorship movements abroad returned as the country’s new pool of left-leaning, well-educated political actors. Drawing on interviews with former activists and borrowing from recent developments in cultural sociology, I analyse these returns as political projects fraught with moral conundrums. I argue that the contemporary crisis structure accounts of returns by placing…
Living in the File
Little attention has been paid to the ways in which political surveillance practices have historically intersected with a cultural logic of kinship or actual kin relationships, despite the fact that intergenerational effects of state surveillance have been observed. This article aims to open up this important avenue of research through a reflection on the relationship between kinship, political surveillance and state persecution in post-civil war…
Migration, morals, and memory
In this article, I explore the memory narratives of political migrants who fled the Greek junta in the 1960s and 1970s and established an anti-dictatorship movement in Toronto, Canada. Drawing from recent contributions in cultural sociology, I track the political genealogies that emerge in accounts and highlight the evaluative grammars that underpin both representations of the past and understandings of the contemporary economic crisis in Greece.…
Migrant Advocacy under Austerity
With the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ declaration of an emergency in 2016, Thessaloniki’s refugee regime began to develop rapidly. Local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) were transformed from underfunded initiatives to institutions managing large budgets and requiring staff with intercultural competencies and experience with migrant populations. For this, they turned to the ‘lost generation’— Greek youth who had come of age…
Talk of failure as critique
Mnemonic naturalism
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, debates on how to remember the communist past have gained prominence, focusing on symbolic, moral, and mnemonic capitals. Aligning with an “international current” of anti-communist commemoration, Canada’s Memorial to the Victims of Communism extends these debates to a country with no history of state-led communism. Using frameworks in cultural sociology and memory studies, this article analyzes the Memorial to t…
Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Irish and British Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)