Stathis Arapostathis
Biographic Data
| ID | 5652131 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stathis Arapostathis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stathis |
| FAMILY NAME | Arapostathis |
| SIGNATURE | ARAPOSTATHIS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6705-727X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Between Knowing and Acting: How Experts Constructed and Communicated Uncertainty During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed multiple uncertainties shaping scientific reasoning, institutional coordination, and public communication. This article examines how three expert communities in Greece – clinicians, laboratory scientists, and institutional public health officials – constructed and communicated uncertainty. Drawing on 31 semi-structured interviews conducted between January and October 2024, we analyze how uncertainty was perceived, to…
Farming Between Local Specificities and Structural Discrepancies: Perceived Injustices and the Culture of Resistance in Sustainable Agrifood Transitions
‘Tele-Crisis’: Co-production of Crisis and Information and Communication Technologies
This article introduces a special issue of the journal Science Technology and Society which comprises seven articles problematizing the co-production of "crisis" and ICT since the 1970s
Beyond toxic toxicity”: Using social representations theory to examine lay explanations of food toxicity, risk and quality
International audience
An agenda for future Social Sciences and Humanities research on energy efficiency: 100 Priority Research Questions
Decades of techno-economic energy policymaking and research have meant evidence from the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH)—including critical reflections on what changing a society’s relation to energy (efficiency) even means—have been underutilised. In particular, (i) the SSH have too often been sidelined and/or narrowly pigeonholed by policymakers, funders, and other decision-makers when driving research agendas, and (ii) the setting of SSH-…
From National to Cosmopolitan Hydrocarbons Resource Space: Hydrocarbons, Transnational Politics and the State in Greece
In this paper, we historicise the co-production of regional visions and governing practices for hydrocarbon explorations in the particular case of Greece. The paper aims to contribute a new understanding of state-building processes by studying how visions and infrastructures steered energy policies, (re-)configured hydrocarbon resource spaces and shaped technopolitical order in the Eastern Mediterranean. Chronologically, the storyline is divided …
Introduction to the special issue “Trust, mistrust, distrust, and trust-building in the nuclear sector: Historical and comparative experience from Europe”
Trust is essential for successful participatory policymaking in high-risk industries, such as nuclear energy and radioactive waste management. However, while efforts at building trust are omnipresent in policy practice, the downsides of excessive trust and the potential virtues of mistrust and distrust are poorly recognised by practitioners, and remain under-researched in social science scholarship. This special issue contributes to filling the r…
Governing Technosciences in the Age of Grand Challenges: A European Historical Perspective on the Entanglement of Science, Technology, Diplomacy, and Democracy
This article explores the co-shaping of global challenges and governance of science and technology through time. It aims to address the issue of governance of science and technology as governing through local (regional, national) and international negotiations and institutions. At the center of the analysis is the entanglement of technology, science, diplomacy, and diplomatic relations, which we explore through the concept of science diplomacy. W…
Steering the ‘C-Day’: Insights from the rapid, planned transition of the UK's natural gas conversion programme
Marconi's legal battles: Discursive, textual, and material entanglements
The paper offers an account of how the meaning of the concept of "invention" and "inventorship" is not stable and predefined but rather constructed during patent disputes. In particular, I look at how that construction takes place in adversarial settings like the courts of law. I argue that key notions of intellectual property law like invention and inventorship are as constructed as technoscientific claims are in laboratories. Courts should thus…
Fertilising Farms and Institutional Authorities: Experts, Regime-Making and Agricultural Politics in Greece, 1945–2000
The article studies the politics of expertise and the co-production of sociotechnical imaginaries, expertise identities and public policies in agriculture and the use of fertilisers in Greece between the years 1945 and 2000. By applying the concept of the co-productionist idiom, the processes of appropriation will be studied and dynamic processes in postwar Greece are demonstrated. The study argues that experts functioned not only as mediators bu…
Harbours of crisis and consent: The technopolitics of coastal infrastructure in colonial Cyprus, 1895–1908
By the late 1800s British colonial rule in Cyprus was experiencing both a socio-economic and a legitimacy crisis. Britain’s development projects were intended to quell the crisis and consolidate colonial authority. Famagusta Harbour construction was an integral part of that programme, but it antagonised wealthy and influential Cypriots in Larnaca. They believed that such infrastructure would undermine the importance of Larnaca harbour and threate…
Experts and Peripheries: Ongoing Research and Future Challenges
Based on existing research on Spain and Greece, the essay is focused upon the activity of experts in criminal courts and advisory committees. Following the experts in these settings, we offer examples of their roles in governing techno-sciences in societies of the European periphery. We highlight the tensions between the creative powers of localities and the movement of expert knowledge in a world marked by striking inequalities concerning econom…
Branching points for transition pathways: Assessing responses of actors to challenges on pathways to a low carbon future
Meters, patents and expertise(s): Knowledge networks in the electricity meters industry, 1880–1914
Electrical technoscience and physics in transition, 1880–1920
Electrical innovations, authority and consulting expertise in late Victorian Britain
In this article I examine the practices of electrical engineering experts, with special reference to their role in the implementation of innovations in late Victorian electrical networks. I focus on the consulting work of two leading figures in the scientific and engineering world of the period, Alexander Kennedy and William Preece. Both were Fellows of the Royal Society and both developed large-scale consulting activities in the emerging electri…
Modern Technologies or Technological Modernities
Between Reason and Experience: Essays in Technology and Modernity, by Andrew Feenberg, Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2010, 248 pp., 2 illus., ISBN-13: 978-0-262-51425-5, $22.00/£15.95 (paper
Introduction to the special issue “Trust, mistrust, distrust, and trust-building in the nuclear sector: Historical and comparative experience from Europe”
Trust is essential for successful participatory policymaking in high-risk industries, such as nuclear energy and radioactive waste management. However, while efforts at building trust are omnipresent in policy practice, the downsides of excessive trust and the potential virtues of mistrust and distrust are poorly recognised by practitioners, and remain under-researched in social science scholarship. This special issue contributes to filling the r…
Experts and Peripheries: Ongoing Research and Future Challenges
Based on existing research on Spain and Greece, the essay is focused upon the activity of experts in criminal courts and advisory committees. Following the experts in these settings, we offer examples of their roles in governing techno-sciences in societies of the European periphery. We highlight the tensions between the creative powers of localities and the movement of expert knowledge in a world marked by striking inequalities concerning econom…
Meters, patents and expertise(s): Knowledge networks in the electricity meters industry, 1880–1914
Electrical technoscience and physics in transition, 1880–1920
Electrical innovations, authority and consulting expertise in late Victorian Britain
In this article I examine the practices of electrical engineering experts, with special reference to their role in the implementation of innovations in late Victorian electrical networks. I focus on the consulting work of two leading figures in the scientific and engineering world of the period, Alexander Kennedy and William Preece. Both were Fellows of the Royal Society and both developed large-scale consulting activities in the emerging electri…
Modern Technologies or Technological Modernities
Between Reason and Experience: Essays in Technology and Modernity, by Andrew Feenberg, Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2010, 248 pp., 2 illus., ISBN-13: 978-0-262-51425-5, $22.00/£15.95 (paper
Branching points for transition pathways: Assessing responses of actors to challenges on pathways to a low carbon future
Meters, patents and expertise(s): Knowledge networks in the electricity meters industry, 1880–1914
Electrical technoscience and physics in transition, 1880–1920
Harbours of crisis and consent: The technopolitics of coastal infrastructure in colonial Cyprus, 1895–1908
By the late 1800s British colonial rule in Cyprus was experiencing both a socio-economic and a legitimacy crisis. Britain’s development projects were intended to quell the crisis and consolidate colonial authority. Famagusta Harbour construction was an integral part of that programme, but it antagonised wealthy and influential Cypriots in Larnaca. They believed that such infrastructure would undermine the importance of Larnaca harbour and threate…
Experts and Peripheries: Ongoing Research and Future Challenges
Based on existing research on Spain and Greece, the essay is focused upon the activity of experts in criminal courts and advisory committees. Following the experts in these settings, we offer examples of their roles in governing techno-sciences in societies of the European periphery. We highlight the tensions between the creative powers of localities and the movement of expert knowledge in a world marked by striking inequalities concerning econom…
Fertilising Farms and Institutional Authorities: Experts, Regime-Making and Agricultural Politics in Greece, 1945–2000
The article studies the politics of expertise and the co-production of sociotechnical imaginaries, expertise identities and public policies in agriculture and the use of fertilisers in Greece between the years 1945 and 2000. By applying the concept of the co-productionist idiom, the processes of appropriation will be studied and dynamic processes in postwar Greece are demonstrated. The study argues that experts functioned not only as mediators bu…
Steering the ‘C-Day’: Insights from the rapid, planned transition of the UK's natural gas conversion programme
Marconi's legal battles: Discursive, textual, and material entanglements
The paper offers an account of how the meaning of the concept of "invention" and "inventorship" is not stable and predefined but rather constructed during patent disputes. In particular, I look at how that construction takes place in adversarial settings like the courts of law. I argue that key notions of intellectual property law like invention and inventorship are as constructed as technoscientific claims are in laboratories. Courts should thus…
Governing Technosciences in the Age of Grand Challenges: A European Historical Perspective on the Entanglement of Science, Technology, Diplomacy, and Democracy
This article explores the co-shaping of global challenges and governance of science and technology through time. It aims to address the issue of governance of science and technology as governing through local (regional, national) and international negotiations and institutions. At the center of the analysis is the entanglement of technology, science, diplomacy, and diplomatic relations, which we explore through the concept of science diplomacy. W…
An agenda for future Social Sciences and Humanities research on energy efficiency: 100 Priority Research Questions
Decades of techno-economic energy policymaking and research have meant evidence from the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH)—including critical reflections on what changing a society’s relation to energy (efficiency) even means—have been underutilised. In particular, (i) the SSH have too often been sidelined and/or narrowly pigeonholed by policymakers, funders, and other decision-makers when driving research agendas, and (ii) the setting of SSH-…
From National to Cosmopolitan Hydrocarbons Resource Space: Hydrocarbons, Transnational Politics and the State in Greece
In this paper, we historicise the co-production of regional visions and governing practices for hydrocarbon explorations in the particular case of Greece. The paper aims to contribute a new understanding of state-building processes by studying how visions and infrastructures steered energy policies, (re-)configured hydrocarbon resource spaces and shaped technopolitical order in the Eastern Mediterranean. Chronologically, the storyline is divided …
Introduction to the special issue “Trust, mistrust, distrust, and trust-building in the nuclear sector: Historical and comparative experience from Europe”
Trust is essential for successful participatory policymaking in high-risk industries, such as nuclear energy and radioactive waste management. However, while efforts at building trust are omnipresent in policy practice, the downsides of excessive trust and the potential virtues of mistrust and distrust are poorly recognised by practitioners, and remain under-researched in social science scholarship. This special issue contributes to filling the r…
‘Tele-Crisis’: Co-production of Crisis and Information and Communication Technologies
This article introduces a special issue of the journal Science Technology and Society which comprises seven articles problematizing the co-production of "crisis" and ICT since the 1970s
Beyond toxic toxicity”: Using social representations theory to examine lay explanations of food toxicity, risk and quality
International audience
Between Knowing and Acting: How Experts Constructed and Communicated Uncertainty During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed multiple uncertainties shaping scientific reasoning, institutional coordination, and public communication. This article examines how three expert communities in Greece – clinicians, laboratory scientists, and institutional public health officials – constructed and communicated uncertainty. Drawing on 31 semi-structured interviews conducted between January and October 2024, we analyze how uncertainty was perceived, to…
Farming Between Local Specificities and Structural Discrepancies: Perceived Injustices and the Culture of Resistance in Sustainable Agrifood Transitions
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