Anna Carastathis
Biographic Data
| ID | 645733 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Carastathis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Carastathis |
| SIGNATURE | CARASTATHIS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Feminist Autonomous Centre for research, Athens, Greece |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 149 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The criminalisation of freedom of movement: An abolition feminist analysis
In EU policy debates and mainstream discourses, the criminalisation of migration and its facilitation are framed as necessary for the protection of ‘vulnerable victims.’ Building on abolition feminism as a critical epistemological and political foundation, we propose a critique of the criminalisation of facilitation and migration which synthesises border abolition with prison abolition, and which conceptualises it as part of global border aparthe…
Pandemic Posters
Tabloid-sized posters have long been used by self-organized political groups in Athens (and in other urban centers in Greece) to address the public with often quite lengthy statements concerning a range of political issues, yet it is no exaggeration to say that during the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic, they almost exclusively focused on the state’s pandemic management. This article discusses these pandemic posters, which the author encount…
Watching Photographs: Inhabiting a Queer Feminist Perspective to Contest Reproductions of the 'Refugee Crisis
Journalists have claimed that the 2015 European ‘refugee crisis’ is one of the most photographed crises in human history. It is important to understand what kind of messages these photographs convey, how they reproduce the hegemonic narrative, and how they become commodities. In this paper, we critique the visual economy of the ‘refugee crisis’ from a queer feminist perspective through the lens of reproduction. We show how the reproduction of ima…
Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory. Patricia Hill Collins. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, 2019 (ISBN 9781478005421)
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Banish Those Other Borders': Reframing concepts, coalescing (trans)feminisms
Invited book review of _Translocational belongings: intersectional dilemmas and social inequalities_, by Floya Anthias
So many bordered gazes: Black Mediterranean geographies of/against anti-Black representations in/by Fortress Europe
Vulnerable Refugees' and 'Voluntary Deportations: Performing the Hotspot, Embodying Its Violence
In this paper, we intervene in naturalised distinctions based on problematic assumptions about agency and choice that underpin the global regime of migration management: namely, that categories of human mobility can be ontologically and juridically distinguished from one another in terms of the degrees or forms of freedom they embody, and that different rights legitimately adhere to each. Focussing on the ‘hotspots’ instituted on 5 islands in the…
Against the wall: Introduction to the Special Feature: Inscriptions of ‘crisis’: Street art, graffiti, and urban interventions
In the imaginary of nation-states, and in much (forced) migration and border studies, the wall is the metaphor par excellence of ‘hardened, securitised’ and, ultimately, ‘violent borders’ (Jones 2016). It is not incidental that the previous US President’s attempts to further institutionalise virulent anti-immigrant racism found purchase in the rallying cry ‘Build a Wall.’ While they function to restrict movement, walls, fences, and other border b…
Reproducing Refugees: Photographia of a Crisis
Since 2015, the ‘refugee crisis’ is possibly the most photographed humanitarian crises in history. Photographs taken, for instance, in Lesvos, Greece, and Bodrum, Turkey, were instrumental in generating waves of public support for, and populist opposition to “welcoming refugees” in Europe. But photographs do not circulate in a vacuum; this book explores the visual economy of the ‘refugee crisis,’ showing how the reproduction of images is structur…
Hotspots of resistance in a bordered reality
In this paper, we examine how bordered reality is being imposed and resisted in the context of where we are placed right now, 'Greece'. Drawing on ethnographic research and discourse analysis, conducted in Lesvos, Samos, and Athens (from March to September 2016), we examine how resistance to a bordered reality took place, as islands in the north Aegean, as well as Greek and European territories, were being remapped according to the logic of the h…
Methodological heteronormativity and the “refugee crisis”
All migration politics is reproductive politics. The nation-state project of controlling migration secures the racialised demographics of the nation, understood as a reproducible fact of the social
Crisis, What Crisis? Immigrants, Refugees, and Invisible Struggles
Different evocations of “crisis” create distinct categories that in turn evoke certain social reactions. After 2008 Greece became the epicentre of the “financial crisis”; since 2015 with the advent of the “refugee crisis,” it became the “hotspot of Europe.” What are the different vocabularies of crisis? Moreover, how have both representations of crisis facilitated humanitarian crises to become phenomena for European and transnational institutiona…
Gender Is the First Terrorist”: Homophobic and Transphobic Violence in Greece
Nesting Crises
Intersectionality: Origins, Contestations, Horizons
The Politics of Austerity and the Affective Economy of Hostility: Racialised Gendered Violence and Crises of Belonging in Greece
In this article I examine the friction between xenophobic discourses on migration and the crisis caused by the politics of austerity in Greece. On the one hand, an 'excessive' influx of migration is managed through violent means by the state and the para-state; on the other, a 'scarcity' of domestic resources is blamed for a 'rise' in racist attitudes, and the political ascent of a fascist movement-cum-parliamentary party, Xρνσή Aνγή (Golden Dawn…
Fortunes of Fraser
The Concept of Intersectionality in Feminist Theory
In feminist theory, intersectionality has become the predominant way of conceptualizing the relation between systems of oppression which construct our multiple identities and our social locations in hierarchies of power and privilege. The aim of this essay is to clarify the origins of intersectionality as a metaphor, and its theorization as a provisional concept in Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw's work, followed by its uptake and mainstreaming as a p…
Identity Categories as Potential Coalitions
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw ends her landmark essay “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color” with a normative claim about coalitions. She suggests that we should reconceptualize identity groups as “in fact coalitions,” or at least as “potential coalitions waiting to be formed.” In this essay, I explore this largely overlooked claim by combining philosophical analysis with archival research I …
Basements and Intersections
In this paper, I revisit Kimberlé Crenshaw's argument in “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex” (1989) to recover a companion metaphor that has been largely forgotten in the “mainstreaming” of intersectionality in (white‐dominated) feminist theory. In addition to the now‐famous intersection metaphor, Crenshaw offers the basement metaphor to show how—by privileging monistic, mutually exclusive, and analogically constituted categories o…
Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America: A Genealogy
The Concept of Intersectionality in Feminist Theory
In feminist theory, intersectionality has become the predominant way of conceptualizing the relation between systems of oppression which construct our multiple identities and our social locations in hierarchies of power and privilege. The aim of this essay is to clarify the origins of intersectionality as a metaphor, and its theorization as a provisional concept in Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw's work, followed by its uptake and mainstreaming as a p…
Vulnerable Refugees' and 'Voluntary Deportations: Performing the Hotspot, Embodying Its Violence
In this paper, we intervene in naturalised distinctions based on problematic assumptions about agency and choice that underpin the global regime of migration management: namely, that categories of human mobility can be ontologically and juridically distinguished from one another in terms of the degrees or forms of freedom they embody, and that different rights legitimately adhere to each. Focussing on the ‘hotspots’ instituted on 5 islands in the…
Hotspots of resistance in a bordered reality
In this paper, we examine how bordered reality is being imposed and resisted in the context of where we are placed right now, 'Greece'. Drawing on ethnographic research and discourse analysis, conducted in Lesvos, Samos, and Athens (from March to September 2016), we examine how resistance to a bordered reality took place, as islands in the north Aegean, as well as Greek and European territories, were being remapped according to the logic of the h…
Crisis, What Crisis? Immigrants, Refugees, and Invisible Struggles
Different evocations of “crisis” create distinct categories that in turn evoke certain social reactions. After 2008 Greece became the epicentre of the “financial crisis”; since 2015 with the advent of the “refugee crisis,” it became the “hotspot of Europe.” What are the different vocabularies of crisis? Moreover, how have both representations of crisis facilitated humanitarian crises to become phenomena for European and transnational institutiona…
Nesting Crises
The Politics of Austerity and the Affective Economy of Hostility: Racialised Gendered Violence and Crises of Belonging in Greece
In this article I examine the friction between xenophobic discourses on migration and the crisis caused by the politics of austerity in Greece. On the one hand, an 'excessive' influx of migration is managed through violent means by the state and the para-state; on the other, a 'scarcity' of domestic resources is blamed for a 'rise' in racist attitudes, and the political ascent of a fascist movement-cum-parliamentary party, Xρνσή Aνγή (Golden Dawn…
Basements and Intersections
In this paper, I revisit Kimberlé Crenshaw's argument in “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex” (1989) to recover a companion metaphor that has been largely forgotten in the “mainstreaming” of intersectionality in (white‐dominated) feminist theory. In addition to the now‐famous intersection metaphor, Crenshaw offers the basement metaphor to show how—by privileging monistic, mutually exclusive, and analogically constituted categories o…
So many bordered gazes: Black Mediterranean geographies of/against anti-Black representations in/by Fortress Europe
Against the wall: Introduction to the Special Feature: Inscriptions of ‘crisis’: Street art, graffiti, and urban interventions
In the imaginary of nation-states, and in much (forced) migration and border studies, the wall is the metaphor par excellence of ‘hardened, securitised’ and, ultimately, ‘violent borders’ (Jones 2016). It is not incidental that the previous US President’s attempts to further institutionalise virulent anti-immigrant racism found purchase in the rallying cry ‘Build a Wall.’ While they function to restrict movement, walls, fences, and other border b…
Methodological heteronormativity and the “refugee crisis”
All migration politics is reproductive politics. The nation-state project of controlling migration secures the racialised demographics of the nation, understood as a reproducible fact of the social
Watching Photographs: Inhabiting a Queer Feminist Perspective to Contest Reproductions of the 'Refugee Crisis
Journalists have claimed that the 2015 European ‘refugee crisis’ is one of the most photographed crises in human history. It is important to understand what kind of messages these photographs convey, how they reproduce the hegemonic narrative, and how they become commodities. In this paper, we critique the visual economy of the ‘refugee crisis’ from a queer feminist perspective through the lens of reproduction. We show how the reproduction of ima…
Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America: A Genealogy
Identity Categories as Potential Coalitions
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw ends her landmark essay “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color” with a normative claim about coalitions. She suggests that we should reconceptualize identity groups as “in fact coalitions,” or at least as “potential coalitions waiting to be formed.” In this essay, I explore this largely overlooked claim by combining philosophical analysis with archival research I …
Basements and Intersections
In this paper, I revisit Kimberlé Crenshaw's argument in “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex” (1989) to recover a companion metaphor that has been largely forgotten in the “mainstreaming” of intersectionality in (white‐dominated) feminist theory. In addition to the now‐famous intersection metaphor, Crenshaw offers the basement metaphor to show how—by privileging monistic, mutually exclusive, and analogically constituted categories o…
Fortunes of Fraser
The Concept of Intersectionality in Feminist Theory
In feminist theory, intersectionality has become the predominant way of conceptualizing the relation between systems of oppression which construct our multiple identities and our social locations in hierarchies of power and privilege. The aim of this essay is to clarify the origins of intersectionality as a metaphor, and its theorization as a provisional concept in Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw's work, followed by its uptake and mainstreaming as a p…
The Politics of Austerity and the Affective Economy of Hostility: Racialised Gendered Violence and Crises of Belonging in Greece
In this article I examine the friction between xenophobic discourses on migration and the crisis caused by the politics of austerity in Greece. On the one hand, an 'excessive' influx of migration is managed through violent means by the state and the para-state; on the other, a 'scarcity' of domestic resources is blamed for a 'rise' in racist attitudes, and the political ascent of a fascist movement-cum-parliamentary party, Xρνσή Aνγή (Golden Dawn…
Intersectionality: Origins, Contestations, Horizons
Nesting Crises
Methodological heteronormativity and the “refugee crisis”
All migration politics is reproductive politics. The nation-state project of controlling migration secures the racialised demographics of the nation, understood as a reproducible fact of the social
Crisis, What Crisis? Immigrants, Refugees, and Invisible Struggles
Different evocations of “crisis” create distinct categories that in turn evoke certain social reactions. After 2008 Greece became the epicentre of the “financial crisis”; since 2015 with the advent of the “refugee crisis,” it became the “hotspot of Europe.” What are the different vocabularies of crisis? Moreover, how have both representations of crisis facilitated humanitarian crises to become phenomena for European and transnational institutiona…
Gender Is the First Terrorist”: Homophobic and Transphobic Violence in Greece
Reproducing Refugees: Photographia of a Crisis
Since 2015, the ‘refugee crisis’ is possibly the most photographed humanitarian crises in history. Photographs taken, for instance, in Lesvos, Greece, and Bodrum, Turkey, were instrumental in generating waves of public support for, and populist opposition to “welcoming refugees” in Europe. But photographs do not circulate in a vacuum; this book explores the visual economy of the ‘refugee crisis,’ showing how the reproduction of images is structur…
Hotspots of resistance in a bordered reality
In this paper, we examine how bordered reality is being imposed and resisted in the context of where we are placed right now, 'Greece'. Drawing on ethnographic research and discourse analysis, conducted in Lesvos, Samos, and Athens (from March to September 2016), we examine how resistance to a bordered reality took place, as islands in the north Aegean, as well as Greek and European territories, were being remapped according to the logic of the h…
Against the wall: Introduction to the Special Feature: Inscriptions of ‘crisis’: Street art, graffiti, and urban interventions
In the imaginary of nation-states, and in much (forced) migration and border studies, the wall is the metaphor par excellence of ‘hardened, securitised’ and, ultimately, ‘violent borders’ (Jones 2016). It is not incidental that the previous US President’s attempts to further institutionalise virulent anti-immigrant racism found purchase in the rallying cry ‘Build a Wall.’ While they function to restrict movement, walls, fences, and other border b…
So many bordered gazes: Black Mediterranean geographies of/against anti-Black representations in/by Fortress Europe
Vulnerable Refugees' and 'Voluntary Deportations: Performing the Hotspot, Embodying Its Violence
In this paper, we intervene in naturalised distinctions based on problematic assumptions about agency and choice that underpin the global regime of migration management: namely, that categories of human mobility can be ontologically and juridically distinguished from one another in terms of the degrees or forms of freedom they embody, and that different rights legitimately adhere to each. Focussing on the ‘hotspots’ instituted on 5 islands in the…
Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory. Patricia Hill Collins. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, 2019 (ISBN 9781478005421)
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Banish Those Other Borders': Reframing concepts, coalescing (trans)feminisms
Invited book review of _Translocational belongings: intersectional dilemmas and social inequalities_, by Floya Anthias
Pandemic Posters
Tabloid-sized posters have long been used by self-organized political groups in Athens (and in other urban centers in Greece) to address the public with often quite lengthy statements concerning a range of political issues, yet it is no exaggeration to say that during the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic, they almost exclusively focused on the state’s pandemic management. This article discusses these pandemic posters, which the author encount…
Watching Photographs: Inhabiting a Queer Feminist Perspective to Contest Reproductions of the 'Refugee Crisis
Journalists have claimed that the 2015 European ‘refugee crisis’ is one of the most photographed crises in human history. It is important to understand what kind of messages these photographs convey, how they reproduce the hegemonic narrative, and how they become commodities. In this paper, we critique the visual economy of the ‘refugee crisis’ from a queer feminist perspective through the lens of reproduction. We show how the reproduction of ima…
The criminalisation of freedom of movement: An abolition feminist analysis
In EU policy debates and mainstream discourses, the criminalisation of migration and its facilitation are framed as necessary for the protection of ‘vulnerable victims.’ Building on abolition feminism as a critical epistemological and political foundation, we propose a critique of the criminalisation of facilitation and migration which synthesises border abolition with prison abolition, and which conceptualises it as part of global border aparthe…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (5 works) · Intersectionality (5 works) · Law (5 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (5 works)