Alexandra Bakalaki
Biographic Data
| ID | 75283 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexandra Bakalaki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Bakalaki |
| SIGNATURE | BAKALAKI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Plagiarism, rote memorizing and other "bad" habits in the Greek University and beyond
Drawing on my experience as professor of Anthropology in Greece, this paper focuses on student practices like rote learning and plagiarism academics commonly consider inimical to meaningful learning, intellectual empowerment and the cultivation of critical independent thinking. In this paper I refrain from viewing such practices from the standard academic perspective according to which they must be eradicated, and try to appreciate them from the …
Chemtrails, Crisis, and Loss in an Interconnected World
The narrative whereby the earth's atmosphere is systematically and deliberately sprayed with hazardous chemicals became increasingly popular in Greece after the onset of the economic crisis in 2009. This article explores concern over and mobilization against aerial spraying in Greece, drawing on research in relevant websites and interviews. More specifically, I examine the connections people draw between the alleged spraying operations in the Gre…
Coffee Futures/Neyse Halim, Çiksin Falim. Directed by Zeynep Devrim Gűrsel
On the Ambiguities of Altruism and the Domestication of Emotions
no abstract
A Different Kind of Knowledge? Learning Anthropology in the Greek University System
Students drawn to anthropology value it more as a discourse providing a critical perspective on nationalist, ethnocentric representations of Greek society than as a source of knowledge about "others." They appreciate the highly-regarded theoretical discourse of modern anthropology that promises to enlighten them about their "own" society and enable them to assume a cosmopolitan perspective that validates their own modernity and objectifies their …
L'envie, moteur de l'imitation
Les anthropologues en général et les ethnographes de Grèce ont postulé que la construction de l'identité culturelle est avant tout un processus culturel. En conséquence, ils ont porté peu d'intérêt aux stratégies et pratiques mises en œuvre par les gens pour exprimer leur ressemblance entre eux-mêmes et les autres, qu'ils soient, dans la société, leurs inférieurs ou leurs supérieurs. L'auteur s'appuie, d'une part, sur des exemples tirés à la fois…
Locked into security, keyed into modernity
Consensus among Greeks claims that the rates of burglaries and thefts have been increasing during the last ten years and that this constitutes a major social problem for which immigrants, and, especially Albanians, are responsible. This article theorizes that the selection of burglaries as source of risk deploys the understanding that the flip side of the increase in property crime is increased affluence and that both are part of modernization. T…
Students, Natives, Colleagues
Gender-Related Discourses and Representations of Cultural Specificity in Nineteenth-Century and Twentieth-Century Greece
The nineteenth-century discourse on women's education in Greece was a part of a more general nationalist ideology aimed at promoting Greece's westernization. Arguments put forth by members of the educated elite concerning the quantity, form, and content of girls' schooling generally appealed to European examples. Curiously, many of this discourse's central ideas about the nature and callings of womanhood appear to be strikingly similar to gender-…
Urbanization and Kinship in Modern GreeceThe Making of the Modern Greek Family
L'envie, moteur de l'imitation
Les anthropologues en général et les ethnographes de Grèce ont postulé que la construction de l'identité culturelle est avant tout un processus culturel. En conséquence, ils ont porté peu d'intérêt aux stratégies et pratiques mises en œuvre par les gens pour exprimer leur ressemblance entre eux-mêmes et les autres, qu'ils soient, dans la société, leurs inférieurs ou leurs supérieurs. L'auteur s'appuie, d'une part, sur des exemples tirés à la fois…
Students, Natives, Colleagues
Gender-Related Discourses and Representations of Cultural Specificity in Nineteenth-Century and Twentieth-Century Greece
The nineteenth-century discourse on women's education in Greece was a part of a more general nationalist ideology aimed at promoting Greece's westernization. Arguments put forth by members of the educated elite concerning the quantity, form, and content of girls' schooling generally appealed to European examples. Curiously, many of this discourse's central ideas about the nature and callings of womanhood appear to be strikingly similar to gender-…
Locked into security, keyed into modernity
Consensus among Greeks claims that the rates of burglaries and thefts have been increasing during the last ten years and that this constitutes a major social problem for which immigrants, and, especially Albanians, are responsible. This article theorizes that the selection of burglaries as source of risk deploys the understanding that the flip side of the increase in property crime is increased affluence and that both are part of modernization. T…
On the Ambiguities of Altruism and the Domestication of Emotions
no abstract
A Different Kind of Knowledge? Learning Anthropology in the Greek University System
Students drawn to anthropology value it more as a discourse providing a critical perspective on nationalist, ethnocentric representations of Greek society than as a source of knowledge about "others." They appreciate the highly-regarded theoretical discourse of modern anthropology that promises to enlighten them about their "own" society and enable them to assume a cosmopolitan perspective that validates their own modernity and objectifies their …
Chemtrails, Crisis, and Loss in an Interconnected World
The narrative whereby the earth's atmosphere is systematically and deliberately sprayed with hazardous chemicals became increasingly popular in Greece after the onset of the economic crisis in 2009. This article explores concern over and mobilization against aerial spraying in Greece, drawing on research in relevant websites and interviews. More specifically, I examine the connections people draw between the alleged spraying operations in the Gre…
Urbanization and Kinship in Modern GreeceThe Making of the Modern Greek Family
Urbanization and Kinship in Modern GreeceThe Making of the Modern Greek Family
Gender-Related Discourses and Representations of Cultural Specificity in Nineteenth-Century and Twentieth-Century Greece
The nineteenth-century discourse on women's education in Greece was a part of a more general nationalist ideology aimed at promoting Greece's westernization. Arguments put forth by members of the educated elite concerning the quantity, form, and content of girls' schooling generally appealed to European examples. Curiously, many of this discourse's central ideas about the nature and callings of womanhood appear to be strikingly similar to gender-…
Students, Natives, Colleagues
Locked into security, keyed into modernity
Consensus among Greeks claims that the rates of burglaries and thefts have been increasing during the last ten years and that this constitutes a major social problem for which immigrants, and, especially Albanians, are responsible. This article theorizes that the selection of burglaries as source of risk deploys the understanding that the flip side of the increase in property crime is increased affluence and that both are part of modernization. T…
L'envie, moteur de l'imitation
Les anthropologues en général et les ethnographes de Grèce ont postulé que la construction de l'identité culturelle est avant tout un processus culturel. En conséquence, ils ont porté peu d'intérêt aux stratégies et pratiques mises en œuvre par les gens pour exprimer leur ressemblance entre eux-mêmes et les autres, qu'ils soient, dans la société, leurs inférieurs ou leurs supérieurs. L'auteur s'appuie, d'une part, sur des exemples tirés à la fois…
A Different Kind of Knowledge? Learning Anthropology in the Greek University System
Students drawn to anthropology value it more as a discourse providing a critical perspective on nationalist, ethnocentric representations of Greek society than as a source of knowledge about "others." They appreciate the highly-regarded theoretical discourse of modern anthropology that promises to enlighten them about their "own" society and enable them to assume a cosmopolitan perspective that validates their own modernity and objectifies their …
On the Ambiguities of Altruism and the Domestication of Emotions
no abstract
Coffee Futures/Neyse Halim, Çiksin Falim. Directed by Zeynep Devrim Gűrsel
Chemtrails, Crisis, and Loss in an Interconnected World
The narrative whereby the earth's atmosphere is systematically and deliberately sprayed with hazardous chemicals became increasingly popular in Greece after the onset of the economic crisis in 2009. This article explores concern over and mobilization against aerial spraying in Greece, drawing on research in relevant websites and interviews. More specifically, I examine the connections people draw between the alleged spraying operations in the Gre…
Plagiarism, rote memorizing and other "bad" habits in the Greek University and beyond
Drawing on my experience as professor of Anthropology in Greece, this paper focuses on student practices like rote learning and plagiarism academics commonly consider inimical to meaningful learning, intellectual empowerment and the cultivation of critical independent thinking. In this paper I refrain from viewing such practices from the standard academic perspective according to which they must be eradicated, and try to appreciate them from the …
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