ANTONIS VRADIS Research Fellow, crisis scape.net Nationality: Greek/British E mail: a.vradis@lse.ac.uk Web page: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/vradis EDUCATION 2013 PhD London School of Economics (Geography) Thesis title: Patterns of mass urban violence concentration as a spatial contract ; a spatio temporal study of contentious politics in the neighbourho of Exarcheia, Athens, Greece (1974 2011). 2008 MSc London School of Economics (Human Geography) 2006 MSc London School of Economics (Cities, Space and Society) 2004 BA University of Leeds (Sociology) PUBLICATIONS Books: 2011 Vradis, A. and Dalakoglou, D (eds). Between a Present Yet to Go and a Future Yet to Come: Revolt and Crisis in Greece. Oakland &Edinburgh: AK Press. Journal articles: # invited articles * refereed articles # * 2013 Vradis, A. Still? CITY 17 (5): 671 673. # 2013 Vradis, A., Douzinas, C. and Kouki, H. The arrest of Golden Dawn's leader w do little to counter institutional racism. The Guardian. # 2013 Vradis, A. and Kouki, H. The reality that gave birth to the Golden Dawn. Al Jazeera English. # 2013 Vradis, A. Paradigm Shift or Cosmetic Change? Fria Tidningen (in Swedish). # * 2013 Vradis, A. Review of Philosophy and Resistance in the Crisis: Greece and the Future of Europe (by Costas Douzinas). Antipode Foundation.
# 2013 Vradis, A. A crisis of presence: the war on Greek cities. Open Democracy. 2013 Vradis, A. and Kouki, H. In Greece, things move fast except justice for Kos Sakkas. The Guardian. # 2013 Vradis, A. Athenian space battles. Al Jazeera English. # 2013 Vradis, A. A rock or a hard place? The Greek plexus of power decides. Al Jazeera English. 2012 Vradis, A. The Right against the city. Antipode Foundation. 2012 Vradis, A. Terminating the spatial contract. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space open site. # 2012 Vradis, A. The day after the day after tomorrow. City analysis.net. # * 2012 Vradis, A. Imagination against the machine [Review of the book Imaginal Machines by Stephen Shukaitis]. Ephemera 12 (3):372 377. # 2012 Vradis, A. Greece: civil war, but not as you know it. Al Jazeera English. # 2012 Vradis, A. and Kouki, H. Greece s tax dodging crackdown is a soap opera for the people. The Guardian. # 2011 Vradis, A. Greece: the shape of things to come? City analysis.net. # 2011 Vradis, A. and Kouki, H. Ordinary Greeks are taking matters into their own hands. The Guardian. # 2011 Vradis, A. and Kouki, H. Grassroots politics flourish in Greek turmoil. Al Jazeera English. * 2010 Vradis, A. and Dalakoglou, D. Legacies of the December 2008 uprising on the cityscape of Athens. Upping the Anti 10. # * 2009 Vradis, A. Greece s Winter of Discontent. CITY 13 (1):146 149. # 2009 Vradis, A. Sailing away from the shores of normality: on the Greek revolt. Na Punch 12. # * 2008 Vradi, E. and Vradis, A. Alters Grecs en Queue de Peloton Européen. Politiqu 56. Book chapters and encyclopaedia entries: # 2013 Vradis, A. The end of meaning, the meaning of end. In Shannon, D. (ed) The E of the World As We Know It? Snapshots of the Crisis, Austerity, and the Movements Against. Oakland &Edinburgh: AK Press. * 2012 Vradis, A. Wrioting cities: some candid questions on researching and writing a urban riots. In K. Robinson, A. Kaasa and G. Gassner (eds) Writing Cities II. London: LSE. # 2012 Vradis, A. A funny thing happened on the way to the square. In Lunghi, A. and Wheeler, S. (eds) Occupy Everything! Reflections on why it s kicking off everywhere, New York: Autonomedia.
# 2011 Vradis, A. Breaching the spatial contract. In Giovanopoulos, C. and Mitropoul D. (eds) Democracy Under Construction: From the Streets to the Squares. Athens: Asynechia Publications (in Greek). # * 2010 Vradis, A. and Dalakoglou, D. Greece, uprising December 2008. Entry in The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to Present. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. # * 2009 Vradis, A. and Kirn, G. The alterglobalisation movement today. In New Public Spaces: Dissensual Political and Artistic Practices in the PostYugoslav Context. Maastricht: Jan van Eyck Academie. # * 2009 Vradis, A. Infoshops. Entry in The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to Present. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. # * 2009 Vradis, A. and Dalakoglou, D. Greece, Anarchism in. Entry in The Internation Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to Present. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.
ACADEMIC HONOURS AND AWARDS 2012 ESRC ESRC Future Research Leaders Scheme Project title: The City at a Time of Crisis: Transformations of Public Spaces in Athens Greece. Research Fellow. Project PI: Dr D. Dalakoglou, Sussex Anthropology. 2008 ESRC Postgraduate studentship funding, 1+3 award 2005 RGS John Radford Award in Geographical Photography (runner up) PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Alternatives Editor CITY, Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action Associate Editor The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to Present, Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. Review Board Journal of Social Justice Member Association of American Geographers Royal Geographical Society Referee CITY, Ephemera
TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2011 2012 LSE Geography, Methods in Spatial and Social Analysis Compulsory 1st year undergraduate course. Class teacher, student group advisor. 2011 2012 LSE Geography, Research Project Advisor Student group advisor for final year undergraduate research project. 2008 LSE IT, Teaching Assistant Nvivo and Atlas.ti expert. PANELS AND INVITED LECTURES (SELECT LIST) # invited lectures 2013 Session organiser (with Dimitris Dalakoglou), The Urban at a time of crisis. Angeles AAG. # 2013 Panellist, Why it is still kicking off everywhere. CITY session, Los Angeles AAG. # 2012 December's revolt as an epilogue and a foreword. Presentation at the Forum fo Civil Society and Social Movement Research (CSM), Department of Sociolog Göthenburg University. 2012 Exarcheia Now! Conference hosted at Birkbeck College, University of London Conference organiser and panel chair. # 2012 Panellist, Beyond Cities for People, Not for Profit. CITY session, New York City AAG. # 2011 Panellist, City! Progressive Urban Praxis Now. CITY session, Seattle AAG.