Elia Apostolopoulou

Happy that the paper I co-authored with @eliapos.bsky.social is published in Geoforum!
Neoliberal wildfire recovery transforms environmental and spatial governance and rural economies with special attention to marginal rural livelihoods in the Mediterranean-tied to land and forest resources.

Book cover image of protesters holding a yellow banner; book cover border is black with white writing

Black text on white background: Dedication in the book reads ‘To environmental defenders everywhere’

📚Thrilled to get my hard copy of the new #PoliticalEcology Handbook, expertly put together by @drjesshope.bsky.social @eliapos.bsky.social & @yolandaariadne.bsky.social A go-to resource to get the latest developments in the field⬇️

The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative - Infrastructures and Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road; This book explores the unequal ways that China’s Belt and Road Initiative, comm...

Our new Open Access book w/ @brisunipress.bsky.social is out:

"The Material Geographies of the Belt & Road Initiative: Infrastructures & Political Ecologies of the New Silk Road"

edited w/ H Cheng, @invisiblemapper.bsky.social & @alanwiig.bsky.social

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-material...

New open access article by Caroline Birkner and Elia Apostolopoulou (@eliapos.bsky.social) out now! This paper investigates how collective housing systems create multicultural urban spaces in European cities.

Read more 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1753...

#HousingCrisis #CollaborativeHousing

Freedom Flotilla Refuses Silence After Attack: ‘Madleen’ Will Sail for Gaza - Freedom Flotilla MALTA | May 15, 2025 – In the face of state terrorism, media silence, and mounting global complicity, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) today announces that its mission to break the illegal Israeli...

Freedom Flotilla Refuses Silence After Attack: ‘Madleen’ Will Sail for #Gaza.
freedomflotilla.org/2025/05/15/f...
Help us challenge & end the #GazaBlockade, part of the ongoing #Nakba against #Palestinians. #AllEyesOnDeck.

Aid ship aiming to break Israel’s siege of Gaza sets sail from Italy The 12-person crew, which includes climate activist Greta Thunberg, expects to take seven days to reach Gaza.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

#FreedomFlotilla #Madleen #BreakTheSiege #AllEyesOnDeck

We propose a collective dialogue that explores and reorients conceptual and methodological possibilities to capture the complex interplay of geoeconomic and geopolitical forces within what we term ‘global infrastructure-led urbanization’

We have a New Paper!

"A dialogue on global infrastructure-led urbanization: Concepts and reorientations" in Dialogues in Human Geography

With Simone Vegliò, @andretwp.bsky.social , Francesca Governa and @eliapos.bsky.social

Open Access here >> journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

The workers united will never be defeated!

Our strike action finishes at Sheffield after membership of our UCU branch @sheffielducu.bsky.social accept offer from management for no compulsory redundancies as a result of organisational restructures this year (and no pay deductions to be taken!)

A dialogue on global infrastructure-led urbanization: Concepts and reorientations - Simone Vegliò, Jonathan Silver, Andrea Pollio, Francesca Governa, Elia Apostolopoulou, 2025 The territorial and technological geographies of the planet are being rapidly and profoundly transformed and restructured in the 21st century. A massive surge o...

Looks like we have a new paper out journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... with some collective reflections on global infrastructure and cities / w brilliant @eliapos.bsky.social Jon Silver, Francesca Governa, and Simone Vegliò

Deadline this Monday! Great PhD opportunity based at
@ic-cep.bsky.social under the supervision of Adriana Ford and me

Black History Month | Reading List During the final week of Black History Month we're offering a collection featuring both new and classic titles on Black History.  All titles below are marked down 40%. Buy two or more from this list a...

Walter Rodney's ambitious masterwork of political economy, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is part of our Black History Month sale.

Rodney makes the unflinching case that African maldevelopment is not a natural feature, but a direct product of imperial extraction.

Just sustainability in an interlinked world? – Apply now for Summer School for mid-career scholars Under the heading "Justice in an interlinked world: revisiting rural-urban and South-North relationships in sustainability transformations", a Summer School in autumn 2025 will be dedicated to questio...

🚨 Summer School 2025 alert 🚨

Justice in an Interlinked World: Revisiting Rural-Urban & South-North Relationships in Sustainability Transformations 🌍⚖️

📅 09-11 Sept 2025
📍 Location: Dresden, Germany
🎯 For mid-career scholars (www.ioer.de/en/press/new...)
📝 Apply by: 15 March 2025

PhD in Exploring environmental justice in fire governance through arts-based approaches (closing date 3 Mar 2025) - Leverhulme Wildfires Centre PhD opportunity with the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society at Imperial College London Title: Exploring environmental justice in fire governance through arts-based approaches   P...

We have an exciting new PhD opportunity, exploring #environmentaljustice in #firegovernance through arts-based approaches.
Based at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, supervised by Adriana Ford and @eliapos.bsky.social
Apply by 3rd March
#politicalecology
centreforwildfires.org/news/phd-in-...

We have paused all journal-related communications on X, and Bluesky will now be the primary outlet for updates related to Dialogues in Human Geography. Give us a follow here on Bluesky!

Exploring environmental justice in fire governance through arts-based approaches at Imperial College London on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Exploring environmental justice in fire governance through arts-based approaches at Imperial College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

This is a great PhD opportunity—consider applying if you are interested in environmental justice, the political ecology of fires & art-based approaches. Supervised by me & Adriana Ford! @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @centrewildfires.bsky.social @ic-cep.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Academic research cannot change the word but we must act as if it could - just as has been widely said about art.

I am glad that the people of Piraeus -without whom it would have been impossible to conduct this research- have been engaging with my research throughout this time: www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...

The dragon’s head or Athens’ sacrifice zone? Spatiotemporal disjuncture, logistical disruptions, and urban infrastructural justice in Piraeus port, Greece Piraeus Port is the biggest port in Greece and ranks among the world’s largest passenger ports. By drawing on four years of in-depth ethnographic research and a deep familiarity with the area, I ai...

My paper on Piraeus port is now open access in Urban Geography. It tackles conceptual questions that have been driving my research the last 5 years, while trying to bridge academic work with political engagement—rooted in a place I've known since childhood: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....