Angelos Varvarousis

Short Bio

Angelos Varvarousis (b. 1983) lives and works in Athens and Barcelona. He is a researcher, curator and activist with a background in urban studies, human geography, and urban political ecology. He holds a PhD from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he also teaches the MA course “Commons and Social Movements.” He is a visiting lecturer at the “Performing Public Space” MA program of the Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts; at the University of Bayreuth where he collaborates with the “Plural Economics” research group; and at the National Technical University of Athens where he teaches at the course “Mutations of Urban Concepts.” His work has been presented in many international conferences across Europe and the Americas and he has published several articles in international peer-review journals as well as in major academic publishers such as Polity Press and Routledge. He has worked for international institutions, such as the British Council, the European Commission, and the Oslo Architecture Triennale. He collaborates with the Onassis Foundation since 2016 on various artistic, performative, and research projects. His view on the commons is rather unconventional, since he focuses more on temporary experiences of commoning, investigating their liberating and transformative potential. In order to explain such moments of transgression and change, he is developing the framework of “liminal commons,” in which he draws parallels between the archaic rituals of transition and the collective practices that develop in contemporary crisis-driven societies. Angelos is a passionate photographer, dancer and musician and he spends at least two months per year off-the-grid on remote Greek islands.

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Recent Publications:

PUBLICATIONS (peer review journals)

  1. Varvarousis, A. (2020). The rhizomatic expansion of Commoning through social movements. Ecological Economics: Special Issue: Commons and social movements-a vicious cycle? https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106596
  2. Foramitti, J., Varvarousis, A., Kallis, G. (2020). Transition within a transition: How cooperative platforms want to change the Sharing Economy. Sustainability Science https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-020-00804-y
  3. Varvarousis, A., Asara, V., Akbulut, B., (2020). Commons: a Social Outcomes of the movement of the squares. Social Movement Studies: Special Issue name: Movements and Activism beyond Post-Politics
  4. Varvarousis, A. (2019) Crisis, Liminality and the Decolonization of the Social Imaginary. Environment and Planning E. Special Issue: Geographies of Degrowth https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848619841809
  5. Varvarousis, A., Petridis, P., (2016). Local initiatives and their chances to drive socio-ecological change. Social cooperatives on the Greek island of Samothraki. Sustainable Mediterranean, Special Issue: No 73

PUBLICATIONS (book chapters)

  1. Varvarousis, A., Asara, V., Bengi, A. (2020) The Making of New Commons in Southern Europe: Afterlives of the Movement of the Squares. In Forno, F., Weiner, R. (eds) Sustainable Community Movement Organizations Solidarity Economies and Rhizomatic Practices, 1st Edition. London. Routledge
  2. Varvarousis, A., Kallis, G. (2017) Commoning against the crisis. In: Manuel Castells et al. (eds). Another Economy Is Possible. Culture and Economy in a Time of Crisis. Cambridge. Polity Press
  3. Varvarousis, A., Kallis, G. (2017) La construcción del procomún en respuesta a la crisis. In Manuel Castells et al. (eds). Otra economía es possible. Madrid: Alianza Editorial
  4. Varvarousis, A. (2016) Solidarity Economy. In D’alisa, G., Kallis, G., Demaria, F., eds. Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era. Athens, Ekdoseis ton sinadelfon (in Greek)
  5. Varvarousis, A., Koutrolikou, P., 2019. Decrecimiento y la Ciudad. In Adria, M., Galvez,M., Yuste, M. (eds) Donde Termina la Ciudad. Amsterdam. Arquine
  6. Varvarousis, A. (forthcoming) The Common(s). In Asara, V., Leonardi, E., Pellizzoni, L. (eds) Elgar Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics. Cheltenham. Elgar (under publication)
  7. Varvarousis, A., Petridis, P. (forthcoming) Degrowth Heterotopias in the Greek Archipelago. In Andriotis, K. (ed) Degrowth and Tourism. Bakeham Lane. CABI. (under publication)
  8. Varvarousis, Α. (2019) Who is Afraid of Change? In Liebeck, J., and Patton, C., (eds) Consider. Wellington, Societe Publishing

 

PUBLICATIONS (Monographs)

  1. Crisis Commons and Liminality: Modern Rituals of Transition in Greece. (PhD Thesis with ISBN). ISBN: 9788449080913
  2. Liminal Commons. (Under Review by ZED Books)

PUBLICATIONS (Officially Published Country Reports)

  1. Varvarousis, A., Temple, N., Galanos, C., Tsitsirigos, G., Bekridaki, G. (2017) Social and Solidarity Economy Report. Athens. British Council Publications. Available at: https://www.britishcouncil.org/society/social-enterprise/greece-social-and-solidarity-economy-report
  2. Varvarousis, A., Temple, N., Galanos, C., Tsitsirigos, G., Bekridaki, G. (2017) Social and Solidarity Economy Report. Athens. British Council Publications (in Greek). Available at: https://www.britishcouncil.org/society/social-enterprise/greece-social-and-solidarity-economy-report
  3. Varvarousis, A., Tsitsirigos, G. (2019) SOCIAL ENTERPRISES AND THEIR ECOSYSTEMS IN EUROPE: Country Report – Greece. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union. Available at https://europa.eu/!Qq64ny

 

PUBLICATIONS (other)

  1. Varvarousis, A., Petridis, P. (2015) Transformation or replication? Article published in Resilience.org and Degrowth.de
  2. Varvarousis, A., Koutrolikou, P. (2018) Degrowth and the City. E-flux Architecture, Oslo Trienalle 2019
  3. Varvarousis, A. (2018) Pedion Areos: A Park for Everyone? In Onassis Cultural Center Publications. FFF5, Athens
  4. Varvarousis, A. (2019) Who is afraid of change? In Societe Magazine and Consider Journal, New Zealand
  5. Varvarousis, A. (2020) Let’s water the tree of Solidarity against Coronavirus. In Undisciplined Environments blog