Costis Hadjimichalis
Crises Spaces. Structures, struggles and solidarity in Southern Europe and Radical Geographies.
Lecture
Thursday November 06th 2025
14:00 (GMT+2)
Mezzanine, Post Graduate Room
Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly
Pedion Areos,Volos
Lecture within the framework of the courses
South: Space and non hegemonic paradigms of knowledge
Tutor: Iris Lykourioti
Ektos Polis: Researching the Urban otherwise: KTOS POLIS: Wanderings through ExtendedUrbanisation
Tutor: Metaxia Markaki
Biography
Costis Hadjimichalis is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Geography, Harokopio University Athens. He previously held a position at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and has been visiting professor at Roskilde University (Denmark), UCLA and Berkeley (USA), Panteion University, Athens (Greece), Oslo National University (Norway), NIRSA(Ireland), Macquarie University (Australia) and Universitá deggli Studi di Padova (Italy). His current research and publications concern uneven geographical development, local and regional development, radical geography, democracy and spatial justice and landscape analysis. He has been section editor of Regional Development for the International Encyclopaedia of Human Geographer, Elsevier and founding editor of the Greek journal Geographies. Among his recent books are Space in Left Thought (co-author Dina Vaiou, in Greek 2012), Debt Crisis and Land Dispossession (2014 in Greek, 2016 in German), Geographical Issues suited to non-geographers, (2016 in Greek), Crises Spaces. Structures, struggles and solidarity in Southern Europe, London: Routledge (2017, paperback 2019, modified Greek edition 2018) and Sketching urbanities in the Mediterranean (in Greek, 2021).