Leonidas Oikonomakis
When a wind turbine flaps its blades in China: balsa extractivism in Ecuadorian Amazonia, and the energy transition.
Lecture
Tuesday November 06th 2026
16:00 (GMT+2)
Mezzanine, Post Graduate Room
Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly
Pedion Areos,Volos
Lecture within the framework of the course South: Space and non hegemonic paradigms of knowledge
Tutor: Iris Lykourioti
CV
Leonidas Oikonomakis is Assistant Professor of Sociology of the Global South at the University of Crete. He also teaches History of Latin American Countries at the Hellenic Open University. He holds a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence (EUI) and has previously been a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Anthropology at Durham University, at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, and in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is the author of the book Political Strategies and Social Movements in Latin America: The Zapatistas and Bolivian Cocaleros (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), the Greek translation of which was published by «ΑκυβέρνητεςΠολιτείες» under the title ΣαντονΖαπάτακαιτονΤσε; ΟιZapatistas καιοιΒολιβιανοίcocaleros(2020), as well as being a (co-)scriptwriter and researcher for Skouries: an ethnographic comic about the mining infrastructure in Chalkidiki (ΕκδόσειςτουΚάμπου, 2024). He has received funding for his research from the Marie Sklodowska Curie Individual Fellowship (2023, VU Amsterdam), the COFUND Marie Curie Junior Research Fellowship (2018, Durham), and the NWO/Dutch Research Council (2024, VU Amsterdam).