Staff profile

Deputy Director - Durham Global Security Institute

Research Interests

My research interests focus on Gender, Politics and Migration in Greece. I have published a monograph on Gender and Identity and since 2006 I have been working on themes like terrorism, cosmopolitanism, globalisation, power assymetries and the fragility of the social contract. I am currently conducting research on migration and refugee issues, the Greek crisis and South European politics.

• Gender
• Greece
• Identity
• Politics
• Migration and Refugee Issues

Authored book

• Kirtsoglou, E. (2003). For the love of women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relationships in a Greek Provincial town. Routledge

Chapter in book

• Kirtsoglou, E. (2021). Anticipatory Nostalgia and Nomadic Temporality: A Case Study of Chronocracy in the Crypto-colony. In E. Kirtsoglou, & B. Simpson (Eds.), The time of anthropology: studies of contemporary chronopolitics (159-186). Routledge
• Kirtsoglou, E., & Simpson, B. (2021). Introduction. In E. Kirtsoglou, & B. Simpson (Eds.), The time of anthropology: studies of contemporary chronopolitics (1-30). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003087199
• Kirtsoglou, E. (2018). We are all human: Cosmopolitanism as a radically political, moral project. In N. Rapport, & H. Wardle (Eds.), An anthropology of the Enlightenment : moral social relations then and today (133-150). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350086630.ch-009
• Kirtsoglou, E. (2018). Commentary: Nomadic Ethics. In Y. Hamilakis (Ed.), The new nomadic age : archaeologies of forced and undocumented migration. Equinox Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1558/equinox.34982
• Kirtsoglou, E., & Theodossopoulos, D. (2018). Empathy, as affective ethical technology and transformative political praxis. In B. Kapferer, & M. Gold (Eds.), Moral anthropology : a critique (104-132). Berghahn Books
• Kirtsoglou, E. (2011). The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; Imagination, Creativity and Political Agency in the Inspirational Night Dream in Islam. In I. Edgar (Ed.), The dream in Islam : from Qur'anic Tradition to Jihadist inspiration (124-136). Berghahn Journals
• Kirtsoglou, E. (2009). Conclusion: United in Discontent. In D. Theodossopoulos, & E. Kirtsoglou (Eds.), United in discontent : local responses to cosmopolitanism and globalization (168-180). Berghahn Journals
• Kirtsoglou, E., & Theodossopoulos, D. (2009). Intimacies of Anti-globalization: Imagining Unhappy Others as Oneself in Greece. In D. Theodossopoulos, & E. Kirtsoglou (Eds.), United in discontent : local responses to cosmopolitanism and globalization (83-102). Berghahn Journals
• Kirtsoglou, E. (2005). Unspeakable Crimes: Athenian Greek perceptions of local and international terrorism. In A. Strathern, P. Stewart, & N. Whitehead (Eds.), Terror and violence : imagination and the unimaginable (61-88). Pluto Press

Edited book

• Kirtsoglou, E., & Simpson, B. (Eds.). (2020). The Time of Anthropology: Studies of Contemporary Chronopolitics. Routledge
• Theodossopoulos, D., & Kirtsoglou, E. (Eds.). (2009). United in Discontent: Local Responses to Cosmopolitanism, Multiculturalism and Globalization. Berghahn Journals

Journal Article

• Kirtsoglou, E., & Tsimouris, G. (2018). Migration, Crisis, Liberalism: the cultural and racial politics of Islamophobia and “radical alterity” in modern Greece. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 41(10), 1874-1892. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2018.1400681
• Kirtsoglou, E., & Tsimouris, E. (2016). “Il était un petit navire”: The refugee crisis, neo-orientalism, and the production of radical alterity. Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Occasional Paper 9, 1-14
• Kirtsoglou, E. (2013). The Dark Ages of the Golden Dawn : anthropological analysis and responsibility in the Twilight Zone of the Greek Crisis. Suomen Antropologi, 38(1), 104-108
• Kirtsoglou, E. (2010). Dreaming the Self: A Unified Approach towards Dreams, Subjectivity and the Radical Imagination. History and Anthropology, 21(3), 321-335. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2010.499908
• Kirtsoglou, E. (2010). Introduction: Rhetoric and the Workings of Power — the Social Contract in Crisis. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice, 54(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2010.540101
• Kirtsoglou, E., & Theodossopoulos, D. (2010). The Poetics of Anti-Americanism in Greece: Rhetoric, Agency, and Local Meaning. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice, 54(1), 106-124. https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2010.540107
• Kirtsoglou, E. (2006). Phantom menace: What junior Greek army officers have to say about Turks and Turkey. South European Society and Politics, 11(1), 163-177. https://doi.org/10.1080/13608740500470422
• Kirtsoglou, E., & Theodossopoulos, D. (2004). “They are taking our culture away”: tourism and culture commodification in the Garifuna community of Roatan. Critique of Anthropology, 24(2), 135-157. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275x04042650