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
• Identity
• Greece
• Politics
• Migration and Refugee Issues

• Contextualising Conflict
• Social Anthropology

• Transitory Lives: An Anthropological Research of the Migration Crisis in the Mediterranean

Authored book

• Kirtsoglou, E. (2004). For the love of women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relationships in a Greek Provincial town. London: Routledge.

Chapter in book

• Kirtsoglou, Elisabeth (2021). Anticipatory Nostalgia and Nomadic Temporality: A Case Study of Chronocracy in the Crypto-colony. In The Time of Anthropology: Studies of Contemporary Chronopolitics. Kirtsoglou, Elisabeth & Simpson, Bob Routledge. 52: 159-186.
• Kirtsoglou, Elisabeth & Simpson, Bob (2021). Introduction. In The Time of Anthropology: Studies of Contemporary Chronopolitics. Kirtsoglou, Elisabeth & Simpson, Bob Routledge. 52: 1-30.
• Kirtsoglou, Elisabeth (2018). We are all human: Cosmopolitanism as a radically political, moral project. In An Anthropology of the Enlightenment: Moral Social Relations Then and Today. Rapport, N. & Wardle, H. London: Bloomsbury. 133-150.
• Kirtsoglou, Elisabeth (2018). Commentary: Nomadic Ethics. In The New Nomadic Age Archaeologies of Forced and Undocumented Migration. Hamilakis, Y. Sheffield, UK Bristol, CT: Equinox Publishing.
• Kirtsoglou, Elisabeth & Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios (2018). Empathy, as affective ethical technology and transformative political praxis. In Moral Anthropology: A Critique. Kapferer, Bruce & Gold, Marina New York: Berghahn Books. 16: 104-132.
• Kirtsoglou, E. (2011). The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; Imagination, Creativity and Political Agency in the Inspirational Night Dream in Islam. In The Dream in Islam: From Qur'anic Tradition to Jihadist Inspiration. Edgar, I.R. Oxford: Berghahn. 124-136.
• Kirtsoglou, E. & Theodossopoulos, D. (2009). Intimacies of Anti-globalization: Imagining Unhappy Others as Oneself in Greece. In United in Discontent: Local Responses to Cosmopolitanism and Globalization. Theodossopoulos, D. & Kirtsoglou, E. New York: Berghahn. 83-102.
• Kirtsoglou, E. (2009). Conclusion: United in Discontent. In United in Discontent; Local Responses to cosmopolitanism and globalization. Theodossopoulos, D. & Kirtsoglou, E. New York: Berghahn. 168-180.
• Kirtsoglou, E. (2006). Unspeakable Crimes: Athenian Greek perceptions of local and international terrorism. In Terror and Violence: Imagination and the Unimaginable. Strathern, A., Stewart, P. & Whitehead, N.L. London: Pluto Press. 61-88.

Edited book

• Kirtsoglou, Elisabeth & Simpson, Bob (2020). The Time of Anthropology: Studies of Contemporary Chronopolitics. ASA Monographs Series. Routledge.
• Theodossopoulos, D. & Kirtsoglou, E. (2010). United in Discontent: Local Responses to Cosmopolitanism, Multiculturalism and Globalization. Oxford: Berghahn.

Journal Article

• Kirtsoglou, Elisabeth & Tsimouris, Giorgos (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.
• 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 journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 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.
• Kirtsoglou, E. & Theodossopoulos, D. (2010). The Poetics of Anti-Americanism in Greece: Rhetoric, Agency, and Local Meaning. Social Analysis 54(1): 106-124.
• Kirtsoglou, E. (2010). Introduction: Rhetoric and the Workings of Power — the Social Contract in Crisis. Social Analysis 54(1): 1-14.
• 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.
• 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.