PUBLICATIONS
Books
2023. Passport island: The market for EU citizenship in Cyprus. Manchester University Press.
2019. Towards an anthropology of wealth: Imagination, substance, value. Routledge. (Editor, with Knut Rio).
2018. The global life of austerity: Comparing beyond Europe. Oxford and NY: Berghahn. (Editor).
2017. From clans to co-ops: Confiscated mafia land in Sicily. Oxford and NY: Berghahn, Human Economy series.
In Italian: 2023. Coltivare la legalità: Mafia e antimafia nelle terre confiscate in Sicilia. Milan: Meltemi.
Special issues and special sections
2019. Co-editor (with Theodore Powers). The anthropology of austerity: People, history, continuity. Focaal 83.
2018. Co-editor (with Knut Rio). Reimagining wealth: Anthropological explorations. History & Anthropology 29(3).
2016. Co-editor (with Heath Cabot). The other side of crisis: Solidarity networks in Greece. Social Anthropology 24(2).
Refereed journal articles
2022. Property as sovereignty in micro: The state/property nexus and the Cyprus Problem. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 28(3): 769-787.
2022. The golden passport 'Russian' EUtopia: Offshore citizens in a global Republic. Social Anthopology, 30(2): 161-178.
2022. Of fascists and dreamers: Conspiracy theory and Anthropology. Social Anthopology 30(1): 45-62.
2022. On divisionism and cypriotism: The civic languages of the Cyprus Problem. LSE GreeSE papers, Paper No. 170.
2020. The shared boundary: Sicilian mafia and antimafia land. Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 25(5): 528–544.
2020. Two kinds of Mafia dependency: On making and unmaking mafia men. Social Anthropology, 28(3): 686-699.
2020. Cooperatives. In: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology (eds) F. Stein, S. Lazar, M. Candea, H. Diemberger, J. Robbins, A. Sanchez & R. Stasch.
2019. The anthropology of austerity: an introduction. Focaal 83: 1-12. (Co-authored with Theodore Powers).
2019. Afterword. Reversing the world: What austerity does to time and place. Focaal 83: 67-71.
2019. Who we speak with: Gossip as metatalk in a mafia and antimafia universe. Annuale Voci XVI: 89-105.
2018. The social life of mafia confession: Between talk and silence in Sicily. Current Anthropology 59(2): 167-190.
2018. Introduction to an anthropology of wealth. History and Anthropology 29(3): 1-17. (Co-authored with Knut Rio, open access).
2018. Show me the money: Conspiracy theories and distant wealth. History and Anthropology 29(3): 376-391.
2018. Solidarity bridges: Alternative food economies in urban Greece. The Greek Review of Social Research 149(B): 1-21.
2017. Façade egalitarianism: Mafia and cooperative in Sicily. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 40(1): 104-121.
2017. Antimafia families: Cooperative work and flexible kinship in Sicily. Critique of Anthropology 36(2): 115-131.
2016. Solidarity: The egalitarian tensions of a bridge-concept. Introduction to the special issue “The other side of crisis: Solidarity networks in Greece”, eds. Cabot, H. and T. Rakopoulos. Social Anthropology 24(2): 142-151.
2015. Solidarity's tensions: Informality and sociality in the Greek crisis. Social Analysis 59(3): 85-104.
2015. Which community for cooperatives: Peasant mobilisations, Mafia and the problem of community participation in Sicilian co-ops. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 71: 57-80.
2014. Cooperative modulations: The antimafia movement and struggles over land and cooperativism in eight Sicilian municipalities. Journal of Modern Italian Studies 19(1): 15-33.
2014 The crisis seen from below, within and against: From solidarity economy to food distribution cooperatives in Greece. Dialectical Anthropology 38: 189-207.
2014. Resonance of solidarity: Anti-middleman food distribution in anti-austerity Greece. Journal of Modern Greek Studies 32(2): 95-119.
2013. Responding to the crisis: Food cooperatives and the solidarity economy in Greece. Anthropology Southern Africa 36(3&4): 102-107.
Book chapters
2020. Notes on the 500 Euro: On mafias, precarity, and analytical priorities. In: "Who's cashing in?: Contemporary perspectives on new money and global cashlenessness" ,131-142.
2019. 70% Zapatista?: Solidarity 'ecosystems' and the troubles of valuing labor in food cooperatives. In: Food Values in Europe. Edited by Krista Harper and Siniscalchi, Valeria. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 147-162.
2018. Introduction: Austerity, measured. In The Global Life of Austerity. Edited by Theodoros Rakopoulos. London and New York: Berghahn. Critical Interventions series, pp 1-16.
2018. The future of Solidarity: Food cooperativism as labour. In: Critical Times in Greece: Anthropological engagements with the crisis. Edited by Dimitris Dalakoglou and Agelopoulos, Giorgos. London: Routledge, pp. 202-217.
2015. On Blasphemy: The paradoxes of mocking and protecting God. In The Event of Charlie Hebdo: Imaginaries of freedom and control. Edited by Alessandro Zagato. London and New York: Critical Interventions, Berghahn, pp. 83-92.
2015. The solidarity economy in the Greek crisis: Movementality, economic democracy and social reproduction. In 'Economy for and against Democracy'. Edited by Keith Hart. London and New York: Berghahn, pp. 161-181.
2013. Food activism and antimafia cooperatives in contemporary Sicily. In 'Food Activism: Agency, Democracy and Economy'. Edited by Valeria Siniscalchi and Counihan, Caroline. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 123-42.
Review essays (selected)
2023. What's in a notion? Comment on Amalia Sa'ar's article on Economic citizenship, Current Anthropology 64(1).
2020. In Cyprus, the golden passports scheme shows us how capitalism and corruption go hand in hand. Jacobin
2019. Self in and with the world: On Keith Hart's memoir. Sociologia e Antropologia 9(3): 1019-1025.
2016. On crisis and resistance: Exception, neoliberalism and two voices in the Left. Review essay for: “The age of resistance”, by C. Douzinas and “Crucible of resistance: Greece, the eurozone and the world economic crisis”, by Christos Laskos and Tsakalotos, Euclid. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice 60(1): 133-141.
2016. The poetics of diaspora: Greek US voices. Review essay. Journal of Modern Greek Studies 34(1): 159-165.
2016. The “anti-middleman” informal cooperatives of Greece. Global Dialogue: Newsletter for the international Sociological Association, 6(1).
2015. Solidarity, ethnography and the de-instituting of dissent. Occasional Papers, 6. Journal of Modern Greek Studies.
Refereed articles in languages other than English (selected)
2021. The Republic of property (Or, when citizenship is for sale): Golden passports and political community in Cyprus. Sychrona Themata, 150: 103-115. (In Greek).
2020. Two Lefts: Communist parties, the Cyprus problem and deep historical changes. History, memory and culture in post-war Greece, Municipality of Pireaus. (In Greek).
2017. “Approaching” Sorras: “Conspiracy theories” and the social sciences. Sychrona Themata 136: 24-27. (In Greek).
2015. Responses to crisis: Food cooperativism in Greece. Mosim and Salim 6: 74-93. (In Korean).
2015. Grecia: Al de la de la excepcion y entras solidaridad. Abaco, 83/84: 114-120. (In Spanish).
2014. The informal solidarity economy in the hidden welfare of the crisis. Sychrona Themata 124: 16-24. (In Greek).
2012. The land as a right: community, confiscations and neighbourliness in the case of the ‘antimafia cooperatives’ of Sicily. Sychrona Themata 116: 41-50. (In Greek).