Costas Douzinas

Costas Douzinas is Professor of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London and Member of the Greek Parliament for Pireas. His latest book Syriza in Power: Reflections of an Accidental Politician was published by Polity in 2017.

Greece is the future of Europe

Austerity and popular resistance are essential to a political diagnosis for contemporary Europe. Political developments in Greece will show whether the future of Europe is one of neoliberal restructuring or one of a democratic socialist alternative. An interview with Costas Douzinas.

By Costas Douzinas and Bjarke Skærlund Risager

/ 13 Mar 2014

Welcome to the age of resistance

I plead guilty to the indictment of avowed optimism. We have entered an age of resistance for which we must build an analytics. New forms, strategies and subjects of resistance and insurrection appear regularly without knowledge of or guidance from Badiou, Zizek or Negri.

By Costas Douzinas

/ 1 Mar 2014

From ‘utopia’ to dystopia and resistance, a short run

The latest mutation of the neoliberal doctrine is turning Greece into a real life dystopia, but resistance can still save the day.

By Costas Douzinas

/ 16 Dec 2013