Dimitris Dalakoglou

Dimitris Dalakoglou is Professor of Social Anthropology at Vrije University Amsterdam. Since 2017 he is holding an Innovative Research VIDI grant from the Dutch Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO) for his project infra-demos.

Fortress Europe as infrastructure

Fortress Europe is happy to keep on footing the bill, as long as Greece keeps the refugees out of sight and out of mind of northern European voters.

By Dimitris Dalakoglou and Eugene Michail

/ 27 Feb 2020

Airbnbizing Europe: mobility, property and platform capitalism

New social class distinctions are increasingly relocated outside the borders of a particular national economy, becoming transnational and carried out by ‘ordinary people’.

By Dimitris Dalakoglou and Giorgos Poulimenakos

/ 16 Dec 2018

Airbnbizing Europe: mobility, property and platform capitalism

New social class distinctions are increasingly relocated outside the borders of a particular national economy, becoming transnational and carried out by ‘ordinary people’.

By Dimitris Dalakoglou and Giorgos Poulimenakos

/ 16 Dec 2018

Who killed bourgeois democracy in Europe?

When a system calls itself democracy, but forces increasing parts of the demos (people) to live under poverty, its own central concept gradually becomes hollow.

By Dimitris Dalakoglou and Antonis Alexandrides

/ 13 Jan 2017

Who killed bourgeois democracy in Europe?

When a system calls itself democracy, but forces increasing parts of the demos (people) to live under poverty, its own central concept gradually becomes hollow.

By Dimitris Dalakoglou and Antonis Alexandrides

/ 13 Jan 2017

My 350 on BREXIT: Almost none of the Bremainers were even slightly critical about the EU as a reactionary institution

"From Greece to the UK, the working-class (employed or unemployed) has been bitterly betrayed by the Left."

By Dimitris Dalakoglou and Georgos Poulimenakos

/ 11 Jul 2016

My 350 on BREXIT: Almost none of the Bremainers were even slightly critical about the EU as a reactionary institution

"From Greece to the UK, the working-class (employed or unemployed) has been bitterly betrayed by the Left."

By Dimitris Dalakoglou and Georgos Poulimenakos

/ 11 Jul 2016

Who cares for the refugees?

Refugee welfare infrastructures are run thanks to self-organised, spontaneous social activists: not by the receivers of EU aid packages.

By Dimitris Dalakoglou and Antonis Alexandrides

/ 15 Mar 2016

Who cares for the refugees?

Refugee welfare infrastructures are run thanks to self-organised, spontaneous social activists: not by the receivers of EU aid packages.

By Dimitris Dalakoglou and Antonis Alexandrides

/ 15 Mar 2016

Greetings from Athenian democracy

The rise of Golden Dawn as a political force on the streets of Athens has provided the Greek state the opportunity to adopt a xenophobic agenda and forcefully eliminate threats to government austerity. The detention and torture of migrant groups and political opponents in the city, seriously call

By Dimitris Dalakoglou

/ 14 Feb 2013