Olga Demetriou

Olga Demetriou is a social anthropologist interested in minority-state relations, refugeehood, gender, and migration. She is Senior Research Consultant at the Cyprus Centre of the Peace Research Institute Oslo and teaches at the University of Cyprus. Her monograph, Capricious Borders: Minority, Population and Counter-Conduct between Greece and Turkey (Berghahn, 2013) explores the social effects of governmental policy on Turkish speakers in Greece.

Recognising and denying Armenian losses in Cyprus

Cyprus was one of the first countries to recognise the Armenian genocide, but the relationship that the country has with its own Armenian population is more complicated than it seems.

By Olga Demetriou

/ 23 Apr 2015

Recognising and denying Armenian losses in Cyprus

Cyprus was one of the first countries to recognise the Armenian genocide, but the relationship that the country has with its own Armenian population is more complicated than it seems.

By Olga Demetriou

/ 23 Apr 2015

Ceremony and subjectivity in Cyprus, 40 years on

It is 5:30am on 20 July 2014 and war sirens have gone off in southern Nicosia - a shrill piercing sound on a frequency reminiscent of human screams - announcing, as it has for the last 40 years, the re-enactment of the invasion by Turkish warships, full of disembarking soldiers, five miles from Ky

By Olga Demetriou

/ 21 Jul 2014

Ceremony and subjectivity in Cyprus, 40 years on

By Olga Demetriou

/ 21 Jul 2014

A cultural reading of the Cyprus crisis

Are the apocalyptic scenarios pervading the discourse of ‘surprise’ around the 'crisis' in Cyprus repositioning the sense of self of Cypriots vis-à-vis their institutions, the state, or the future ?

By Olga Demetriou

/ 15 Apr 2013