Eva (Evangelia) Papatzani is a postdoctoral researcher, holding a PhD in Urban Studies/Social Geography and Migration Studies, from the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, National Technical University of Athens, Greece. She has extensive experience of coordinating and implementing international and national research projects at the National Centre for Social Research (EKKE) in Athens, the University of Virginia (UVA) in the USA, the School of Spatial Planning and Development (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), and the Department of Geography (University of the Aegean), among others. She recently served as an Adjunct Professor of sociology of space at the Technical University of Crete. She has received scholarships and competitive research funding, published in international academic journals in which she has also served as a reviewer. Her research interests include the geographies of migrant and refugee settlement, displacement, refugee reception, urban encounters with difference, interethnic relationships and micro-segregation, institutional and everyday racism, gendered geographies, housing and urban policies, touristification, and urban transformations.
email: evaliapap@yahoo.gr
Latest publications
Papatzani, E. (2024). Reproducing displaceability in the Greek asylum accommodation system and its margins. International Journal of Housing Policy 25 (3): 477-498. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2024.2367832
Papatzani, E. (2023). Migrant settlement and sociospatial negotiations of interethnic encounters in Athens. In Kalandides, A., Mantouvalou, M., Micha, I., Stratigaki, M. (eds.) Gendered aspects of urban studies. Conversations with the work of Dina Vaiou, pp. 247-268. Athens: Nissos (in Greek).
Papatzani, E., Hatziprokopiou, P., Vlastou, F., Siotou, A. (2022). On not staying put where they have put you: mobilities disrupting the socio-spatial figurations of displacement in Greece. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 48 (18): 4383-4401. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2022.2090158
Papatzani, E., Psallidaki, T., Kandylis, G., Micha, I. (2022). Multiple geographies of precarity: Accommodation policies for asylum seekers in metropolitan Athens, Greece. European Urban and Regional Studies 29 (2): 189-203,DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/09697764211040742
Papatzani, E. (2021). Encountering Everyday Racist Practices: Sociospatial Negotiations of Immigrant Settlement in Athens, Greece. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 45 (1): 61-79, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12984
Balampanidis, D., Papatzani, E., Pettas, D. (2021). Airbnb in the City: An Opportunity or a Threat? Athens: POLIS (in Greek).
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