Haris is a scholar in critical urban studies whose work focuses on migrants’ urban and housing commons, mobile commons, refugee camps, and newcomers’ right to the city. He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation (HFRI) project “Migrants’ Right to Urban Ambiance: Fearscapes, Ethnoscapes, and Commonscapes in Athens and Thessaloniki” (MIG-AMBIANCE) at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Swedish Research Council program “Housing as a Digitalized Service” at the University of Amsterdam.
Haris earned his PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from the School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in 2016. Between 2017 and 2025, he was the Principal Investigator in the HFRI research program “Refugees’ Solidarity City: Institutional Policies and Commoning Practices in Athens, Mytilene, and Thessaloniki” (RECITY) at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has also worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in several international projects, including the Horizon 2021–2027 program “Prototypes for Addressing the Housing-Energy Nexus” (PREFIGURE) at the University of Amsterdam, the Horizon H2020 program “Arrival Infrastructures as Sites of Integration for Recent Newcomers” (ReROOT) at the University of Thessaly, and as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Amsterdam. In addition, he has been a Visiting Fellow at the Urban Studies Institute, University of Antwerp, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Thessaly, the University of the Aegean, and the National Hellenic Research Foundation.
His research interests include critical urban theory, the autonomy of migration, intersectional, decolonial, and affective geographies, the right to the city, urban atmospheres, common spaces versus spatial enclosures, and urban social movements.
email: tsavdaroglou.ch@gmail.com
Latest publications
Tsavdaroglou, C. and Kaika, M. (2025). From camp to commons: Infrastructures of decolonial solidarity in Europe. In Roy, A. and Zablotsky, V. (eds.) Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion. (pp. 155-175). Durham and London: Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478060949-010
Tsavdaroglou, C., Giannopoulou, C., Frangopoulos, Y., Hatziprokopiou, P., Kyriazidou, I. and Valiantzas, Z. (2024). Bye bye Moria: Escape commons vs policies of military campization. Ethnic and Racial Studies. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2399729
Tsavdaroglou, C., Arvanitidis, P. and Valiantzas, Z. (2024). Migrants in the old train wagons borderland in Thessaloniki: From abandonment to infrastructures of commοning. Urban Planning, 9, 6967. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17645/up.6967
Tsavdaroglou, C. and Kaika, M. (2024). The second displacement of refugees: Urban regeneration against commoning practices in Belgrade’s waterfront. Antipode, 56(1), 328-352. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12971
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