Zachos is a PhD student in Human Geography at the Spatial Planning and Development department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His PhD topic of interest is «Migration, otherness and the «right to the city»: practices of inhabitance and the lived ambience of urban space». He also holds the Master’s degree «Spatial planning for sustainable and resilient development» with a master thesis entitled «Urban ambience: Dominant uses and heterogeneities in the port of Thessaloniki. A socio-spatial and ethnographic analysis». Recently he has also been part of Horizon 2020 funded research program «ReROOT | Arrival Infrastructures as Sites of Integration for Recent Newcomers», as well as in HFRI funded research program «Refugees’ Solidarity City – Institutional policies and commoning practices in Athens, Mytilene and Thessaloniki” (RECITY)», in both as a field researcher. Zachos’ recent research explores the collective practices of inhabitance and the creation of lived ambience in the urban fabric, as well as on issues of critical geography, migration, commons and the right to the city.
email: zvaliantz@auth.gr
Latest publications
Beeckmans, L., Salamé, D., Bovo, M., & Hogan, M. (2025). Integration Otherwise Inspiration Kit. https://doi.org/10.11116/9789461666758
Valiantzas, Z. (2024). Ambiences of otherness. Transcending neoliberal urban enclosures through affective atmospheres in Thessaloniki metropolitan area. In Boubezari et al. (Eds.) Sensory Explorations, Ambiances in a Changing World: Proceedings of the 5th International Congress on Ambiances 2024, Lisbon (pp. 938-948)
Tsavdaroglou, C., Giannopoulou, C., Frangopoulos, Y., Hatziprokopiou, P., Kyriazidou, I., & Valiantzas, Z. (2024). Bye bye Moria: escape commons vs policies of military campization. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2399729
Tsavdaroglou, C., Arvanitidis, P., & Valiantzas, Z. (2024). Migrants in the old train wagons borderland in Thessaloniki: From abandonment to infrastructures of commοning. Urban Planning, 9. https://doi.org/10.17645/up.6967
Valiantzas Z., Arvanitidis P. (2024) Housing Commons- Alternatives to housing through urban commoning, Sens Public, http://sens-public.org/articles/1654/
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