Othon Alexandrakis
Associate Professor
Chair, Anthropology
Office: Vari Hall, 2050
Phone: (416)736-2100 Ext: x40139
Email: oalexand@yorku.ca
Accepting New Graduate Students
Ph.D. – Rice University (2010) M.A. – University of Western Ontario (2003) B.A. – University of Western Ontario (2001) Following his doctoral studies Othon joined the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2010-2011). His teaching, publications and research focus on: citizenship, migration, emergent and contested identities, governance, cities, childhood, Greece and Europe. His broader academic interests include ethnographic methods/writing, discourse publics, and memory.
Alexandrakis's research and publications explore cultural processes of change, micro-social responses to conditions of shared hardship, the politics of knowledge, transnational migration and childhoods, and ethnographic methods. He has over fifteen years of ethnographic research experience in Greece, primarily among undocumented migrants, anti-establishment youth, the Roma community (commonly known as Gypsies), and unaccompanied refugee children. Alexandrakis is currently engaged in two research projects, the first as single-investigator exploring political agency among unaccompanied migrant youth titled "Critical Humanitarianism: Precarious Pathways and Disruptive Sanctuary in Greece", and the second as co-investigator on an international interdisciplinary research team examining how liminal life shapes migrant child well-being and developmental trajectories titled "Exploring the Impact of Protracted Displacement: War-affected Refuge Children in Greece and Italy. He has published numerous articles, is the editor of "Impulse to Act: A new Anthropology of Resistance and Social Justice" (2016), and author of "Radical Resilience: Athenian Topographies of Precarity and Possibility" (2022).
Degrees
Ph.D., Rice University (2010)M.A., University of Western Ontario (2003)
B.A., University of Western Ontario (2001)
Research Interests
Alexandrakis, Othon. 2016. “Incidental Activism: Graffiti and Political Possibility in Athens, Greece.” Cultural Anthropology 31(2): 272-296.
Alexandrakis, Othon. 2015. "Transformative Connections: Trauma, Cooperative Horizons, and Emerging Political Topographies in Athens, Greece." History and Anthropology 27 (1):32-44.
Othon Alexandrakis. 2013. “Neoliberalism and the New Agora: Exploring Survival, Emergence, and Political Subjectivity among Pluralized Subaltern Communities in Athens, Greece.” Anthropological Quarterly. 86(1): 77-106.
Alexandrakis, Othon, and David Nugent. Political Spatio-temporalities: A Conversation with David Nugent. Interview. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review Online, 23 January 2017, https://polarjournal.org/2017/01/23/political-spatio-temporalities-a-conversation-with-david-nugent
Alexandrakis, Othon, and John Borneman. The Crucial Question. Interview. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review Online, 23 January 2017, https://polarjournal.org/2017/01/23/the-crucial-question-an-interview
Current Courses
Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
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Fall 2024 | AP/ANTH4450 3.0 | A | The Anthropology of the City | SEMR |
Upcoming Courses
Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
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Winter 2025 | GS/ANTH6020 3.0 | M | Advanced Methods In Anthropology | SEMR |
Ph.D. – Rice University (2010) M.A. – University of Western Ontario (2003) B.A. – University of Western Ontario (2001) Following his doctoral studies Othon joined the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2010-2011). His teaching, publications and research focus on: citizenship, migration, emergent and contested identities, governance, cities, childhood, Greece and Europe. His broader academic interests include ethnographic methods/writing, discourse publics, and memory.
Alexandrakis's research and publications explore cultural processes of change, micro-social responses to conditions of shared hardship, the politics of knowledge, transnational migration and childhoods, and ethnographic methods. He has over fifteen years of ethnographic research experience in Greece, primarily among undocumented migrants, anti-establishment youth, the Roma community (commonly known as Gypsies), and unaccompanied refugee children. Alexandrakis is currently engaged in two research projects, the first as single-investigator exploring political agency among unaccompanied migrant youth titled "Critical Humanitarianism: Precarious Pathways and Disruptive Sanctuary in Greece", and the second as co-investigator on an international interdisciplinary research team examining how liminal life shapes migrant child well-being and developmental trajectories titled "Exploring the Impact of Protracted Displacement: War-affected Refuge Children in Greece and Italy. He has published numerous articles, is the editor of "Impulse to Act: A new Anthropology of Resistance and Social Justice" (2016), and author of "Radical Resilience: Athenian Topographies of Precarity and Possibility" (2022).
Degrees
Ph.D., Rice University (2010)M.A., University of Western Ontario (2003)
B.A., University of Western Ontario (2001)
Research Interests
All Publications
Alexandrakis, Othon. 2016. “Incidental Activism: Graffiti and Political Possibility in Athens, Greece.” Cultural Anthropology 31(2): 272-296.
Alexandrakis, Othon. 2015. "Transformative Connections: Trauma, Cooperative Horizons, and Emerging Political Topographies in Athens, Greece." History and Anthropology 27 (1):32-44.
Othon Alexandrakis. 2013. “Neoliberalism and the New Agora: Exploring Survival, Emergence, and Political Subjectivity among Pluralized Subaltern Communities in Athens, Greece.” Anthropological Quarterly. 86(1): 77-106.
Alexandrakis, Othon, and David Nugent. Political Spatio-temporalities: A Conversation with David Nugent. Interview. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review Online, 23 January 2017, https://polarjournal.org/2017/01/23/political-spatio-temporalities-a-conversation-with-david-nugent
Alexandrakis, Othon, and John Borneman. The Crucial Question. Interview. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review Online, 23 January 2017, https://polarjournal.org/2017/01/23/the-crucial-question-an-interview
Current Courses
Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
---|---|---|---|---|
Fall 2024 | AP/ANTH4450 3.0 | A | The Anthropology of the City | SEMR |
Upcoming Courses
Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
---|---|---|---|---|
Winter 2025 | GS/ANTH6020 3.0 | M | Advanced Methods In Anthropology | SEMR |