Dr Antonis Vradis
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Research areas
I am a geographer with an urban focus, a migration inclination and a political urge to make sense of our turbulent times.
Over the past few years I have been fortunate to work with colleagues, friends and comrades in projects including EnJUSTICE, Decolonising the City, CUPP, Transcapes, PURSI, Nutricities and the Welcoming City.
What these diverse research endeavours hold in common is a drive to understand how cities and their often transient populations face up to the polycrises of our times.
In 2021, we founded the Radical Urban Lab here at St Andrews, where I serve as co-Director, together with Dr Vanessa Schofield (Leeds).
I am immensely honoured to have recently, or currently supervise and work with a fantastic group of colleagues:
- Dr Nerina Boursinou focuses on understanding migrant trajectories through the use of Information and Communication Technologies.
- Josh Hezelbower studies how land ownership mediates both economic inequality and Indigenous-state relations within Coast Salish territories on Canada’s west coast.
- Ewan Jenkins is conducting a thorough research of the commune in its historical and current form.
- Andreas Makris is studying the techno-logistical transformation of the port of Piraeus, Greece.
- Dr Giorgos Mattes is studying the transformations of digital policing through a specific case study in Sweden (STATUS).
- Dr Rowan Milligan is working at the intersection of gender, squatting and resistance in the context of the housing crisis.
- Christopher Murray is looking at gentrification and the housing crisis in rural Scotland.
- Dr Evie Papada is an expert on the humanitarian border, having previously studied the case of Lesbos in Greece and currently looking into the UK context.
Please check vrad.is for more information on ongoing research projects, writings, photographs and more.
PhD supervision
- Andreas Makris
- Ewan Jenkins
- Joshua Hazelbower
Selected publications
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Open access
Interrogating ‘urban social innovation’: relationality and urban change in Berlin
McFarlane, C., Langley, P., Painter, J., Lewis, S. & Vradis, A., 9 Dec 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Urban Geography. Latest Articles, 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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City relaunch issue
Vradis, A. (Editor), Arabindoo, P. (Editor), Fernandez, M. (Editor), Gibbons, A. (Editor), Humphrey, D. (Editor), Lancione, M. (Editor), Madden, D. (Editor) & Richter, A. (Editor), 7 Apr 2020, In: City. 24, 1-2Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review
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Open access
Crowdfunding cities: Social entrepreneurship, speculation and solidarity in Berlin
Langley, P., Lewis, S., McFarlane, C., Painter, J. & Vradis, A., 29 Jun 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Geoforum. 115, p. 11-20 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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For the City yet to come
Gibbons, A., Richter, A., Vradis, A., Madden, D., Humphry, D., Fernández-Arrigoitia, M. & Lancione, M., 7 Apr 2020, In: City. 24, 1-2, p. 1-4 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Governing mobility in times of crisis: Practicing the border and embodying resistance in and beyond the hotspot infrastructure
Vradis, A., Papada, E., Papoutsi, A. & Painter, J., 1 Dec 2020, In: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 38, 6, p. 981-990Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Making and breaking boundaries in times of transition
Benjaminsen, T., Costalli, S., Grove, K., Menga, F., Nagel, C., Peters, K. & Vradis, A., Jan 2020, In: Political Geography. 76, 2 p., 102130.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Open access
Pop-up governance: Transforming the management of migrant populations through humanitarian and security practices in Lesbos, Greece, 2015-2017
Papada, E., Papoutsi, A., Painter, J. & Vradis, A., 1 Dec 2020, In: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 38, 6, p. 1028-1045 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Pop-up governance: Transforming the management of migrant populations through humanitarian and security practices in Lesbos, Greece, 2015–2017
Papada, E., Vradis, A., Papoutsi, A. & Painter, J., 2020, In: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 38, 6, p. 1028-1045Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Spatial politics and the spatial contract in Exarcheia, Athens, Greece (1974-2018)
Vradis, A., Sept 2020, In: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 45, 3, p. 542-558 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Beyond bibliometrics
Benjaminsen, T. A., Costalli, S., Grove, K., McConnell, F., Menga, F., Steinberg, P. E. & Vradis, A., 15 Jan 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Political Geography. 68, p. A1-A2 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review