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Athena Athanasiou
Athena Athanasiou is Professor of Social Anthropology and Gender Theory at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens. She is the author of Agonistic Mourning: Political Dissidence and the Women in Black (Edinburgh UP, 2017); Zoi sto orio: Dokimia gia to soma, to fylo kai ti viopolitiki (‘Life at the Limit: Essays on gender, body and biopolitics’) (Ekkremes, 2007); I krisi os katastasi ‘ektaktis anagkis’ (‘Crisis as a “State of Exception”’) (Savvalas, 2012); and (with Judith Butler) Dispossession: The Performative in the Political (Polity Press, 2013). She has also edited the collections Feministiki theoria kai politismiki kritiki (‘Feminist theory and cultural critique’) (Nisos, 2006); (with Elena Tzelepis), Rewriting Difference: Luce Irigaray and ‘the Greeks’ (SUNY Press, 2010); Viokoinonikotites: Theoriseis stin anthropologia tis ygeias (‘Biosocialities: Reflections on the anthropology of health’) (Nisos, 2011); and (with Mina Karavanta et al.), Apodomontas tin autokratoria: Theoria kai politiki tis metaapoikiakis kritikis (‘Deconstructing the empire: Theory and politics of postcolonial studies’) (Nisos, 2016). She has been a fellow at the Center for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia University. She is a member of the editorial/advisory board of the journals Critical Times and Feminist Formations. She is currently working on a new manuscript on ‘the arts of the im/possible’.
