Dimitris Dalakoglou
Dimitris Dalakoglou is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Anthropology at the University of Sussex. He is the co-editor of Revolt and Crisis in Greece and of Roads and Anthropology. Since 2012 holds an ESRC-Future Research Leaders grantfor the project The City at a time of Crisis [www.crisis-scape.net]. He is the author of various articles and book chapters e.g. neo-Nazism and neoliberalism, the crisis before the crisis, Beyond Spontaneity or the Road from capitalism to capitalism, Migrating-remitting-’building’-dwelling and the Road. His PhD thesis was titled an Anthropology of the Road (UCL, 2009). Since 2007 is member of the editorial collective of the journal Occupied London and the weblog ‘From the Greek Streets’. See also Athens Social Meltdown and Landscapes of Emergency.
Collected Work
The Road: An Ethnography of (Im)mobility, Space, and Cross-Border Infrastructures in the Balkans
This book is an ethnographic and historical study of the main Albania-Greece highway. Highways are part of an explicit cultural-material nexus that includes houses, urban architecture and vehicles. Complex socio-political phenomena such as EU border security, nationalist politics, post-Cold War capitalism and financial crises all leave their mark in the concrete. This book explores anew classical anthropological and sociological categories of analysis in direct reference to infrastructure, providing unique insights into the political and cultural processes that took place across Europe after the Cold War. More specifically, it sheds light on political and economic relationships in the Balkans during the socialist post-Cold War period, focusing especially on Albania, one of the most under-researched countries in the region.