Dr Lazaros Karaliotas

  • Senior Lecturer (School of Geographical & Earth Sciences)

telephone: 01413305038
email: Lazaros.Karaliotas@glasgow.ac.uk

University of Glasgow, Main Building, East Quad, Room 507

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897

Research interests

My research explores the intersections between the urban and the political. I am interested in:

  • the role of cities in process of de-politicization and re-politicization and in the relations between cities, nature and politics
  • urban geography
  • political philosophy
  • urban uprisings and movements
  • urban commons
  • geographies of populism
  • urban governance and politics, with particular reference to urban infrastructures
  • geographies of neoliberalization and austerity
  • geographies of post-democratization
  • urban political ecology, with particular reference to the politics of urban sustainability, climate change, and the Anthropocene

 

Publications

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Number of items: 18.

2025

Santamarina Guerrero, Ana and Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 (2025) Housing struggles challenging racial capitalism: the politics of the no evictions network in Glasgow. Urban Studies, (Accepted for Publication)

2024

Featherstone, David, Gowland, Ben and Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 (2024) Solidarity, worldmaking and inter-connected geographies of authoritarianism: Trade unions and the multiple trajectories of Chile solidarity. Alternautas, 11(1), pp. 16-58. (doi: 10.31273/an.v11i1.1592)

Gowland, Ben, Featherstone, David and Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 (2024) Labour, democracy and the post-colonial state: Spaces of union organising and the ‘duppy state'. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 114(1), pp. 21-38. (doi: 10.1080/24694452.2023.2240875)

2023

Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 (2023) Infrastructures of dissensus: repartitioning the sensible and articulating the political through the occupation of Greece’s public broadcasting service. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, (doi: 10.1177/23996544221150077) (Early Online Publication)

2021

Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 (2021) Geographies of politics and the police: post-democratization, SYRIZA, and the politics of the “Greek debt crisis”. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39(3), pp. 491-511. (doi: 10.1177/2399654419876650)

Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 and Kapsali, Matina (2021) Equals in solidarity: Orfanotrofio’s housing squat as a site for political subjectification across differences amid the “Greek crisis”. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 53(2), pp. 399-421. (doi: 10.1111/anti.12653)

2020

Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 (2020) Ronan Paddison on public space and the post-political. Space and Polity, 24(2), pp. 252-261. (doi: 10.1080/13562576.2020.1787136)

2019

Featherstone, David and Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 (2019) Populism. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 72, pp. 31-47. (doi: 10.3898/SOUN.72.02.2019)

Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 and Swyngedouw, Erik (2019) Exploring insurgent urban mobilizations: from urban social movements to urban political movements? In: Schwanen, Tim and van Kempen, Ronald (eds.) Handbook of Urban Geography. Series: Research handbooks in geography. Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA, pp. 369-382. ISBN 9781785364594 (doi: 10.4337/9781785364600.00037)

2018

Featherstone, David and Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 (2018) Challenging the spatial politics of the European crisis: nationed narratives and trans-local solidarities in the post-crisis conjuncture. Cultural Studies, 32(2), pp. 286-307. (doi: 10.1080/09502386.2017.1354050)

2017

Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 (2017) Performing neoliberalization through urban infrastructure: twenty years of privatization policies around Thessaloniki's port. Environment and Planning A, 49(7), pp. 1556-1574. (doi: 10.1177/0308518X17699609)

Kaika, Maria and Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 (2017) Athens's Syntagma Square reloaded: from staging disagreement towards instituting democratic spaces. In: Hou, Jeffrey and Knierbein, Sabine (eds.) City Unsilenced: Urban Resistance and Public Space in the Age of Shrinking Democracy. Routledge: New York, NY. ISBN 9781138125803

Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 (2017) Staging equality in Greek squares: hybrid spaces of political subjectification. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 41(1), pp. 54-69. (doi: 10.1111/1468-2427.12385)

Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 (2017) Towards commoning institutions in, against and beyond the 'Greek crisis'. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 64, pp. 93-99.

2016

Kaika, Maria and Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 (2016) The spatialization of democratic politics: Insights from Indignant Squares. European Urban and Regional Studies, 23(4), pp. 556-570. (doi: 10.1177/0969776414528928)

Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 and Bettini, Giovanni (2016) Urban resilience, the local and the politics of the Anthropocene: reflections on the future of the urban environment. In: Archer, Kevin and Bezdency, Kris (eds.) Handbook of Cities and the Environment. Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, pp. 65-83. ISBN 9781784712259

2014

Kaika, Maria and Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 (2014) Spatialising politics: antagonistic imaginaries of indignant squares. In: Wilson, Japhy and Swyngedouw, Erik (eds.) The Post-Political and Its Discontents: Spaces of Depoliticization, Spectres of Radical Politics. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 244-260. ISBN 9780748682973

2013

Bettini, Giovanni and Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 (2013) Exploring the limits of peak oil: naturalising the political, de-politicising energy. Geographical Journal, 179(4), pp. 331-341. (doi: 10.1111/geoj.12024)

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Number of items: 18.

Articles

Santamarina Guerrero, Ana and Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 (2025) Housing struggles challenging racial capitalism: the politics of the no evictions network in Glasgow. Urban Studies, (Accepted for Publication)

Featherstone, David, Gowland, Ben and Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 (2024) Solidarity, worldmaking and inter-connected geographies of authoritarianism: Trade unions and the multiple trajectories of Chile solidarity. Alternautas, 11(1), pp. 16-58. (doi: 10.31273/an.v11i1.1592)

Gowland, Ben, Featherstone, David and Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 (2024) Labour, democracy and the post-colonial state: Spaces of union organising and the ‘duppy state'. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 114(1), pp. 21-38. (doi: 10.1080/24694452.2023.2240875)

Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 (2023) Infrastructures of dissensus: repartitioning the sensible and articulating the political through the occupation of Greece’s public broadcasting service. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, (doi: 10.1177/23996544221150077) (Early Online Publication)

Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 (2021) Geographies of politics and the police: post-democratization, SYRIZA, and the politics of the “Greek debt crisis”. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39(3), pp. 491-511. (doi: 10.1177/2399654419876650)

Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 and Kapsali, Matina (2021) Equals in solidarity: Orfanotrofio’s housing squat as a site for political subjectification across differences amid the “Greek crisis”. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 53(2), pp. 399-421. (doi: 10.1111/anti.12653)

Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 (2020) Ronan Paddison on public space and the post-political. Space and Polity, 24(2), pp. 252-261. (doi: 10.1080/13562576.2020.1787136)

Featherstone, David and Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 (2019) Populism. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 72, pp. 31-47. (doi: 10.3898/SOUN.72.02.2019)

Featherstone, David and Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 (2018) Challenging the spatial politics of the European crisis: nationed narratives and trans-local solidarities in the post-crisis conjuncture. Cultural Studies, 32(2), pp. 286-307. (doi: 10.1080/09502386.2017.1354050)

Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 (2017) Performing neoliberalization through urban infrastructure: twenty years of privatization policies around Thessaloniki's port. Environment and Planning A, 49(7), pp. 1556-1574. (doi: 10.1177/0308518X17699609)

Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 (2017) Staging equality in Greek squares: hybrid spaces of political subjectification. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 41(1), pp. 54-69. (doi: 10.1111/1468-2427.12385)

Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 (2017) Towards commoning institutions in, against and beyond the 'Greek crisis'. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 64, pp. 93-99.

Kaika, Maria and Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 (2016) The spatialization of democratic politics: Insights from Indignant Squares. European Urban and Regional Studies, 23(4), pp. 556-570. (doi: 10.1177/0969776414528928)

Bettini, Giovanni and Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 (2013) Exploring the limits of peak oil: naturalising the political, de-politicising energy. Geographical Journal, 179(4), pp. 331-341. (doi: 10.1111/geoj.12024)

Book Sections

Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 and Swyngedouw, Erik (2019) Exploring insurgent urban mobilizations: from urban social movements to urban political movements? In: Schwanen, Tim and van Kempen, Ronald (eds.) Handbook of Urban Geography. Series: Research handbooks in geography. Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA, pp. 369-382. ISBN 9781785364594 (doi: 10.4337/9781785364600.00037)

Kaika, Maria and Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 (2017) Athens's Syntagma Square reloaded: from staging disagreement towards instituting democratic spaces. In: Hou, Jeffrey and Knierbein, Sabine (eds.) City Unsilenced: Urban Resistance and Public Space in the Age of Shrinking Democracy. Routledge: New York, NY. ISBN 9781138125803

Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 and Bettini, Giovanni (2016) Urban resilience, the local and the politics of the Anthropocene: reflections on the future of the urban environment. In: Archer, Kevin and Bezdency, Kris (eds.) Handbook of Cities and the Environment. Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, pp. 65-83. ISBN 9781784712259

Kaika, Maria and Karaliotas, Lazaros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-1897 (2014) Spatialising politics: antagonistic imaginaries of indignant squares. In: Wilson, Japhy and Swyngedouw, Erik (eds.) The Post-Political and Its Discontents: Spaces of Depoliticization, Spectres of Radical Politics. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 244-260. ISBN 9780748682973

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 18:37:24 2025 BST.

Grants

Hallsworth Research Fellowship – University of Manchester. Project title: Exploring urban re-politicization: Urban political movements and solidarity networks in the aftermath of the ‘Greek crisis’

The Leverhulme Trust - Early Career Fellowship. Project title: Exploring the politicising urban in, against and beyond austerity urbanism. I declined the offer to take up a post at the University of Manchester as the Hallsworth Research Fellow.

Carnegie Trust Research Incentive Grant Project title: Urban Political Movements in times of crisis and austerity: The case of Thessaloniki. 
The project explored the emancipatory socio-spatial experiments unfolding in the midst of the “Greek crisis”, particularly focusing on the network of Solidarity Health Clinics and the occupation and self-management of the country’s Public Broadcasting Service.

The Lipman-Milibant Trust PI: David Featherstone, Co-I: Lazaros Karaliotas "After Neoliberalism: Scotland and Alternative Political Futures"

Supervision

PhD research:

  • Ben Gowland "The spatial politics of Caribbean Black Power: Praxis, Theory and Transnational Exchange" (with Dr David Featherstone and Dr Ian Shaw)
  • Ana Santamarina Guerrero "Building translocal solidarities: Glasgow and Madrid contesting urban neoliberal geopolitics of racism" (with Dr David Featherstone)
  • Viktoria Noka "Geographies of anti-nuclear energy movements" (with Dr David Featherstone)
  • Josephine Zimba "Assessing the effect of climate variability and urbanisation on sustainable livelihoods in urban areas" (with Professor Deborah Dixon)
  • Hwang, Jeongha
    Disclosing an ‘design city’ from below: urban transformation and labour actors in Dongdaemun, Seoul

Lazaros Karaliotas