Olga Demetriou

This article critically examines counter-conduct as an analytical tool for understanding minority subjectivity. It revisits the concept within its Collège lecture context and alongside alternative descriptions of opposing governmental power. Its affinities with the anthropological notion of the “everyday” are explored in depth. The anthropological everyday, it is argued, points to nuances that enrich our understanding of the political. Heidegger's notions of “everyday” and “they” are discussed alongside ethnographic insights from Greece and Cyprus. This anthropological-philosophical encounter yields a more meaningful understanding of counter-conduct, as embedded in the everyday, that addresses both its broad scope and its analytic specificity.

Our final monthly pick for November is the #OpenAccess article "Counter-Conduct and the Everyday: Anthropological Engagements with Philosophy" by @olgademetriou.bsky.social (@sgiadurham.bsky.social). Be sure to give it a read!

#CounterConduct #Greece #Cyprus

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RETHINKING A RADICAL REPUTATION: An Athens Neighbourhood between Media Hype and Social Experience by Maria Kenti-Kranidioti has now been published!

Find out more here: bit.ly/45t89Uy

Review by @olgademetriou.bsky.social

#Anthropology #Sociology #UrbanStudies

Happy to share this piece on ethnography in political science:

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NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!

#Varieties of #Political #Ethnography: Caring for the Far Right?

By @olgademetriou.bsky.social & Antonis A. Ellinas

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DGSi's 2nd Annual Conference on Peace and Conflict methodologies ponders 25 years of Women, Peace and Security. Durham, 2-3 June 2025. Do join!

You make an award
winning film. You win a prize. You go home and get beaten by non state actors. The state shows up, arrests you and not them. Where is this ?

Quite something that UK is issuing travel advisories against its key ally! Actually though, the Visa Waiver Form most people sign (the one that asks if you are a war criminal or are guilty of moral turpitude) puts you beyond the legal process, not if you break the law -but if THEY SAY you have.

Let’s talk about the way a name
becomes a crime,
the way a crime
becomes an argument,
the way an argument
becomes a theory,
the way a theory
sits safely
in a syllabus
far from the fire.

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War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon's DEI purge References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and women and minorities are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts m...

When I first went to Law School, the pictures on the walls were all of white men.
In all the universities that I taught for the first two decades of my career the pictures on the wall were all mostly of white men & now we face erasure again, the unmaking of the collective “us” who are not white men.

“Right to the Discipline” grants - Antipode Online Call for Proposals, October 2024 Last year we received 225 strong applications with a success rate of 6.2%. We anticipate funding a similar number of 10-12 grants in the next application year. Antipod...

Antipode Foundation "Right to the Discipline" grants, Call for Proposals, due date 31 March 2025 antipodeonline.org/a-right-to-t...

We’re running an advanced workshop for political geography students on the geographies of settler colonialism and this is definitely top of the list to screen.

[/] Our latest with @omniatv.com and @efsyntakton.bsky.social on the Pylos shipwreck. TLDR; there was indeed a rope. And it was blue. And it was tied on the fishing vessel, as the survivors claim for the past couple of years. Read below:

normalising the erosion of IL: "the deal was a decision based on a security assessment and not by a desire to adhere to the principles of international law"

Lovely to host Feargal Cochrane's talk on Belfast yesterday at DGSi, discussing covered rivers and covered histories and the hope ahead; thank you Bahar Baser for organising! @feargalc.bsky.social @baharbaser.bsky.social

@neophytosloizides.bsky.social only because Feargal follows you ! :)

Mexico had agreed to send 10,000 members of its national guard “to prevent drug trafficking from Mexico to the US, in particular of fentanyl”. In return, the US had agreed to work to prevent high-powered weapons crossing the border into Mexico. The tariffs would be paused for one month as a result, Sheinbaum added.

Incredible. Trump put tariffs to coerce Mexico, and she got the US to commit to solve the more urgent problem (who knows whether the US will actually do anything).
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Intervention — “A Gas-Industrial Complex: Tracing the Colonial Cartography of the Eastern Mediterranean” - Antipode Online WeSmellGas (collective@wesmellgas.org)   Gas is expected to fuel the transition and time is fundamental. So we are here pushing to unlock as much gas as possible in the shortest time. (Managing Direct...

New #OpenAccess Intervention — "A Gas-Industrial Complex: Tracing the Colonial Cartography of the Eastern Mediterranean" by #WeSmellGas antipodeonline.org/2025/01/28/a... wesmellgas.org

Right on.

Edges of Care A firsthand look at the lives of those who reside in no man’s land—the violence they endure and their immense resilience.   “No man’s land” invokes stretches of barren landscape, twisted barbed wire, ...

At long last, my new book, Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land, is now out!

Based on a decade of research, it documents the realities of sovereign abandonment and the many forms of political liveliness that persist in abandonment’s wake.

Published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Ending the term with a packed week of Emma Rimpilainen speaking on displacement in Ukraine, Janina Pescinski on migration activism in Lampedusa and Trieste, and German Otalora Gallego brilliantly defending his PhD photovoice thesis on transformative justice in Colombia!

It's been a whirlwind of events at the Durham Global Security Institute this term: public lectures on cybersecurity, WWI war graves, the Nigerian Civil War and reflections on 2+ decades in the Royal Air Force.

Diego Garcia: Stranded mum's three-year ordeal on military island Shanthi tried her best to create a sense of normality for her children on the secretive military island Diego Garcia

Powerful piece looking at experiences of those who were trapped in Diego Garcia. Here the thing, the Diego Garcia saga is just one of many examples of how people seeking asylum continue to be abandoned in horrendous conditions and without support by the UK, and elsewhere.
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