Prof Anastasia Christou

Professor of Sociology and Social Justice

Anastasia Christou

  • School Faculty of Business and Law

  • Department Law and Social Sciences

  • Location London

Research activities

As a critical interdisciplinary scholar working across the humanities and the social sciences, engaging in empirical field research and extensively theorising from my findings, I have widely published research on issues of migration and mobilities; citizenship and ethnicity; space and place; transnationalism and identity; culture and memory; gender and feminism; inequalities and austerity; postsocialism; home, belonging and exclusion; emotion and narrativity; youth and ageing; sexualities; translocal geographies; affect, care and trauma; motherhood and mothering; women, men and masculinities; racisms and intersectionalities; gendered violence and social media; tourism mobilities; material culture; academic exclusion and solidarity; educational inequalities; embodiment. 


Biography

Anastasia Christou isProfessor of Sociology and Social Justice at Middlesex University, London, UK.Anastasia is also Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, an academicactivist, trade unionist, feminist, anti-fascist and anti-racist. Aninterdisciplinary critical scholar whose work is fully immersed in the humanities,social sciences and the arts in the pursuit of a public sociology which isrelevant, meaningful and transformative, Anastasia extensively researches,publishes and teaches on issues of identity, emotion, inequality,intersectionality, ethics, decolonial and feminist pedagogies, social justiceand exclusions as regards gender, class, sexuality, race and ethnicity inmigrant, minority, youth and ageing groups, having engaged in multi-sited,multi-method and comparative ethnographic research in the US, UK, Denmark,Germany, Greece, Cyprus, France, Iceland, Switzerland, while recently engagedin collaborative research in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, as well as withcommunities in Israel and Palestine. Anastasia engages with voluntary worktransnationally with such NGOs as Cara (the Council of At-Risk Academics) andis a founding member of the Free University Brighton which offers freecommunity education for the love of co-learning with a number of publics, oftenexcluded from mainstream traditional university studies. As a writer and editorAnastasia works across disciplines, geographies and cultures conductingempirical field research and critically theorises from her findings.Anastasia’s research has been published with University presses (HarvardUniversity Press; Amsterdam University Press), as well as, in manyinternational journals and she has edited a number of book volumes and specialissues, while her recent poetry appears in the Feminist Review, the InternationalHuman Rights Art Movement (IHRAM), Menelique and the otherside of hope: journeys in refugee and immigrant literature. Anastasia isEditor-in-Chief of the journals GeoHumanitiesof the American Association of Geographers, and the Journal of Further and Higher Education. For a narrative snapshotsee: https://cara-syria.org/stories/psyche/

Publications

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