CURRICULUM VITAE
Ersi Zacopoulou
Specialization: Rural Sociologist Researcher Grade: Research Director
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Education
• 1986: PhD in Sociology, 10 th University of Paris (Université Paris X Nanterre) in association with the National Research Center of France (CNRS). Direction of Thesis: Prof. Henri Mendras and Dr. St. Damianakos. Title of thesis: «Les relations de clientèle en milieu rural et en milieu urbain. Localité et relations de clientèle en Grèce. Le cas d’un village Naxiote et de ses immigrés à Athènes». • 1981: Postgraduate Degree in Sociology (Diplôme d’ Etudes Approfondies). Option: ‘Analysis of Social Change in local level’ 10 th University of Paris. • 1980: «Maîtrise de Sociologie». Department of Comparative Sociology and Social Anthropology, 5 th University of Paris (Université Paris V, Sorbonne). • 1979: «Licence de Sociologie». Department of Comparative Sociology and Social Anthropology, 5 th University of Paris (Université Paris V, Sorbonne). • 1973 1977: Degree in Philosophy, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Athens.
Research Interests
Social Change and Political culture in rural areas, local political institutions and power relations, rural policies, employment and pluriactivity, emigration, immigration and social integration, rural urban relations, social stratification and social class, social reproduction.
Occupation
2012 Research Director, EKKE 2006 2012: Senior Researcher, EKKE 2000 2006: Research Assistant, EKKE 1991 1993: Invited lecturer, University of Patras 1993 1995: Invited lecturer, University of Crete 1987 2000: Researcher under contract, EKKE
Participation in Research Projects
• 2012 2015: “Program for the international evaluation of adults' skills” (based on the OECD PIAAC Program) • 2011: A Study of Women’s Immigration to Greece (Action 2.1/09) • 2005 2008: “Trends of social change in urban space: social reproduction, social inequalities and social cohesion in 21 st century Athens” • 2004 2006: “Social transformations and mechanisms of social reproduction in Greece. Forms of managing their influences and their contradictions” • 2002 2005: “Node development for the Secondary Processing and Management of Socio Economic Data and Indicators” • 2002: “European Social Survey”. • 2000 2002: “The impact of the installation and the employment of foreign labor in rural areas” (Ministry of Agriculture) • 2000: “Family farming and Employment in rural areas” (Ministry of Agriculture) • 2000: “Effects of the CAP reform and possible further developments on organic farming in the EU”, EC financed project. • 1996 1998: “Expressions of social conflict and forms of social conciliation in post dictatorship Greece (1974 94)”. • 1995 1997: “Improving the Economic Impact of Public Institutions on Lagging Rural and Coastal Regions”, EC financed project. • 1993 1995: “Land, Culture and Crisis: From Productionist Success to Fiscal and Environmental Impasse on European Farms, 1940 1990” EC financed project. • 1992 1993: “Constraints on competitiveness of European Community: Agriculture: a comparative analysis”, EC financed project. • 1990 1991: “Comparative Charting of Social Change”. International program of comparative studies on macro social trends of social change. • 1989 1991: “R EUROPA, European Network for the study of Co operatives and Farmers’ Unions in Europe”. • 1989 1991: “Investigation of an alternative Methodology in the Classification of Occupations”. • 1988 1989: “Methodological Pre requisites in comparative analysis”. • 1987 1988: “Political Behavior of women”. • 1986 1989: “Greece revisited: local analysis of social change».
Selected Publications
Books and editing of Collective Volumes
• Petronoti M., Zacopoulou E., Mouriki A., Papathanasiou I., Kafetzis T., Kouzis I. (eds) (2011) Greece in crisis, The Greek Review of Social Research , Special Issue Α΄ Β΄/2011 134 135, EKKE (in Greek). • Maloutas Th., Emmanuel D., Zacopoulou E., Caftanzoglou R., Hadjiyanni A., (eds.) 2009, Social and Spatial Transformation in 21st century Athens , Athens: NCSR (in Greek) • Zacopoulou E., Kasimis Ch., Louloudis L., 2008, Rurality, Society and Space , Athens: Plethron (in Greek) • Damianakos St., Kasimis Ch., Nitsiakos B., Zacopoulou E., 1997, Memory, Work and Power in three villages of Epirus. The local dynamic of survival , Athens, Plethron/EKKE (in Greek)
Publications in refereed journals and proceeding of International Conferences
• Zacopoulou E. (2008) “The triumph of the peasant. Stathis Damianakos’ view on the rurality of Greek society” in Zacopoulou E., Kasimis Ch., Louloudis L. (eds) Rurality, society and space , Athens: Plethron, pp. 27 38 (in Greek). • Zacopoulou E. (2007) « La pluriactivité agricole comme élément formateur du champs social local. Analyse d’un paradigme» in Luginbuhl Y. (dir) Nouvelles urbanités, nouvelles ruralités en Europe, Bruxelles : Editions PIE Peter Lang S.A., pp.177 181. • Kasimis Ch., Zacopoulou E., Papadopoulos A. (2004), “The contribution of migrants to the modern family farm: a study of three paradigmatic areas», The Greek Review of Social Research , EKKE, Β΄ Γ΄2003, 111 112: 9 38 (in Greek). • Kasimis Ch., Papadopoulos A., Zacopoulou E. (2003) “Migrants in rural Greece” Sociologia Ruralis , Blackwell, Vol. 43 no 2:167 184. • Zacopoulou E. (1993) «Les hétérodimotes» in Duboscq P., Quantin P. (dir.) Les paysans du monde. Electeurs sous influence, Paris: L’ Harmattan, pp. 95 106. • Goussios D., Zacopoulou E. (1993) “Un syndicalisme sous le patronage du politique” in Hervieu B., Lagrave R M. (dir.) Les syndicats agricoles en Europe, Paris : L’ Harmattan, pp. 115 140. • Damianakos St., Kasimis C., Maropoulou M., Zacopoulou E. (1990) “Trois villages d’ Epire (1956/61 1988): éléments d’analyse socio démographique” The Greek Review of Social Research, no 74A, special issue: 125 229. • Goussios D., Zacopoulou E. (1990) “The co operative and Union Movement in Greece” in Just F. (ed.) Co operatives and Farmers’ Unions in Western Europe, Esbjerg Denmark: South Jutland University Press, pp. 27 47.
Book chapters in collective volumes
• Zacopoulou E. (2011) “The past and present of social research: the problem of social legitimation and autonomy” in Alipranti L., Thanopoulou M., Fronimou E. (eds.) Contemporary aspects of social science in Greece , Athens: Sakkoulas, pp. 27 40 (in Greek). • Zacopoulou E. (2010) “Agricultural population and identities in Greece” in Efthimiopoulos E., Modinos M. (eds) Which is the course of the Greek agriculture? The history, the crisis and the ecological future of rural areas, Athens: Interdisciplinary Institute for Environmental Research (DIPE) / Livanis, pp. 45 62 (in Greek). • Zacopoulou E. (2008) “Countryside and agriculture: thoughts on rethinking the sociological approach of rural issues” in Krimbas K., Louloudis L. (eds) Greek agriculture and agricultural policy , Athens: Academy of Athens, pp. 109 119 (in Greek). • Zacopoulou E. (2008) “The Dream” in Panayotopoulos N. (ed.) The disenchantment of the World , Athens: EKKE / Polytropon, pp. 457 488 (in Greek). • Zacopoulou E. (2008) “A thematic catalogue of Stathis Damianakos’ published works” in Zacopoulou E., Kasimis Ch., Louloudis L. (eds) (2008) Rurality, society and space , Athens: Plethron, pp. 239 246 (in Greek). • Maratou L. and E. Zacopoulou E., (2004) “Labour Unions” in D. Charalambis, L. Maratou Aliprnati, A. Hadjiyanni (eds) Recent Social Trends in Greece 1960 –2000 , Montreal: McGill Queen’s University Press, pp. 353 357. • Τsiganou I. and E. Zacopoulou, (2004) “Conflict”, in D. Charalambis, L. Maratou Aliprnati, A. Hadjiyanni (eds) Recent Social Trends in Greece 1960 – 2000 , Montreal: McGill Queen’s University Press, pp. 266 275 • Zacopoulou E. (2000) “Political demography of the Prefecture of Ioannina 1961 1991. The phenomenon of ‘compatriots’” in Nitsiakos V., Kasimis Ch. (eds) The mountain areas of the Balkans. Developments and transformations , Athens: Plethron / Municipality of Konitsa, pp. 265 283 (in Greek). • Zacopoulou E. (1999) “Pluriactive population and agriculture: towards a new tracing of a multifarious phenomenon” in Kasimis Ch., Louloudis L. (eds) Countryside in Greece: Greek rural society in the end of the 20th century, Athens: EKKE/Plethron, pp. 115 147 (in Greek)
Participations in conference proceedings
• Zacopoulou E. (2012) “The fragmented benefits based society and the unattainable of the reform process” in Anthonopoulou M., Koniordos S. (eds) Proceedings of the Conference: Greek society 1975 2010: changes, transformations, challenges , Athens: Hellenic Sociological Society, 3 rd –5th November 2011 (in Greek) www.hellencisociology.gr • Zacopoulou E. (2005) “Naxos: society, history and space” in Hatzimichalis K., Vaiou K. (eds) Rethinking Radical Approaches to Space, Proceedings of the ‘Aegean Seminars’, Naxos 2003 , Athens: Harokopion University, pp. 23 37 (in Greek and English). • Zacopoulou E. (1994) «Les communautés de compatriotes : clientèlisme, identité et solidarité au service de la renaissance des communes des régions défavorisées» in Proceedings of the Conference: Suds et Ιles Méditerranéennes. Terres d’ initiatives ou terres d’ assistance? , Editions Universitaires de Corse, Ajaccio Corse, pp. 305 313. • Zacopoulou E. (1986) “Rural economy and multifunctional pluriactivity in a mountainous village in Naxos” in Proceedings of the Conference: Pluriactivity and rural development, Athens: Ministry of Agriculture, pp.60 65.
Other scientific activities Member of the European Society for Rural Sociology Member of the Hellenic Sociological Society Member of the Hellenic Association of Greek Researchers Member of the Hellenic Society for Ethnology Peer Reviewer of the “Greek Review of Social Research” and the “South European Society and Politics” Referee for submitted research proposals to the Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus 2010 2013: Member of the Editorial Committee of the Greek Review of Social Research 2006 2008: Representative of Researchers to the Administrative Board of EKKE 2005 2007: Member of the Administrative Board of the Hellenic Association of Greek Researchers 2005 2006: Deputy Director of the Institute of Urban and Rural Sociology 2002 2004: Vice President of the Association of the personnel of EKKE 2002 2004: Member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Institute of Urban and Rural Sociology 1996 1998: President of the Administrative Board of the Hellenic Society for Ethnology.
Citations in publications in English and French (excluded self cited and by the co authors) • Damianakos St. (1996) Le paysan grec , L’Harmattan, Paris, pp. 36, 47, 203, 305. • Damianakos St. (1997) “The Ongoing Quest for a Model of Greek Agriculture” in Sociologia Ruralis Vol.37, no2, August 1997, Rural Greece. Fragile Structures and New Realities, Kasimis Ch. and Louloudis L. (guest eds), pp. 201, 208. • Marantzidis N. (1999) “Clientélisme politique et exclusion sociale le cas des Tsiganes en Grèce » Politique et sociétés , Vol. 18, no 3, pp. 145, 154, 160 • Damianakos St. (2001) «Les équivoques de la statistique: dépeuplement et double appartenance sociale en Epire, 1961 1991» Strates , Villageois et citadins de Grèce, no 10, Ed. Ladyss, Paris, pp. 76, 84. • Pusceddu A. M. (2012) “Lagging Behind: The Reshaping of Rurality and the Quest for Development on the Northwest Greek Frontier” in Harakova H., Boscoboinic A. (eds) From Production to Consumption: Transformation of Rural Communities , Freiburg Studies in Social Anthropology, Lit Werlag, pp. 85, 92. • King, R. and Vullnetari, J. (2003) “Migration and Development in Albania”, Working Paper C5 , Development research center on Migration, Globalization and Poverty, pp. 37, 38. • Fakiolas R. (2003) “Regularising Undocumented Immigrants in Greece: Procedures and Effects” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies , vol. 29, No 3: 535 561, pp. 551, 554 • Harris, N. (2003), “Migration of Labour: Constructing Transitional Arrangements”, Economic and Political Weekly , 18 October 2003, pp. 44, 67 • Blaschke, J. and Ruiz Torres, G. (2003) Racism in Rural Areas , Final Report, Study for the EUMC, Berlin, pp. 147, 150. • Stockdale, A. (2004) “Rural Out Migration: Community Consequences and Individual Migrant Experiences”, Sociologia Ruralis , Vol. 44, p.168. • Cavounidis, J. (2004) “Migration to Greece from the Balkans”, South Eastern Europe Journal of Economics , Vol. 2. p. 48 • Baldwin Edwards, M. (2004) “Albanian emigration and the Greek labour market: Economic symbiosis and social ambiguity”, South East European Review , Vol. 1. p. 61 • Nicholson, B. (2004) “Migrants as Agents of Development: Albanian Return Migrants and Micro Enterprise”, in D. Pop (ed), New Patterns of Labour Migration in Central and Eastern Europe , Cluj Napoca, Public Policy Centre, p. 104 • Nicholson, B. (2004) “The Tractor, the Shop and the Filling Station: Work Migration as Self help Development in Albania”, Europe – Asia Studies , Vol. 56, No 6. p. 888 • Labrianidis, L. (2004) “Introduction”, in L.Labrianidis (ed.), The Future of Europe’s Rural Peripheries , Aldershot, Ashgate, p. 2 • Lauth Bacas, J. (2004) “Greek Attitudes towards EU Inclusion: Controversial Discourses of Belonging”, Ethnologia Balkanica , Vol. 8. • Louloudis, L., Vlahos, G. and Theoharopoulos, Y. (2004) “The dynamics of local survival in Greek LFAs”, in F. Brouwer (ed), Sustaining agriculture and the rural environment: governance, policy and multifunctionality , Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, p. 156 • Lawrence, C. (2005) “Rebordering the Nation: Neoliberalism and Racism in Rural Greece”, Dialectical Anthropology , Vol. 29, p. 332 • Karakayali, S. und Tsianos, V. (2005) “Mapping the Order of New Migration: Undokumentierte Arbeit und die Autonomie der Migration”, Peripherie , No 97/98, p. 5 • Labrianidis, L. and Hatziprokopiou, P. (2005) “The Albanian migration cycle. Migrants tend to return to their country of origin after all”, in King, R., Mai, N. and Schwander Sievers, S. (eds) The New Albanian Migration , Sussex Academic Press, p. 99 • Gibney, M.J. and Hansen, R. (2005) Immigration and Asylum: From 1900 to the present , ABC CLIO, p. 417 • Kanellopoulos C. in cooperation with Gregou M., Petralias A. (2005), Illegally resident third country nationals in Greece: state approaches towards them, their profile and social situation, Centre of Planning and Economic Research EU, Athens, p. 77 • Stockdale, A. (2006) “Migration: Pre requisite for rural economic regeneration?” Journal of Rural Studies , Vol. 22, pp. 355, 357 • Cavounidis, J. (2006) “Labour Market Impact of Migration: Employment Structures and the Case of Greece”, International Migration Review , Vol. 40, No 3, pp. 648, 650 • Iosifides, T., Kizos, T., Petracou, E., Malliotaki, E., Katsimantou, K. and Sarri, E. (2006) “Socio economic Characteristics of Immigrants in Western Greece Region: Urban Rural Continuum or Divide?” Migration Letters , Vol. 3, No 2, pp. 92, 93 • Kuokkanen, K. and Vihinen, H. (2006) Contribution of the CAP to the general objectives of the EU , Background Note 4, SASSPO SSP4 022698, p. 13 • Lawrence, C.M. (2006) “To hire an ‘Albanian’: household economy and immigration in rural Greece”, Research in Economic Anthropology , Vol. 25, p. 84 • Baldwin Edwards, M. (2006) Implementing the EU anti discrimination directices in Greece: Between ‘Marketization’ and social exclusion , MMO Working Paper No 8, p. 14 • Bika, Z. (2007) “A Survey of Academic Approaches to Agrarian Transformation in Post War Greece”, Journal of Agrarian Studies , Vol. 34, No1, pp. 77, 78, 86 • Alipranti Maratou, L. (2007) “Migration to Greece: A New Type and Emerging Problems”. In E. Close, M. Tsianikas and G. Couvalis (eds.) Greek Research in Australia: Proceedings of the Sixth Biennial International Conference of Greek Studies, Flinders University June 2005 . Adelaide, Flinders University Department of Languages Modern Greek, p. 190 • Vullnetari, J. (2007) Albanian Migration and Development: State of the Art Review , Working Paper No 18, IMISCOE, September, p. 50 • Preibisch K.L. (2007) Local produce, Foreign Mobility: Labour Mobility Programmes and Global Trade Competitiveness in Canada, Rural Sociology , Vol. 72, No 3, p. 421 • Pedreno Canovas A., Riquelme Perea P. (2007) “La condicion inmigrante de los nuevos trabajadores rurales”, Revista Espanola de Estudeos Agrosociales y Pesqueros , No 211, p. 190 • Lawrence, C.M. (2007) Blood and Oranges: European Markets and Immigrant Labour in Rural Greece , Berghan Books, pp. 60, 193 • Ateljevic, I. and Hall, D. (2007) “The embodiment of the macho gaze in the South eastern Europe: Performing femininity and masculinity in Albania and Croatia” in A. Prichard, N. Morgan, I. Ateljevic, C. Harris (eds), Tourism and Gender: Embodiment, Sensuality and Experience , London, CABI Publishing, p. 140 • Kalambokidis, K., Iosifides, T., Henderson, M., Morehouse, B. (2008) “Wildfire policy and use of science in the context of a socio ecological system on the Aegean Archipelago” Environmental Science and Policy , Vol. 11, No 5, p. 409. • British Council/IPPR (2008) Migrant Cities Research , Living Together Programme, Athens, p. 43 • Halfacree K. (2008) “To Revitalize Counterurbanization Research? Recognizing an International and Fuller Picture”, Population, Place and Space , Vol. 14, p. 487 • Hugo G. and Moren Alegret R. (2008) International Migration to Non Metropolitan Areas of High Income Countries: Editorial Introduction, Population, Place and Space , Vol. 14, p. 474 • Moren Alegret R. (2008) “Ruralphilia and Urbophobia versus Urbophilia and Ruralphobia? Lessons from Immigrant Integration Processes in Small Towns and Rural Areas in Spain” Population, Place and Space , Vol. 14, p. 538 • Gabărski, N. (2008) « Les expériences migratoires bulgares en Grèce depuis 1989 » Balkanologie , Vol. XI, No 1 2 http://balkanologie.revues.org • Koutsou S., Petrou M. (2008) « Restructuration des systèmes agraires et perceptions de « l’autre » de part et d’autre de la frontière gréco bulgare » Mediterranée: Revue Géographique des pays Mediterranéens http://mediterranee.revues.org/index527.html ). • Sintes P. (2008) « Lire les résultats du recensement grec de 2001. Tendances du peuplement et pratiques sociales de l’espace » Espace géographique , Vol. 37, No 3, p. 266 • British Council (2008) Living Together Programme, Migrant Cities Research: Athens, p. 43 • Labrianidis L., Sykas T. (2009) “Geographical Proximity and Immigrant Labour in Agriculture: Albanian Immigrants in the Greek Countryside” Sociologia Ruralis , Vol.49, No 4. • Phillips M. (2009) “Counterurbanisation and Rural Gentrification: an Exploration of the Terms” Population, Place and Space . • Vergunst P. (2009) “Whose Socialization? Exploring the Social Interaction Between Migrants and Communities of Place in Rural Areas” Population, Place and Space , Vol. 15, No 3, pp. 254, 255 • Mantzos C., Peglidou A. (2010) “Lines in the Family. Aspects of Family Related Migration in Greek Albanian Border” Balkanologie, Vol. XII, n° 2 • Tzanopoulos J., Kallimanis A., Bella I., Labrianidis L., Sgardelis S., Pantis J. (2011) “Agricultural decline and sustainable development on mountain areas in Greece: Sustainability assessment of future scenarios” Land Use Policy , 28 : 585–593 • Alipranti Maratou L. (2007) “Migration to Greece: A New Type and Emerging Problems” in E. Close, M. Tsianikas and G. Couvalis (eds.) Greek Research in Australia: Proceedings of the Sixth Biennial International Conference of Greek Studies, Flinders University June 2005 . Adelaide, Flinders University Department of Languages Modern Greek, p. 191. • Anthopoulou T., Koutsou S. (2009) « Stabilité foncière et mobilité rurale. Dynamiques agraires dans deux communes de la Grèce du Nord Est » Options Méditerranéennes , Νo Α/ 82, pp. 21 37. • (2008) European Commission Final Report on “Poverty and Social Exclusion in Rural Areas” Annex 1: Country Studies, Greece: author Bouzas N., p. 115 http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/spsi • Bafoil Fr., Hibou B. (2003) « Les administrations publiques et les modes de gouvernement à l’épreuve de l’européanisation. Une comparaison Europe du Sud, Europe de l’Est » Les études du CERI No 102, Paris, p. 19 • Anthopoulou Th. (2001) “Morcellement des terres et stratégies d’adaptation des exploitations agricoles en Grèce” in: A. M.Jouve (dir). Terres méditerranéennes. Le morcellement, richesse ou danger? , Editions KARTHALA CIHEAM, Paris, pp.217 244 • Louloudis L., Beopoulos N., (2002) «Broadening the sectoral perspective on agricultural policy in Greece», in Floor Brouwer, Jan van der Straaten (eds), Nature and Agriculture in the European Union: New Perspectives on Policies that Shape the European Countryside , Edward Elgar, UK, USA, pp. 183, 184, 202, 203. • Costis Hadjimichalis (2003) «Imagining Rurality in the New Europe and Dilemmas for Spatial Policy» in European Planning Studies , Vol. 11, No 2, pp.106, 113. • Kasimis C., Papadopoulos A.G. (2005) “The multifunctional role of migrants in the Greek countryside: Implications for the rural economy and society” in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 31(1), Jan.2005: 99 127, pp. 106, 127. • Chatzitheodoridis F., Mountousis I., Papanikolaou K., Tsilochristos D. (2006) “Multi activity and Brand Name Local Products on an Island of the North Aegean, Greece” Journal of Social Sciences 2(1): 14 20, pp. 15, 20. • Damianakos St., (2001), «Les équivoques de la statistique: dépeuplement et double appartenance sociale en Epire, 1961 1991» in Strates , Villageois et citadins de Grèce, no 10, Ed. Ladyss, Paris, pp. 62, 84. • Spilanis I., Sourbes L. (1999) « Perspectives de durabilité du développement dans l’espace insulaire: le cas des îles de l’Egée (Grèce)» in Benhayoun G., Gaussier N., Planque B., Economie des régions Méditerranéennes et développement durable : Expériences méditerranéennes, L’Harmattan, Paris. • Assemblée parlementaire Doc. 9099 (2001) Rapport : Situation et perspectives de la jeunesse rurale , Commission de l’environnement et de l’agriculture, Rapporteur : M. Juha Korkeaoja, Finlande, http://assembly.coe.int/ASP/Doc/ • Karamanos A., Aggelides S., Londra P. (2005) « Irrigations Systems Performance in Greece » in Proceedings of the 2 nd WASAMED Workshop (Hammamet Tunisie 2004), Options Méditerranéennes, Séries B: Studies and Research no 52, CIHEAM 2005, p. 112