{"id":12509,"date":"2025-03-14T11:13:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T09:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/?page_id=12509"},"modified":"2025-03-17T15:19:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T13:19:21","slug":"costas-gousis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/fellows-2025\/costas-gousis\/","title":{"rendered":"Costas Gousis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>PhD, University of Roehampton | Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Crete<\/h2>\n<h4>Title of research proposal: &#8220;Migrant Workers, Collective Action, and the EU Platform Work Directive: A Comparative Study of Greece and Italy&#8221;<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><div class=\"su-tabs su-tabs-style-horizontal su-tabs-mobile-stack\" data-active=\"1\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\" data-anchor-in-url=\"no\"><div class=\"su-tabs-nav\"><span class=\"\" data-url=\"\" data-target=\"blank\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Bio<\/span><span class=\"\" data-url=\"\" data-target=\"blank\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Publications<\/span><\/div><div class=\"su-tabs-panes\"><div class=\"su-tabs-pane su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" data-title=\"Bio\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12506 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/\u039a\u03ce\u03c3\u03c4\u03b1\u03c2-\u0393\u03bf\u03cd\u03c3\u03b7\u03c2-scaled-200x300-c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><strong>Costas Gousis<\/strong> was born in Volos in 1986. He graduated from the Law School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) and holds a Master\u2019s degree in Political Theory and Philosophy from the School of Political Sciences, AUTH. As an AHRC Techne-funded doctoral student, he researched immigrant activism in Greece over the last two decades and completed his PhD at the University of Roehampton in 2021. His thesis explores diverse aspects of immigrant activism, including labor and feminist organizing, citizenship struggles, and justice campaigns. He has worked as a social researcher and lawyer in the field of human rights and refugee law, initially serving on the Asylum Appeals Committees under Presidential Decree 114\/2010, and later providing legal assistance to asylum seekers through the Youth Support Centre of ARSIS in Athens. After completing his PhD, he worked for three years at Eteron \u2013 Institute for Research and Social Change, coordinating research projects on youth, precarious work, and political participation. During the period 2023-2024, he participated in the Research Group of the \u2018Demo\/Crisis \u2013 Researching Democracy &amp; Crisis\u2019 project, funded by ELIDEK and implemented by Panteion University. As of May 2024, he is a member of the Management Committee of the COST Action \u201cData Matters: Sociotechnical Challenges of European Migration and Border Controls\u201d (DATAMIG), a research network coordinated by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Currently, he is a contract lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Crete, teaching \u2018Sociology of Migration\u2019 and preparing an individual research proposal as part of his collaboration with the Research Centre for the Humanities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Costas-Gousis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ResearchGate<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0008-9622-7627\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ORCID<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=UV4--_wAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Scholar<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/eteron.org\/en\/authors\/kostas-goysis-2-en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eteron Archives<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Costas-Gousis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ResearchGate<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0008-9622-7627\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ORCID<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=UV4--_wAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Scholar<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/eteron.org\/authors\/kostas-goysis-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eteron Archives<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"su-tabs-pane su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" data-title=\"Publications\">\n<p><strong>Publications (selected)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2025<\/strong> (Co-author: A. Kontogiannis-Mandros), <em>Citizens\u2019 satisfaction with democracy against the backdrop of the Eurozone crisis management: The case of Greece<\/em>, <em>European Politics and Society<\/em>, 1\u201322. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/23745118.2025.2457630\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/23745118.2025.2457630<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>2024<\/strong> (Co-editor of the e-book: Loukia Kotronaki), <em>Youth in the Kaleidoscope: Collective Action, Emotions, and Electoral Attitudes in Greece during 2023<\/em>, Athens: <em>Eteron \u2013 Institute for Research and Social Change<\/em>. ISBN: 978-618-87020-1-1. Available at: <a href=\"https:\/\/eteron.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/27-may-2b-MAY-E-Book-Vol-2-en-.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/eteron.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/27-may-2b-MAY-E-Book-Vol-2-en-.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>2023<\/strong> (Co-author: A. Prepi), <em>Neo-colonial migration policies, EU resilience, and the role of Greece: Critique and the possibility of alternatives<\/em>, in S. Petkovska (ed.), <em>Decolonial politics in European peripheries: Redefining progressiveness, coloniality and transition efforts<\/em> (pp. 90\u2013109), London: Routledge. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4324\/9781003246848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4324\/9781003246848<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>2023<\/strong> (Co-author: A. K. Gill), <em>Understanding acts of citizenship: Stories of Black activism in Greece<\/em>, <em>Citizenship Studies<\/em>, 27(5), 605\u2013622. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/13621025.2023.2237425\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/13621025.2023.2237425<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>2023<\/strong> <em>Migrant struggles, digital tools, and knowledge from below<\/em>, in L. Cornelissen (ed.), <em>Independent Social Research Foundation Bulletin 27: Platform humanities. Digital technologies and social research<\/em> (pp. 27\u201336).<\/p>\n<p><strong>2023<\/strong> <em>Yunanistan&#8217;daki Pakistanl\u0131 Toplulu\u011fu ve 2010&#8217;larda Alt\u0131n \u015eafak&#8217;a Kar\u015f\u0131 Antifa\u015fist M\u00fccadeleye Katk\u0131s\u0131<\/em> [The Pakistani Community in Greece and its Contribution to the Antifascist Struggle Against Golden Dawn in the 2010s], <em>Praksis<\/em>, 62, 111-130. ISSN: 1302-8618. <em>(in Turkish).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>2023<\/strong> (Co-author: Eirini Gaitanou), <em>Changing the Narrative of Generation Z: Methodological Observations and Findings on the Youth During the Pandemic<\/em>, <em>Sygchrona Themata<\/em>, 158-159, 87-96.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhD, University of Roehampton | Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Crete Title of research proposal: &#8220;Migrant Workers, Collective Action, and the EU Platform Work Directive: A Comparative Study of Greece and Italy&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":12487,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12509","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12509"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12629,"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12509\/revisions\/12629"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}