Professor Olga Demetriou's Outputs (3)

The Spirit of the Convention and the Letter of the Colony: Refugees Defining States in a British Overseas Territory (2023)
Journal Article
Demetriou, O. (2023). The Spirit of the Convention and the Letter of the Colony: Refugees Defining States in a British Overseas Territory. International Political Sociology, 17(4), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olad020

Whereas asylum policy is predicated on the assumption that states define refugees, this paper examines how refugees define states. Through the legal case of refugees stranded on a British military base in Cyprus since 1998, I show how refugees and th... Read More about The Spirit of the Convention and the Letter of the Colony: Refugees Defining States in a British Overseas Territory.

Lateral colonialism: exploring modalities of engagement in decolonial politics from the periphery (2023)
Journal Article
Demetriou, O., Constantinou, C. M., & Tselepou, M. (2023). Lateral colonialism: exploring modalities of engagement in decolonial politics from the periphery. Third World Quarterly, 44(9), 2173-2190. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2023.2226607

This article contributes to an understanding of how the world outside the Global North is complicit in the visibility politics that render spaces of harm relevant or irrelevant to the reproduction of racism. Extending insights from decolonial theoris... Read More about Lateral colonialism: exploring modalities of engagement in decolonial politics from the periphery.

Reconsidering the vignette as method (2023)
Journal Article
Demetriou, O. (2023). Reconsidering the vignette as method. American Ethnologist, 50(2), 208-222. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.13145

When ethnography is used in fields outside anthropology, vignettes often take a central role. Yet methodological discussions of the vignette are not as central to anthropology as their cross-disciplinary use might warrant. By dwelling on, but perhaps... Read More about Reconsidering the vignette as method.