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Professor Olga Demetriou's Outputs (19)

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.

Complementary Protection and the Recognition Rate as Tools of Governance: Ordering Europe, fragmenting Rights (2019)
Journal Article
Demetriou, O. (2022). Complementary Protection and the Recognition Rate as Tools of Governance: Ordering Europe, fragmenting Rights. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 48(5), 1264-1285. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2019.1682979

Recognition rates measure how far states afford rights to refugees. Recent developments of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) have supplemented this measure with factors such as population and wealth. Concurrently, laws have developed nationall... Read More about Complementary Protection and the Recognition Rate as Tools of Governance: Ordering Europe, fragmenting Rights.

The Impact of Women's Activism on the Peace Negotiations in Cyprus (2018)
Journal Article
Demetriou, O., & Hadjipavlou, M. (2018). The Impact of Women's Activism on the Peace Negotiations in Cyprus. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 24(1), 50-65. https://doi.org/10.1080/13537113.2017.1422639

This article focuses on Cypriot women's activism and the work of the Gender Advisory Team (GAT). Referencing United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, GAT produced specific recommendations to the negotiators and third parties to the Cyprus pea... Read More about The Impact of Women's Activism on the Peace Negotiations in Cyprus.

A peace of bricks and mortar: thinking ceasefire landscapes with Gramsci (2018)
Journal Article
Demetriou, O., & Erdal Ilican, M. (2019). A peace of bricks and mortar: thinking ceasefire landscapes with Gramsci. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 25(9), 897-913. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2017.1413673

This article addresses the ways in which Nicosia has been affected by division due to the ethno-political conflict and the gentrification efforts that have attended attempts to reunite the city. It examines two spaces of civic action in particular th... Read More about A peace of bricks and mortar: thinking ceasefire landscapes with Gramsci.

Counter-Conduct and the Everyday: Anthropological Engagements with Philosophy (2016)
Journal Article
Demetriou, O. (2016). Counter-Conduct and the Everyday: Anthropological Engagements with Philosophy. Global Society, 30(2), 218-237. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2015.1133568

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 affi... Read More about Counter-Conduct and the Everyday: Anthropological Engagements with Philosophy.

a feminist position on sharing governmental power and forging citizenship in Cyprus: proposals for the ongoing peace negotiations (2014)
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Demetriou, O., & Hadjipavlou, M. (2014). a feminist position on sharing governmental power and forging citizenship in Cyprus: proposals for the ongoing peace negotiations. Feminist Review, 107(1), 98-106. https://doi.org/10.1057/fr.2014.6

On 12 August 2013, a feminist stood up at a podium and declared that she would work for the benefit of ‘everyone living in Cyprus, [irrespective] of language, religion, race, birthplace, class, age, physical ability, gender, or sexual orientation, to... Read More about a feminist position on sharing governmental power and forging citizenship in Cyprus: proposals for the ongoing peace negotiations.

‘Struck by the Turks’: reflections on Armenian refugeehood in Cyprus (2014)
Journal Article
Demetriou, O. (2014). ‘Struck by the Turks’: reflections on Armenian refugeehood in Cyprus. Patterns of Prejudice, 48(2), 167-181. https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322x.2014.905369

A large part of the Armenian community in Cyprus descends from survivors of the 1915 genocide in Anatolia who initially settled in neighbourhoods of the capital Nicosia. Following the independence of the island from British colonialists in 1960, thes... Read More about ‘Struck by the Turks’: reflections on Armenian refugeehood in Cyprus.

The Militarization of Opulence (2012)
Journal Article
Demetriou, O. (2012). The Militarization of Opulence. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 14(1), 56-77. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2011.631286

This article investigates the processes through which a site, thought to encapsulate the history of the Cyprus conflict, has been militarized in multiple ways. Defined as a site of negotiation since its opening, Ledra Palace Hotel has instead been a... Read More about The Militarization of Opulence.