Field of study: Anthropology of Gender

Courses

SA-122: Anthropology of Gender (undergraduate program, elective course)

SA-141: Anthropological Theory  (undergraduate program, compulsory course)

PA/S-032: Anthropology of Urban Space (undergraduate program, seminar)

WG-4 Theories of Gender and Psychoanalysis (graduate program, MA in “Women and Gender. Anthropological and Historical Approaches”  )

Biography

Kostas Yannakopoulos studied  Law and Byzantine-Modern Greek Literature at the University of Athens. He continued his studies in the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) where he completed his PhD thesis in Social Anthropology entitled  “Jeux du désir , jeux du pouvoir. Corps, émotions et identité sexuelle au Pirée et à Athènes” (1995).

He taught as visiting professor in Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), in the University of Stockholm (Department of Ethnology) and in the University of Goteborg (Department of Gender Studies) and  he was member of  the research group “Altérité ,  sexualité, santé”, Laboratoire  d’Anthropologie Sociale, (Collège de France, Paris). He is currently member   of steering committee of the MA Program “Women and  Gender. Anthropological and Historical Approaches” and serves in the committee of the Research Council University of Aegean. He is member of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) and of the editorial board of the journal “Historein. A Review of the Past and Other Stories”.  

His research interests focus on gender, sexuality, health, kinship, feminist and queer theory, the relation between anthropology and psychoanalysis, self- reflexive anthropology and Greek ethnography, the  politics of difference and urban space.

He conducted extensive fieldwork and has published in Greek, French and English on men’s same sexuality and male homosociality, AIDS, same-sex families, politics of lgbt and feminist movement, nationalism and football, gentrification and the management of social/cultural difference(s) in urban space. Since 2010, he is conducting research on male homosexuality in post-war Greece.    

Selected Publications 

Edited Collections

2010 Contested Spaces in the City: Spatial Approaches on Culture (ed. with Yannis Yannitisotis), Aleksandreia publications/University of Aegean (in Greek).

2010  Language and Sexuality (Through and) Beyond Gender.  (ed  with Costas Canakis and Venetia Kantsa),   Cambridge Scholars Publishing .

2006 Sexualities: Theories and Politics of Anthropology (ed.),Aleksandreia publications (in Greek).

Special Issues

2008  Historein. A review of the past and other stories τεύχος 8, “Performing emotions: historical and anthropological sites of affect” (ed. with Athena Athanasiou, Pothiti Hantzaroula and Despoina Valatsou),  Nefeli Publications.

2006 “Psychoanalysis and Social Anthropology”, Ek ton Isteron, Psychoanalytical Review, vol. 14, 2006 (ed.), Eksantas  Publications (in Greek)

Articles and Chapters  in Books

2012 “Sexual morality regarding Aids and prostitution” in  The books’ journal, issue 19 (in Greek). 

2011 “Lives without testimony: Aids, memory and kinship” in Costas Canakis (ed.) Language and sexuality. Linguistic and anthropological approaches. 21th century publications (in Greek). 

2010 “Cultural meanings of loneliness: kinship, sexuality and (homo)sexual identity in contemporary Greece”,  Journal of Mediterranean Studies, 18(2).

2010 « ‘Suspicious Bodies’. Erotic desire and Self beyond ‘language’ » in Costas Canakis, Venetia Kantsa, Kostas Yannakopoulos  (eds.) Language and sexuality., Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

2010  “A void in the city. Space, difference and utopia in Kerameikos and Gazi” in Kostas Yannakopoulos and Yannis Yannitsiotis (eds) Contested spaces in the city: Spatial approaches on culture, Aleksandreia publications/University of Aegean (in Greek).

2008 «Notions du politique et altérité sexuele »  in  Gilles de Rapper et Pierre Sintès (ed.) Nommer et classer dans les Balkans,  Ecole française d’Athènes.

2005  «Wars between men. Football, male sexualities and nationalisms.» Synchrona Themata 88, January-Μars (in Greek).

 2001  «Male identity, body and same-sex relations. An approach
to gender and sexuality» in  Sotiris Dimitriou (ed.) Anthropology of Gender  Savalas publications(in Greek).

1998  “Politics of sexuality and health in    of Aids»  in Synchrona Themata   66, January-Mars (in Greek).

1998 « Corps érotique masculin et identités sexuelles au Pirèe
et à Athènes » Gradhiva. Revue d’histoire et d’anthropologie 23. 

1996 “Αmis ou amants ? Amours entre hommes et identités sexuelles au Pirèe et à Athènes”, Terrain 27.