Karagiannopoulou Chara

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Chara Karagiannopoulou is Associate Professor of Comparative and International Politics at the Department of International, European and Area Studies, Panteion University, Athens. She is Visiting Research Professor, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax. She is a Board member of the Institute of International Relations and a member of the research module Studies in Migration and Displacement at the same institution. In the past, she was Teaching Fellow at Universität Bielefeld, Germany, and Member of the Scientific Committee of the Research Centre for Gender Equality in Athens-Greece.
She holds a B.A. in Theology from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, a M.Th. degree in History and Philosophy of Religions from King’s College, London and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. Her research interests include: comparative politics, identity politics, gender and IR, and religion and IR.

Her publications include:

Publications

Books

1. Where are the women in IR? Gaps and challenges, (Eurasia Publishers, 2024).
2.  Α Guide on how to Combat Gender Stereotypes in Mass Media, with L. Maratou-Alipranti & E. Fereti, (Greeek League for Women Rights, 2016).
3.  Party system and cleavages in pre-communist Albania, The kaleidoscope of the German and Greek diplomacy, (Universitäts-Landesbibliothek Darmstadt, 2009).
4.  Women’s participation at political decision-making centers: quotas or parity? (Sideris Publishers, 2009).

Book Chapters

1. Mathiew and Matilda effects in the discipline of International Relations, In Tsakonas P. and M. Koppa (eds.), Theory and Praxis of International Relations (Pedion Publishers, 2024).
2.  Gender, religion, and populism in contemporary Greece: The Cohabitation Agreement debate, In Giorgi A., J. Garraio, and T. Toldy (eds.), Gender, Religion and Populism in the Mediterranean, with N. Papageorgiou, (Routledge, 2024).
3. Gender and International Relations. Challenging encounters, In Stratigaki, M. and G. Petraki, (eds.), Introduction to Gender Studies. Theoretical Approaches and Research Questions in various Scientific Fields. (Alexandria Publishers,2023).
4. Greece’s path to gender equality, In Arvanitopoulos C., A. Passas and M. Koppa (eds.) Greece-European Union. A Forty Years Relationship. 1981-2021, (Pedio Publishers, 2021).
5. Gender in International Relations: making the invisible visible In Gofas A., G. Evangelopoulos and M. Koppa (eds). A Century of International Relations 1919-2019. (Pedion Publishers, 2020).

Articles in Scientific Journals

1. Identity, cultural heritage, and the politics of sovereignty: Narrating Turkey and Greece through Ayasofya, Journal of Balkan and Near East Studies, Special Issue: IR Theory and Turkish-Greek Relations. [with Hisarlıoğlu Fulya and Yanik Lerna] (2024). https://doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2024.2318675
2. Practicing conformity, resistance, and resilience to Gender-Based Violence: Women asylum seekers in the Eastern Mediterranean, Canadian Ethnic Studies, 55(3):123-144 Special Issue: Gender and Violence in a Migration and Refugee Context: Agency, Resilience, and Resistance [with Sandy Petrinioti & Evangelia Tastsoglou] (2023).
3. Gendering violence and precarity in forced migration: Asylum seeking women in the Eastern Mediterranean, Frontiers in Human Dynamics- Refugees and Conflict, Special Issue: Gender, Violence and Forced Migration. [with Tastsoglou Evie and Petrinioti Xanthi] (2021). doi: 10.3389/fhumd.2021.660682 Available at: http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fhumd.2021.660682/full?&utm_source=Email_to_authors_&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=T1_11.5e1_author&utm_campaign=Email_publication&field=&journalName=Frontiers_in_Human_Dynamics&id=660682
4. Gender and the Discipline of International Relations”, Political Science Review, Vol 10, Special Issue: 1919-2019: A Century of International Relations Thinking. (2020).
5.  Unveiling the ‘veil’ debate in the Greek press, Studies in Law on Religion, 20: 69-102 (2018). Doi: 10.31743/spw.260.

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