Maro Pantazidou

Research

Title of Research:

Re-imagining work: The politics of time and care

Brief overview of research topic:

After more than a decade of working in hybrid roles concerning social movements and their strategies (as facilitator, researcher, activist, strategist), my attention has shifted to the politics of the future of work and the distribution of (free) time.

I am interested in pathways for reducing the centrality of waged labour and re-inventing the meaning of work, and the associated links to developing more caring, viable, and fair ways of living. My research explores the social production of time and questions the inequalities and suffering manifested in the changing nature of work and the contemporary experience of working/non-working time. It further explores how and if emerging ethics and/or practices of care can point to rethinking time as a collective resource and to re-imagining the place of work in our societies. My practice is inspired by post-work theory, feminist critical theory and epistemologies, theories of the commons, and participatory pedagogies.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

MA, Social Research, University of York, UK

MA, Power, Participation and Social Change, University of Sussex, UK

BA, Journalism and Media Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Publications and Conferences

Publications

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  Hoffmann, Maja, Pantazidou, Maro and Smith, Tone. "3 Critiques of Work: The Radical Roots of Degrowth". De Gruyter Handbook of Degrowth, edited by Lauren Eastwood and Kai Heron, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2024, pp. 55-74. 
• Right Here, Right Now: Rapid avocados, gig work and temporal justice [Online]. The Sociological Review Magazine (2022).
• Challenging the Asymmetries of Power: A Review of the Institute of Development Studies Contribution (with John Gaventa), IDS Bulletin, 47(2), 89-105, 2016.
• The Changing Faces of Citizen Action: A mapping study through an ‘unruly’ lens” (with Khanna, A., Mani, P., Patterson, Z., and Shqerat, M), IDS Working Paper 423, 2013.
• De-Constructing Marginality with Displaced People: Learning Rights from an Actor-Oriented Perspective, Journal of Human Rights Practice, 5 (2), 267-290, 2013.
• Treading new ground: a changing moment for citizen action in Greece, Development in Practice, 23(5-6), 755-770, 2013.
• What Next for Power Analysis? A Review of Recent Experience with the Powercube and Related Frameworks, IDS Working Paper 400,

Recent Conference Presentations

• Precarious Time and Post-Work at Historical Materialism Conference, Athens, April 2023
• Critiques of Work: The Radical Roots of Degrowth at the 9th International Conference on Degrowth, Zagreb, September 2023
• Care and Time Justice: Care work at the heart of temporal precarity at Caring Futures: Contradictions, Transformation and Revolutionary Possibilities, Paris, May 2024
• Working Time Fragmentation as a challenge to Working Time reduction policies: A view from an action-research project with precarious care workers in Greece at the SASE conference: For Dignified and Sustainable Economic Lives: Disrupting the Emotions, Politics, and Technologies of Neoliberalism, Limerick, Ireland, 2024

Teaching

• Tutor, Unruly Politics post-graduate course, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
• Lecturer and Facilitator, Life After Growth summer school