Yannis Stavrakakis
Head
Social and Political Sciences
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
Greece
Biography
He received his MA and PhD degrees from the ‘Ideology and Discourse Analysis’ programme at the University of Essex.His doctoral thesis, completed under the supervision of Ernesto Laclau, was entitled ‘New Directions in the Theory of Ideology and the Case of Green Ideology’. He is Head in School of Political Sciences in AUTH.
Research Interest
His research interests include contemporary political theory (with emphasis on psychoanalytic and post-structuralist approaches), the analysis of ideology and political discourse in societies of late modernity (with emphasis on the study of political ecology, populism and post-democracy) and the political dimensions of artistic practices and theater.
