Dr. Elia Apostolopoulou

Biography

Elia Apostolopoulou is a human geographer and political ecologist whose research interrogates contested geographies, political ecologies, infrastructure, urbanization, and social-environmental justice. Her work is organized around interrelated strands, including the transformative power of infrastructure projects and neoliberal environmental planning policies that reshape spaces, socionatures, and everyday livelihoods. She explores the uneven and unjust effects of transformations on communities through the lenses of class, gender, and ethnicity, while also emphasizing the emancipatory potential of grassroots activism and community struggles to advance alternative pathways to social-environmental sustainability and justice. From 2012 to 2022, Apostolopoulou held postdoctoral lectureships at leading academic institutions, including the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford. Additionally, she has held visiting fellowships at prominent institutions like the City University of New York and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. Between 2022 and 2024, she is based at the ICTA in the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where she co-leads a new research line on planetary urban infrastructures. Her research is deeply interdisciplinary and methodologically innovative, committed to advancing policy-relevant and socially engaged scholarship.

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