Yannis Stavrakakis

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Yannis Stavrakakis (Γιάννης Σταυρακάκης; born 1970 in Sheffield ) is a Greek-British political scientist and professor of political theory and discourse analysis at the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki . Stavrakakis' research, which is in the tradition of Ernesto Laclau's Essex School , deals with the relationship between Lacan's psychoanalysis and political theory as well as with discourse-theoretical analyzes of populism and ideology.

Career

Stavrakakis was born to Greek parents in Sheffield , UK . He studied Political Science at Panteion University in Athens and a Masters degree in Ideology and Discourse Analysis at Essex University . He then did his doctorate in 1996/97 with the renowned political theorist Ernesto Laclau with a discourse analysis work "New Directions in the Theory of Ideology and the Case of Green Ideology". After completing his dissertation, he taught at the Political and Social Sciences Institutes at Essex University, Nottingham University and Panteion University in Athens . In 2006 he accepted a professorship for political theory and discourse analysis at the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki .

Works and theory

Stavrakakis' research interests are contemporary political theories with a focus on poststructuralist and psychoanalytical approaches, social theories and theories of subjectification, radical democracy theories, criticism of ideology and political discourse analyzes, especially populist discourses. In recent years, as Principal Investigator of the research project POPULISMUS, he has dealt intensively with populist and anti-populist discourses, especially in southern Europe and Greece, which broke out as a result of the European debt crisis. As one of the leading Essex School researchers, he and his team applied and further developed the discourse theory developed by Ernesto Laclau.

He is co-editor and on the advisory board of the journals Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society (Palgrave), Subjectivity (Palgrave), Journal for Lacanian Studies and Synchrona Themata . Many of his works and publications have been translated into numerous languages, e.g. B. into Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Russian, Bulgarian and German.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Populism: Myths, Stereotypes and Reorientations , Athens: Hellenic Open University Press 2019 (in Greek), ISBN 978-618842723-5 .
  • Populism, Anti-Populism and Crisis , with N. Sevastakis, Athens: Nefeli 2012 (in Greek), ISBN 978-960-504-046-8 .
  • The Lacanian Left. Psychoanalysis, Theory, Politics , Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press / Albany: SUNY Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7486-1980-1 .
  • Lacan and the Political , London / New York: Routledge 1999, ISBN 978-0-415-17187-8 .

Editorships

  • Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalytic Political Theory , London / New York 2020, ISBN 978-1-138-69631-0 .
  • Lacan & Science , ed. with Jason Glynos, London: Karnac Books 2002,
  • Discourse Theory and Political Analysis. Identities, Hegemonies and Social Change ed. with Aletta Norval and David Howarth, Manchester: Manchester University Press 2000, ISBN 978-0-7190-5664-2 .

Essays

  • Populism and Hegemony , in: The Oxford Handbook of Populism , ed. by Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser et al., Oxford: Oxford University Press 2017, pp. 535-553.
  • Discourse Theory in Populism Research: Three Challenges and a Dilemma , in: Journal of Language and Politics, 2017
  • How did populism become a pejorative concept? And why is this important today? A genealogy of double hermeneutics. POPULISM Working Papers No. 6. 2017 .
  • Distinctions and Articulations. A Discourse-Theoretical Framework for the Study of Populism and Nationalism , with Benjamin De Cleen, in: Javnost - The Public , 24 (4), 2017, pp. 301–319.
  • Left-wing populism in the European periphery: the case of SYRIZA , in: Journal of political ideologies , 19 (2), pp. 119-142.
  • Debt Society: Greece and the Future of Post-democracy , in: Radical Philosophy , 181/2013, pp. 33-38.
  • Dispatches from the Greek Lab. Metaphors, Strategies and Debt in the European Crisis , in: Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society 18: 3, 2013, pp. 313-324.
  • Hegemony or Post-hegemony? Discourse, Representation and the Revenge (s) of the Real , in: Kioupkiolis, A./Katsambekis, G. (Eds.): Radical Democracy and Collective Movements Today. The Biopolitics of the Multitude versus the Hegemony of the People . Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 111-132.
  • Beyond the Spirits of Capitalism? Prohibition, Enjoyment and Social Change . Cardozo Law Review , 33 (6), 2011, 2289-2306.
  • Religious Populism and Political Culture: The Greek Case , in: South European Society and Politics , 7, 2003, pp. 29–52.

Essays in German

  • Syriza's Populism in Opposition and Government: Trying to Review and Develop an Essex School Perspective. trans. by Jürgen Link , in: kultuRRevolution. journal for applied discourse theory, 72/2017, pp. 11–21.
  • The return of the 'people'. Populism and anti-populism in the shadow of the European crisis. trans. by Fabian Eckel and Maurits Heumann, in: Agridopoulos, Aristotelis / Papagiannopoulos, Ilias (ed.): Greece in a European context. Crisis and crisis discourses , Springer VS: Wiesbaden 2016, pp. 109–137.
  • Encounters of the Real Art - Laclau's appropriation of Lacanian conceptions examined closely, with Jason Glynos, in: J. Bonz, G. Febel and I. Härtel (eds.): Linkages between the symbolic and the real. On the topicality of Lacan's thinking in cultural studies , Berlin: Kadmos 2007, pp. 95–113.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.essex.ac.uk/ida/ Ideology and Discourse Analyzes - MA course at the University of Essex
  2. ↑ Ph.D. 1997 Yannis Stavrakakis University of Essex
  3. ↑ Research project populism
  4. ↑ Sieves e.g. B. the translations into Spanish: [1]
personal data
SURNAME Stavrakakis, Yannis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Σταυρακάκης, Γιάννης (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek-British political scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Sheffield