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 and new materialist 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

• 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,

Teaching

Tutor, Unruly Politics post-graduate course, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex