Dr Antonis Vradis
Lecturer in Sustainable Development
Research areas
I am a geographer with an urban focus, a migration inclination and a political urge to make sense of our turbulent times.
Over the past few years I have had the joy to work with a colleagues, friends and comrades in a number of projects including Transcapes, PURSI, Nutricities and the Welcoming City. We have recently embarked on a new major international project, CUPP. The St Andrews team is looking at technology-driven transformations in the policing of urban public spaces.
What this diverse set of research endeavours holds in common is the drive to understand how cities and transient populations staying within, and traveling through them face up to the multiple crises of our times.
In 2021, we founded the Radical Urban Lab here at St Andrews, for which I am the Director. I am immensely honoured to be working with a fantastic group of colleagues here at St Andrews:
- Dr Nerina Boursinou focuses on understanding migrant trajectories through the use of Information and Communication Technologies.
- Andreas Makris is studying the techno-logistical transformation of the port of Piraeus, Greece.
- Rowan Milligan is looking at gender and squatting in the context of resistance to the housing crisis.
- Dr Evie Papada is an expert on the humanitarian border, having previously studied the case of Lesbos in Greece and currently looking into the UK context.
(Image credit: Maria-Nefeli Tsetseri).
Please check vrad.is for more information on our research projects, writings, photographs and more.
PhD supervision
- Andreas Makris
- Rowan Milligan
- Joshua Hazelbower
- Christopher Murray
- Ewan Jenkins
Selected publications
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Open access
Interrogating ‘urban social innovation’: relationality and urban change in Berlin
McFarlane, C., Langley, P., Painter, J., Lewis, S. & Vradis, A., 9 Dec 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Urban Geography. Latest Articles, 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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City relaunch issue
Vradis, A. (ed.), Arabindoo, P. (ed.), Fernandez, M. (ed.), Gibbons, A. (ed.), Humphrey, D. (ed.), Lancione, M. (ed.), Madden, D. (ed.) & Richter, A. (ed.), 7 Apr 2020, In: City. 24, 1-2Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review
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Open access
Crowdfunding cities: Social entrepreneurship, speculation and solidarity in Berlin
Langley, P., Lewis, S., McFarlane, C., Painter, J. & Vradis, A., 29 Jun 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Geoforum. 115, p. 11-20 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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For the City yet to come
Gibbons, A., Richter, A., Vradis, A., Madden, D., Humphry, D., Fernández-Arrigoitia, M. & Lancione, M., 7 Apr 2020, In: City. 24, 1-2, p. 1-4 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Governing mobility in times of crisis: Practicing the border and embodying resistance in and beyond the hotspot infrastructure
Vradis, A., Papada, E., Papoutsi, A. & Painter, J., 1 Dec 2020, In: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 38, 6, p. 981-990Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Making and breaking boundaries in times of transition
Benjaminsen, T., Costalli, S., Grove, K., Menga, F., Nagel, C., Peters, K. & Vradis, A., Jan 2020, In: Political Geography. 76, 2 p., 102130.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Open access
Pop-up governance: Transforming the management of migrant populations through humanitarian and security practices in Lesbos, Greece, 2015-2017
Papada, E., Papoutsi, A., Painter, J. & Vradis, A., Dec 2020, In: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 38, 6, p. 1028-1045 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Pop-up governance: Transforming the management of migrant populations through humanitarian and security practices in Lesbos, Greece, 2015–2017
Papada, E., Vradis, A., Papoutsi, A. & Painter, J., 2020, In: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 38, 6, p. 1028-1045Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Spatial politics and the spatial contract in Exarcheia, Athens, Greece (1974-2018)
Vradis, A., Sept 2020, In: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 45, 3, p. 542-558 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Beyond bibliometrics
Benjaminsen, T. A., Costalli, S., Grove, K., McConnell, F., Menga, F., Steinberg, P. E. & Vradis, A., 15 Jan 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Political Geography. 68, p. A1-A2 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review