A research lab at ICTA-UAB
Senior Researcher and Ramón y Cajal Fellow
Elia is a human geographer and a political ecologist and she is a Senior Ramon y Cajal Fellow based at ICTA-UAB. Her research explores how mega-infrastructure projects, investments in the built environment and neoliberal urbanism transform urban places, socionatures and livelihoods, and influence the patterns of social, spatial and environmental inequality. She has been based for almost a decade in the UK where she held postdoctoral and lectureship positions in the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford. In 2015 she was a visiting academic in the Center for Place, Culture and Politics in City University of New York and in 2017, a Carson Fellow in Ludwig-Maximillians-Universitat in Munich.
She has won a significant number of internationally competitive fellowships and grants, including an individual Marie Skłodowska-Curie and a Carson Fellowship and grants from British Academy, Cambridge Arts Humanities & Social Sciences, and Royal Geographical Society. Elia is also a Senior Associate at the University of Cambridge and an editor of Dialogues in Human Geography. At BCNUEJ she leads the research line Planetary Urban Infrastructures. (Languages: Eng, Spa, Greek)
Research lines:
Infrastructures and social mobilizations for just urbansSocieties
Housing inequalities & climate change
Keywords
- Urban and human geography
- Urban political ecology
- Social, environmental and spatial justice
- Infrastructure-led development
- Urbanization
- Postcolonial geographies
- Comparative urbanism
- Neoliberal natures
Associated Projects
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Selected Publications
- Apostolopoulou, E., Pant, H., 2022. “Silk Road here we come”: Infrastructural myths, post-disaster politics, and the shifting urban geographies of Nepal. Political Geography, 98, p.102704.
- Apostolopoulou, E., Kotsila, P., 2022. Community gardening in Hellinikon as a resistance struggle against neoliberal urbanism: spatial autogestion and the right to the city in post-crisis Athens, Greece. Urban Geography, 43(2), pp.293-319.
- Apostolopoulou, E., 2021. Tracing the links between infrastructure‐led development, urban transformation, and inequality in China’s belt and road initiative. Antipode, 53(3), pp.831-858.
- Apostolopoulou, E., 2021. A novel geographical research agenda on Silk Road urbanisation. The Geographical Journal, 187(4), pp.386-393.
- Apostolopoulou, E. and Liodaki, D., 2021. The right to public space during the COVID-19 pandemic: A tale of rising inequality and authoritarianism in Athens, Greece. City, 25(5-6), pp.764-784.
- Apostolopoulou, E., 2020. Nature swapped and nature lost: Biodiversity Offsetting, urbanization and social justice. Springer Nature.
Media Mentions
- How China’s Belt and Road Initiative is changing cities – and threatening communities (The Conversation)
- How China’s Belt and Road Initiative is changing cities – and threatening communities (Rappler)
- How China’s Belt and Road Initiative is changing cities – and threatening communities (Geography Directions)
- The right to energy justice in post-crisis Greece (Royal Geographic Society)
- Η Έλια Αποστολοπούλου στο left.gr για το δικαίωμα στην πόλη και τη φύση (Left.gr)
- Come il progetto della nuova via della seta cambia le città e minaccia le comunità di abitanti (EuroNomade)