Dr Dimitris Papadopoulos

Reader in Sociology and Organisation

Contact Details

• Tel: +44 (0) 116 252 5183
• Email: d.papadopoulos@le.ac.uk
• Office: Room 328, Level 3, Ken Edwards Building
• Office Hours: By appointment

Biography

Dimitris joined the School in 2010, following five years lecturing at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. Prior to this he was Assistant Professor at the Free University of Berlin where he also earned his PhD. Dimitris is an Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow and has held resident research appointments at the Office for History of Science and Technology, University of California in Berkeley and the Centre for Cultural Studies, University of California in Santa Cruz. From 2007-2011 he was co-editor of the journal Subjectivity (Palgrave Macmillan).

Research Interests

My research looks at organisational dynamics, culture and social transformation. Current research interests centre on ecologies of alternative practices and imaginaries in technoscientific culture, on radical forms of knowledge production and on neo-materialist social theory. Much of my previous work has focussed on politics in relation to precarious labour and the transformation of work as well as culture, transnational mobility and the autonomy of migration. I have a long-standing interest in critical psychology and how experience relates to subjectivity, embodiment and ontogenetic developmental processes. In this context, I am  doing research on developments in psychiatric epigenetics.

PhD Supervision/interest

Current PhD students include:

• Marco Checchi on the primacy of resistance and organisation theory
• Claire English on alternative organising, postcolonial sexuality and transmigration in Calais
• Andrea Ghelfi on the science commons and technoscience
• Margherita Grazioli on autonomy, migration and labour
• Martina Martignoni on migrant self-organisation and postcoloniality
• Fredy Mora-Gámez on social rights and technologies of displacement
• Maria Vlachou on international students in the global knowledge factory

Dimitris is interested in supervising PhD projects in the following areas: Science and Technology Studies; Organisation; Labour and Migration; Experience and Embodiment; Cultural Studies

Teaching

Social Science Research: Research Philosophy (PhD Programme)

The Context of Management Research (PhD Programme)

Administrative Responsibilities

Director of PhD Programme

Most Recent Publications

Books

• Papadopoulos, D. (forthcoming). Crafting politics. Matter, organisation and technoscience.
• Papadopoulos, D. (2010). L.S. Wygotski: Werk und Rezeption (2nd edition; International Cultural-Historical Human Sciences Series, Vol. 33; Ed. H. Giest & G. Rückriem). Berlin:  Lehmanns Media.  [ISBN: 9783865413796, 376 pages]. [[*]]
• Papadopoulos, D., Stephenson, N., & Tsianos, V. (2008). Escape routes. Control and subversion in the 21st century. London: Pluto Press. [ISBN: 9780745327785, xx + 300 pages]. [[*]]
• Selected reviews and excerpts of Escape Routes: Symposion in Rethinking Marxism: A  Journal of Economics, Culture & Society; Darkmatter; Estudios Geograficos; GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies; Grundrisse: Zeitschrift für linke Theorie & Debatte; Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; La revue internationale des livres et des idées; P2P Foundation and here; Peripherie: Zeitschrift für Politik und Ökonomie in der Dritten Welt; Radical Philosophy; Sozial.Geschichte: Zeitschrift für historische Analyse des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts; Subjectivity.
• Stephenson, N., & Papadopoulos, D. (2006). Analysing everyday experience. Social research and political change. Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [ISBN: 9781403935588, xix + 196 pages]. [[*]]
• Papadopoulos, D. (1999). L.S. Wygotski: Werk und Wirkung (1st edition). Frankfurt am Main & New York: Campus Verlag. [ISBN: 9783593363554, 360 pages].

Edited Books and Journal Special Issues

• Papadopoulos, D., & Sharma, S. (Eds.). (2008). Guest edited special issue: Race/Matter: Materialism and the politics of racialization. Darkmatter Journal, 2.
• Papadopoulos, D. (Ed.). (2004). Guest edited special issue: Psychology and the political. International Journal for Critical Psychology, 12. [ISSN: 1471-4167, 192 pages].
• Papadopoulos, D., & Schraube, E. (Eds.). (2003). Guest edited special issue: Strategies of critical research. Journal für Psychologie, 11(2). [ISSN: 0942-2285, 102 pages].
• Hildebrand-Nilshon, M., Kim, C.-W., & Papadopoulos, D. (Eds.). (2002). Kultur (in) der Psychologie. Über das Abenteuer des Kulturbegriffes in der psychologischen Theoriebildung. Heidelberg: Asanger. [ISBN: 3893343814, 238 pagess]

Selected Journal Articles

• Papadopoulos, D. (in preparation). The new exodus: Resilience, ontological organising and autonomous infrastructures. Organization.
• Papadopoulos, D. (in preparation). Autonomy in third capitalism: Cultures of valuation, social studies of finance and science fiction. Economy & Society.
• Chung, E., Cromby, J., & Papadopoulos, D. (in preparation). Managing the epigenetic event: Standardisation and translation in psychiatric epigenomics. Social Science & Medicine.
• Papadopoulos, D. (2013).  Politics of matter. Justice and organisation in technoscience. Social Epistemology, 27(4).
• Papadopoulos, D. & Tsianos, V.  (2013). After citizenship: autonomy of migration, organisational ontology and mobile commons. Citizenship Studies, 17(2), 178-196.
• Papadopoulos, D. (2012). Worlding justice/commoning matter. Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, 3.
• Tsianos, V., Papadopoulos, D., & Stephenson, N. (2012). This is class war from above and they are winning it. What is to be done? Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture & Society, 24(3), 448-457.
• Tsianos, V., & Papadopoulos, D. (2012). Crisis, migration and the death drive of capitalism. Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry, 31, 4-11.
• Papadopoulos, D. (2011). The imaginary of plasticity: Neural embodiment, epigenetics and ecomorphs. Sociological Review, 59(3), 432–456.
• Papadopoulos, D. (2011). Alter-ontologies: Towards a constituent politics in technoscience. Social Studies of Science, 41(2), 177-201.
• Stephenson, N. & Papadopoulos, D. (2011). Exit from the regime of life control: Biopolitics, anticipatory risk and the excess of experience. Somatechnics, 1(2), 412-433.
• Papadopoulos, D., Tsianos, V., & Tsomou, M. (2011). Athens: Metropolitan Blockade - Real Democracy. European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies Transversal Journal, 10. /Translations:
• Tsomou, M., Tsianos, V., & Papadopoulos, D. (2011). Athen: Metropolitane Blockade, direkte Demokratie. DISS-Journal. Zeitschrift des Duisburger Instituts für Sprach- und Sozialforschung, 22, 14-17.
• Papadopoulos, D. (2010). Insurgent posthumanism. Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization, 10(2), 134-151.
• Papadopoulos, D. (2010). Activist materialism. Deleuze Studies, 4(3), 64-83.
• Papadopoulos, D. (2009). Klaus Holzkamp’s critical social science. Theory and Psychology, 19(2), 161-166. /Translations:
• Papadopoulos, D. (2006). Klaus Holzkamp und die Kritische Psychologie. Forum Kritische Psychologie(Das Argument Verlag), 50, 11-22. [ISBN: 9783886197880].
• Papadopoulos, D. (2008). In the ruins of representation: Identity, individuality, subjectification. British Journal of Social Psychology, 47(1), 139-165.
• Blackman, L., Cromby, J., Hook, D., Papadopoulos, D., & Walkerdine, V. (2008). Creating subjectivities. Subjectivity, 22, 1-27.
• Papadopoulos, D., & Sharma, S. (2008). Race/Matter. Materialism and the politics of racialization. Darkmatter Journal, 2.
• Papadopoulos, D., & Tsianos, V. (2007). How to do sovereignty without people? The subjectless condition of postliberal power. Boundary 2: International Journal of Literature and Culture, 34(1), 135-172.
• Stephenson, N., & Papadopoulos, D. (2006). Outside politics/continuous experience. Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization, 6(4), 433-453.
• Papadopoulos, D. (2006). World 2. On the significance and impossibility of articulation. Culture, Theory and Critique, 47(2), 165–179.
• Tsianos, V., & Papadopoulos, D. (2006). Precarity: A savage journey to the heart of embodied capitalism. Transversal Journal, 11.2006. /Translations:
• Tsianos, V., & Papadopoulos, D. (2006). Precariedad: viaje salvaje al corazón del capitalismo corporeizado. Madrid: Brumaria, 7.
• Tsianos, V., & Papadopoulos, D. (2007). Prekarität: eine wilde Reise ins Herz des verkörperten Kapitalismus, oder: Wer hat Angst vor der immateriellen Arbeit? In G. Raunig & U. Wuggenig (Eds.), Kritik der Kreativität (pp. 145-166). Wien: Verlag Turia + Kant. [ISBN: 9783851324594].
• Papadopoulos, D. (2004). Editorial: Psychology and the political. International Journal for Critical Psychology, 12, 5-13. [ISSN: 1471-4167].
• Hage, G., & Papadopoulos, D. (2004). Ghassan Hage in conversation with Dimitris Papadopoulos: Migration, hope and the making of subjectivity in transnational capitalism. International Journal for Critical Psychology, 12, 95-117. [ISSN: 1471-4167].
• Parker, I., Papadopoulos, D., & Schraube, E. (2003). Ian Parker in conversation with Dimitris Papadopoulos and Ernst Schraube: Diese Welt bedarf unserer Aufmerksamkeit. Journal für Psychologie, 11(2), 214-225. /Translations:
• Parker, I., Papadopoulos, D., & Schraube, E. (2004). Ian Parker in conversation with Dimitris Papadopoulos and Ernst Schraube: This World Demands our Attention. FQS: Forum Qualitative Social Research, 5(3), Art. 14.
• Papadopoulos, D. (2003). The ordinary superstition of subjectivity. Liberalism and technostructural violence. Theory and Psychology, 13(1), 73-93.
• Papadopoulos, D. (2002). Dialectics of subjectivity. North-Atlantic certainties, neo-liberal rationality, and liberation promises. International Journal of Critical Psychology, 6, 99-122.

Selected Book Chapters

• Papadopoulos, D., & Tsianos, V. (2007). The autonomy of migration: The animals of undocumented mobility. In A. Hickey-Moody & P. Malins (Eds.), Deleuzian encounters. Studies in contemporary social issues (pp. 223-235). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [ISBN: 9780230506923]. /Excerpts/translations/reprints:
• Papadopoulos, D., & Tsianos, V. (2007). Η πανουργία της μετανάστευσης: ζώα της μη καταγεγραμμένης κινητικότητας. Κύπρος: Περιπέτειες Ιδεών, Πολίτης της Κυριακής, 10 (1.4.2007), 7 (Νίκος Τριμικλινιώτης Ed.)
• Papadopoulos, D., & Tsianos, V. (2009). L’autonomia delle migrazioni. Roma: Mondi Migranti. Rivista di studi e ricerche sulle migrazioni internazionali, 2, 83-96.
• Papadopoulos, D., & Tsianos, V. (2009). Die Autonomie der Migration und die Tiere der undokumentierten Mobilität. Vienna: EIPCP Transversal Journal.
• Papadopoulos, D., & Tsianos, V. (2010). Η πανουργία της μετανάστευσης: ζώα της μη καταγεγραμμένης κινητικότητας. Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης: Κοινωνία & ψυχική υγεία, 11, 20-22. [ISSN: 1790-9554]
• Papadopoulos, D., & Tsianos, V. (2011). Die Autonomie der Migration und die Tiere der undokumentierten Mobilität (Birgit Mennel & Stefan Nowotny, Trans.). In G. Bal (Ed.), Open space. Schnittpunkte aktueller Kunstpraxis (pp. 116-124).Vienna: Open Space - Zentrum für Kunstprojekte.
• Papadopoulos, D., & Stephenson, N. (2007). Traveling experience: Rethinking the limits of empirical evidence in social science. In V. van Deventer, M. Terre Blanche, E. Fourie & P. Segalo (Eds.), Citizen city: Between constructing agent and constructed agency (pp. 128-137). Toronto: Captus University Publications. [ISBN: 9781553221647].

• Papadopoulos, D. (2005). For a new materialist understanding of social science: Decomposing the fact-value debate. In A. H. A. Gülerce, I. Steauble, G. Saunders, &  J. Kay (Ed.), Contemporary theorizing: Global perspectives (pp. 39-47). Concord, ON: Captus Press. [ISBN: 9781553221098].
• Papadopoulos, D. (2003 ). Coming to an end: Subjectivity and liberal power. In N. Stephenson, H. L. Radtke, R. J. Jorna & H. J. Stam (Eds.), Theoretical psychology: Critical contributions (pp. 209-214). Toronto: Captus University Publications.  [ISBN: 9781553220558].
• Marvakis, A., & Papadopoulos, D. (2002). Vom Universalismus zum kulturellen Reduktionismus? Die meteorische Blüte der Kulturpsychologie und ihre zukünftige Aussichten. In M. Hildebrand-Nilshon, C.-W. Kim & D. Papadopoulos (Eds.), Kultur (in) der Psychologie. Über das Abenteuer des Kulturbegriffes in der psychologischen Theoriebildung (pp. 139-160). Heidelberg: Asanger. [ISBN: 9783893343812].
• Hildebrand-Nilshon, M., Motzkau, J., & Papadopoulos, D. (2001). Reintegrating sense into subjectification. In J. R. Morss, N. Stephenson & H. v. Rappard (Eds.), Theoretical issues in psychology (pp. 289-300). Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. [ISBN: 9780792373377].
• Papadopoulos, D. (1998). Επιστημολογικοί περιορισμοί της ακαδημαϊκής ψυχολογίας. Utopia: Journal of Theory and Culture, 30, 99-118. [ISSN: 1105-9141]
• Papadopoulos, D. (1998). Η επαναφορά της ιστορίας και του υποκειμένου στη μεθοδολογία της ψυχολογίας. Utopia: Journal of Theory and Culture, 29, 103-117. [ISSN: 1105-9141]
• Papadopoulos, D. (1996). Observations on Vygotsky's reception in academic psychology. In C. W. Tolman, F. Cherry, R. v. Hezewijk & I. Lubek (Eds.), Problems of theoretical psychology (pp. 145-155). Toronto: Captus University Publications. [ISBN: 9781896691176].
• Papadopoulos, D. (1996). Vygotsky and social science research. Critical remarks on an open relationship. In J. Lompscher (Ed.), Lernen und Entwicklung aus kulturhistorischer Sicht. Was sagt uns Wygotski heute? (pp. 93-116). Marburg: BdWi. [ISBN: 9783924684716].
• Papadopoulos, D. (1996). On the 6th Conference of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology. Psychologie und Gesellschaftskritik, 20(1/2), 174-180. [ISSN 0170-0537]

Editorships/Editorial Boards

Papadopoulos, D., Stephenson, N., & Tsianos, V. (2008). Escape Routes. Control and subversion in the 21st century. London: Pluto Press.

ISBN: 9780745327785, xx + 300 pages

‘A profound and brilliant examination of the power of exodus to create radical interventions in perhaps the three most important and contested fields of society today: life, migration and precarious labour. It is in these fields that the present and future of multitude is at stake. Escape Routes is a toolbox in the hands of multitude.’

ANTONIO NEGRI, author of Insurgencies: Constituent Power and the Modern State, and co-author of Empire and Multitude

‘Another world is here! So announce the authors in their preface to a stirring and intellectually inspiring book about the possibility, the necessity and the potency of escape. Rather than seeing social transformation in terms of revolt, event and abrupt shifts, the authors trace escape routes through the ordinary and through everyday practices. Escape Routes is required reading for anyone who believes in the alternative worlds produced alongside neoliberal capitalism.’
JUDITH HALBERSTAM, University of Southern California, author of In a Queer Time and Place

‘A rich variety of work starts with some version of the autonomous thesis, that the everyday actions or resistances of people precede power; they are in fact what constitute and drive power forward. Escape Routes is one of the most original and interesting efforts to build a fuller understanding of the contemporary world, by focussing on processes and mapping out some of the history of modern power and resistance.’
LAWRENCE GROSSBERG, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, author of Caught in the Crossfire: Kids, Politics, and America’s Future

‘This is one of the most original treatments of some of the big questions we confront today. Even familiar subjects gain a new kind of traction as they are repositioned in the authors’ sharply defined lens of control and subversion. This is conceptualisation at its best – Escape Routes allows us to see what might otherwise be illegible and it continuously executes reversals of standard interpretations of the present.’
SASKIA SASSEN, Columbia University, author of Territory, Authority, Rights

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Stephenson, N., & Papadopoulos, D. (2006). Analysing everyday experience. Social research and political change. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

ISBN: 9781403935588, xix + 196 pages

'Few social scientists have successfully provided us - as persons and as social researchers - with ways to act on and transform our world. In their brilliant analysis of experience and their elucidation of the complex relationship between the socio-political and the everyday, Stephenson and Papadopoulos have done just that.'
SUSAN KIPPAX, co-author of Emotion and Gender: Constructing Meaning from Memory; Sustaining Safe Sex and director of the Australian National Centre in HIV Social Research

'The concept of experience has always represented the touchstone of every approach in philosophy. The epistemology of subjectification developed in this book not only measures up with regard to sociological dimensions of experience, but even reaches towards the ontological fabric of research. A collective effort. A continuous effort. A historical effort. When, in a revolutionary moment, we started to develop an inquiry into the workers' class composition, we used a method we then called 'co-research', and basically we moved towards a similar approach in doing research. How wonderful to see this experience completely developed here.'
ANTONIO NEGRI, author of Insurgencies: Constituent Power and the Modern State; Empire; Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

'Stephenson and Papadopoulos establish that we must rethink the very foundations of experience so that it is possible to not only represent it but also to mobilize it in the name of a new politics. Along the way they revisit vital debates in social theory and craft an exceptional and convincing argument. This is a stunning reprisal for a generous version of experience; a welcome book indeed.'
HENDERIKUS J. STAM, editor of Theory & Psychology

'This book presents an important rethinking and positioning of experience after post-structuralism, which is of central importance for social theory. It is a crucial reading for all social scientists.'
VALERIE WALKERDINE, author of Changing the Subject: Psychology, Social Regulation and Subjectivity; The Mastery of Reason; Daddy's Girl: Young Girls and Popular Culture

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Papadopoulos, D. (2010). L.S. Wygotski: Werk und Rezeption. Berlin:  Lehmanns Media.

International Cultural-Historical Human Sciences Bd. 33. Hrsg. von Hartmut Giest und Georg Rückriem

ISBN: 9783865413796, 376 pages

Seit der Renaissance von L. S. Wygotskis kulturhistorischem Ansatz in den siebziger Jahren wurde sein Denken von ganz unterschiedlichen Theorieströmungen in der Psychologie sowie in den Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften aufgenommen. Dieses Buch bietet eine systematische Rekonstruktion des Wygotskischen Werks und eine kritische Analyse der aktuellen Rezeptionen seines Ansatzes. Welche sind die sozialen, politischen und methodologischen Implikationen der wichtigsten Lesarten Wygotskis? Wie kann Wygotskis Werk zu einem kritischen und situierten Verständnis heutiger Subjektivität beitragen?

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LINKS

• Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy (CPPE), University of Leicester

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