Category: News

Our project’s results on mass media

Our project keeps on spreading the word on Touristification in the Greek context, as three articles were published at various mass media, and more specifically at Rodiaki, Kathimerini and Imerisia magazines! These articles highlight the results of our project’s studies. In particular, they mention that Greece has become one of the most touristificated countries in…

Workshop on labour and housing precarity in the context of touristification

Mark your calendars for a hybrid workshop which will bring together academic researchers, union activists and the public to discuss the challenges of labour and housing precarity as a result of touristification. Going beyond documenting the current situation, the workshop aims at fostering a discussion that will explore effective strategies for the benefit of workers.…

Participation at the Urban Speculations: Cities, Technologies, Futures Conference, 4-6 February 2025

One more of our project’s stops was the “Urban Speculations: Cities, Technologies, Futures Conference”, held from the 4th to the 6th of February 2025 in Lüneburg, Germany! (Learn more about the conference here https://www.leuphana.de/en/research-centers/cdc/events/conferences/urban-speculations-cities-technologies-futures.html). At this conference, the Project’s researcher Dr. Kostas Gourzis along with Dr. Georgia Alexandri, from the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) …

Inclusive Urban Societies Project. Latest news from September 2024

This year marked a year where our project kept on spreading the word on gentrification, touristification and housing/labour precarity! Here is a sneak peek at what our project has been up to, from September 2024, following the highlights of project’s first steps, that can be found here! The project’s first stop was at the 14th…

Highlights of the very first steps of Inclusive Urban Societies Project: October 2023 – July 2024

The Inclusive Urban Societies project has started, and it has already been going places. Let’s take a sneak peek at what happened so far, what is currently happening and what will happen in the upcoming period! Last November, members of the project co-organized the “The nexus of housing financialisation/gentrification/touristification in Southern Europe: Decolonising dominant perspectives”…