Apostolis Papakostas

 

 

Apostolis Papakostas

Professor of Sociology and Research Director

Contact: apostolis.papakostas@sh.se

 

Apostolis Papakostas is Professor of Sociology at the School of Social Sciences and Research Director at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) at Södertörn University College, Stockholm, Sweden. Center for East European Studies.

 

At CBEES, Professor Papakostas leads the multidisciplinary research theme, "The social landscapes of the political," together with Associate Professor Ann-Cathrine Jungar. This research theme coordinates several projects at the intersections between political science, history, ethnology, economic history, human geography, sociology, gender studies and business administration. For more information about the research theme, click here

 

Professor Papakostas is responsible for the faculty-overarching "Södertörn Lectures" and the editor of the series with the same name. In addition, he heads, together with Professor Sven Hort, the research program,,"Functioning neighbourhoods in segregated cities: a research program on urban life, democracy and welfare around the Baltic sea."

 

Professor Papakostas's own research topics include urban studies, comparative macro-sociology and the organizational aspects of society and social change. In 1995, he received his PhD from the Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, as well as a docentship in 2002. He has been involved in several research projects concerning the organizational and institutional changes in modern Swedish society at the Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (Score), where he is an "Affiliated Scholar." Score

 

Professor Papakostas served as a member of the board of the Swedish Sociological Association Swedish Sociological Association and of the Nordic Sociological Association Nordic Sociological Association. He is the former editor of the journal Nordic Organization Studies, (NOS) Nordic Organization Studies.

 

Professor Papakostas has published books and articles on social movements, state development, political parties, corruption, and social change. His theoretical focus is on the organizational bases of social life, and his perspective has been comparative and oriented toward macro-structural stability and change. He is currently working on a book about the organizational bases of social trust. His publications includes:

 

1. Arbetarklassen i organisationernas värld. En jämförande studie av fackföreningars historiska och sociala förutsättningar i Sverige och Grekland. Stockholm Studies in Sociology, N.S. Almqvist & Wiksell International, (1995). (239 sidor).

 

 

2. ”In the thick of organizations,” In Göran Ahrne, Social organizations. London Sage. (medförfattare), (1994). (sid.  132-155).

 

3. Tid, sociala rum och arbetarrörelsens framväxt. En jämförelse mellan Sverige och Grekland. Arkiv, nr 67-68/ 1996 (sid. 51-88).

 

4. Staten: sociologiska perspektiv. Sociologisk forskning, nr 3/1997 (sid. 25-44).

 

5. ”Tröghet och anpassning i stater och företag.” I Ahrne (red). Stater som organisationer, 1998. Stockholm: Santérus & Nerenius (sid. 203-224).

 

6. Recension av Charles Tilly (1998) Durable Inequality. I Sociologisk forskning nr 1/1999.

 

7. Recension av Rafael Lindqvist (red.) (1998) Välfärdsstat och organisation. I Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift 2/1999.

 

8. Why is there no clientelism in Scandinavia? A comparison of the Swedish and Greek sequences of development. I Simona Piatonni (2001) (ed.) Clientelism, Interests and Democratic Representation. The European experience in Historical and Comparative Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (pp. 31-53).

 

9. Inertia and Innovation. Score: rapportserie 2001:5 (med Göran Ahrne) (17 sidor).

 

10. Organisationer, samhälle och globalisering. Tröghetens mekanismer och förnyelsens förutsättningar. (2002) Lund: Studentlitteratur (med Göran Ahrne) (223 sidor).

 

11. Recension av Ronaldo Munck & Peter Waterman (eds.) (1999) Labour Worldwide in the Era of Globalization. I Contemporary sociology, 32(1).

12. Mer organisation med färre människor och många organisationer med få frågor. Score: Rapportserie 2003:6 (25 sidor).

 

13. Vem behöver medlemmar? Sociologisk forskning 2003:3 (med Göran Ahrne) (sid 3-10).

 

14. Kommentar till Sörbom. Sociologisk forskning 2003:4 (med Göran Ahrne)

 

15. Recension av Lounsbury & Ventresca (eds) (2002) Social structure and organizations revisited. I Scandinavian Journal of Management 2003:19

 

16. Nya förutsättningar för frivilligorganisationer. I Boström, Forssell, Jacobsson & Tamm-Hallström (red.) (2004) Den organiserade frivilligheten. Malmö: Liber (sid. 52-71)

 

17. Civilsamhällets rationaliseringar. 2004. Arkiv nr 91. (sid 19-45).

 

18. Förändring bygger på tröghet. I Björn Fjæstad & Lars-Erik Wolvén (red.) (2005) Arbetsliv och samhällsförändringar. Studentlitteratur (med Göran Ahrne)

 

19. Hur mycket kan man hoppas på globala rörelser? Om sociala rörelser och politiska partier. I Adrienne Sörbom (2004) Den tömda demokratin. Stockholm: Agora (Med Göran Ahrne).

 

20. Kollektivt handlande i rörelser och organisationer. I Åsa Wettergren & Andrew Jamison (red.) (2006) Sociala rörelser – Politik och kultur. Lund: Studentlitteratur (med Göran Ahrne)

 

21. Recension av Sébastien Chartrand (2004) Work in voluntary welfare organizations. A sociological study of voluntary welfare organizations in Sweden. I Sociologisk forskning 2005 nr 3.

 

22. Arenor för korruption. I Glenn Sjöstrand (red) (2005.) Fiffelsverige. Lund: Liber