Academic Career
- PhD Student, Department of Sociology, University of Crete
Research themes: Social movements, collective action, cooperativism, social and solidarity economy, civil society. - Research Assistant, University of Duisburg-Essen / Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI), Essen & Düsseldorf
Research project: Krise und Zivilgesellschaft. Der Beitrag zivilgesellschaftlicher Selbstorganisation zum Reformprozess in Griechenland
(Crisis and Civil Society: Civil Society’s Self-Organisation and the Reform Process in Greece).
Research Interests
- Social and Solidarity Economy
- Cooperatives and Cooperativism
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Social Movements and Collective Action
- Civil Society and Self-Organisation
- Participatory Democracy
- Structuration Theory
- Political and Economic Sociology
Publications
- Bekridaki, G. (2025). The revaluation of the social factor in the Social and Solidarity Economy.
Science and Society: Review of Political and Ethical Theory, 45, 77–105.
https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/sas/article/view/38271 - Bekridaki, G., & Broumas, A. G. (2017). The Greek society in crisis and in motion: Building the material bases for an alternative society from the bottom up.
Interface, 9(1), 230–255. (Originally published 2016)
https://ssrn.com/abstract=2853050 - Bekridaki, G. (Chapter author). Die Bewegung der Selbstorganisation in Griechenland.
In P. B. Kleiser (Ed.), Griechenland im Würgegriff. Köln/Karlsruhe: ISP. - Laville, J.-L., & Eynaud, P. (2025). An interdisciplinary and international perspective on social entrepreneurship.
Science and Society: Review of Political and Ethical Theory, 45, 11–50.
Greek translation by G. Bekridaki.
https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/sas/article/view/41071 - Bekridaki, G., Velegrakis, A., & Andritsos, D. (2021). Municipal participatory budgeting: A democratic experiment.
Essay.
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