Studies
- Qualification aux Fonctions de Maître de Conférences des Universités Françaises, 23eme section, 2005.
- Doctorat (Phd) in Human Geography: Université de Strasbourg, France, I - ULP, 2003.
- Post graduate research in Urban Geography – Urban Planning. Universidad Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, 1995-1997.
- DEA in Regional Planning ("Systèmes Spatiaux et Aménagement Régionaux") ULP, Strasbourg, 1993.
- Degree in Topography (TEI-A), Athens, 1991.
Research Ιnterests
- Human Geography, Urban Geography.
- Comparative approaches in Europe, Mediterranean and Latin American regions.
- Social and Ecological Approaches of Urban and Regional Planning.
- Urban and Regional Social Movements.
- Landscape: Inter-disciplinary approaches.
- Cultural approaches in Urban Spaces.
- Tools: Qualitative and Quantitative approaches, Remote Sensing and GIS applications in Urban Geography.
Courses
- Spatial Planning and Urban and Regional Social Movements (GEO 604).
Indicative Publications
- Zaharaki M., Petropoulou C., 2024. Artivist Response During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Athens: Insights into Urban Subversive Festivities, JCASC Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change, 2024, 9 (2),16 Festivities, Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change, pp. 1-19.
https://doi.org/10.20897/jcasc/15788 - Sotiriou G., Petropoulou C., 2022. “Socio-Spatial Inequalities, and Local Struggles for the Right to the City and to Nature—Cases of Urban Green Parks in Athens. Land 2022-10-26 | Journal article
https://doi.org/10.3390/land11111899 - Petropoulou, C., Jesus Arouca, M., Reis Bomfim, N., & Silva Santos, E., 2021. Salvador de Bahía: culturas de rebeldía y descolonización de la educación en un contexto biopolítico de Desarrollo urbano desigual. Territorios, (44 Especial)
https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/territorios/a.9029. - Gouvias D., Zafeiris K. & Petropoulou C., 2020. “This is their mentality” – The role of habitus on informal educational provision for refugee children in Greece. Ε-ΚΤΕ: H ΈΡΕΥΝΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΟΛΟΓΊΑ, 2020/1 : 129-142. Εκδόσεις Πεδίο. https://dssd.ecedu.uoi.gr/wpcontent/uploads/2020/11/09_Gouvias.pdf
- Tsavdaroglou C., Giannopoulou C., Petropoulou C., Pistikos I., 2019. Acts for refugees’ right to the city and commoning practices of care-tizenship in Athens, Mytilene and Thessaloniki. Social Inclusion, vol.4, 119-130. DOI: 10.17645/si.v7i4.2332.
- Petropoulou C., 2018. Social Resistances and the Creation of Another Way of Thinking in the Peripheral “Self-Constructed Popular Neighborhoods”: Examples from Mexico, Argentina, and Bolivia: Urban Sci. 2018, 2, 27, DOI: 10.3390/urbansci2010027