Department of Communication and Marketing, Cyprus University of Technology. Spring term, 2025.

Since the 2008 financial crisis, the term 'populism' has dominated public discourse, as the rise of populist movements and parties has reshaped the global political landscape. Moving beyond stereotypical – and often anti-populist – analyses that conflate populism with nationalism, the far right, demagoguery, and authoritarianism, this course provides a critical introduction to the definition of populism and a thorough examination of empirical cases and the debates surrounding them. Focusing on diverse historical and contemporary examples of populism from around the world, the course explores how different typologies of populism (left, right, and center; progressive and reactionary; inclusionary and exclusionary) can have varying (positive or negative) impacts on democracy and society. Offering a comprehensive account, the course considers multiple dimensions of the populist phenomenon – including the ideologies that accompany populism, its transgressive style and aesthetics, and the politics of the body.

Department of  Social and Political Sciences, University of Cyprus. 

Spring term, 2023.

This course explored the genealogy of radical left politics from Marx to the present times, examining various understandings of political agency, strategy and action accros time and space. While the conventional literature of 'left radicalism' focuses almost exclusively on (1) hegemonic philosophical paradigms within the socialist tradition (2) political parties (3) the post-communist context after 1989 and (4) the European framework more broadly, this course shed light in less explored currents within left radicalism, including: the various waves of feminism, environmentalism (degrowth), black movements (from the Civil Rights movement to Black Lives Matter) as well as left-wing populism within and beyond the European context (anti-austerity left, occupy, pink tide).

Department of  Social and Political Sciences, University of Cyprus
Spring term 2023.

Despite their differences, the countries of Southern Europe are often studied as a region with shared political, historical, and institutional traits. This typically includes Greece, Spain, Italy, and Portugal, with Cyprus more recently added. This course provides a comparative account of the above cases, discussing both common and distinct characteristics. The course explored key historical moments in each country, including the rise and fall of dictatorships, war and inter-communal conflict, processes of re-democratication and political participation, as well as the triumph of technocracy, economic crash after 2008, the politics of debt and austerity and the socio-political mobilisation opposing neoliberalism that temporarily dislocated political party systems across the region. 

Department of  Social and Political Sciences, University of Cyprus
Summer term, 2023.

Course  description coming soon