Kostas Yannakopoulos studied Law and Byzantine-Modern Greek Literature at the University of Athens. He continued his studies in the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) where he completed his PhD thesis in Social Anthropology entitled “Jeux du désir , jeux du pouvoir. Corps, émotions et identité sexuelle au Pirée et à Athènes” (1995).
He taught as visiting professor in Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), in the University of Stockholm (Department of Ethnology) and in the University of Goteborg (Department of Gender Studies) and he was member of the research group “Altérité , sexualité, santé”, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale, (Collège de France, Paris). He is member of the administrative board of the Union for Oral History (ΕΠΙ) and member of the scientific committee of the “Review of Social Researches” (“Epitorpi Koinonikon Erevnon”). He was Director of the postgraduate program “Gender, Culture and Society” (2014-2021).
His research interests focus on gender, sexuality, health, kinship, feminist and queer theory, the relation between anthropology and psychoanalysis, self- reflexive anthropology and Greek ethnography, the politics of difference and urban space.
He conducted extensive fieldwork and has published in Greek, French and English on men’s same sexuality and male homosociality, AIDS, same-sex families, politics of lgbt and feminist movement, nationalism and football, gentrification and the management of social/cultural difference(s) in urban space. Since 2014, he is conducting research on male homosexuality in post-war Greece and in 2024 his monograph “Male homoerotic relationships in postwar Greece” was published by the editions “Psifides”, Thessaloniki.
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