Erini Papadaki is Assistant Professor at the Department of History and Archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bremen, the University of the Aegean and the University of Edinburgh. Her research concerns the politics of adoption, parenthood, ageing, emotion and time in marriage in contemporary Greece. Her research interests include the anthropology of kinship, gender, sexuality, state ethnography, intimacy and care. Her articles have been published in Greek and international journals and edited volumes. She has co-edited the volume Marriage in Past, Present and Future Tense, (with Janet Carsten,Hsiao-Chiao Chiu,Siobhan Magee, Koreen Reece 2021, UCL Press) and is the author of the book Politics of Kinship. Adoption in modern Greece (2021, Alexandria Press).
Erini Papadaki is Assistant Professor at the Department of History and Archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bremen, the University of the Aegean and the University of Edinburgh. Her research concerns the politics of adoption, parenthood, ageing, emotion and time in marriage in contemporary Greece. Her research interests include the anthropology of kinship, gender, sexuality, state ethnography, intimacy and care. Her articles have been published in Greek and international journals and edited volumes. She has co-edited the volume Marriage in Past, Present and Future Tense, (with Janet Carsten,Hsiao-Chiao Chiu,Siobhan Magee, Koreen Reece 2021, UCL Press) and is the author of the book Politics of Kinship. Adoption in modern Greece (2021, Alexandria Press).
Politics of kinship. Adoption in contemporary Greece
Books
Marriage in Past, Present, and Future Tense. London: UCL Press.
co-edited with J. Carsten, HC, Chiu, S. Magee and K. Reece
'Becoming mothers: narrating adoption and making kinship in Greece’. Social Anthropology, 28(1): 153-167.
‘Unwed pregnancy and adoption in post-war Greece (1950-1983)’. Journal of Modern Greek Studies. 38(2): 271-293.
'Undoing kinship - producing citizenship in a public maternity hospital in Athens, Greece’