Dr Christina Sakali is an interdisciplinary researcher with a PhD in International Political Economy from the University of Macedonia. She is currently a postdoctoral research associate in the ERC-funded research project “Property and Democratic Citizenship” at the University of Ghent, Belgium, where she conducted postdoctoral research in collaboration with Prof. M. Maeckelbergh (PI). Her research explores the impact of property relations and institutions on experiences of democratic citizenship and housing inequalities/precarity, with a focus on debt relations, bankruptcy law and other policies, and the financialization of housing. In 2017 – 2019, she coordinated research team for a study about the impact of the economic crisis and austerity policies on the right to food and the agri-food sector, in collaboration with the Transnational Institute, FIAN International and Agroecopolis Hellas, and co-authored a collective volume produced as output of this project. She has taught at academic institutions in Greece (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University of Crete, Hellenic Open University), the United Kingdom (University of Gloucestershire) and Belgium (University of Ghent) in topics of Political Economy, Comparative Economic Systems, History of Economic Thought, Ethical Finance and Theories of Social and Solidarity Economy. She is the co-founder and coordinator of the Political Economy and Law Working Group, which is part of the International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy (IIPPE). Between 2020-2022 she was a member of the local stakeholders’ group of the European URBACT/ROOF project in Thessaloniki, which aimed to promote sustainable urban development through innovative policies and models for the provision of social and affordable housing.
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