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Dr Kostas Maronitis

Teaching Fellow in European Studies

Degree: PhD Immigration and its Discontents: Social Theory and the Reorganisation of Society, University of Greenwich. MA Communication, Culture and Society, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Personal website

Current Teaching

DELC 210 European Culture of Everyday Life

DELC 341 Discussing the European Union: Institutions and Ideologies

Research Interests

My thesis titled "Immigration and its Discontents: Social Theory and the Reorganisation of Society" examines the intellectual, legal and popular depiction of immigration and national identity from 1989 to 2004 in southeast Europe. The research locates this reorganisation at the intersection of emotions regarding cultural homogeneity, national superiority and hereditary enemies with the legal framework constructed around the presence, character and rights of the immigrant population. The research draws on the theoretical elaborations of Emile Durkheim, Pierre Bourdieu, Jeffrey Alexander and Gabriel Tarde.

Currently I am conducting research on the new spirit of communication under the title: Share, Comment, Like: Belonging and Exclusion in the Digital Public Sphere. The research examines the current European democratic and economic deficit, the various critiques on the notion of community and democracy in late capitalism and the ways social media users have corresponded to these critiques.

Publications

Maronitis Kostas (March 2012) "Narcissism in the Age of Technology"; Cultural Politics (Duke University Press)

Maronitis Kostas (2012) "The Politics of Fear as the Fear of Politics: Social Democracy and the Importance of Emotions", www.re-public.gr (ISSN 1791-857X)

Maronitis Kostas (forthcoming) "Richard Hoggart and The Theory of Associations: A Contribution to the Interdisciplinarity of Cultural Studies"; Differences (Henan University Press)

Maronitis Kostas (2009) "Polices and Thieves on the Greek Albanian Borders"; Super Cream Magazine, Vol. 1 on line: www.supercream.org.uk/magazine/issue_00/22.html

Maronitis Kostas (2007) "Threat and Defence: Diaspora and the Creation of Ethnoscapes"; Linköping, Sweden: Linköping University Press (ISSN: 1650 3686)

Presentations and Conference Papers

07/2012 (Forthcoming), Nouvelle Sorbonne - Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Paris. The New Spirit of Communication: Sociality, Austerity and Populism in Europe

05/ 2010, University of Greenwich - School of Humanities Post-Graduate Conference. "Technocratic" and "Mythical" Integration of the Immigrant Population into National Societies

08/ 2009, University of Cologne, Germany - The Second International Deleuze Studies Conference; Assemblage and the Idea of Integration

07/ 2009, Leeds Metropolitan University, School of Cultural Studies and the Institute of Northern Studies - Richard Hoggart: Culture and Critique Conference. Hoggart and the Theory of Associations: A Contribution to the Interdisciplinarity of Cultural Studies

06/ 2009, University of Greenwich, Department of Creative, Critical and Communication Studies - Presentation to MA students of the Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabab (MICA). Cool Britannia and Pop Culture: The Floating Signifier of the Union Jack

Secured Funding

Full PhD Arts and Humanities Research Council Scholarship 2007 -2010

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