Thomas Sideris is a Phd Human Geographer and holds a Master Degree in Human Geography.
He was awarded a doctorate by Harokopio University in Athens, while he completed his master’s thesis at the University of the Aegean.
PhD Thesis
The subject of the thesis is the defenseless body in conditions of displacement, confinement or general confinement and the spatial representations it produces and deposits in space in these conditions. A defenseless body is considered here to be the body that is vulnerable to violence, poverty, social marginalization, the body that is in the midst of uncontrollable situations and dramatic events, the body that is displaced by military or police force, following a prosecutor’s order, following special legislation. In a sense, the defenseless body is also an invisible body, a body that has passed into the realm of invisibility and non-existence/identification by state authorities and official bodies of authority. Therefore, both the enclaves and shelters that reside or inhabit are also invisible, behind the residential context, on the margins of social and economic life, spatial entities of a fragmented and fragmented space.The meaning of the defenseless body, however, should not lead us to arbitrary conclusions that obey the deterministic view (Bitsakis, 1975). The defenseless poor devils of the interwar period will self-organize, they will defend the shack, being defenseless, they will collectively claim their demands with the most typical example being the organization of the patients in the sanatorium “Salvation” and the reaction of the refugee population of Drapetsona in the so-called “battle of the shack” in 1960.
Scientific Papers
THE SOCIAL INTEGRATION OF THE MEMBERS OF THE MUSLIM ENCLAVE IN THE DRAPETSONA AREA
This scientific work is the result of primary research in order to qualitatively record aspects and characteristics of the Muslim community of Drapetsona, an industrial area in an industrial of the port of Piraeus.