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Naya Tselepi
Naya Tselepi received her doctorate in human geography from the University of the Aegean, Greece (2016). In her thesis, she studied the alterations of space and power through a ‘mapping’ approach. Her main areas of research include: ‘the commons’, borders and mobilities – migrations, biopolitics and control; and collaborative governance. She is a researcher in the project ‘Representing & Commoning the Lesvos “Migrant Crisis” and the “Hot-spots”: The case of Lesvos’, and an adjunct professor in social and solidarity economy at the Hellenic Open University. She is also a certified facilitator and trainer in the methodology of sociocracy. She has worked as a project coordinator with various NGOs active in the field of migration, refugees and vulnerable groups of people. Naya has been an activist in collectives and networks of solidarity for migrants in neighbourhood assemblies as well as groups of social and solidarity economy and ‘the commons’.
Contact: Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece.