On-line lecture by Ioanna Korfiati: “Space, Land Grabbing, and Crisis – Seen from a Human Geography Perspective.”

With this lecture, Ioanna Korfiati looks into the concept of land grabbing within the framework of human geography—a field that is largely unexplored in Greece. How do geographers perceive space (and thus land)? What is the significance of the production of space in capitalism? After outlining this basic theoretical framework, the researcher focuses on the phenomenon of land grabbing: what it is, why it happens, how it relates to the economic crisis of 2008, and the ways it is expressed in Greece. On Friday, April 4 2025, at 19:30.

Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89368847992.

Ioanna Korfiati is a Lecturer of Human Geography at the Department of Geography and Planning at Cardiff University. She graduated in 2013 from the Department of Architects at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and earned her PhD in Human Geography from the University of Edinburgh in 2020. She is a member of the UK Higher Education Academy and has worked at the University of Edinburgh and the Open University UK. Her research focuses on the political economy of land and landscape, on issues of gentrification, displacement, and spatial-social stigma, as well as on broader issues of uneven development and spatial justice.