About

Mantha Katsikana (b. 1989, Patras) is a scholar-activist, feminist geographer, and sound artist. She holds a PhD in Critical Human Geography, from York University (2024) and has been trained as an urban planner with a focus on women’s everyday livelihoods in the urban. Her doctoral research explored precaritized women’s and marginalized groups' survival and caring practices in Athens, Greece under austerity. Mantha’s research and teaching focuses on community-based projects through participatory methods, creative mapping and digital storytelling, prioritizing a feminist ethics of care and collaborative knowledge production. Her academic work has been included in edited volumes (Routledge, Elgar) and presented in numerous international conferences. Her research interests include collective care and commoning practices, affective and embodied labor, feminist political geographies and the everyday as well as decolonial archival practices, critical mapping and feminist geohumanities.

As a sound artist, she has released the album Ceremonial Drift (Biblioteka Records, 2021) and has been producing the documentary community-radio series System Failure (Kiosk Radio, Internet Public Radio) since 2021. Her latest post-doctoral research is looking at the geographies of affective labor in the context of abortion care and reproductive justice organizing in post-pandemic Toronto.