forthcoming

Research and publications

Collective caring in and against urban crises: solidarities, networks, and infrastructures, with Matina Kapsali Podcast series (producer, researcher).

2024

Affective geographies of social reproduction: the case of Athens under austerity [Doctoral dissertation, York University]. YorkSpace is York University's Institutional Repository. https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/home. Doctoral dissertation (author).

Kapsali, M. and Katsikana, M. Women and Urban Activism. In Peake, L., Adeniyi-Ogunyankin, G., Datta A. (Eds.), Elgar International Handbook on Gender and Cities. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing. Peer reviewed book chapter (co-author). 

Kapsali, M.  and Katsikana, M., Counter-topographies of resistance: collective social reproduction and infrastructures of care in Greece amidst austerity. In RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, 27 - 30 August, virtual. Paper session (paper presenter).

 Knowledge dissemination through podcasts—a conceptual and practical guide In Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) Annual Meeting, 14-18 August, St. John’s. Workshop (instructor).

 Katsikana, M. , Mikhail, M., Peake, L., Yousuf, B., Doing Feminist Urban Research: Insights from the GenUrb. In Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) Annual Meeting, 14-18 August, St. John’s. Panel (panel speaker).

 Katsikana, M., Mc Fadden, K., Acevedo Guerrero, T., Nagar, R., Ojeda, D., Publishing 2-Breaking the mould. In Antipode’s 9th Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ), “Radical Geographies of Social Reproduction”, 3-7 June, Minneapolis. Panel (panel speaker).

 Social reproduction, affective resistances, and urban palimpsest: new geographies of theory and decolonial entry points. In Ebner, N. and  Kapsali, M. (Organizers), Urban Studies Foundation International Workshop: Grassroots Infrastructures and Urban Social Reproduction, 30-31 May, virtual. Paper session (paper presenter).

Differing relationships to activism-a GenUrb Podcast Part 3: the work Red Thread and Karen De Souza in Georgetown, Guyana. In Peake, L., Razavi, N. and Smyth, A. (eds), Doing Feminist Urban Research: The GenUrb Project. Routledge:London. Podcast episode (producer).

Differing relationships to activism-a GenUrb Podcast Part 2: Nasya Razavi on working with women’s grassroots organizations through international development in Cochabamba, Bolivia. In Peake, L., Razavi, N. and Smyth, A. (eds), Doing Feminist Urban Research: The GenUrb Project. Routledge:London. Podcast episode (producer).

Differing relationships to activism-a GenUrb Podcast Part 1: activist praxis and research in Ramallah, Palestine through the work of Natasha Aruri. In Peake, L., Razavi, N. and Smyth, A. (eds), Doing Feminist Urban Research: The GenUrb Project. Routledge:London. Podcast episode (producer).

Activism and the academy. In Peake L, Razavi N and Smyth A (eds), Doing Feminist Urban Research: The GenUrb Project. Routledge:London. Peer reviewed book chapter (author).

2023

Social Media, In Peake, L., Razavi, N. and Smyth, A. (eds), Doing Feminist Urban Research: The GenUrb Project. Routledge:London. Peer reviewed book chapter (author).

Social reproduction, dispossession, and the urban palimpsest: countertopographies of care and survival in Athens and the Balkans, beyond the grassroots ‘laboratory’. In CAGONT 2023 Annual Meeting & Conference, October 27th-28th, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto. Paper session (paper presenter).

Mixed media for qualitative research in feminist urban geography: methods, tools, and possibilities. In Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, March 23-27, 2023, Denver, Colorado, United States, Virtual (3 hours). Workshop (instructor).

Feminist Geography and Emergency Methods: qualitative, participatory, and digital research methods during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. In Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, March 23-27, 2023, Denver, Colorado, United States, virtual. Panel (panel organizer).

Adeniyi-Ogunyankin, G., Basu, S., Ip, P., Katsikana, M., Ponce, C., Razavi, N. S. and Smyth, A. (2023) Emergent possibilities through feminist urban research 5. In Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, March 23-27, 2023, Denver, Colorado, United States, virtual. Panel (panel speaker).

 Katsikana, M., Ponce, C., Razavi, N. S., Sharp, W., Smyth, A., and Yousuf, B.  (2023) Reflections on creating open access tools that further feminist praxis and critical pedagogy: the GenUrb Research Training Modules for Feminist Urban Research. In Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, March 23-27, 2023, Denver, Colorado, United States, virtual. Panel (panel speaker).

2022

Affective geographies of care in the neoliberal city 1: Queer and feminist perspectives on the everyday. In Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, April 7th -11th, virtual. Paper session (session organizer).

Lived Sound: An introduction to field recordings and spatializing listening practices. Organized by the Creative School in collaboration with Biblioteka Records, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson), February 8th, virtual (2 hours). Workshop (instructor). 

2021

Mapping in-betweenness through autoethnography: a mixed media approach for a decolonial feminist praxis in urban geography (Video essay). In the session ‘Blurring the borders between researcher and participant: The role of autoethnography within geographical research’, Royal Geographical Society (RGS-IBG) Annual International Conference, August 31st – September 3rd, Virtual. Paper session (paper presenter).

Affective Geographies of sound: A feminist decolonial perspective. In the Working Group 6: Where is the other? Sound-based epistemologies and sonic imaginations, Borderline Sonorities- CIPS 2nd International Conference on Sonorities Research, June 9-11, virtual. Paper session (paper presenter)..

Affect, emotion and feminist social reproduction under austerity: enabling survival reproducing resistance. In the session ‘The urban politics of social reproduction under austerity’, Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, April 7th-11th, virtual. Paper session (paper presenter).

Katsikana, M., Katz, C., Miraftab, F., Mullings, B., Peake, L., Santos Ocasio, N. and Tanyildiz, G. S. (2021). A Feminist Urban Theory for our Time: Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban (Antipode Sponsored) (virtual) organized by Linda Peake and Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz. In Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, April 7th -11th, virtual. Panel (panel speaker).

Adeniyi-Ogunyankin, G., Katsikana, M., Razavi, N. S., Smyth, A., and Yousuf, B. (2021). Thinking about Feminist Cooperative Urban Research 2: Knowledge production in the GenUrb Project organized by Linda Peake. In Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, April 7th -11th, virtual. Panel (panel Speaker).

2020

The surplus Other: Neoliberal governance of diversity under austerity in Athens, Greece. In the course GPHY 370 - Special Topics in Human Geography: Global Cities (Dr. Grace Adeniyi Ogunyankin), February 13th, Department of Geography and Planning, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Invited lecture (guest lecturer).

GenUrb Roundtable on Activism and the Academy. In Feminist Explorations of Urban Futures International Conference, September 26-28th, York University, Toronto. Roundtable (roundtable speaker). 

‘Never Seen/Never heard’: spatialities of gendered violence in times of austerity and responses of survival– The case of Athens, Greece. In Feminist Explorations of Urban Futures International Conference, September 26-28th, York University, Toronto. Paper session (paper presenter).

 ‘Sounds of trauma/sounds of resistance’: gendered soundscapes in a male-dominated radical movement. In the session ‘Re-Sounding Power: Sonic Geographies of Resistance’, Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) Annual Meeting, May 27th-31st, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg. Paper session (paper presenter).