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Stelios Gialis

Academic Coordinator

Brief Biography

Stelios Gialis is Professor and Academic Coordinator of the Labour Geography Research Lab (lgrl.aegean.gr) at the Department of Geography of the University of the Aegean, Greece. His research interests lie at the intersection of Labour Geography and Geographical Political Economy. He does research on the spatialities of precarious and flexible work in urban and regional labour markets. He is Principal Investigator and coordinator of numerous EU-funded and other projects. He did postdoctoral research in the field of Labour Geography at the University of Georgia, USA and had been a DAAD visiting scholar at the Von Humboldt University, Berlin. He received the 2022 Jim Lewis Prize from the journal European Urban and Regional Studies for a paper he co-authored with Andrew Herod and Kostas Gourzis. His research has been published in numerous international journals and books. ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5204-6009

Selected Publications

  1. Gourzis, K., Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou, M., & Gialis, S. (2026). Tourism must be defended: Touristification and precarity in Greece’s two major metropolises. Tourism Geographies (submitted, under review)
  2. Gourzis, K., Sermpezis, P., Psarologos, D., Papadimitriou, M., Gialis, S. (2026). Tourism Accommodation and Housing Affordability: Insight From a Geo-spatial Analysis in Athens and Thessaloniki, Greece. Appl. Spatial Analysis 19, 8 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s12061-025-09771-2
  3. Gourzis, K., Psarologos, D., Papadimitriou, M., Sermpezis, P., & Gialis, S. (2026) Tourism accommodation and housing affordability: Insight from a geo-spatial analysis in Athens and Thessaloniki, Greece. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy
  4. Gialis S., Gourzis K., and Herod, A. (2025) Working-class property developers and the right to housing in the Greek city. Handbook of Labour Geography. Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 270-283.
  5. Gourzis, K., & Gialis, S. (2025). Touristification geographies in the EU during the 2010s recession: a Composite Index analysis. Social Indicators Research (Soc Indic Res). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-025-03720-9
  6. Krommyda, V., Gialis, S., Stratigea, A., (2025). Linking labour regimes and socio-ecological fixes: the low-carbon transition of electricity production in Greece, Journal of Economic Geography, 2025;, lbaf039, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbaf039
  7. Emmanouil, E., Gourzis, K., Boukouvalas, K. and Gialis, S., (2025). Investing in human capital in the era of European Universities: A comparative analysis of skill mismatches across the regions of the ERUA countries. Open Research Europe, 3, 166.
  8. Avagianou, A., Gialis, S. and Farrugia, D., (2024). Precarious Youthspaces of Work and Diverse Economies in the EU South: A Conceptualization Attempt. YOUNG, 11033088241261001.
  9. Krommyda, V., Gourzis, K. and Gialis, S., (2024). Youth employment amid successive crises and the low-carbon transition: The case of Eurozone coal regions. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 25148486241250008.
  10. Avagianou, A., Chatzichristos, G., Herod, A. and Gialis, S., (2024). Precarity and agency in youthspaces of work: The case of food delivery platform workers in Athens, Greece. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 0308518X241282536.
  11. Emmanouil, E., Chatzichristos, G., Herod, A., & Gialis, S. (2023). in what way a ‘Guarantee for youth’? NEETs entrapped by labour market policies in the European Union. Journal of youth studies.
  12. Kapitsinis, N., & Gialis, S. (2023). The spatial division of precarious labour across the European Union regions: a composite index analysis of the 2008/2009 global economic crisis effects and COVID-19 initial implications. European Urban and Regional Studies, 30(4), 380-403.
  13. Tsapala, F., Chorianopoulos, I., Gaki, E., & Gialis, S. (2023). The mediterranean city and EU integration: Divergent resurgence paths and new forms of north-south urban divide. Cities, 138
  14. Emmanouil, E., Chatzichristos, G., Herod, A., & Gialis, S. (2023). In what way a ‘Guarantee for youth’? NEETs entrapped by labour market policies in the european union. Journal of Youth Studies
  15. Avagianou, A., Kapitsinis, N., Papageorgiou, I., Strand, A. H., & Gialis, S. (2022). Being NEET in youthspaces of the EU south: A post-recession regional perspective. Young, 30(5), 425-454.
  16. Gourzis, K., Herod, A., Chorianopoulos, I., & Gialis, S. (2022). On the recursive relationship between gentrification and labour market precarisation: Evidence from two neighbourhoods in athens, greece. Urban Studies, 59(12), 2545-2564.
  17. Avagianou, A., Gourzis, K., Pissourios, I., Iosifides, T., & Gialis, S. (2022). Quite promising yet marginal? A comparative study of social economy in the EU south. Comparative European Politics, 20(4), 484-509.
  18. Kapitsinis, N., Poulimas, M., Emmanouil, E., & Gialis, S. (2022). Spatialities of being a young NEET in an era of turbulence: A critical account of regional resilience across the mediterranean EU south. Journal of Youth Studies
  19. Avagianou, A., Kizos, T., & Gialis, S. (2022). Young NEETs in the EU south: Socio-spatial and gender divisions in between the great recession and the covid-19 pandemic. Geografisk Tidsskrift – Danish Journal of Geography, 122(1), 32-45.
  20. Herod, A., Gialis, S., Psifis, S., Gourzis, K., & Mavroudeas, S. (2022). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic upon employment and inequality in the mediterranean EU: An early look from a labour geography perspective. European Urban and Regional Studies, 29(1), 3-20.
  21. Herod, A., Gourzis, K., & Gialis, S. (2021). Inter-regional underemployment and the industrial reserve army: Precarity as a contemporary greek drama. European Urban and Regional Studies, 28(4), 413-430.
  22. Gialis, S., Paitaridis, D., Seretis, S., Ioannides, A., & Underthun, A. (2020). In what terms and at what cost resilient? ‘Unregulated flexibilization’ in regional ‘troubled waters’. European Planning Studies, 28(1), 166-191.
  23. Gourzis, K., Herod, A., & Gialis, S. (2019). Linking gentrification and labour market precarity in the contemporary city: A critical framework for analysis. Antipode.
  24. Gourzis K., and Gialis, S. (2019) Dismantled spatial fixes in the aftermath of recession: Capital switching and labor underutilization in the Greek capital metropolitan region. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
  25. Grekousis G, and S. Gialis (2018) More Flexible Yet Less Developed? Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Labor Flexibilization and Gross Domestic Product in Crisis-Hit European Union Regions. Social Indicators Research. 2018:1-20.
  26. Gialis, S., Gourzis, K. & Underthun A. (2017) ‘Going under-employed’: Industrial and regional effects, specialization and part-time work across recession-hit Southern European Union regions, European Urban and Regional Studies.
  27. Gialis, S., & Taylor, M. (2016) A Regional Account of Flexibilization Across the EU: The ‘Flexible Contractual Arrangements’ Composite Index and the Impact of Recession. Social Indicators Research, 128:3,1121–1146.

Books

  1. Γκιάλης, Σ. και Herod, A., (2015). Γεωγραφία της εργασίας: Εργατική δράση, ευέλικτη απασχόληση και χωρικές ανισότητες. [ηλεκτρ. βιβλ.] Αθήνα: Σύνδεσμος Ελληνικών Ακαδημαϊκών Βιβλιοθηκών. Διαθέσιμο στο: https://hdl.handle.net/11419/4073
  2. Γκιάλης Σ. (2004) «Χωρικά και κλαδικά χαρακτηριστικά της άτυπης εργασίας: εργασιακή και παραγωγική ευελιξία στη βιομηχανία της Θεσσαλονίκης» (σελίδες 377, χρηματοδότηση: Ίδρυμα Κρατικών Υποτροφιών. Διαθέσιμο στο: https://thesis.ekt.gr/thesisBookReader/id/14754#page/1/mode/2up).