Minas Samatas, is professor of Political Sociology at the Sociology Department of University of Crete, Greece. He has studied political and economic sciences at the Aristotle University of Greece, and has an M.A. and a Ph.D. in sociology from the Sociology Department of the Graduate Faculty of New School for Social Research , New York, USA. His PhD Thesis is on : “Greek Bureaucratism: A system of sociopolitical control”
Research interests:
Research Networks :
Research interests:
- Political sociology,
- Greek State & Society,
- Information Society,
- Internet (Cyber) Sociology,
- Surveillance Societies,
- Post-authoritarian South European Societies,
- Olympic Games Surveillance.
Research Networks :
- National Research Representative in LiSS (Living in Surveillance Societies http://www.liss-cost.eu/liss-experts/profiles/samatas-minas/ LiSS a COST Action IS0807
- National Research Representative in Crime Prevention through Urban Design and Planning, COST Action TU1203.
- Member in the ECPR Standing Group on “Southern European Politics.”
Publications
Books:
Articles on surveillance
- Surveillance in Greece: From Anticommunist to Consumer Surveillance Pella, N.Y. 2004
- editor : Facets of New Surveillance: International and Greek approaches, Vivliorama Athens 2010 (in Greek).
- co-editor with Kevin Haggerty: Surveillance and Democracy, Routledge, Oxon UK, 2010.
Articles on surveillance
- “The SAIC-Siemens ‘super-panopticon’ in the Athens 2004 Olympics as a case of ‘McVeillance’: The surveillance-industrial complex’s unscrupulous global business” in The surveillance-Industrial Complex: A political economy of surveillance, edited by K. Ball and L. Snider, Routledge, 2013, pp 61-77.
- “Surveillance Dynamics in Post-Olympics Greece” in The State of Surveillance, edited by C. W. R. Webster et al. LiSS 2012, pp373-385.
- “Surveilling the 2004 Athens Olympics in the Aftermath of 9/11: International pressures and domestic implications” In volume Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events, edited by Colin J. Bennett and Kevin D. Haggerty, Routledge, 2011, pp. 55-71.
- “Surveillance Legacy, Modernisation and Controversy in Contemporary Greece” στο Crime & Punishment in contemporary Greece: International comparative perspectives, edited by Cheliotis L. K. & Xenakis S. , Peter Lang, Oxford, 2011 pp. 421- 442.
- “European ‘Securitization’ policies and the Southern ‘Fortress-Europe” in volume Contested Mediterranean Spaces: Essays in Honor of Charles Tilly edited by Kousis Maria, Selwyn Tom & Clark David Berghahn Books , 2011, pp. 35-54.
- “Authoritarian Surveillance and its Legacy in South-European Societies: Greece, Italy, Spain , Portugal with co-Authors: Chiara Fonio, Catholic University of Milan Catarina Frois, Lisbon University Gemma Galdon Clavell, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. In volume The Ghosts of Surveillance, edited by C. W. R. Webster et al. LiSS, 2011, pp. 52-70.
- “Surveillance in Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008: A comparison of the Olympic surveillance modalities and legacies in two different Olympic host regimes” URBAN STUDIES, November 2011.
- “The Greek Olympic phone tapping scandal: A defenseless state and a week democracy, in Surveillance and Democracy, edited by Haggerty, K. & M. Samatas, Routledge, 2010, pp. 213-230.
- “From Thought-Control to the Traffic-Control: A comparison of traditional and new surveillance” in Surveillance and Governance: Crime Control and Beyond. Edited by Deflem, Mathieu , Volume 10, Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance, Amsterdam: Elsevier 2008, pp.345-369.
- “Security and Surveillance in the Athens 2004 Olympics: Some lessons from a troubled story” International Criminal Justice Review, September, 2007 Vol.17(3) pp.:220-238
- “Studying Surveillance in Greece: Methodological and other problems related to an authoritarian surveillance culture” Surveillance and Society, 3 (2/3) Dec. 2005, available at www.surveillance-and-society.org