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MA (Arch), DPhil (Oxon)
Maria Kaika holds a D.Phil. in Geography from the University of Oxford, and an MA in Architecture from the National Technical University of Athens as well as professional qualifications as an architect. Her previous posts include: Fellow, St. Edmund Hall, Oxford; Director of Studies in Human Geography at St Hugh's College, Oxford; University Lecturer, Oxford University School of Geography; Junior Research Fellow, Linacre College, Oxford; Lecturer in Human Geography at St Peter's College Oxford.
She is Editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. In 2012, she was appointed City of Vienna Visiting Professor. Other appointments include: Executive Board Member, Remaking Cities Institute, Carnegie Mellon University; Appointed member on International Evaluation Panel of the Academy of Finland (Research Programme on the Future of Living and Housing – 2010). Trustee for the Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies (2005-2010); Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Queen Mary Graduate School of Social Sciences (Sept-Dec 2007); Visiting Professor at the University of Leuven (2008). Visiting Professor at the European University (EUREX) in Urbino (2006). Treasurer of the Royal Geographical Society & Institute of British Geographers’ Urban Research Group (2003-06); and Teaching Liaison Officer for the Royal Geographical Society (2001-2006).
Public lectures and keynotes include addresses at London’s Royal Academy of Arts, London’s History Society, the Annual Meeting of the institute of Finnish Geographers. Maria Kaika is regular research funding assessor for the ESRC, and for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and appointed peer reviewer of the European Science Foundation Standing Committee for the Social Sciences (SCSS), the European Union, the Georgian Science Foundation, and the Latsis Foundation. She has given seminars and public lectures for international academic institutions, policy organizations (UN Habitat, Royal Academy of Arts, Amnesty International, European Science Foundation, Architecture Foundation, European Environmental Bureau, Greek Environment Ministry) and the private sector (Seville Water company, Thames Water), and has acted as external examiner for the London School of Economics, UCL, Goldsmiths, the Universities of Otago, New Zealand, the National Technical University of Athens (Architecture), and the Harokopeio University of Athens (Geography)
Dr Kaika’s research on urban political ecology contributes to the promotion of a dialogue between geography, urban studies, environmental history & planning. It does so by: (1) Re-conceptualising ‘the urban’, and breaking down the binary between nature and the city. (2) Unpacking the power relations involved in the production of the networks that weave together the cultural, the social, the natural, and the urban. (3) Developing a dialogue between political ecology and post-structural theorizations of the city and nature, and (4) Theorizing the relationship between neo-liberalization, globalisation & environmental policy, focusing on the power relations in EU decision making.
Maria Kaika's Research comprises four interrelated themes
1. Urban political ecology
2. Urban Radical Imaginaries: Iconic Architecture, Iconic Infrastructures
3. Land Financialisation as a Lived Process
4. Cities and Crisis: from macroeconomics to the everyday
Editorial Boards - International Journals
Visiting Appointments
International Foundations, Boards & Advisory Bodies
Industry / Policy Advisory Roles
Participation in International Academic Networks
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Bridge, G., Kaika, M. & Swyngedouw, E.
1/05/12 → 30/04/17
Project: Research
Bridge, G., Kaika, M. & Swyngedouw, E.
1/05/12 → 30/04/16
Project: Research