Alekos Pantazis

Bio

Alekos (Alexandros) Pantazis is Assistant Professor of Peer Education at the Department of Early Childhood Education of University of Thessaly (Greece), a Core Member of the P2P Lab research collective, and a visiting lecturer at the Master's Degree "Political Ecology, Degrowth and Environmental Justice" at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He holds a PhD in Technology Governance from Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance of Tallinn University of Technology (2021), a B.Sc. (5-year-long) in Environmental Engineering, an M.Sc. in Nautical and Marine Science, and a Certificate of Pedagogy and Educational Proficiency. Alekos has 20 years of involvement in international social movements, focusing on commons and degrowth. Moreover, Alekos has worked as a scientific assistant in European projects in the areas of commons, education and marine conservation. Currently, his work focuses on the convergence of commons, peer to peer education and convivial technologies. He is participating as external expert in Smooth (H2020) and ComPra (Erasmus+) projects which are focused on educational commons and in COSMOLOCALISM (ERC) project which concerns the political economy of the commons. Alekos speaks English, Spanish, French, and Greek.

• Contact: alekos.pantazis at utg.gr
• Google scholar page: here

Publications

Peer reviewed articles

• Pantazis, A. (2020). Teaching Commons through the Game of Musical Chairs. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 18 (2): 595-612. site.
• Pantazis, A., and Meyer, M. (2020). Tools from Below: Making Agricultural Machines Convivial. The Greek Review of Social Research. text
• Bauwens, M., and Pantazis, A. (2018). The ecosystem of commons-based peer production and its transformative dynamics. Sociological Review, 66(2): 302-319. site
• Pantazis, A., and Priavolou, C. (2017). 3D printing as a means of learning and communication: The 3Ducation project revisited. Telematics and Informatics , 34(8): 1465-1476. site text

Book chapters

• Antoniadis, P., and Pantazis, A. (2021). P2P Learning. In O'Neil, M., Pentzold, C. & Toupin S. (Eds.), The Handbook of Peer Production (pp. 197–210). New York: Wiley-Blackwell. site text

Reports

• Niaros, V., Pantazis, A., and Priavolou, C. (2017). The Maker Movement: Values and Principles. In: Universities, Enterprises and Maker Communities in Open Design & Manufacturing across Europe: An exploratory study (12−26). OD&M Research Report Integral.
• FP7 research project “P2P Value”. “Best Practices for CBPP Communities & Policy Recommendations”, researching how public policies have influenced commons-based peer production (case studies: Greece and Ecuador). P2P Value, FP7-ICT-2013-10 Project: 610961. site text