Dimitra Kofti

Dimitra Kofti is an anthropologist interested in work, precarity, shifting temporalities, and film. She has conducted doctoral research on changing work relations, in the context of flexibilization of labour in post-socialist Bulgaria. “Cracks/ пукнатини” (2018) is her first film conducted in collaboration with the film maker Nicola Zambelli, based on her long term fieldwork on (de)industrialization in Pernik (Bulgaria), as part of the group project on “Industry and Inequality” at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle, Germany). Her current project is about financialization, indebtedness and political contestation in Greece. Dimitra is an assistant professor at the Department of Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Science (Athens, Greece).