Eleftheria Lekakis

Eleftheria is a senior lecturer in media and communications whose research interests grow from the intersection of politics, economy and culture. Prior to joining Sussex, she was a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy at Goldsmiths College, University of London and Visiting Scholar at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. She holds degrees in political science (BA, University of Crete) and media and communications (MSc, London School of Economics and PhD, Goldsmiths College), while she also has a PGCertHE (University of Sussex).

Eleftheria is the author of Coffee Activism and the Politics of Fair Trade and Ethical Consumption in the Global North (Palgrave, 2013) and Consumer Activism (Sage, 2022), as well as co-editor of Art, Law and Power (Counterpress, 2020).

Eleftheria has been superivising doctoral projects in humanitarian communication, markets and culture, anti-consumerism as well as advertising and the climate crisis. She is interested in supervising projects in consumer activism, communication for social change, branding and anti-branding, media activism and anti-austerity, popular communication and cultural politics.