Panteion University

In this article, we present a creative, process-oriented, and multimodal qualitative enquiry project conducted by five undergraduate psychology students and their instructor. The project started as a course assignment on creative research methods aiming to explore the theme of inspiration. However, the project’s initial theme soon proved to be a device that catalysed the unfolding of the process rather than being an end in itself. Using photovoice, drawing, and collage-making, we engaged in a layered collaborative process of reflection, emotional sharing, and meaning-making. The writing of this article itself became an extension of the method, weaving our voices together into a shared narrative. Through this collaborative autoethnography, we engaged with a set of generative questions: How can creative methods help us explore psychological and social experience? In what ways might collaborative and multimodal enquiry catalyse emotional openness, reflexivity, and the co-creation of meaning? And how might such creative practices extend psychological research towards more relational and embodied understandings? We called our project Harmonic Chaos to reflect the balance that we experienced between chaos and self-organisation during the process.

This chapter aims to explore the multifaceted nature of change management in the public sector, focusing on six key dimensions: readiness for change, commitment to change, resistance to change, integration of change, successful implementation, and the content of change. The study examines how public institutions adapt to reform demands in diverse international contexts, with a dedicated section focusing on the Greek public administration. As a result of the related literature there is a successful change in the public sector requires a high level of readiness and commitment, supported by strategic leadership and clear communication. Internationally, resistance often stems from organizational culture and lack of engagement. In Greece, although reform agendas are frequent, change efforts are often undermined by bureaucratic rigidity, insufficient training, and lack of stakeholder alignment. However, recent digital and administrative initiatives suggest a growing capacity for structured change implementation.

This study investigates the combinations of factors associated with involuntary psychiatric admission for persons living with their family and whether these are differentiated by type of family. Data from consecutive admissions in public acute psychiatric units of Thessaloniki, Greece, collected over one-year period were analyzed via Latent Profile Analysis. Of the three ensued profiles, only one, consisting mainly of younger men diagnosed with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders living with their family of origin, is linked to involuntary hospitalization. The other two profiles include mainly older people with recent onset of depressive disorder living with their created family and women living in socially deprived families, respectively. Severity and duration of psychopathology, inadequate contact with mental health services and socioeconomic adversity seem to constitute risk factors that might lead people living with their families to psychiatric hospitalization, when in crisis, despite the protective role that the family-related perceived social support and life satisfaction might play. Supporting families to manage their suffering member's mental state through collaboration with appropriate mental health services, as well as empowering disadvantaged families to deal with the adverse effects of socioeconomic deprivation appear to be the main strategies to prevent psychiatric hospitalization, especially involuntary.

This article examines the practice of illegal pushbacks at Greece's borders through the lens of “enemy under-criminalization.” Drawing on field reports, testimonies, and academic analyses, the study identifies three defining characteristics of pushbacks: raw violence, permanent exclusion, and the absence of the law. It argues that, unlike crimmigration, which merges criminal and immigration law, pushbacks operate entirely outside legal frameworks, creating an extralegal space, where unrestrained violence replaces legal procedures, treating irregular border crossers as “enemies.” The concept of enemy under-criminalization reflects the exclusion of irregular migrants from both physical territory and legal protection, framing them as adversaries to be removed rather than individuals with rights. By situating pushbacks as a punitive strategy beyond crimmigration, this study underscores their implications for justice, accountability, and the integrity of democratic institutions.

Η μελέτη επικεντρώνεται στο μυθιστόρημα Αηδονόπιτα του Ισίδωρου Ζουργού, αναλύοντας την αναπαράσταση του φιλελληνισμού μέσα από την αφήγηση σε πρώτο πρόσωπο. Το έργο ζωντανεύει την εμπειρία των φιλελλήνων κατά την Επανάσταση του 1821, συνδέοντας την υποκειμενική οπτική του αφηγητή με την ιστορική τεκμηρίωση. Η Αηδονόπιτα αναδεικνύεται ως ένα έργο που αναστοχάζεται τη μνήμη, την ταυτότητα και τη διαπολιτισμική συνάντηση, φωτίζοντας τη δυναμική σχέση ιστορίας και μυθοπλασίας.

Background/Objectives: Despite global efforts, COVID-19 revealed severe spatial vaccine inequities, disproportionately affecting low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Scholars across disciplines proposed numerous—and often competing—terms and theories to explain these disparities. In this review and within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, we assess the usage, definition, and appropriateness of these terms and their linked theories or frameworks. Methods: We conducted a scoping review aiming to clarify key definitions, concepts, and frameworks of eight prominent terms used in the literature regarding COVID-19 global and/or regional vaccine inequities (i.e., vaccine nationalism, vaccine apartheid, vaccine colonialism, vaccine imperialism, vaccine racism, vaccine diplomacy, vaccine solidarity, and vaccine internationalism). The methodology followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis guidelines for Scoping Reviews and included papers from January 2020 to the end of October 2024. Results: We included 79 papers in our study. The majority (71%) were published in 2021–2022, with less than one-quarter authored by scholars from LMICs. Vaccine imperialism was consistently defined but rarely used, while vaccine nationalism and vaccine apartheid appeared more frequently with varied meanings. Yet, in most cases, all of these concepts identified economic interests of vaccine-producing countries as the root cause of the observed vaccine inequities. Vaccine diplomacy showed similar ambiguity, viewed by some as worsening inequities and by others as potentially mitigating them. The terms vaccine racism, vaccine colonialism, and vaccine solidarity were not explicitly identified but appear to be embedded within the definitions of other prominent terms detected. Conclusions: Across the preselected terms examined, we found numerous—and often conflicting—definitions, revealing the fragmented and competing understandings of the major drivers fueling global vaccine inequities. This lack of coherence inhibits evidence synthesis or shared theoretical progress but, most importantly, might undermine current and future efforts to address these inequities.