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Department of Physical Education and Sport Science

PATSANTARAS NIKOLAOS

Position: Professor
Tel: +30 210 727 6174, +30 697 7618994
Section: Social and Humanitarian Sciences
E-mail : npatsant@phed.uoa.gr

 

Scientific discipline
Sport Sociology

Teaching

  • Sport Sociology
  • Olympism:  A Sociological Approach

Research interests

  • External and Internal Differentiation of and in the Sport System
  • Technology,  Sport Space and Time, Biological & Social Body, Sport Identities, Violence and Doping  in Competitive Sports
  • Globalization, Cosmopolitanism, Human Rights, and Olympic Sports.

Degrees

  • Bachelor in Physical Education and Sport Science (1982)
  • Graduate studies (1989-1993) University of Konstanz, Germany : Sport Science (Sportwissenschaft), Sociology, Sport  Sociology, Sports Management  (Verwaltungswissenschaft)
  • PhD in Social Sciences (Fachbereich Sportwissenschaft) : University of Konstanz, Germany (1994)


Indicative Publications

  1. Georgiou, Y., Patsantaras, N., & Kamberidou, I. (2024). The running tribes: Typology of the long-distance running community of Greece. European Journal of Physical Education and Sport Science, 11(3), 1-18. Open Access Publishing Group. Copy at http://www.tinyurl.com/29gvaq8k
  2. Patsantaras, N. & Kamberidou, I. (2022). Experiencing the Myth: Greekness and the German Hero. European Journal of Physical Education and Sport Science (ISSN: 2501 - 1235), 8(6), 61-82. Open Access Publishing Group. Copy at http://www.tinyurl.com/2kcso87b
  3. Patsantaras, N. (2020).Virtual bodies (avatars) and sport exercises: some important thoughts. European Journal for Sport and Society, 17(4), 339–356. https://doi.org/10.1080/16138171.2020.1792087
  4. Patsantaras, N. (2019). Presence and Body-ownership: The case of the Exercising Avatar. European Journal of Physical Education and Sport Science 5 (11), 61-83. Available at: https://oapub.org/edu/index.php/ejep/article/view/2579>.
  5. Georgiou, Y., Patsantaras, N., & Kamberidou, I. (2018). Homophobia predictors – A case study in Greece: heterosexual physical education student attitudes towards male and female homosexuality. Journal of Physical Education and Sport (JPES), 18(2), 1209-1216. Online ISSN: 2247 - 806X; p-ISSN: 2247 – 8051; ISSN - L = 2247 - 8051 © JPES (DOI:10.7752/jpes.2018.s2180). Copy at http://www.tinyurl.com/y2opakuq
  6. Patsantaras, N. (2015).Can Sports Law Contribute to Regulating the Under-representation of Women in Sport-governing   Bodies? A Case Study in Greece.Pandektis International Sports Law Review,11: 1-2,  128-138.
  7. Patsantaras, N. (2015). Cosmopolitanism an alternative way of thinking in the contemporary Olympics. European Journal for Sport and Society, 12 (2), 215-238.
  8. Patsantaras, Nikolaos (2014). Rethinking the issue of stadium football violence in Greece: A theoretical- empirical approach.Biology of Exercise, 3, 21-38.
  9. Patsantaras, N. (2013). Using global sport ceremonies to activate Human Rights: An approach prompted by the Beijing Olympic Games.  Pandektis International Sports Law Review,10, (1,2), 30-51.
  10. Kamberidou,Tsopani, Dallas, Patsantaras (2009).“A Question of Identity and Equality in Sports: Men’s Participation in Rhythmic Gymnastics.”  NEBULA: a Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship, Nebula 6.4, Australia, December 2009: 220-237.   (online open access journal: Nebula 6.4 at http://www.nobleworld.biz).

 

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