Books • Book Chapters • Articles

  • Chaidemenaki, L., & Kolokytha, O. (2024). Whose culture is it anyway? Perceptions of accessibility in museums by professionals working with people with intellectual disabilities in Greece. Museum Management and Curatorship. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2024.2357073
  • Kolokytha, O. (2024). Philanthropy and cultural leadership – Christos Carras, Senior Consultant, Onassis Stegi: In conversation (Greece). In S. Hadley (Ed.), Cultural leadership in practice (pp. 28-43). Oxon: Routledge.
  • Kolokytha, O., Belinskaya, Y., & Magkou M. (2024). Religion and politics: Silencing Greek theatre in the 21st century. In A. Etienne, & C. Megson (Eds.), Theatre censorship in contemporary Europe: Silence and protest (pp. 195-210). Exeter: University of Exeter Press. https://doi.org/10.47788/TJBJ7381
  • Yannopoulos, Y., Carras, C., Kolokytha, O., Kyriakidis, E., Papageorgiou, A., Trikas, D., Tsiavos, P., & Handaka, S. (2023). Culture in Greece. How can the cultural sector become a means of sustainable development and a source of social value. Athens: DiaNEOsis Research and Policy Institute, retrieved from https://www.dianeosis.org/product/o-politismos-stin-ellada-book/.
  • Kolokytha, O. (2023). Reclaiming place: Cultural initiatives in Cretan villages as enablers of citizen involvement and repopulation. In V. Durrer, A. Gilmore, L. Jancovich, & D. Stevenson (Eds.), Cultural policy is local: Understanding cultural policy as situated practice (pp. 169-187). UK: Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32312-6_8
  • Kolokytha, O. (2022). Festival management practices. In C. DeVereaux (Ed.), Managing the arts and culture: Cultivating a field (pp. 263-289). NY and Oxon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003108641-12
  • Magkou, M., Kolokytha, O., Tsene, L. (2022). Αctivism and bottom-up narratives of change in Greek cultural policy: The case of #SupportArtWorkers. Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy/ Zeitschrift für Kulturmanagement und Kulturpolitik, 8(2), 193-212. https://doi.org/10.14361/zkmm-2022-080210
  • Kolokytha, O. (2022). Bottom-up cultural diplomacy in the Greek periphery: The city of Chania and Dance Days Chania festival. City, Culture and Society, 100448. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccs.2022.100448 (open access)
  • Kolokytha, O. (2021). The future of cultural policies by Philippe Kern. Journal of Digital Media and Culture, 12(3), 534-536.
  • Kolokytha O. (2021) Developing texts for animated opera: A unique case study. In S. Taylor & C. Batty (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of script development (pp. 545-555). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-82234-7_37
  • Kolokytha, O. (2021). Cultural diplomacy in Greece during the crisis. A critical overview. In D. Kizlari, & M. Shehade (Eds.), Cultural diplomacy: Contemporary approaches, future challenges (pp. 53-68). Athens: Epikentro (in Greek).
  • Kolokytha, O. (2021). Transmedia, opera and cultural journalism. In Montserrat Jurado Martín & Beatriz Peña Acuña (Eds.), Periodismo cultural en el siglo XXI (II). Modelos transmedia para profesionales innovadores (pp. 185-196). Madrid: Universitas. ISBN 9788479915605.
  • Kolokytha, O. (2020). Technology, decentralisation and the periphery of European filmmaking: Greece and Scandinavia in focus. In I. Lewis & L. Canning. (Eds.), European cinema in the twenty-first century. Discourses, directions and genres (pp. 207-225). UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Gmeiner, R., & Kolokytha, O. (2020). Who runs the (PR) world? Underrepresentation of women in music PR. In A. Adi & E. Ayme-Yahil (Eds., 2020). Women in PR research and opinions about the status, challenges and future of women working in PR/Communications (pp. 153-170). Quadriga University of Applied Sciences.
  • Kolokytha, O. (2019). Greek cultural policy and politics: The contemporary situation and its implications on the governance of culture in the country. In S. Höhne (Ed.), Kulturpolitik in Ostmittel- und Südeuropa (1945 bis 2015) (pp. 223-236). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
  • Sarikakis, K., & Kolokytha, O. (2019). EU democratic deficits: The EU project and a European public sphere. In K. Arnold, P. Preston & S. Kinnebrock (Eds.), The Handbook of European Communication History (pp. 315-331). USA: Wiley.
  • Kolokytha, O. (2019). Cultural leadership at supranational level. Instrumentalisation of culture and exercise of power. The Journal of Cultural Management: Arts, Economics, Policy. Special issue on Cultural Leadership, 1, 57-74.
  • Kolokytha, O. (2018). Cultural journalism as field and practice. An academic and cultural management perspective in Montserrat Jurado Martín, Beatriz Peña Acuña. (Eds.). Periodismo cultural en el siglo XXI (I). Contenidos docentes innovadores. Madrid: Universitas, pp. 273-286.
  • Kolokytha, O., Sarikakis, K. (2018). Film Governance in the EU: Caught in a Loop? in Murschetz, P., Teichmann, R., Karmasin, M. (eds). State Aid for Film. An International Handbook. Berlin: Springer- Verlag, pp. 67-82.
  • Sarikakis, K., Kolokytha, O., Rozgonyi, K. (2016). Copyright (and) Culture: The governance of Audiovisual Archives in info, 18(6).
  • Kolokytha, O., (2013). Artistic Development of Young Professional Singers. Vienna: University for Music and the Performing Arts, Extempore 12. ISBN 978-3-9502987-3-4.
  • Kolokytha, O. (2013). Views of Greece as an intercultural pole of musical thought and creativity and young Greek professional musicians: the cultural policy and management perspective in Crossroads: Greece as an intercultural pole of musical thought and creativity conference proceedings, pp.465-472. Thessaloniki: Department of Music Studies. ISBN 978-960-99845-3-9.
  • Kolokytha, O. (2006). Artistic development of young opera singers in the UK; a definition of the term and a discussion on the process at ICCPR2006: Fourth International Conference on Cultural Policy Research CD-ROM Proceedings ISBN 3-9502214-0-9 (Vienna, July 2006).


Project Reports & Publications for Professional Communities


  • Gmeiner, R., Kolokytha, O., & Plebańczyk, K. (2023). Production networks in the cultural and creative sector: Case studies from cultural heritage, archives and libraries (1.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6884843
  • Kloosterman, R.C., van Kempen, S., Pratt, A., M'Bay, J., d’Ovidio, M., Greco, L., Boren, T., Hendriksson, T., Pareja-Eastaway, M., Pradel-Miguel, M., Ilczuk, D., Janowska, A., Gmeiner, R., Kolokytha, O., Tomova, B., & Andreeva, D. (2019). The CICERONE Project methodology.
  • Kolokytha, O. (2017). Innovative approaches in traditional contexts: the Cunning Little Vixen project. in Evmenov, A.D. (Ed). Textbook on Management in the Sphere of Culture and Media Industries. Innovative Approaches and Technologies. St. Petersburg: Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, pp. 12-16.