https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:48 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/a-comparison-of-subjective-experiences-and-responses-to-austerity-of-uk-and-greek-youth/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:48 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/a-comparison-of-subjective-experiences-and-responses-to-austerity-of-uk-and-greek-youth/ Continued]]> Following previous research carried out by Chalari (2014; 2015), this qualitative study explores the ways in which the younger generation in Greece and UK has been affected by austerity policy measures. These two countries have been at the forefront of intense social, political and economic transformations that have impacted particularly on young people’s current and future lives. This study aims to explore similarities and differences in young people’s subjective experiences and responses, as from this it may be possible to discern whether there is a general, long-term negative effect on austerity across Europe. The data show that there are some similarities in the two cohorts’ subjective experiences and responses, but perhaps more interestingly some significant differences. The study discusses what the implications of these differences might be for young people and society in these countries, in terms of their impact on the abilities of the younger generation, in a way that has potential to destabilize their personal and professional lives now and in the future.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/dismantled-spatial-fixes-in-the-aftermath-of-recession-capital-switching-and-labour-underutilization-in-the-greek-capital-metropolitan-region/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:46 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/dismantled-spatial-fixes-in-the-aftermath-of-recession-capital-switching-and-labour-underutilization-in-the-greek-capital-metropolitan-region/ Continued]]> The article offers a fresh, empirically grounded look at the spatialities of crisis triggered employment forms––a largely overlooked issue in contemporary critical geography literature. Specifically, it discusses the interconnection between investment flows from manufacturing to the built environment (capital switching) and underemployment in urban metropolitan regions to substantiate its impact on emerging spatial fixities. The article, which is based on an empirical analysis informed by a radical political economy, investigates changing fixed capital formations in Greece over an extended period prior to and during the recession, from 1995 to 2012. It traces the evolution of part-time waged work in the capital metropolitan region of Attica (Athens) vis-à-vis the rest of the country’s regional labour markets, focusing on the polarized 2005–2012 period and the demise of the construction industry. The article highlights that ‘disrupted’ capital switching that occurred in Greece, closely associated with recalibrated sectoral priorities and institutional interventions, resulted in the uneven sprawling of underemployment. Our findings offer insight into how the dismantling of spatial fixes within core metropolitan regions of the southern European Union (and beyond) are connected to labour surplus and successive slumps in manufacturing and construction. The article closes by calling for new theorizations of contemporary urban regional unevenness and its spatiotemporal fixities, which account for the role of changes in labour turnover time.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/on-the-politics-of-queer-resistance-and-survival-athena-athanasiou-in-conversation-with-vassiliki-kolocotroni-and-dimitris-papanikolaou/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:44 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/on-the-politics-of-queer-resistance-and-survival-athena-athanasiou-in-conversation-with-vassiliki-kolocotroni-and-dimitris-papanikolaou/ https://toarcheio.org/items/the-greferendum-and-the-eurozone-crisis-in-the-danish-daily-press/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:44 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/the-greferendum-and-the-eurozone-crisis-in-the-danish-daily-press/ Continued]]> This article presents a critical analysis of the Danish press coverage of the referendum called by the Left-led coalition government of Greece in July 2015, concerning the future of austerity policies. It focuses on the conservative daily press of Denmark, one of the ‘core’ EU countries, writing on developments in the periphery. Three main themes emerge in the study’s discourse analysis of Berlingske Tidende’s and Jyllands Posten’s coverage: ‘post-democratic realism’, ‘the upper-class gaze’, and ‘Orientalism and cultural racism’. The authors not only reveal the one-sided, elitist coverage by the rightwing papers at Europe’s centre but also point out how the principles of neoliberalism itself and the acceptance of austerity are being constantly reinforced by the media in a country like Denmark, which had previously been marked out for its more progressive welfare capitalism. Denmark’s turn to the Right (and to racism) alongside its biased coverage of the ‘Greferendum’ are examined here in the context of the way in which neoliberalism and its politico-social effects are now presented as both common sense and the only way forward.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/%cf%80%ce%bf%ce%bb%ce%b9%cf%84%ce%b9%cf%83%ce%bc%ce%b9%ce%ba%ce%ad%cf%82-%ce%b5%cf%81%ce%bc%ce%b7%ce%bd%ce%b5%ce%af%ce%b5%cf%82-%cf%84%ce%b7%cf%82-%ce%b5%ce%bb%ce%bb%ce%b7%ce%bd/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:43 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/%cf%80%ce%bf%ce%bb%ce%b9%cf%84%ce%b9%cf%83%ce%bc%ce%b9%ce%ba%ce%ad%cf%82-%ce%b5%cf%81%ce%bc%ce%b7%ce%bd%ce%b5%ce%af%ce%b5%cf%82-%cf%84%ce%b7%cf%82-%ce%b5%ce%bb%ce%bb%ce%b7%ce%bd/ https://toarcheio.org/items/behind-the-veil-of-philoxenia-the-politics-of-immigration-detention-in-greece-2/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:22 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/behind-the-veil-of-philoxenia-the-politics-of-immigration-detention-in-greece-2/ Continued]]> This article sets out to summarise the policies, practices and experiences of immigration detention in contemporary Greece, as well as outlining how they have been critiqued domestically andinternationally. The article proceeds to address the ways in which the Greek state has reacted to criticisms and pressures for reform, especially from abroad. It is argued that neither domestic nor international interventions have succeeded in bringing about substantive progressive change in the Greek immigration detention system. Rather, Greek state authorities have systematically neutralised criticisms by employing an array of rhetorical techniques, most notably through evocation of philoxenia (broadly meaning hospitality to foreigners and strangers more generally) as a natural trait common to all Greeks. In addition to highlighting the dubious and paradoxical dimensions of the rhetorical defences deployed by the state in Greece, particularly concerning its discourse of philoxenia, the article goes on to discuss the main socio-political functions that have subtly been served inside the country’s borders through maintenance of deplorable policies and practices of immigration detention, including the symbolic management of public anxieties in accordance with what may be termed the ‘more eligibility’ principle. In pointing to these functions, the article helps to explain why the Greek state persists in making use of rhetoric that is blatantly indefensible and bound to attract further disapprobation.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/punitive-inclusion-the-political-economy-of-irregular-migration-in-the-margins-of-europe/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:21 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/punitive-inclusion-the-political-economy-of-irregular-migration-in-the-margins-of-europe/ Continued]]> Focusing on the treatment irregular migrants have received in Greece since the early 1990s, this article seeks to advance critical scholarship on how European countries have responded to migration from impoverished or otherwise disadvantaged parts of the globe over recent decades. The article first draws attention to ways in which purportedly exclusionary approaches to irregular migration control may be imperfect by design, insofar as restrictions are imposed on outflows to secure an exploitable workforce that serves important labour market needs and, by extension, dominant political interests in the ‘host’ state. Moving on to address the precise ways in which labour exploitation of irregular migrants is brought into effect, the article demonstrates how seemingly unrelated state policies and practices regarding matters of migration, welfare, employment and criminal justice, as well as certain manifestations of anti-migrant violence by non-state actors, may act in combination with one another to this end.

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]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/beyond-hope-prospects-for-the-commons-in-austerity-stricken-greece/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:17 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/beyond-hope-prospects-for-the-commons-in-austerity-stricken-greece/ Continued]]> From 2009 on, Greece has become a laboratory of implementation of neoliberal austerity policies but has also seen fierce resistance and a surge of creative alternatives. In the ensuing years of strife, “hope” has been the notion around which political movements attempted to rally their supporters against the neoliberal restructuring. “Hope” in the blochean sense of evoking the “not-yet” existing through prefigurative politics (apud Dinerstein 2014:59) but also “hope” as an empty signifier (Laclau 2000: 56, 84) a catch-all term to unify all different aspirations for overcoming the crisis under the common hegemonic project of Syriza (Katsambekis 2015:158). This article aims to outline the central political imaginaries of overcoming austerity that arose in this period –Plan A of reform and redistribution, Plan B of national economic reconstruction outside the Eurozone and Plan C of a bottom-up reorganisation of politics and economy around the commons– and the interplay between the three in the context of anti-austerity politics. It especially focuses on the abandonment of Plan A by the political forces that expressed it and the challenges faced by adherents of the third imaginary (“Plan C”) in subverting the capitalist market and in addressing the question of power and the state.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/debt-society-psychosocial-aspects-of-the-greek-crisis/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:16 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/debt-society-psychosocial-aspects-of-the-greek-crisis/ no abstract

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