https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 16:29:58 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/practices-of-solidarity-in-athens-reconfigurations-of-public-space-and-urban-citizenship/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:53 +0000 http://arc.local/items/practices-of-solidarity-in-athens-reconfigurations-of-public-space-and-urban-citizenship/ Continued]]> The multi-faceted crisis that has hit Greece and other (southern) European countries has had severe consequences on people’s everyday lives. In an attempt to cope with, but also resist, dramatic changes in lifestyles, incomes and welfare, several initiatives have sprung up all over the country at many different scales, with diverse targets, varying actors and outcomes. Many people have abandoned their privacy to participate in public actions of solidarity, in initiatives that often involve new or alternative uses of urban space. It seems that practices of solidarity and claims around material spaces are becoming an important ‘laboratory’ for shaping a different public sphere. Drawing from relevant examples in Athens, the paper aims to reflect on the ways in which such practices and claims arise and develop; how different types of rights and forms of doing politics are enacted in situations of crisis and deprivation; and finally how such practices reconfigure public space and shape notions of belonging, which ultimately (re)define urban citizenship.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/practices-of-collective-action-and-solidarity-reconfigurations-of-the-public-space-in-crisis-ridden-athens-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:45 +0000 http://arc.local/items/practices-of-collective-action-and-solidarity-reconfigurations-of-the-public-space-in-crisis-ridden-athens-greece/ Continued]]> The multifaceted crisis that has hit Greece in the past years has had severe consequences on people’s everyday lives. In an attempt to cope with, and also resist dramatic changes in lifestyles, incomes and welfare, several initiatives have sprung up all over the country at many different scales, with diverse targets, varying actors and outcomes. Many people have abandoned their privacy to participate in public actions of solidarity, in initiatives that often involve new or alternative uses of urban space. It seems that practices of solidarity and claims around material spaces are becoming an important “laboratory” for shaping a different public sphere. The paper aimed to reflect on the ways in which such practices and claims arise and develop; how different types of rights and forms of doing politics are enacted in situations of crisis and deprivation; and finally how such practices reconfigure public space. We draw from relevant examples of initiatives in Athens, in order to discuss acts of coping and resistance and to reflect on the extent to which the concept of social innovation may provide fruitful insights into our discussion.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/beyond-spontaneity-crisis-violence-and-collective-action-in-athens/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:12 +0000 http://arc.local/items/beyond-spontaneity-crisis-violence-and-collective-action-in-athens/ Continued]]> This article argues for the analytical potentials of the concept of spontaneity in our effort to understand critically the socio-spatial dynamics of Athens, but especially the contemporary collective protest actions in the city. Such critical understanding emerges as a significant task given the current urgency to grasp the capitalist crisis and the collective reactions to it. However, taking into account the re-configuration of extreme-Right violence in the streets of Athens, the article attempts to revisit the Marxist dichotomy between spontaneity and non-spontaneity. Via an anthropological critique of this distinction, the paper suggests an additional point of focus beyond spontaneity.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/the-protest-cycle-of-spring-2010-in-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:11 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-protest-cycle-of-spring-2010-in-greece/ Continued]]> The spring 2010 mass demonstrations in Greece, against the austerity plans imposed by the national government, point to certain new features of collective action for trade-union mobilizations. Here, we profile the conditions and the content of these mobilizations, and analyse the latter, aiming to show that they are forms of social protest which Tarrow calls a ‘mobilization phase of a cycle of contention’. We argue that these forms have enabled social movement actors to overcome – even temporarily – the historically rooted basic weaknesses of organization, collaboration and co-ordination in the Greek trade-union movement.

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