https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:39 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/the-biopolitical-border-in-practice-surveillance-and-death-at-the-greece-turkey-borderzones/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:39 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/the-biopolitical-border-in-practice-surveillance-and-death-at-the-greece-turkey-borderzones/ Continued]]> This paper examines biopolitical control practices at the Greece–Turkey borders and addresses current debates in the study of borders and biopolitics. The Greek and Frontex authorities have established diverse surveillance mechanisms to control the borderzone space and to monitor, intercept, apprehend, and push back migrants or to block their passage. The location of contemporary borders has been much debated in the literature. This paper provides a nuanced understanding of borders by demonstrating that while borders are diffusing beyond and inside state territories, their practices and effects are concentrated at the edges of state territories—ie, borderzones. Borderzones are biopolitical spaces in which surveillance is most intense and migrants suffer the direct threat of injury and death. Applying biopolitics in the context of borderzones also prompts us to revisit the concept. While Foucault posits that biopolitics is the product of the historical transition away from sovereign powers controlling territory and imposing practices of death towards governmental powers managing population mainly through pastoral, productive, and deterritorialized techniques, the case of the Greece–Turkey borderzones demonstrates that biopolitics operates through sovereign territorial controls and surveillance, practices of death and exclusion, and suspension of rights. This study also highlights the fact that, despite the biopolitical realities, migrants continue to cross the borders.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/the-socio-economic-crisis-and-human-rights-in-greece-the-role-of-social-work/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:35 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-socio-economic-crisis-and-human-rights-in-greece-the-role-of-social-work/ Continued]]> Human rights are violated on a daily basis both voluntarily and involuntarily. This proves that they are not guaranteed and applied through legal procedures, rules and regulations. We need to create a society of citizens and public bodies who promote human rights around the world and will fight for the prevention of injustice, oppression and discrimination. This will build a global culture, the keystone of which is respect for human rights. To achieve this vision, the contribution of the field of human rights education is seen as necessary, as this direction can effectively lead to the building of a global culture of human rights and help develop human rights competence. One of the professional groups on which human rights education focuses is that of social workers. The current social and economic conditions in Greece call for action on the part of the social work profession. Social workers are now required to overcome methodologically and politically many of the conservative ‘theories’ that they have been nurtured with and seek new forms of action, utilising many elements from social pedagogy. This direction will contribute to the emergence of a new social work which is politically active and socially sensitive.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/current-debates-about-religion-and-human-rights-in-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:34 +0000 http://arc.local/items/current-debates-about-religion-and-human-rights-in-greece/ Continued]]> This paper addresses the topics of Religion and Human Rights in the Greek context. More specifically, it explores key Human Rights issues from the perspective of Religious Freedom, namely the legal personality of local religious communities, provisions on proselytism and places of worship, civil rights and youth engagement in the relevant debates. Furthermore, it highlights the dynamics developed between the State regulations, the religious communities and the Human Rights debates in Greece. In this perspective, it enhances as important the fact that Greece as an EU member State cultivated during the last decades a legal and political culture that belongs to the modern liberal democracies tradition. Despite this progress, a variety of challenges is to be faced by Greek society: the rapid changes in global geopolitics, the new migration waves, and the cultural and religious pluralism along with the social and political instability caused by the debt crisis bring to the forth discontent. In this sense, the overall challenge for the Greek society is to approach an understanding of human rights that may function as a framework that guarantees justice and equality for all.

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