https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 12:51:40 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/from-junta-to-crisis-modernization-consumerism-and-cultural-dualisms-in-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:53 +0000 http://arc.local/items/from-junta-to-crisis-modernization-consumerism-and-cultural-dualisms-in-greece/ Continued]]> The Greek economic crisis has triggered a self-reflexive process and prompted a re-examination of political and cultural trends in Greece since 1974 in an attempt to rethink earlier cultural approaches and practices. This article argues that a cultural perspective on the crisis can be productive insofar as it revisits key concepts and dominant models of analysis and charts cultural change in Greece from the fall of the military junta in 1974 to the beginning of the crisis in 2009. Just as the fall of the junta encouraged a re-examination of the post-civil-war period, so the current economic crisis has prompted a rethink of the metapolitefsi era. Exploring the cultural developments that have taken place during this period, this article focuses on competing notions of culture and engages with the two dreams of the post-junta period: modernization and consumerism. The aim is not to reaffirm oppositions or reverse hierarchies but to rethink cultural dualisms and explore hybrid tensions within a broader political and cultural context.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/the-people-in-the-here-and-now-populism-modernization-and-the-state-in-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:47 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-people-in-the-here-and-now-populism-modernization-and-the-state-in-greece/ Continued]]> The term ‘populism’ has gained renewed prominence in Greece during the Eurozone crisis, in both public and academic debates. In this article I conceptualize populism as a discourse of territorial and temporal particularism, which challenges the way a state has been incorporated into the international political and economic system. Based on this definition, I question whether oppositional discourses employed by partisan actors or official power are wholesale and genuine expressions of populism. Thus, I contest the notion that Greece failed due to populism. Instead I draw attention to a failure in the official legitimation of modernization by state elites that long preceded the crisis.

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