https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 14:55:45 +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/agency-on-the-streets-crisis-radical-politics-and-the-production-of-public-space-in-athens-2008-2012/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:18 +0000 http://arc.local/items/agency-on-the-streets-crisis-radical-politics-and-the-production-of-public-space-in-athens-2008-2012/ Continued]]> The dynamic of the street in political struggles is not to be found merely in the fact that it is the space for visibility and representation, but also in that it is the space where potential emancipatory action and non-mediated modes of social conduct can play out. This paper will examine this notion of the street in the context of events of unrest and crisis in Athens from 2008 until 2012. The paper argues that the irregular changes of social, economic and political features in the city during that period transformed public space from primarily a ‘space for representation’ and a ‘space of representation’ to the site/space allowing the subversion of social relations in times of crisis.

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