https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:47:41 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/reinventing-traditions-socially-produced-goods-in-eastern-crete-during-economic-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:52 +0000 http://arc.local/items/reinventing-traditions-socially-produced-goods-in-eastern-crete-during-economic-crisis/ Continued]]> This paper is about the way the newly issued framework for social economy creates the preconditions of social cooperation in the ethnographic context of Sitia region in eastern Crete. It is argued that local agents based on their empirical knowledge for making ends meet create or enter local social networks treating them as paths of provisioning and as generators of tangible outcomes in the form of economic capital. These networks are mediated by a set of material transactions which in their turn are sustained and reproduced by the logic of generalized reciprocity as a form of exchange. We argue that local agents by taking advantage of the social economy framework, by producing goods and by using local social relations form a whole which is formed and reformed when they transact with each other in commodity production aiming at making their lives possible. The data is based on ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in the region of eastern Crete.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/familistic-welfare-capitalism-in-crisis-social-reproduction-and-anti-social-policy-in-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:21 +0000 http://arc.local/items/familistic-welfare-capitalism-in-crisis-social-reproduction-and-anti-social-policy-in-greece/ Continued]]> Familistic welfare capitalism is a model of national political economy prevalent in many regions in the world (Southern Europe, Latin America, and Asia), where the family plays a double role as the key provider of welfare and a key agent in the model’s socio-economic and political reproduction. The article offers a new approach to the study this model by adopting an expanded concept of social reproduction to capture its historical evolution, using Greece as a case study. Our empirical analysis of austerity measures on employment and pensions demonstrates, how, in the Greek case, a crisis of social reproduction of the traditional form of familistic welfare capitalism was already underway prior to the well-known sovereign-debt crisis. And further we show how the adoption of austerity measures and pro-market reforms is deepening this crisis by severely undermining the key pillars of familial welfare security while rapidly transforming the model into a political economy of generalised insecurity.

]]>