https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 14:58:47 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/nonrecording-the-european-refugee-crisis-in-greece-navigating-through-irregular-bureaucracy/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:51 +0000 http://arc.local/items/nonrecording-the-european-refugee-crisis-in-greece-navigating-through-irregular-bureaucracy/ Continued]]> This article explores nonrecording on the borders of Europe during the “European refugee crisis” in 2015. It examines the ambiguous practices of border control and the diverse actors involved. Taking the island of Lesvos as its starting point, the article interrogates how state functionaries manage an “irregular” bureaucracy. Irregular bureaucracy is approached as an essential element of state-craft , rather than an indication of state failure. Nonrecording is thus a crucial site of contestation between the state, nonstate agents, and the government, as well as between Greece and “Europe.” Nevertheless, despite the prevalence of irregularity, the imagery associated with ideal bureaucracy—a system of absolute knowledge, control, and governance of populations—is powerful; and yet, the actors are fully aware that it is a fantasy.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/it-wasnt-written-for-me-law-debt-and-therapeutic-contracts-in-greek-psychiatry/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:17 +0000 http://arc.local/items/it-wasnt-written-for-me-law-debt-and-therapeutic-contracts-in-greek-psychiatry/ Continued]]> Since the international movement for patients’ rights began, law has played an ambiguous role in mediating conflicts over responsibility for the mentally ill. In Greece, this contention has been shaped by reforms designed to shift psychiatric treatment from custodial hospitals to outpatient settings, challenging patients to help care for themselves. This article addresses one of the normative techniques deployed by Greek therapists to foster patients’ responsibility in treatment: the therapeutic contract. By formalizing patients’ and therapists’ responsibilities to one other, contracts attach legalistic determinants to treatment that are said to have their own therapeutic efficacy. I examine the experiences of two patients in northeastern Greece who entered therapeutic contracts at moments of crisis in their treatment. Failures in these cases expose a conflict between the ethics of contract and the ethics of care. I argue that this conflict is intrinsic to the transactional model of public service relationships in liberal states.

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