https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 14:07:44 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/who-loses-and-who-wins-in-a-housing-crisis-lessons-from-spain-and-greece-for-a-nuanced-understanding-of-dispossession/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:53 +0000 http://arc.local/items/who-loses-and-who-wins-in-a-housing-crisis-lessons-from-spain-and-greece-for-a-nuanced-understanding-of-dispossession/ Continued]]> The emerging postcrisis geographies in Southern Europe are intrinsically related to debt and dispossession. In Spain, mortgage homeownership and indebtedness led to housing dispossessions, while in Greece, skyrocketing private indebtedness is eventually arranged through housing foreclosures. Building upon the notion of accumulation by dispossession, i.e., on the way capital accumulates wealth in the era of neoliberal globalization, this article elaborates two novel concepts to understand the housing crises in both countries. The perception of dispossession by odious taxation describes the process of wealth extraction facilitated by financial mechanisms in Greece, and dispossession by political fraud is conceived as a characterization of fraudulent political arrangements and financial tools used for orchestrating housing stealth in Spain. This nurtures the perception that a comparative insight on the processes of dispossession in the Spanish and Greek housing markets may facilitate a nuanced understanding over the interrelated processes of contemporary housing restructuring.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/reading-between-the-lines-gentrification-tendencies-and-issues-of-urban-fear-in-the-midst-of-athens-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:31 +0000 http://arc.local/items/reading-between-the-lines-gentrification-tendencies-and-issues-of-urban-fear-in-the-midst-of-athens-crisis/ Continued]]> In gentrifying places the middle classes come into conflict with the pre-existing spatial and social structures, as they challenge the existing order in order to impose their sense of betterment. In times of crisis, spatial contests are confronted with fears which are related to broader feelings of anxiety that turn against the unwanted ‘other’. This paper drives attention to the feelings of fear that arise in the gentrifiers’ perceptions of quotidian life in times of high liquidity in an Athenian inner city neighbourhood. The way gentrification dynamics enmesh with urban fears may provide us with more insights into the conquest of space by the middle classes, thus broadening the scope of gentrification in the context of the current crisis.

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