Cabot, H. – To Archeio https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 15:04:37 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 Contagious’ solidarity: reconfiguring care and citizenship in Greece’s social clinics https://toarcheio.org/items/contagious-solidarity-reconfiguring-care-and-citizenship-in-greeces-social-clinics/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:39 +0000 http://arc.local/items/contagious-solidarity-reconfiguring-care-and-citizenship-in-greeces-social-clinics/ Continued]]> In response to growing numbers of people unable to access national healthcare, networks of ‘social solidarity’ clinics/pharmacies have emerged throughout Greece. These clinics/pharmacies redistribute donated medicines, and they provide care through networks of volunteers. They thus seek to respond to the growing ‘contagion’ of austerity in Greece with what some describe as ‘contagious’ solidarity. Discourses regarding social health also permeate the clinics. Solidarity is often described as the ‘other face’ of the crisis, which has brought group participation into the centre of Greek citizenship. Research participants, however, also reflect ambivalently on their work, exposing solidarity’s entanglement in austerity politics and neoliberal subjectivity.

]]> The chronicities of crisis in Athens’ social-solidarity clinics https://toarcheio.org/items/the-chronicities-of-crisis-in-athens-social-solidarity-clinics/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:39 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-chronicities-of-crisis-in-athens-social-solidarity-clinics/ On the doorstep of Europe: asylum and citizenship in Greece https://toarcheio.org/items/on-the-doorstep-of-europe-asylum-and-citizenship-in-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:24 +0000 http://arc.local/items/on-the-doorstep-of-europe-asylum-and-citizenship-in-greece/ Continued]]> Greece has shouldered a heavy burden in the global economic crisis, struggling with political and financial insecurity. Greece has also the most porous external border of the European Union, tasked with ensuring that the EU’s boundaries are both “secure and humanitarian” and hosting enormous numbers of migrants and asylum seekers who arrive by land and sea. The recent leadership and fiscal crises have led to a breakdown of legal entitlements for both Greek citizens and those seeking refuge within the country’s borders. On the Doorstep of Europe is an ethnographic study of the asylum system in Greece, tracing the ways asylum seekers, bureaucrats, and service providers attempt to navigate the dilemmas of governance, ethics, knowledge, and sociability that emerge through this legal process. Centering on the work of an asylum advocacy NGO in Athens, Heath Cabot explores how workers and clients grapple with predicaments endemic to Europeanization and rights-based protection. Drawing inspiration from classical Greek tragedy to highlight both the transformative potential and the violence of law, Cabot charts the structural violence effected through European governance, rights frameworks, and humanitarian intervention while also exploring how Athenian society is being remade from the inside out. She shows how, in contemporary Greece, relationships between insiders and outsiders are radically reconfigured through legal, political, and economic crises. In addition to providing a textured, on-the-ground account of the fraught context of asylum and immigration in Europe’s borderlands, On the Doorstep of Europe highlights the unpredictable and transformative ways in which those in host nations navigate legal and political violence, even in contexts of inexorable duress and inequality.

On the doorstep of Europe: Asylum and citizenship in Greece | Request PDF. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289578528_On_the_doorstep_of_Europe_Asylum_and_citizenship_in_Greece [accessed Aug 29 2018].

]]> The social aesthetics of eligibility: NGO aid and indeterminacy in the Greek asylum process https://toarcheio.org/items/the-social-aesthetics-of-eligibility-ngo-aid-and-indeterminacy-in-the-greek-asylum-process/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:16 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-social-aesthetics-of-eligibility-ngo-aid-and-indeterminacy-in-the-greek-asylum-process/ Continued]]> On the porous EU border of Greece, where both fiscal and migration management are said to be in a state of crisis, NGOs figure crucially in the provision of legal and social aid to asylum applicants. I explore the dialogical engagements underpinning the determination of client eligibility at one such NGO in Athens. As workers and aid candidates coproduce “pictures” of lives eligible for protection, profound uncertainties and indeterminacies emerge. I argue that this indeterminacy gives testament to an often overlooked form of agency: how aid candidates and service providers alike reshape and even refuse dominant images of deservingness, victimhood, and vulnerability from within systems of aid distribution.

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