https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:05 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/posterscapes-encountering-solidarityies-in-the-streets-of-exarcheia/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:05 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/posterscapes-encountering-solidarityies-in-the-streets-of-exarcheia/ https://toarcheio.org/items/heterotopian-space-and-the-utopics-of-ethical-and-green-consumption/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:05 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/heterotopian-space-and-the-utopics-of-ethical-and-green-consumption/ Continued]]> In this article, we illustrate how Exarcheia, an Athenian neighbourhood that is renowned for its capacity for revolt and anti-capitalist ethos, provides a rich site for utopian praxis, particularly in relation to a range of green and ethical marketplace behaviours. Arguing that space and place are essential to questions of ethics, ecology, and politics, we explore Exarcheia as a heterotopian space that fosters critique and experimentation, generating new ways of thinking and doing green/ethical behaviours. Drawing on data from a two-year ethnography, our findings not only challenge individualised and de-contextualised notions of the consumer, but also expose moralistic and post-political assumptions that often go unnoticed in ethical and green consumer research. We point to the need for a counter-strand in the literature that reviews instances that we recognise as ethical or green consumerism not in terms of identity projects or given ideas of ethics but rather with reference to the particularity of the spatial contexts in which they occur and their political implications.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/chronotopic-dilemmas-space-time-in-consumer-movements-of-the-greek-crisis/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:03 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/chronotopic-dilemmas-space-time-in-consumer-movements-of-the-greek-crisis/ Continued]]> This paper explores the spatio-temporal dimensions of consumer activism during the Greek crisis. Existing work has provided valuable insights into the figure of the political consumer and the socio-spatial contexts in which consumer activism is enacted. The paper presents original six-year ethnographic work that extends current knowledge through exploring how the spatial and temporal dimensions of consumer activism are unsettled and reconfigured during an acute economic crisis. It builds on the concept of chronotopic dilemmas to illustrate the ideological tensions and contradictions between old and new spatio-temporal logics and practices. In doing so, the current study complements prior research focused on how distinct cultural and institutional settings mediate discourses and actions of consumer activism, by highlighting their inherently spatio-temporal (chronotopic) nature.

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