https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:36 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/urban-planning-and-revolt-a-spatial-analysis-of-the-december-2008-uprising-in-athens/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:36 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/urban-planning-and-revolt-a-spatial-analysis-of-the-december-2008-uprising-in-athens/ https://toarcheio.org/items/critical-times-in-greece-anthropological-engagements-with-the-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:47 +0000 http://arc.local/items/critical-times-in-greece-anthropological-engagements-with-the-crisis/ Continued]]> This volume brings together new anthropological research on the Greek crisis. With a number of contributions from academics based in Greece, the book addresses a number of key issues such as the refugee crisis, far-right extremism and the psychological impact of increased poverty and unemployment. It provides much needed ethnographic contributions and critical anthropological perspectives at a key moment in Greece’s history, and will be of great interest to researchers interested in the social, political and economic developments in southern Europe. It is the first collection to explore the impact of this period of radical social change on anthropological understandings of Greece.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/europes-last-frontier-the-spatialities-of-the-refugee-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:40 +0000 http://arc.local/items/europes-last-frontier-the-spatialities-of-the-refugee-crisis/ Continued]]> The Post-Cold War period has brought forth new conditions for the dominant European spatialities. First, that period signified a new condition for real estate and land ownership, second a radical transformation and increase of the built environment and third the securitization of a privileged European territory. As the European economy slows and the construction and real estate sectors are further deregulated, together with the promises that the post-Cold War period brought, what we observe coming to the surface in the context of the current refugee crisis is the manifestation of Europe’s most ugly and discriminatory spatiality—the preservation at all costs of its border security.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/crisis-scapes-athens-and-beyond/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:24 +0000 http://arc.local/items/crisis-scapes-athens-and-beyond/ https://toarcheio.org/items/infrastructural-flows-interruptions-and-stasis-in-athens-of-the-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:24 +0000 http://arc.local/items/infrastructural-flows-interruptions-and-stasis-in-athens-of-the-crisis/ Continued]]> The paper discusses infrastructural flows enacted/activated in the context of the crisis in Athens, focusing on waste flows and treatment. The argument is that disorder and deregulation, which are reflected in the disruption of patterns and flows, are endemic characteristics of the neo-liberal governance, but also of the wider infrastructural existence. Considering such activations of flows as working parallel with de-activations and the crisis-related arrhythmia of social, economic and political processes, the paper attempts to offer a re-reading of the crisis via some of the key urban infrastructural processes. In this regard, the diverse codifications of waste flows at play are explored anthropologically as infrastructural processes that reflect both an institutional and an informal social shift in the urban scale.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/the-crisis-before-the-crisis-violence-and-urban-neoliberalization-in-athens/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:16 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-crisis-before-the-crisis-violence-and-urban-neoliberalization-in-athens/ Continued]]> The “Greek crisis” was officially inaugurated on May 2010 with the loan the Greek government took from the IMF-European Union-European Central Bank troika, the largest a country had ever taken (€110 bn). Since then, the social implications of this crisis have been dramatic. The form and the scale of social phenomena observed today in Greece and particularly in Athens–e.g., extreme poverty and inequality, profound police violence, organized racist violence–are unprecedented for the country. Nevertheless, a diachronic examination of some socio-spatial aspects of Athens reveals that the social character of the current crisis has been taking shape for some time. This article aims shed light on the social shape of the crisis by outlining three such socio-spatial dimensions as they materialized in the case of Athens during 1990s and 2000s: first, the emergence of new forms of social exclusion and inequality; second, the vast project of urban (re)development and the new spatialities it produced, and third the emergence of novel forms of political and xenophobic violence.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/the-movement-and-the-movement-of-syntagma-square/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:16 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-movement-and-the-movement-of-syntagma-square/ https://toarcheio.org/items/neo-nazism-and-neoliberalism-a-few-comments-on-violence-in-athens-at-the-time-of-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:16 +0000 http://arc.local/items/neo-nazism-and-neoliberalism-a-few-comments-on-violence-in-athens-at-the-time-of-crisis/ Continued]]> The so‐called Greek crisis implies a rapid transition towards a regime of extreme neoliberalism, but it also implies the rise of the extreme Right. This article examines briefly the rise of Greek neo‐Nazism and a genealogy of its violence. It emphasizes the links between formal and informal violent state apparatuses, focusing on the paradigmatic turn of the form of governance in Greece towards authoritarianism and extreme‐Right wing discourses and practices.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/revolt-and-crisis-in-greece-between-a-present-yet-to-pass-and-a-future-still-to-come/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:12 +0000 http://arc.local/items/revolt-and-crisis-in-greece-between-a-present-yet-to-pass-and-a-future-still-to-come/ Continued]]> How does a revolt come about and what does it leave behind? What impact does it have on those who participate in it and those who simply watch it? Is the Greek revolt of December 2008 confined to the shores of the Mediterranean, or are there lessons we can bring to bear on social action around the globe? Revolt and Crisis in Greece: Between a Present Yet to Pass and a Future Still to Come is a collective attempt to grapple with these questions.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/beyond-spontaneity-crisis-violence-and-collective-action-in-athens/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:12 +0000 http://arc.local/items/beyond-spontaneity-crisis-violence-and-collective-action-in-athens/ Continued]]> This article argues for the analytical potentials of the concept of spontaneity in our effort to understand critically the socio-spatial dynamics of Athens, but especially the contemporary collective protest actions in the city. Such critical understanding emerges as a significant task given the current urgency to grasp the capitalist crisis and the collective reactions to it. However, taking into account the re-configuration of extreme-Right violence in the streets of Athens, the article attempts to revisit the Marxist dichotomy between spontaneity and non-spontaneity. Via an anthropological critique of this distinction, the paper suggests an additional point of focus beyond spontaneity.

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