https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:55:45 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/governmentalities-of-urban-crises-in-inner-city-athens-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:42 +0000 http://arc.local/items/governmentalities-of-urban-crises-in-inner-city-athens-greece/ Continued]]> Through the notion of “conjuncture” this paper explores the interplay of urban crises that have been unfolding in the city of Athens during the past 7 years (2008–2014). By focusing on specific “critical moments” that have significantly influenced the narratives, discourses and subsequent policies concerning “Athens in crisis”, it examines a number of intertwined approaches and tactics that shaped the governmentality of such crisis. These approaches and tactics, that work in tandem, include emergency‐driven policies and politics; politics of fear that occasionally transform into geographies of fear; processes of defining the “public” and “public enemies”; and redefinitions of (il)legalities. Yet, they have repercussions on people, places and politics. In this context, certain issues are deemed critical or urgent while others do not or are even obscured.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/socio-spatial-stigmatization-and-its-incorporation-in-the-centre-of-athens-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:34 +0000 http://arc.local/items/socio-spatial-stigmatization-and-its-incorporation-in-the-centre-of-athens-greece/ Continued]]> Considering stigmatization as a process ingrained into power relations, difference and contexts, this paper focuses on how socio-spatial stigmatization is deployed by specific social actors within a broader context of multiple stigmatization of social groups in the city of Athens, Greece. As such, it discusses imposed stigmatization, whereby stigma is attributed to a group and/or a place by external (to the group) actors and further explores what can be termed as ‘incorporated’ stigmatization whereby socio-spatial stigma becomes the central feature around which a group is formed and/or mobilized. Furthermore, in both cases, it explores the consequences of stigmatization, while raising further questions about (de)legitimization.

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