https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:38:53 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/from-the-streets-and-the-occupied-squares-to-the-central-political-field-the-narratives-of-the-anti-austerity-camp-in-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:37 +0000 http://arc.local/items/from-the-streets-and-the-occupied-squares-to-the-central-political-field-the-narratives-of-the-anti-austerity-camp-in-greece/ Continued]]> In this chapter, we wish to explore the ideas and narratives of the ‘anti-austerity’ milieu in Greece, as they were put forward during the turbulent times of the country’s economic and social crisis, first in the protests and occupied squares and then in the central political arena with the skyrocketing of the Coalition of Radical Left (Syriza). This was a time of considerable social contention, including more than 35 general strikes, the persistent movement of Syntagma Square’s Outraged and the double elections of 2012 that shook the political landscape, leading to the ‘anti-austerity’ government of 2015. We are mainly interested in elaborating on a) the claims that were put forward in the protests, b) the means by which these claims were communicated vis-à-vis the hegemonic narrative of the Greek elites, c) the structural elements in Greek society that made such claims popular and appealing to wider masses and d) why the counterhegemonic narratives have found it hard to be transformed into a homogenous, majoritarian political subject that could offer for Greece a political way out of the crisis.

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