https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:10:12 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/aspects-and-experiences-of-crisis-in-rural-greece-narratives-of-rural-resilience/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:46 +0000 http://arc.local/items/aspects-and-experiences-of-crisis-in-rural-greece-narratives-of-rural-resilience/ Continued]]> The purpose of this paper is to explore aspects, dynamics and experiences of the crisis in the Greek countryside. The ‘rural’ is emerging in public discourse as a resilient milieu of solidarity, of social innovation, and of opportunities for employment, especially in farming and in rural entrepreneurship. It seems that the crisis has contributed to triggering social constructions of ‘idyllic rurality’ which generated counterurbanisation tendencies and expectations for urbanites to return back to the land. However, those who had remained in rural areas and in farming were already been confronted with the prolonged crisis of the agricultural sector (CAP reforms and market liberalization), now coupled with the severe impact of the recent economic and financial crisis in Greece. Drawing on narratives of farmers and incomers in two rural areas, the paper investigates experiences and strategies to deal with the crisis, in the framework of work and family and in the context of discourses on rural resilience. Personal accounts reveal that remaining or returning to rural areas often conceal cases of underemployment and social deprivation and that, both farmers and incomers are not explicitly supported by policy makers.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/violence-and-extreme-right-activism-the-neo-nazi-golden-dawn-in-a-greek-rural-community/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:43 +0000 http://arc.local/items/violence-and-extreme-right-activism-the-neo-nazi-golden-dawn-in-a-greek-rural-community/ Continued]]> After years of marginal appeal in the electorate, Golden Dawn (GD), a hitherto minor grupuscule of the neo-fascist right, has experienced impressive and continuous electoral success in Greece since 2010. Ιn this paper, we focus on the micro-scale of local communities and explore how violence is used by a local activist in ways that attract sympathisers to GD. Employing ethnographic research in a rural community we observe an everyday rhetoric that gives GD a privileged position in the circulation of violence. We argue that, rather than being a collateral symptom of neo-fascist mobilisation, violence may under certain conditions be one of the strengths of extreme-right movements.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/rural-immigration-family-farm-modernisation-and-reactivation-of-traditional-womens-farming-tasks-in-greece-masculinities-and-femininities-reconsidered/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:14 +0000 http://arc.local/items/rural-immigration-family-farm-modernisation-and-reactivation-of-traditional-womens-farming-tasks-in-greece-masculinities-and-femininities-reconsidered/ Continued]]> This paper aims to explore how agricultural modernisation in a Greek lowland community and a new form of business organisation of family farms, due to the mass employment of low-cost immigrant farm workers, reinforce masculine gendering of farming, often contributing to the reactivation of tasks typically labelled as female, such as cooking for the farm workers and administrative work. However, even though technological and structural modernisation have strengthened the material and symbolic capital of male farmers, the farmer has ended up in a crisis of identity as women seek to get away from agriculture and rural life.

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