https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:19 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/crisis-austerity-measures-and-beyond-archaeology-in-greece-since-the-global-financial-crisis/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:19 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/crisis-austerity-measures-and-beyond-archaeology-in-greece-since-the-global-financial-crisis/ Continued]]> This article, covering the roughly decade-long ‘Greek crisis’ (2008–2018), uses official statistics in order to examine the effects the prolonged recession has had on archaeology in Greece. As the data show, although revenues from museums and archaeological sites have risen considerably (a side effect of ‘crisis tourism’, among other factors), state spending on archaeological research is insufficient. Furthermore, the steady collapse of the state apparatus during this long decade has seriously affected archaeology and the ways it is practised in the country, ultimately leading to the loss of an entire generation of Greek archaeologists.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/we-owe-ourselves-to-debt-classical-greece-athens-in-crisis-and-the-body-as-battlefield/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:18 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/we-owe-ourselves-to-debt-classical-greece-athens-in-crisis-and-the-body-as-battlefield/ Continued]]> Since 2009, Greece has been hit by a severe economic recession followed by harsh austerity policies, gradual impoverishment, and ultimately social collapse. This article investigates the cultural landscape of the so-called ‘Greek crisis’, focusing on Athens,the nation’s capital, and the ways the crisis discourse employs biopolitical technologiesof dispossession and displacement in order to generate an intensified breed of body-politics. The article’s main case study is documenta 14, a blockbuster exhibition ofcontemporary art organized in Athens in 2017, seemingly elaborating on the ideasof debt – classical and modern – though in fact promoting neoliberal approaches topublic economy and life. The idea of ‘classical debt’, the article concludes, continuously reiterated by both Greece’s defenders as well as its most unforgiving critics, rather than acting as an emancipatory force, ends up producing a public consisting of silent bodies, trapped in highly romanticized discourses of the past and ultimately unable to defend themselves. This tension, however, also provokes narratives and gestures made of contradictions and ambiguity, difficult to map and monitor according to established research protocols.

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