https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Thu, 30 Apr 2020 12:38:49 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/reinventing-traditions-socially-produced-goods-in-eastern-crete-during-economic-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:52 +0000 http://arc.local/items/reinventing-traditions-socially-produced-goods-in-eastern-crete-during-economic-crisis/ Continued]]> This paper is about the way the newly issued framework for social economy creates the preconditions of social cooperation in the ethnographic context of Sitia region in eastern Crete. It is argued that local agents based on their empirical knowledge for making ends meet create or enter local social networks treating them as paths of provisioning and as generators of tangible outcomes in the form of economic capital. These networks are mediated by a set of material transactions which in their turn are sustained and reproduced by the logic of generalized reciprocity as a form of exchange. We argue that local agents by taking advantage of the social economy framework, by producing goods and by using local social relations form a whole which is formed and reformed when they transact with each other in commodity production aiming at making their lives possible. The data is based on ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in the region of eastern Crete.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/the-liminal-worker-an-ethnography-of-work-unemployment-and-precariousness-in-contemporary-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:22 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-liminal-worker-an-ethnography-of-work-unemployment-and-precariousness-in-contemporary-greece/ Continued]]> The Liminal Worker examines the experience of work, employment, employment insecurity and precariousness in a context of high unemployment and welfare state crisis in modern Greece. A theoretically-informed, anthropological exploration of the notion of work in contemporary western society and its relation to processes of political decision making, this book challenges the mainstream conception of work as an economic or purely productive activity, presenting a comparative analysis of work as a social phenomenon. Drawing on original empirical research, it explores the key themes of the transformation, experience, meaning and narrative of work and its relation to attendant social policies. A unique examination of the complicated experience of work and labour relations within power systems, institutions and organisations, as well as the reactions and survival strategies of ordinary actors facing precariousness in their daily existence, The Liminal Worker elaborates upon the notion of the anthropology of work and investigates the connection between ethnographic data (and its critical analysis) and the formation of policy. As such, it will be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, policy makers and geographers concerned with questions of work, labour relations and policy formation.

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