https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:47:04 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/fossilized-futures-topologies-and-topographies-of-crisis-experience-in-central-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:49 +0000 http://arc.local/items/fossilized-futures-topologies-and-topographies-of-crisis-experience-in-central-greece/ Continued]]> Drawing on ethnography from western Thessaly, this article reassesses notions of time and temporality in the Greek economic crisis. People experience the past as a folded assemblage of linearly distant and sometimes contradictory moments that help them make sense of a period of social change. Anthropologists should embrace the paradoxes of (poly)temporality and address the topological/topographical experience of time and history. During an era of severe uncertainty, in Greece temporality is discussed through material objects such as photovoltaic panels and fossils as people articulate their situation vis-à-vis the past, present, and future. Multiple moments of the past are woven together to explain the current crisis experience, provoking fear that times of hardship are returning or instilling hope that the turmoil can be overcome.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/solidaritys-tensions-informality-sociality-and-the-greek-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:36 +0000 http://arc.local/items/solidaritys-tensions-informality-sociality-and-the-greek-crisis/ Continued]]> During times of crisis, economic practices organized on principles of reciprocity often arise. Greece, with the vibrant sociality pertaining to its ‘solidarity economy’, is a case in point. This article is premised on the idea that crises make contradictions in societies more visible. I suggest that a central contradiction is at play in Greece between informal and formalized economic activity, as demonstrated in the tension between the fluid features of ‘solidarity’ networks and the formalization proposed or imposed on them by state institutions. In Thessaloniki, the informal solidarity economy proves to be more efficient than the work of NGOs. Arguing that such economic activities are built around the rise of new forms of sociality rather than a tendency toward bureaucratization, the article contributes to anthropological understandings of solidarity and welfare, as well as their relation.

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