https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:34:46 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/solidarity-the-egalitarian-tensions-of-a-bridge-concept/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:44 +0000 http://arc.local/items/solidarity-the-egalitarian-tensions-of-a-bridge-concept/ https://toarcheio.org/items/socialities-of-solidarity-revisiting-the-gift-taboo-in-times-of-crises/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:44 +0000 http://arc.local/items/socialities-of-solidarity-revisiting-the-gift-taboo-in-times-of-crises/ Continued]]> This article addresses solidarity and the opening of social spaces in the relations between refugees and residents of Greece who try to help them. ‘Socialities of solidarity’ materialise alternative worldviews; they are loci for the production of lateral relationships; places inhabited by the prospects that derive from the political production of sociality. The article discusses the ‘gift taboo’, dominant in the pre‐crisis era, that reflects the risks of giving to the formation of horizontal relationships. In the contemporary ‘European refugee crisis, and other crises, the gift taboo has collapsed, posing challenges to the egalitarian visions of sociality.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/philanthropy-or-solidarity-ethical-dilemmas-about-humanitarianism-in-crisis-afflicted-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:44 +0000 http://arc.local/items/philanthropy-or-solidarity-ethical-dilemmas-about-humanitarianism-in-crisis-afflicted-greece/ Continued]]> That philanthropy perpetuates the conditions that cause inequality is an old argument shared by thinkers such as Karl Marx, Oscar Wilde and Slavoj Žižek. I recorded variations of the same argument in local conversations regarding growing humanitarian concern in austerity‐ridden Greece. Local critiques of the efficacy of humanitarianism, which I explore here ethnographically, bring to the fore two parallel possibilities engendered by the ‘humanitarian face’ of solidarity initiatives: first, their empowering potential (where solidarity initiatives enhance local social awareness), and second, the de‐politicisation of the crisis (a liability that stems from the effectiveness of humanitarianism in ameliorating only temporarily the superficial consequences of the crisis). These two possibilities – which I treat as simultaneous and interrelated – can help us appreciate the complexity and social embeddedness of humanitarian solidarity in times of austerity.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/comment-unwrapping-solidarity-society-reborn-in-austerity/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:43 +0000 http://arc.local/items/comment-unwrapping-solidarity-society-reborn-in-austerity/ https://toarcheio.org/items/critical-reactions-the-ethnographic-genealogy-of-response/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:41 +0000 http://arc.local/items/critical-reactions-the-ethnographic-genealogy-of-response/ https://toarcheio.org/items/contagious-solidarity-reconfiguring-care-and-citizenship-in-greeces-social-clinics/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:39 +0000 http://arc.local/items/contagious-solidarity-reconfiguring-care-and-citizenship-in-greeces-social-clinics/ Continued]]> In response to growing numbers of people unable to access national healthcare, networks of ‘social solidarity’ clinics/pharmacies have emerged throughout Greece. These clinics/pharmacies redistribute donated medicines, and they provide care through networks of volunteers. They thus seek to respond to the growing ‘contagion’ of austerity in Greece with what some describe as ‘contagious’ solidarity. Discourses regarding social health also permeate the clinics. Solidarity is often described as the ‘other face’ of the crisis, which has brought group participation into the centre of Greek citizenship. Research participants, however, also reflect ambivalently on their work, exposing solidarity’s entanglement in austerity politics and neoliberal subjectivity.

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