https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:50 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/urban-panics-and-black-holes-ambiguities-of-deceleration-in-the-time-of-financialization/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:50 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/urban-panics-and-black-holes-ambiguities-of-deceleration-in-the-time-of-financialization/ Continued]]> In the text I embark upon an effort to ground the possibility of a presence and new forms of fascism of our times in the process of financialization and to the ambiguities of the deceleration as a form of the tactics of resistance (or/and lines of flight) in the permanent acceleration of financialization (financialization as a procedure of permanent crisis). The work of the process of deceleration is ambiguous: on the one hand it is relates to the desire for another governmentality –“not to be govern like this” to the limit of non-governmentality, and on the other a blockage is possible, the capture of this desire in the black holes of fascism.“This temporal discontinuity of resistance, its unexpected acts, the vulnerability of its potential, and recently, its reterritorialization in parliamentary procedures, puts the critical project in a permanent starting position, or as if it is in a permanent starting position. As a result of this, the practice of critique remains constant while at the same moment it is constantly in a position of emergence. A position, which we can conceive in contiguity to the financial capital (as a “Body Without Organs”), and which is related to the production of a post-crisiac, fluctuated subject, in a position of impotent prudence and prediction of its life events. […] But we probably have to avoid this unanswered, questioning of unifying principle. Maybe it’s now time to accept the ambiguous power of the obscure position where the body as a victim of financial capital is a body of strength where capital anchors itself. Because this obscure position is the power and the weakness of the poor. Maybe now it is time to accept that the critical attitude of our time demands or presupposes inconsistency, the rupture with reasons and outcomes of action.”

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/a-comparison-of-subjective-experiences-and-responses-to-austerity-of-uk-and-greek-youth/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:48 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/a-comparison-of-subjective-experiences-and-responses-to-austerity-of-uk-and-greek-youth/ Continued]]> Following previous research carried out by Chalari (2014; 2015), this qualitative study explores the ways in which the younger generation in Greece and UK has been affected by austerity policy measures. These two countries have been at the forefront of intense social, political and economic transformations that have impacted particularly on young people’s current and future lives. This study aims to explore similarities and differences in young people’s subjective experiences and responses, as from this it may be possible to discern whether there is a general, long-term negative effect on austerity across Europe. The data show that there are some similarities in the two cohorts’ subjective experiences and responses, but perhaps more interestingly some significant differences. The study discusses what the implications of these differences might be for young people and society in these countries, in terms of their impact on the abilities of the younger generation, in a way that has potential to destabilize their personal and professional lives now and in the future.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/urban-and-regional-social-movements/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:32 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/urban-and-regional-social-movements/ Continued]]> The multilingual and interdisciplinary book Urban and Regional Social Movements includes 21 texts that explore theoretical issues of movement processes or focus on examining movements which have been developed in Greece and internationally (Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, India, Italy, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Turkey). It is a book that aims at being constantly “under construction” and as a consequence “alive”, up-to-date and dynamic. Hence the blog https://aoratespoleis.wordpress.com/ was also created which will be regularly updated with new links, studies and news from various urban and regional movements around the world. The book argues that urban and regional movements are interrelated as the regional movements are directly associated with the resistance to the looting and/or destruction of the natural commons in the name of serving a dominant uneven urban lifestyle. Thus, there is a feedback between the practices of social movements related to regional planning issues or simply to the exploitation and management of natural resources with these of urban movements. During the last years the discussion on the urban and regional social movements has been enriched with the notion of the so-called Common Space as an interpretative approach to the recent protests, riots and uprisings shortly before and during the current global and local crisis. At the same time, the easier, faster and in a wider – often global – scale dissemination of the information about the burst and the demands of the movements, through the contemporary alternative networks of information and action, underlines the emergence of new forms of communication which will be most likely these of the movements of the 21st century. Finally, the new urban and regional movements in which this book is interested are autonomous, massive and creative. They put themselves beyond a mere denial and confrontation to get in a collective creation and in radical changes of the space and everyday life.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/uni-conflicts-in-spaces-of-crisis-critical-approaches-in-against-and-beyond-the-university/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:30 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/uni-conflicts-in-spaces-of-crisis-critical-approaches-in-against-and-beyond-the-university/ https://toarcheio.org/items/stretching-money-to-pay-the-bills-temporal-modalities-and-relational-practices-of-getting-by-in-the-greek-economic-crisis/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:01 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/stretching-money-to-pay-the-bills-temporal-modalities-and-relational-practices-of-getting-by-in-the-greek-economic-crisis/ Continued]]> This article investigates the temporalities of ‘getting by’ amidst the ripple effects of economic deterioration in Volos, Greece. Through the case of Kalypso and her family, I argue for a relational framework in the study of temporal practices, and then discuss the significant material relations of the family. Faced with less than half of their previous income, Kalypso runs a general budget pool via e-banking that allows her to coordinate the temporal constraints of periodic and everyday bills. The effect is a drifting apart of temporal experiences in the family as well as tensions about the future. Temporal agency is shown to reside in the modalities of social relations and in corresponding practices.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/establishing-indifference-the-affective-logic-of-neoliberalism/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:54 +0000 http://arc.local/items/establishing-indifference-the-affective-logic-of-neoliberalism/ https://toarcheio.org/items/greek-ngos-in-the-press-trends-in-the-presentation-of-greek-ngos-before-and-during-the-financial-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:48 +0000 http://arc.local/items/greek-ngos-in-the-press-trends-in-the-presentation-of-greek-ngos-before-and-during-the-financial-crisis/ Continued]]> This research is an attempt to discover diachronic trends in the presentation of Greek non-governmental organizations in two of the most influential contemporary hard-news newspapers in Greece, Kathimerini and To Vima. Drawing heavily on theories of media coverage and their relation to the non-governmental organizations, this article combines quantitative content analysis and critical discourse analysis so as to designate the crucial role of the media to the presentation of the non-governmental organizations in Greece. The research covers a wide period of 10 years (2004–2014), including several years before and during the financial crisis. Which are the main characteristics of the non-governmental organizations’ representations by the Press? Which alterations has the crisis context brought to these representations? What new forms of voluntarism has the crisis created? How does the Press ‘react’ toward the ‘insurgents’ of the non-governmental organizations field? These are some of the questions seeking answers in an under constant transformation media field.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/alexanders-great-treasure-wonder-and-mistrust-in-neoliberal-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:46 +0000 http://arc.local/items/alexanders-great-treasure-wonder-and-mistrust-in-neoliberal-greece/ Continued]]> This paper explores how the past is used to interrogate the present under conditions of social and economic crisis. It focuses on the ways national history and personal historicity blended in the media frenzy and public reactions generated in the summer of 2014 by archaeological discoveries in a burial mound in Northern Greece that captured the attention of the nation for many months. During a time of intense debate over the privatization of national resources, growing demands for Nazi war-crime reparations, and increasing pauperization, popular speculation over the mound as a hiding place for priceless treasures was very often informed by mistrust towards the state, its representatives, and its experts. I look into history and culture to investigate how the past in conditions of crisis and uncertainty can weigh heavy in peoples’ identity claims, social demands, and moral economies.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/this-radicalisation-which-is-not-one-contentious-politics-against-the-backdrop-of-the-greek-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:46 +0000 http://arc.local/items/this-radicalisation-which-is-not-one-contentious-politics-against-the-backdrop-of-the-greek-crisis/ Continued]]> Since the eruption of the Greek economic crisis in 2010 and the introduction of austerity policies, Greece’s public space has become a theatre of intense political conflict in the form of social unrest, mass mobilisations, symbolic and physical clashes and political instability. This paper suggests that these developments can be understood in a productive way by drawing on a psychoanalytic understanding of loss and trauma. This framework can help us understand the transformation of a popular subject previously loyal to the political establishment into a disenchanted one, and also address the question of emotional intensities at play in this detachment. But in addition, psychoanalysis highlights the possibility of different responses to loss and the different ethical implications that these can have, which stands in contrast to accounts that see radicalisation as inherently dangerous. Far-right and left-wing responses are examined and characterised through this lens. The paper concludes that there are nuances in the left-wing responses that can meet the ethical criteria set by a psychoanalytic understanding of loss.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/policies-that-succeed-and-programs-that-fail-ambiguity-conflict-and-crisis-in-greek-higher-education/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:46 +0000 http://arc.local/items/policies-that-succeed-and-programs-that-fail-ambiguity-conflict-and-crisis-in-greek-higher-education/ Continued]]> Why do some policies adopted by a wide margin fail to be implemented? Highlighting the role of policy entrepreneurial strategies within the Multiple Streams Approach (MSA), we examine the implementation of Greek higher education reform in 2011 to argue that when policies adversely affect the status quo, successful entrepreneurial strategies of issue‐linkage and framing, side payments, and institutional rule manipulation are more likely to lead to implementation failure under conditions of crisis, centralized monopoly, and inconsistent political communication. The findings clarify MSA by specifying the conditions that increase the coupling strategies’ chances of success or failure and illuminate the role ambiguity and conflict play in policy reform and implementation.

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