ABSTRACT

This volume brings together new anthropological research on the Greek crisis. With a number of contributions from academics based in Greece, the book addresses a number of key issues such as the refugee crisis, far-right extremism and the psychological impact of increased poverty and unemployment. It provides much needed ethnographic contributions and critical anthropological perspectives at a key moment in Greece’s history, and will be of great interest to researchers interested in the social, political and economic developments in southern Europe. It is the first collection to explore the impact of this period of radical social change on anthropological understandings of Greece.

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

De te fabula narratur? Ethnography of and during the Greek crisis

part I|44 pages

The state

chapter 1|17 pages

States of emergency, modes of emergence

Critical enactments of ‘the people’ in times of crisis

chapter 2|13 pages

Free money, spoiled recipients

The capitalist crisis as a moral question among Greek technocrats

part II|59 pages

The nation

chapter 5|13 pages

Death in the Greek territorial and symbolic borders

Anti-immigrant action for policing the crisis 1

chapter 6|16 pages

The concealed and the revealed

Looking to the hidden bounty of the land in crisis times

chapter 7|14 pages

Crisis within a crisis?

Foreigners in Athens and traces of transnational relations and separations

part III|53 pages

Subjectivities

chapter 8|13 pages

Greek depression

Uses of mental health discourse from the economy to the psyche

chapter 9|16 pages

New-poor

The Being, the Phenomenon, and the Becoming in ‘Greek Crisis’

chapter 11|10 pages

The CV industry

The construction of the Self as an active and flexible citizen

part IV|55 pages

Confronting crisis

chapter 12|15 pages

Hetero-utopias

Squatting and spatial materialities of resistance in Athens at times of crisis

chapter 13|14 pages

Solidarians in the land of Xenios Zeus

Migrant deportability and the radicalisation of solidarity

chapter 14|15 pages

The future of solidarity

Food cooperativism as labour

chapter 15|9 pages

Put the blame on potatoes

Power relations and the trajectories of goods during the Greek crisis