ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on walking as a process of identity production and transformation. It detects how different inhabitants trace shifts in their city and interpret them as part of the Greek crisis', and how the latter influences their mobility patterns. The chapter concentrates on three different narratives that work in a complementary way in order to illustrate how these new mobilities seem to trace what the crisis means for the inhabitants of different genders, generations and ideologies, their failures and hopes. The focus on everyday urban mobilities could contribute to detecting a new capacity to aspire' as a cultural ability for people to map and assess their experiences of crisis in a palpable way. The chapter reviews the way that different people navigate in their social fields by being mobile or not in their city, in order to trace their aspirations and fears, and how the latter reformulate their relation to the centre of Thessaloniki in this period of distress.
