ABSTRACT
The eruption of the ‘Greek crisis’ has radically changed the terrain upon which the debates about civil society and the role of Non-Governmental Organisations have taken place in and about Greece, the main change being that the challenges those debates were trying to tackle have multiplied, becoming more intense and complex. The violent rupture in social cohesion following the ill-planned and ill-implemented ‘shock therapies’ and the resulting prolonged and deep recession of the Greek economy has redrawn the map of urgent socio-economic needs (Papadopoulos and Roumpakis, 2012, p. 206), pushing into the category of the ‘underprivileged’ population groups that were, until 2009–2010, part of the thriving middle-classes, while shoving into the category of the subaltern groups that already before the crisis were living at the limits of social exclusion (Ioannidis and Pierros, 2014).
