Remapping 'Crisis': A Guide to Athens

Remapping 'Crisis': A Guide to Athens

by Myrto Tsilimpounidi, Aylwyn Walsh
Remapping 'Crisis': A Guide to Athens

Remapping 'Crisis': A Guide to Athens

by Myrto Tsilimpounidi, Aylwyn Walsh

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Overview

In periods of intense crisis the pressing need to take sides comes to the surface and trumps neutrality. The claim to objectivity, always a little problematic, can no longer be sustained, and becomes itself a ground of confrontation as the conflicts amongst economists and constitutional lawyers show. As the world is moving towards a state of permanent crisis the engaged intellectual and the committed media are coming back (Costas Douzinas, Professor of Law and Contributor to The Guardian). This is a crucial collection that provides a new perspective on the social dimension of crisis - exemplified in the new wave of social mobilization gaining ground across the globe. The collection is an invigorating addition to the market of ideas circulating at this time of uncertainty, austerity and social change. It is an important and timely contribution to the study of social movements and the rise of direct civil action in pursuit of democracy. In this milieu of social change, Athens is its muse. This book is one of the first collections of chapters devoted to the specificities of Greece's crisis in English that does not focus solely on economics. Its scope and intention aligns it with other recently published books on the ‘Arab Spring' and the ‘Occupy' movements, although its register moves away from journalistic commentary to academic considerations of futurity and the potential of the city to reinvent itself. This makes it a unique interdisciplinary project with a broad appeal.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780996059
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 06/27/2014
Pages: 348
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Myrto Tsilimpounidi is based at the University of East London, with a D.Phil from Sussex. She is a social researcher and photographer whose work engages in urban sociology and visual cultures. Aylwyn Walsh is a performance studies scholar working on the arts and social change. Her work is concerned with exploring the intersections of interdisciplinary methodologies through performance.

Table of Contents

List of Images and Tables viii

Acknowledgements x

Notes on Contributors 1

Foreword: Costas Douzinas: Intellectuals in a Time of Crisis 8

Introduction Myrto Tsilimpounidi Aylwyn Walsh 15

Part 1 Spatial Politics 25

Chapter 1 The Archaeology of the Decline of the City Center: Residential Location Choices of Affluent Groups Thomas Maloutas 26

Chapter 2 The Governance of the Urban Uncanny: The Neoliberal Crisis and the Political Incapacity for Social Reparation Vassilis Arapoglou 43

Chapter 3 Four Acts in/for Syntagma Orsalia Dimitriou 70

Chapter 4 To 'Lose One's Way' in a City in Crisis: Techniques of Navigating and Walking in Spaces of Disorder Yannis Kallianos 86

Part 2 Untold Stories 105

Chapter 5 Reactions to the Crisis: Collective Expropriation of Supermarkets Margarita Komninou Hartwig Pautz 106

Chapter 6 Migrant Mobilization During the Economic Crisis: Identity Formation and Dilemmas Georgios Karyotis Dimitris Skleparis 124

Chapter 7 Crime and Politics in the Greek Crisis: Corruption, Common Crime, and Organized Political Violence Sappho Xenakis Leonidas Cheliotis 144

Part 3 If These Walls Could Talk 153

Chapter 8 Testimonies and Appraisals on Athens Graffiti, Before and After the Crisis Orestis Pangalos 154

Chapter 9 Re-image-ing and Re-imagining the City: Overpainted Landscapes of Central Athens Pafsanias Karathanasis 177

Chapter 10 Mapping the Geographical and Spatial Characteristics of Politicized Urban Art in the Athens of Crisis Konstantinos Avramidis 183

Chapter 11 Art and Politics: Bleeps' Politically Charged Paintings on the Walls of Athens Konstantina Drakopoulou 204

Chapter 12 Bleeps.gr A Visual Diary On Public Display 221

Part 4 The Revolution Will Not be Analyzed 225

Chapter 13 Europhile or Eurosceptic?: Gaps in the Narrative and Performances of Panic Marilena Zaroulia Philip Hager 226

Chapter 14 Remapping Political Trust in the Greek Crisis: Where has it Gone Wrong? Theofanis Exadaktylos 248

Chapter 15 Live your Myth in Greece: The Mythology of Crisis Zacharoula Christopoulou 267

Chapter 16 Anti-Conclusions: The 'uprising' will not be analysed Myrto Tsilimpounidi 281

Notes to chapters 287

References 302

Index 335

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