Surplus Citizens - Struggle and Nationalism in the Greek Crisis

How grassroots movements have survived and thrived amidst a harsh political and economic crisis

List of contents

Acknowledgements

Note on Transliteration

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Squares and Frontiers

PART I - HISTORIES: UNDEAD AND INVISIBLE CONFLICTS, TRANSFORMATIONS, CRISIS

1. The Making of Greek Capitalism through Race, Gender and Class

2. Victories, Defeats and Neoliberal Transformation, 1973-2008

3. Symptoms of Crisis

PART II - BECOMING SURPLUS: STRUGGLE AND ITS LIMITS

4. Social Struggle, Non-Identity and Popular Democracy

5. Citizens from Democracy to Riot

6. Labour and Superfluity

7. Solidarity, Charity or Exchange?

8. The Forest Against Work, Workers Against the Forest

9. Care, Vulnerability and Gender Politics

PART III - NATIONALISM, BIOPOLITICS AND STRUGGLE AT THE BORDERS

10. Everyday Racism, Crisis Nationalisms and Migrant 'Autonomy'

11. Surplus Population Management by a Nation-State in Crisis

12. Nationalism from Below

13. Migrant Struggle and Anti-Fascism

Conclusion

Index

About the author

Dimitra Kotouza lectures in sociology and politics at universities in and around London, and is an editorial collective member of the journals Mute and Endnotes. She is a contributor to Beyond Crisis (PM Press 2018, ed. John Holloway et al.), Biopolitical Governance (Rowman & Littlefield 2018, ed. Hannah Richter) and the forthcoming What Is to Be Done Under Real Subsumption (Mute Books, ed. Anthony Iles and Mattin). Her writing has also appeared in academic journals and radical publications in English and Greek.

Summary

How grassroots movements have survived and thrived amidst a harsh political and economic crisis

Product details

• Authors: Dimitra Kotouza
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9780745337784
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-3778-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, Nationalism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Greece, Political activism, Social discrimination & inequality, Political activism / Political engagement, Social discrimination and social justice