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Since its sovereign debt crisis in 2009, Greece has been living under austerity, with no apparent end in sight. This volume explores the effects of policies pursued by the Greek state since then (under the direction of the Troika), and how Greek society has responded. In addition to charting the actual effects of the Greek crisis on politics, health care, education, media, and other areas, the book both examines and challenges the "crisis" era as the context for changing attitudes and developments within Greek society.
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Introduction: Crisis and Austerity
Aimee Placas and Evdoxios Doxiadis PART I: THE POLITICAL DIMENSION OF THE CRISIS Chapter 1. The "Illegitimacy" of Foreign Loans: Greece, the Great Powers, and Foreign Debt in the Long Nineteenth Century
Evdoxios Doxiadis Chapter 2. The Political Consequences of the Crisis in Greece: Charismatic Leadership and its Discontents
Harris Mylonas Chapter 3. Golden Dawn: From the Margins of Greece to the Forefront of Europe
Kostis Karpozilos Chapter 4. Protest, Elections, and Austerity Politics in Greece
Kostas Kanellopoulos and Maria Kousis Chapter 5. From Boom to Bust: A Comparative Analysis of Greece and Spain under Austerity
Björn Bremer and Guillem Vidal PART II: STATE FUNCTIONS, THE WELFARE STATE, AND THE ECONOMIC CRISIS Chapter 6. Crisis and the Changes in the Mediascape: Greece and the Globe
Franklin L. Hess Chapter 7. Crime and Criminal Justice Policy in Greece during the Financial Crisis
Sappho Xenakis and Leonidas K. Cheliotis Chapter 8. The Downsizing and Commodification of Health Care: The Appalling Greek Experience since 2010
Noëlle Burgi PART III: CHANGES IN GREEK SOCIETY AND CULTURE Chapter 9. Gendering the Crisis: Claiming New Values and Agencies Beyond Destitution
Alexandra Zavos Chapter 10. From the Twilight Zone to the Limelight: Shifting Terrains of Asylum and Rights in Greece
Heath Cabot Chapter 11. Giname Kinezoi! (We've Become Chinese!): Critical Developments in the Imaginary of Chinese Capitalism
Tracey A. Rosen Chapter 12. Disrupted and Disrupting Consumption: Transformations in Buying and Borrowing in Greece
Aimee Placas Conclusion Aimee Placas and Evdoxios Doxiadis Index
About the author
Evdoxios Doxiadis is an Assistant Professor at the Department of History at Simon Fraser University. His research is on Greek, Balkan and Mediterranean history with a focus in the 18th and 19th centuries and a particular interest in questions of gender, law, state formation, and minorities. His publications include The Shackles of Modernity: Women, Property, and the Transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Modern Greek State 1750-1850 (2011), and State, Nationalism, and the Jewish Communities of Modern Greece (2018).
Aimee Placas is a faculty member at the International Center for Hellenic and Mediterranean Studies (ΔΙΚΕΜΕΣ), College Year in Athens program. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from Rice University and has published and presented on consumer debt and bankruptcy, the effect of the Greek crisis on overindebted households, and everyday economic life in Greece. She is currently writing an ethnography on the story of consumer credit in Greece in the 21st century.
Summary
Since its sovereign debt crisis in 2009, Greece has been living under austerity. This volume explores the effects of austerity policies on politics, health care, education, media, and other areas, and examines the crisis as the context for changing attitudes in Greek society regarding immigration, crime, minorities, consumption and more.
