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Author:   Dimitris Tziovas (Birmingham University, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Weight:   0.545kg
ISBN:  

9781784538453

ISBN 10:   1784538450
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   14 August 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations, Tables and Charts Notes on Contributors Introduction by Dimitris Tziovas Part I. Crisis Narratives and Cultural Politics 1. Narratives of the Greek crisis and the politics of the past by Dimitris Tziovas 2. Amphipolitics: archaeological performance and governmentality in Greece under the crisis by Dimitris Plantzos Part II. Crisis Brain Drain and Diaspora 3. Crisis brain drain: short-term pain/long-term gain? By Lois Labrianidis & Manolis Pratsinakis 4. Citizenship and entrepreneurship: Greek America as diaspora at a time of crisis by Yiorgos Anagnostou Part III. Cultural Economies and Institutions 5. The economy and ecology of Greek cinema since the crisis: production, circulation, reception by Lydia Papadimitriou 6. Greek museums in times of crisis by Andromache Gazi 7. Feasts in time of 'plague': festivals of western classical music in Greece during the crisis by Katerina Levidou PART IV. Street Art and Nostalgia 8. Visual encounters with crisis and austerity: reflections on the cultural politics of street art in contemporary Athens by Julia Tulke 9. Nostalgic visions of the Greek countryside in times of crisis: national idyll, personal fulfilment or rescuing the ecosystem by Trine Stauning Willert PART V. Literature and the Discourses of Crisis 10. Undoing his/story: on fathers, domesticity and agency in Petros Markaris' Crisis Trilogy by Patricia Felisa Barbeito 11. The unbearable lightness of crisis: (anti-)utopia and middle voice in Sotiris Dimitriou's Close to the Belly by Maria Boletsi 12. Discourses and counter-discourses of the Greek crisis: a critical linguistic perspective by Dionysis Goutsos and Ourania Hatzidaki Bibliography Index

Reviews

`At last a book in English on the Greek crisis that goes beyond the narrowly economic. These essays conjure up recent Greek experience reflected in its music, street art, fiction, museums, rural life and many other aspects'. - Professor Robert Holland, Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London, `Ever since Greece was engulfed by financial crisis in 2010, the country has been a test-bed for the viability of European political and financial institutions. This book is a must-read for anyone seeking to get behind the headlines and understand the dynamics of living with unprecedented `austerity' and the extraordinary range of creative strategies evolved during a blighted decade to cope and perhaps overcome the worst of the effects. The expertise of contributors ranges across a broad cross-section of culture, from history and archaeology to street art and responses on social media. The chapters that make up this book show how the effects of seven years of `austerity' have seeped into every aspect of the lives of Greeks, with effects that cannot be fully predicted but may well be irreversible. At the same time they offer timely and fascinating intimations of both warning and hope for all of us, worldwide, whose lives continue to be affected by fall-out from the global crash of 2008.' - Roderick Beaton, Koraes Professor of Modern Greek & Byzantine History, Language and Literature, King's College London, `Our preference for economic thinking has undervalued the role of culture as an agent of change. This is certainly true in Greece where the crisis of the past decade has been perceived primarily as an economic phenomenon. Greece in Crisis positions itself against this tendency in scholarship. Constituting the first volume to study the cultural dimensions of the current crisis, it brings attention to questions of identity, literary production, film, street art, diaspora, brain drain and archaeology. In trying to integrate culture and the economy, the authors of these essays show that we cannot understand the one without the other.' - Gregory Jusdanis, Humanities Distinguished Professor, The Ohio State University

Author Information

Dimitris Tziovas is Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham. He has served as Director of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham and as Secretary of the European Association of Modern Greek Studies. He is the author of The Other Self: Selfhood and Society in Modern Greek Fiction and editor of Re-imagining the Past: Greek Antiquity and Modern Greek Culture.

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