Greece in Crisis

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.

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

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Index