Living Under Austerity

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).

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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



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