Typologies of Bottom-Up Planning in Southern Europe: The Case of Greek Urbanism During the Economic Crisis

2018 ◽  
pp. 163-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Serraos ◽  
Evangelos Asprogerakas
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Bottom Up

scholarly journals ‘Bridges Over Troubled Waters’? The Competitive Symbiosis of Social Democracy and Radical Left in Crisis-Ridden Southern Europe

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-81
Author(s):  
Ioannis Balampanidis ◽  
Ioannis Vlastaris ◽  
George Xezonakis ◽  
Magdalini Karagkiozoglou
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Social Democracy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Strategic Responses ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
Strategic Orientations ◽  
Electoral Cycle ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Radical Left

AbstractDuring the economic crisis, the radical left, especially in countries of the European South, continued its course from marginality to mainstream while social democracy found itself trapped in its previous strategic orientations. This article examines the two political families in a relational and comparative perspective, focusing on the interaction of social democratic and radical left parties that evolved in a series of national cases (Greece, Portugal, Spain and France) and in particular within the political and electoral cycle of 2015–17. The ideological, programmatic and strategic responses of these parties to the critical juncture of the crisis, which mark a convergence or deviation in the paths of the two ‘enemy brothers', shed light on their political and ideological mutations, transformations and/or adaptations.

The Puzzle on Unemployment Factors and the Welfare State Role in Greece

2020 ◽  
pp. 680-703
Author(s):  
Argyris Kyridis ◽  
Maria Pavlis Korres ◽  
Christos Dimitrios Tourtouras ◽  
Nikos Fotopoulos ◽  
Christos Zagkos
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Young People ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
Scientific Achievement ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Post Industrial

In an era of major technological, digital and scientific achievement, in the modern post-industrial globalized society of great contradictions, problems and conflicts, the unemployment phenomenon, which affects young people to a greater extent, is exacerbated. Greece is the country that was affected more than any other country in southern Europe by the multiple effects of the economic crisis, which among others catapulted youth unemployment to unprecedented levels. This chapter presents a research on views and attitudes analysis of male and female students of higher education in Greece towards unemployment as a social phenomenon, towards stereotypical attitudes on unemployment, as well as towards the ways and forms of the research phenomenon configuration. Subsequently, this research attempts to record, analyze and interpret the students' views and attitudes towards the Greek welfare state, thoroughly studying the correlations of all the above data.

scholarly journals Introduction: The end of a parable? Unsettling the transitology model in the age of crisis

HISTOREIN ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kostis Kornetis
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Historical Sociology ◽  
Southern Cone ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Democratic Transitions ◽  
Current Economic Crisis

This volume brings together scholars from the fields of history, political science, political economy, historical sociology and cultural studies, to comment on the theoretical and empirical unsettling of democratic transitions at the time of the economic crisis. The volume links together transitions in time and space, reappraising the democratic processes in Southern Europe in the mid-1970s, the post-1989 transformations in Eastern Europe, the effects of Southern Cone democratisations and the 2011 revolts in the Arab worlds, resisting both temporal particularities and national exceptionalisms. It further showcases how even supposed model transitions came under attack during the current economic crisis, thus highlighting the incloncusive nature of these events and the strong interconnections between past and present.

scholarly journals Crisis' as Tool in the Digital Games Industry: Resistance or Command and Conquer?

eTopia ◽  
2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Owen Livermore
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Digital Games ◽  
Significant Degree ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Digital Game ◽  
Moral Panics ◽  
Game Development ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Current State ◽  
Business Failures

From media-driven moral panics to colossal business failures, digital games have historically been rife with crisis, defining the games industry and its practices to a significant degree. More recently, media discourse regarding the very aggressive global economic crisis is host to an ideological game where the form and context of crisis is shaped into a number of disparate and sometimes contradictory conclusions about the current state of digital game development. I will provide an overview pinpointing some of the recent claims made about the digital games industry and relate this discursive context to the ongoing challenges of the peoplewho work within it. Additionally, in an effort to address the title and theme of the Intersections2009 Conference, I wish to highlight the ways in which crisis can be “disruptive”, but also manipulable and productive in ways that reveal both hegemonic industry mandates and opportunities for bottom-up mobilization.

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THE COMMONS: A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING COLLECTIVE ACTION IN CRISIS-RIDDEN SOUTHERN EUROPE

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-379
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Roussos ◽  
Haris Malamidis
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
European Context ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
The Commons

Both social movement research and the literature on the commons provide rich accounts of the anti-austerity mobilizations and uprisings in southern Europe. Movement studies offer important insights regarding the context of mobilization and collective claim making. The commons literature emphasizes bottom-up practices of shared ownership, self-management, and social co-production that move beyond institutional solutions. Although both literatures highlight similar phenomena, they remain relatively unconnected. Their distance precludes a full grasp of the implications regarding the dynamic and abundant to-and-fro movement between protest-based politics and everyday forms of collective action in this region, which is heavily affected by the crisis’ austerity management. Drawing on the South European context, this article rethinks key concepts addressed in both literatures (social movements-commons, activists-commoners, mobilization-commoning) and highlights how a conceptual synthesis can sharpen and (re)politicize the theorization of contemporary collective action in the everyday.

The Puzzle on Unemployment Factors and the Welfare State Role in Greece

2017 ◽  
pp. 212-234
Author(s):  
Argyris Kyridis ◽  
Maria Pavlis Korres ◽  
Christos Dimitrios Tourtouras ◽  
Nikos Fotopoulos ◽  
Christos Zagkos
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Young People ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
Scientific Achievement ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Post Industrial

In an era of major technological, digital and scientific achievement, in the modern post-industrial globalized society of great contradictions, problems and conflicts, the unemployment phenomenon, which affects young people to a greater extent, is exacerbated. Greece is the country that was affected more than any other country in southern Europe by the multiple effects of the economic crisis, which among others catapulted youth unemployment to unprecedented levels. This chapter presents a research on views and attitudes analysis of male and female students of higher education in Greece towards unemployment as a social phenomenon, towards stereotypical attitudes on unemployment, as well as towards the ways and forms of the research phenomenon configuration. Subsequently, this research attempts to record, analyze and interpret the students' views and attitudes towards the Greek welfare state, thoroughly studying the correlations of all the above data.

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