scholarly journals Immaginare la Grecia oggi, fra stereotipi e contro-narrazioni (street art e flânerie urbana)

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilda Tentorio
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Street Art ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Alternative Response ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
Of Greece

“Greece doesn’t exist” was the provocative title of Michel Grodent’s essay (2000), suggesting the need to overcome all prejudices and stereotypes around the image of Greece. Is this perspective of de-construction possible today? This paper focuses on some specific cultural attempts, following this direction. After a brief overview of the different positions, from enthusiasm to disappointment (idealization, touristic image, the myth of Zorba, financial crisis), it explores two examples of counter-narratives: street art, as an alternative response to hegemonic discourse, and urban flâneries. In particular Christos Chryssòpoulos’ interesting works (Flashlight between Teeth, 2012 and The Flâneur Consciousness, 2015), where text and photography form a dialectic pair and show the present of Athens through its material objects. In both cases, wall-writing and literary photobooks suggest a new gaze – an “apocalyptic” one, according to the etymological root of the word – which reveals throbs, details, microcosms and new perspectives capable of destroying certainties and preconceptions.

scholarly journals Greece Crisis: Critical Analysis of Failure of Governance

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 414
Author(s):  
Sandeep Nath Modi
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Central Bank ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
European Central Bank ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Debt Structure ◽  
Euro Zone ◽  
European Central ◽  
The Government ◽  
Of Greece

<em>Greece, which is one of the world’s largest shipping powers, is suffering from financial crisis in Euro Zone. It has impaired the European Economy, besides having an impact on World Economy too. Greece is exposed to huge debt crises owing to IMF, Germany, Spain, Italy, other European Members and European Central Bank. Recently, Greece is trying to strike a deal with its creditors for extension of time for repayment of the loan and have also requested to increase the limit of emergency funding by European Central Bank. The Government has also taken many steps on domestic level to stop the liquidity easing from its financial system and markets. Today, Greece is at cross –road between the Government and the Governance. This Paper dwells on four aspects; first, critical analysis of Greece Economic Structure to know the actual economic condition of Greece. Second, in depth examining the debt portfolio of Greece to know the exposure of the Greece to the European Union Members, European Central Bank, IMF, Private Investors and also critical analysis of Greece Debt Structure along with repayment deadlines. Third, Greece Government’s decisions regarding finding the solutions to counter the financial crisis as to know how governance is more important than growth. And fourt, what would be the repercussions on Greece if it decides/ made to leave Euro Zone. </em>

Delays and Half-Measures

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashoka Mody
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Property Prices ◽  
Greek Economy ◽  
Lending Decisions ◽  
The Government ◽  
Of Greece ◽  
Do So

This chapter studies the cases of Greece and Ireland in 2010. Amidst the raging global financial crisis, the Greek economy appeared to have held up well. However, every informed observer knew that Greece's statistical data was appalling—and too often deliberately misleading. It was later revealed that Greek debt was above 110 percent of GDP, and, with large deficits, debt was piling up rapidly. The chapter then looks at the Irish crisis, which had been building since late-September 2008. To persuade creditors to continue to fund Irish banks, the government had guaranteed that it would repay their debts if the banks themselves were unable do so. Irish banks had made bad lending decisions and had made huge losses. If not already bankrupt, they were heading to bankruptcy as property prices had continued to fall.

scholarly journals Planning and Architecture in Greece in the Neoliberal Era

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgios Karatzas ◽  
Nikos Belavilas
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Mixed Blessing ◽  
The City ◽  
Of Greece

The first decade of the 2000s was an extremely interesting period for Athens which repeatedly captured the world’s attention for several reasons. The capital of Greece welcomed the mixed blessing of the Summer Olympic Games of 2004, was faced with major riots during December 2008 and became the focal point of the country’s financial crisis; this latter event, igniting extensive protests and demonstrations culminating in the “indignants” movement in the summer of 2011. Today, Athens is experiencing a severe deadlock; neglect and deterioration of the city centre; the establishment of immigrant ghettos; the severing of social fabric; the decomposition of the middle class; the perceived breach of security; and increasing homelessness.

scholarly journals Education and Financial Crisis: The Case of Greece

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Vergeti ◽  
Charitomeni Giοuroglοu
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Of Greece

scholarly journals Significant insignificances: Winston Smith’s diary and other reclaimed histories

2019 ◽  
pp. 27-44
Author(s):  
Tom Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Personal History ◽  
George Orwell ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Charles Olson ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
Shared Interest ◽  
Definition Of

The construction of counter-narratives which reclaim and rename history by challenging hegemonic discourse cannot simply be a question of replacing one metanarrative with another. Genuine counter-narratives also challenge the category of “the historical” itself, blurring its parameters and making value-claims for what is often regarded as historically insignificant or marginal. In this chapter, I examine works by three authors – George Orwell, Charles Olson and Georgi Gospodinov – who, despite the diversity of their outlook, output and circumstances, exhibit a shared interest in the significance of the seemingly insignificant and in its potentiality as a foundation for ethical challenges to the assumptions and definitions of hegemonic metanarratives. Winston Smith’s diary in Orwell’s 1984, the autobiographical anecdotes, obscure historical documents and local mythology included in Olson’s Maximus Poems and the fragmentary texts of Gospodinov’s Всички нашите тела are discussed in relation to Kierkegaard’s notion of dignity in personal history, Lyotard’s definition of postmodernism as an “incredulity towards metanarratives” and Auerbach’s discussion of modernism in Mimesis, which also serves to illuminate continuities between the different “epochs” of the modernist/ post-modernist age as well as identifying a possible need to interrogate the way literary history itself is defined and narrated.

scholarly journals Financial Crisis and the New Data on the Wood Pellet Heating: Case Study of Greece

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 138-145
Author(s):  
Dimitrios V. Bandekas ◽  
Jacob. G. Fantidis ◽  
Nick Vordos ◽  
Costas Potolias ◽  
Kostas Karakoulid
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Wood Pellet ◽  
Pellet Heating ◽  
Of Greece

Knowledge and attitudes of women regarding gynaecological cancer prevention in an urban area of Greece in financial crisis

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 710-717 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Saridi ◽  
Eleni Kapogeorgou ◽  
Maria Rekleiti ◽  
Maria Geitona ◽  
Kyriakos Souliotis
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Cancer Prevention ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
Gynaecological Cancer ◽  
Knowledge And Attitudes ◽  
Of Greece

Power without Politics

2018 ◽  
pp. 159-184
Author(s):  
Adrian May
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Jean Baudrillard ◽  
2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
Political Critique ◽  
The 2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Economy ◽  
Financial Capitalism ◽  
Global Financial System ◽  
Of Greece

Around 1996, the review re-orientated its political critique to examine how the globalisation of financial capitalism had hamstrung the progressive left. Michel Surya’s De la domination described capitalism as a form of domination that exercised a form of power without politics, and decried the moralisation of economics which suggested that as long as businesses behaved well, the global financial system itself was unimpeachable. The chapter demonstrates that Surya’s work was influenced by Jean Baudrillard, but that this latter thinker’s account of a now entirely virtual financial economy increasingly seemed inadequate, and the review turned back to Guy Debord for a more Marxist critique of the alienation produced by contemporary capitalism. After exploring this historical genealogy, the chapter explores the Lignes contributions of Groupe Krisis to see how this Frankfurt School-inspired group both predicted the 2008 financial crisis and provided an apocalyptic account of capitalism’s inevitable demise. Yet this account is also seen to be inherently de-politicising and foreclosing political action, and the chapter closes by contrasting it to the analyses of other Lignes contributors, such as Daniel Bensaïd, especially when discussing the EU treatment of Greece after the financial crisis.

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