Authoritative Models and Grassroots Responses to Crisis: Reconfigurations of Everyday Life in Chalkida, a Postindustrial Greek City

[eng] This thesis focuses on grassroots practices, meanings and understandings in the context of the Greek economic crisis and austerity restructurings that were unilaterally imposed by hegemonic institutions and Greek governments between 2010 and 2016. I employ a bottom up approach to identify the...

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Autor: Amarianakis, Stamatis
Tipo de recurso: tesis doctoral
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/178334
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/178334
http://hdl.handle.net/10803/671845
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Palabra clave:Antropologia econòmica
Crisis econòmiques
Solidaritat
Economia submergida
Grècia
Economic anthropology
Depressions
Solidarity
Informal sector (Economics)
Greece
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Authoritative Models and Grassroots Responses to Crisis: Reconfigurations of Everyday Life in Chalkida, a Postindustrial Greek City
title Authoritative Models and Grassroots Responses to Crisis: Reconfigurations of Everyday Life in Chalkida, a Postindustrial Greek City
spellingShingle Authoritative Models and Grassroots Responses to Crisis: Reconfigurations of Everyday Life in Chalkida, a Postindustrial Greek City
Amarianakis, Stamatis
Antropologia econòmica
Crisis econòmiques
Solidaritat
Economia submergida
Grècia
Economic anthropology
Depressions
Solidarity
Informal sector (Economics)
Greece
title_short Authoritative Models and Grassroots Responses to Crisis: Reconfigurations of Everyday Life in Chalkida, a Postindustrial Greek City
title_full Authoritative Models and Grassroots Responses to Crisis: Reconfigurations of Everyday Life in Chalkida, a Postindustrial Greek City
title_fullStr Authoritative Models and Grassroots Responses to Crisis: Reconfigurations of Everyday Life in Chalkida, a Postindustrial Greek City
title_full_unstemmed Authoritative Models and Grassroots Responses to Crisis: Reconfigurations of Everyday Life in Chalkida, a Postindustrial Greek City
title_sort Authoritative Models and Grassroots Responses to Crisis: Reconfigurations of Everyday Life in Chalkida, a Postindustrial Greek City
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Amarianakis, Stamatis
author Amarianakis, Stamatis
author_facet Amarianakis, Stamatis
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Narotzky, Susana, 1958-
Universitat de Barcelona. Facultat de Geografia i Història
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Antropologia econòmica
Crisis econòmiques
Solidaritat
Economia submergida
Grècia
Economic anthropology
Depressions
Solidarity
Informal sector (Economics)
Greece
topic Antropologia econòmica
Crisis econòmiques
Solidaritat
Economia submergida
Grècia
Economic anthropology
Depressions
Solidarity
Informal sector (Economics)
Greece
description [eng] This thesis focuses on grassroots practices, meanings and understandings in the context of the Greek economic crisis and austerity restructurings that were unilaterally imposed by hegemonic institutions and Greek governments between 2010 and 2016. I employ a bottom up approach to identify the social, economic, political and cultural shifts and ruptures that the imposition of austerity measures and neoliberal policies provoked in Chalkida, a mid-sized (post) industrial city. I juxtapose mainstream definitions and explanations of crisis with national and place-bound grassroots experiences, practices and understandings in order to establish an inter- scalar interconnection between global processes and local agency. This thesis is based on 18 months of systematic fieldwork that took place between April 2015 and December 2016. Material was collected through participant observation in workplace settings, public spaces and households. Additionally, the research was informed by semi-structured personal and group interviews, as well as many informal conversations in cafes, taverns and open air markets. Building on existing literature on crisis, neoliberalism, scale and power, household transformations, social solidarity and informality, I assess the impact of crisis and austerity on the socio-economic relationships and established livelihood patterns that were severely challenged by it. My research demonstrates that people in a provincial city like Chalkida counterbalanced the austerity crisis’s effects on formal income resources and the restructuring of the state and its welfare provisioning. They did so by reinventing traditional structures and practices that had been predominant in the past when resources had also been scarce. I therefore suggest that crisis was understood as a retrograde movement that questioned linear processes and conceptualizations of modernity and progress. Drawing upon historical continuities and ruptures at the local, national and international scales, this dissertation offers a rich ethnographic account of everyday life under the condition of “being in” and “living with” crisis.
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spelling Authoritative Models and Grassroots Responses to Crisis: Reconfigurations of Everyday Life in Chalkida, a Postindustrial Greek CityAmarianakis, StamatisAntropologia econòmicaCrisis econòmiquesSolidaritatEconomia submergidaGrèciaEconomic anthropologyDepressionsSolidarityInformal sector (Economics)Greece[eng] This thesis focuses on grassroots practices, meanings and understandings in the context of the Greek economic crisis and austerity restructurings that were unilaterally imposed by hegemonic institutions and Greek governments between 2010 and 2016. I employ a bottom up approach to identify the social, economic, political and cultural shifts and ruptures that the imposition of austerity measures and neoliberal policies provoked in Chalkida, a mid-sized (post) industrial city. I juxtapose mainstream definitions and explanations of crisis with national and place-bound grassroots experiences, practices and understandings in order to establish an inter- scalar interconnection between global processes and local agency. This thesis is based on 18 months of systematic fieldwork that took place between April 2015 and December 2016. Material was collected through participant observation in workplace settings, public spaces and households. Additionally, the research was informed by semi-structured personal and group interviews, as well as many informal conversations in cafes, taverns and open air markets. Building on existing literature on crisis, neoliberalism, scale and power, household transformations, social solidarity and informality, I assess the impact of crisis and austerity on the socio-economic relationships and established livelihood patterns that were severely challenged by it. My research demonstrates that people in a provincial city like Chalkida counterbalanced the austerity crisis’s effects on formal income resources and the restructuring of the state and its welfare provisioning. They did so by reinventing traditional structures and practices that had been predominant in the past when resources had also been scarce. I therefore suggest that crisis was understood as a retrograde movement that questioned linear processes and conceptualizations of modernity and progress. Drawing upon historical continuities and ruptures at the local, national and international scales, this dissertation offers a rich ethnographic account of everyday life under the condition of “being in” and “living with” crisis.[spa] Esta tesis aborda las prácticas, significados y conceptualizaciones populares en el contexto de la crisis económica griega, y las consiguientes reestructuraciones impuestas por las instituciones hegemónicas mundiales y los gobiernos griegos entre 2010 y 2016. Para ello, parto de un acercamiento “desde abajo” a las transformaciones y rupturas económicas, políticas y culturales que las políticas de neoliberales y las medidas de austeridad han provocado en Chalkida, una ciudad media (post)industrial. Asimismo, con el objetivo de establecer conexiones inter-escalares entre procesos globales y formas de agencia locales, yuxtapongo las definiciones y explicaciones dominantes de “la Crisis” con las experiencias, prácticas y conceptualizaciones subalternas -nacional y localmente situadas. Esta tesis está basada en un trabajo de campo sistemático de 18 meses de duración, entre abril de 2015 y diciembre del 2016. La técnica básica de recogida de información ha sido la observación participante, focalizada en espacios de trabajo, espacios públicos y hogares. Por otro lado, la investigación ha sido enriquecida con entrevistas semi-estructuradas individuales y grupales; así como con conversaciones informales en cafés, tabernas y mercados al aire libre. El análisis del impacto de la crisis y el régimen de austeridad en la (re)configuración de las relaciones socio-económicas y los modos de vida en el caso de estudio, es abordado desde una perspectiva comparativa y teórica que transita las áreas temáticas de la crisis, el neoliberalismo, las relaciones entre escala(s) y poder, la transformación de los hogares, la solidaridad social y la informalidad. Esta investigación demuestra que las personas en una ciudad de provincia como Chalkida contestan de diversas formas los efectos de la crisis de austeridad sobre sus ingresos formales, así como sobre la restructuración del estado y las políticas de aprovisionamiento y bienestar social. Y para ello reinventan estructuras y practices tradicionales que había predominado en el pasado, cuando había existido también una escasez de recursos. En este sentido, mi investigación propone que la crisis ha sido conceptualizada desde estas posiciones subalternas como un movimiento retrógrado que cuestiona la idea de linealidad procesual, y las concepciones de la modernidad y el progreso. En sus explotación de las continuidades históricas y las rupturas a escala local, nacional e internacional, esta tesis doctoral ofrece una rica descripción y análisis etnográficos de la vida cotidiana en condiciones de “estar en” y “vivir en” crisis.Universitat de BarcelonaNarotzky, Susana, 1958-Universitat de Barcelona. 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