History Time And Economic Crisis In Central Greece

Author : Daniel Knight
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137486953
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History, Time, and Economic Crisis in Central Greece written by Daniel Knight and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History, Time, and Economic Crisis in Central Greece explores how the inhabitants of a Greek town face the devastating consequences of the worst economic crisis in living memory. Knight examines how the inhabitants draw on the past to contextualize their experiences and build strength that will enable them to overcome their suffering.

Author : Sheila Lecoeur
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857714996
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mussolini's Greek Island written by Sheila Lecoeur and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful and unique study of the realities and long-term impact of occupation, "Mussolini's Greek Island" reveals the Italian dictator's imperial vision, the mechanisms of Italian occupation and its tragic consequences. The small island of Syros is a vital entry-point illuminating Italian imperialism - its ethos, fascist connection, pretension and administrative achievements, marred by famine. Here Lecoeur examines the devastating effects of war and occupation on the local community - starvation, corruption and survival - and, drawing on local archives and interviews with survivors, offers new insight into this crucial but little known episode. Enriching our understanding of Mussolini's hegemonic visions and the mechanisms of occupation, a key issue of our times, this path-breaking book will appeal to scholars of fascism, World War II and military occupation in general.

Author : Vassilis K. Fouskas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351047507
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greece in the 21st Century written by Vassilis K. Fouskas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of the first part of the 21st century Greece has been seen as a critical battlefield for the survival of the powerful and the adjustment or extinction of the weak, as if all the historical contradictions of the global financial crisis and the eurozone crisis were concentrated in that tiny part of the world, with a population of just 11 million people and a GDP of less than 2% of that of the European Union as a whole. While the country has been overpowered by the disciplinarian and deeply authoritarian policy mix of ordoliberal/neoliberal rules, as this book attempts to show, there is hope. Defeat does not end the crisis, and crisis means constant opportunity. In this state of affairs, all types of agencies try to take advantage of the conditions and opportunities in order to advance towards positions of power and provide the best of solutions for the class interests they represent. Thus, harsh conflict is inevitable and if history provides a yardstick, it is that in periods of conflict and crisis, the winner, usually, is the one who manages to strike the right political and social alliances at the right time. The editors have assembled in this volume a number of interdisciplinary chapters and arguments which, despite their differences, share the strategic aim of a critique of both neoliberalism/ordoliberalism and new authoritarianism. Chapters examine the eurozone crisis from a variety of angles with reference to Greece, and Greek politics and society. With this collection of heterodox and scholarly essays, the authors and editors aim to offer a progressive understanding of current historical circumstances. Constantine Dimoulas is an Assistant Professor in social administration and evaluation of social programmes at Panteion University, Greece. Vassilis K. Fouskas is Professor of international politics and economics at the University of East London, UK, and the founding editor of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies (Taylor & Francis).

Author : Clarissa de Waal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838608044
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Bailouts written by Clarissa de Waal and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-21 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the nineteenth century, Greek financial and economic crises have been an enduring problem, most recently engulfing the European Union and EU member states. The latest crisis, beginning in 2010, has been - and continues to be - a headline news story across the continent. With a radically different approach and methodology, this anthropological study brings new insights to our understanding of the Greek crises by combining historical material from before and after the nineteenth century War of Independence with extensive longitudinal ethnographic research. The ethnography covers two distinct periods - the 1980s and the current crisis years - and compares Mystras and Kefala, two villages in southern Greece, each of which has responded quite differently to economic circumstances. Analysis of this divergence highlights the book's central point that an ideology of aspiration to work in the public sector, pervasive in Greek society since the nineteenth century, has been a major contributor to Greece's problematic economic development. Shedding new light on previously under-researched anthropological and sociological aspects of the Greek economic crisis, this book will be essential reading for economists, anthropologists and historians.

Author : Johanna Hanink
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674978307
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Classical Debt written by Johanna Hanink and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Greek debt” means one thing to the country’s creditors. But for millions who prize culture over capital, it means the symbolic debt we owe Greece for democracy, philosophy, mathematics, and fine art. Johanna Hanink shows that our idealized image of ancient Greece dangerously shapes our view of the country’s economic hardship and refugee crisis.

Author : Daniel M. Knight
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800731949
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vertiginous Life written by Daniel M. Knight and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-09-11 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vertiginous Life provides a theory of the intense temporal disorientation brought about by life in crisis. In the whirlpool of unforeseen social change, people experience confusion as to where and when they belong on timelines of previously unquestioned pasts and futures. Through individual stories from crisis Greece, this book explores the everyday affects of vertigo: nausea, dizziness, breathlessness, the sense of falling, and unknowingness of Self. Being lost in time, caught in the spin-cycle of crisis, people reflect on belonging to modern Europe, neoliberal promises of accumulation, defeated futures, and the existential dilemmas of life held captive in the uncanny elsewhen.

Author : M. Mitsopoulos
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230294758
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding the Crisis in Greece written by M. Mitsopoulos and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the tensions in the Greek economy take centre stage in the international headlines, this book examines the failed policies and political corruption that have bankrupted the nation. The authors comment on recent bailouts and haircuts and explore the uncertain future of Greece in the Eurozone.

Author : Deborah Caldwell
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781634844215
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greece written by Deborah Caldwell and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greece has been characterised as the weak link of the Eurozone, since it became the epicenter of the European debt crisis in 2009. That year, the country announced that it had been understating its earlier deficit statistics, thus raising concerns about the country's financial state. The revised data increased both the budget deficit and the public debt. As a result, Greece was shut down from other forms of external borrowing. The main purpose of Chapter One in this book is to present a brief but comprehensive analysis regarding Greece's economic crisis. More specifically, the chapter describes some of the negative consequences that are associated with Greeces accession to the EU. Chapter Two examines how the economic crisis affects the formulation of energy policy in Greece. Chapter Three studies how a financial strain may disproportionately affect smoking behavior in some specific disadvantaged groups in countries that have higher financial problems. Chapter Four discusses a study on recent trends for change in the maternity landscape of Greece, which appears to be related both to the economic crisis of recent years and to the new personal and collective initiatives for autonomy and self-determination that have emerged lately in part due to the crisis. Chapter Five analyzes economic and political developments in Greece for the period 2010-2015, after the introduction of the memoranda agreements between Greece, the European Union (EU), the European central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Chapter Six investigates the application of a business-based, twelve-step strategic planning model for national strategy.

Author : Athanasios Lykogiannis
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826263666
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain and the Greek Economic Crisis, 1944-1947 written by Athanasios Lykogiannis and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1944, the National Unity Government of newly liberated Greece faced a severe inflationary crisis. Although Greece could count on considerable assistance and advice from its allies, particularly Great Britain, much depended on Greece's own actions and its determination to restore economic normality. Success was meager, and by the time the British pulled out of Greece in the spring of 1947, economic stability remained elusive. Britain and the Greek Economic Crisis, 1944-1947 concentrates on Anglo-Greek interactions in economic matters during the political and economic turmoil between the Axis occupation of Greece and the Greek civil war. By analyzing the Greek crisis primarily in economic terms, Athanasios Lykogiannis avoids the political partisanship that has colored much previous writing on the subject and throws light on many issues neglected by earlier authors. Drawing on a range of untapped British, American, and Greek archival sources, as well as extensive secondary sources, the author examines the interplay of political and economic factors, such as the ingrained polarization of Greek society and the weakness and timidity of the country's governments, that aggravated and prolonged the crisis.

Author : Othon Anastasakis
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303097443X
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diaspora Engagement in Times of Severe Economic Crisis written by Othon Anastasakis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-19 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a severe economic crisis impact on diaspora-homeland relations? The present volume addresses this question by exploring diaspora engagement in Greece during the protracted post-2009 eurozone crisis. In so doing, it looks at the crisis as a critical juncture in Greece’s relations with its nationals abroad. The contributors in this book explore aspects of diaspora engagement, including transnational mobilisation, homeland reform, the role of diasporic institutions, crisis driven migration, as well as, comparisons with other countries in Europe. This book provides a compelling and original interdisciplinary study of contemporary diaspora issues, through the lens of an advanced economy and democracy facing a prolonged crisis, and, as such, it is a significant addition to the literature on European diasporas.