Everyday Strategies against Austerity in Greece: the View from Anthropology
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Speaker
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Dr Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
Reader in Social Anthropology, University of Kent
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Chair
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Dr Rebecca Bryant
A.N. Hadjiyiannis Senior Research Fellow
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Date
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Tuesday, 17 February 2015
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Venue
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Cañada Blanch Room, COW 1.11, 1st floor, Cowdray House
European Institute, LSE
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Time
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18:00-19:30
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Twitter
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Dr Dimitrios Theodossopoulos explored a number of issues that have transpired from a ‘first wave’ of anthropological writings on the Greek financial crisis and its consequences. He outlined common themes that have emerged from this literature and related dilemmas. In particular, he focused on a series of questions: how successful has anthropological analysis been in de-exoticising and de-pathologising crisis-afflicted subjects? To what degree do the resulting accounts represent a bottom-up, ethnographically informed approach? Do these approaches really challenge hegemony? Are they concerned with issues of responsibility and accountability? Is class taken into account in anthropological interpretations of the crisis? How have the political views of the ethnographers themselves coloured the ethnographic outcome? And finally, does reflexivity offer a solution to potential biases and analytical distortions? Dr Theodossopoulos attempted to provide some answers to these dilemmas, and make available some thoughts about the contribution of anthropology to the analysis of the crisis more generally.
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