Living Under Austerity

Evdoxios Doxiadis is an Assistant Professor at the Department of History at Simon Fraser University. His research is on Greek, Balkan and Mediterranean history with a focus in the 18th and 19th centuries and a particular interest in questions of gender, law, state formation, and minorities. His publications include The Shackles of Modernity: Women, Property, and the Transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Modern Greek State 1750-1850 (2011), and State, Nationalism, and the Jewish Communities of Modern Greece (2018).Aimee Placas is a faculty member at the International Center for Hellenic and Mediterranean Studies. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from Rice University and has published and presented on consumer debt and bankruptcy, the effect of the Greek crisis on overindebted households, and everyday economic life in Greece. She is currently writing an ethnography on the story of consumer credit in Greece in the 21st century.

“Anyone wondering about the effects of austerity—in Europe, the Middle East, the Americas, Africa, or Asia—should read [this book that] assembles scholars trained in anthropology, sociology, history, political science, criminology, and psychology to trouble accepted tropes about the meaning and effects of economic crisis through the case of post-2008 Greece. One of its most powerful contributions is its complication of the crisis framework. The other is its demonstration of the effects of that framework on people actually living in Greece.” American Ethnologist

• List of Tables and FiguresNotes on TransliterationList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Crisis and AusterityAimee Placas and Evdoxios DoxiadisPART I: THE POLITICAL DIMENSION OF THE CRISISChapter 1. The "Illegitimacy" of Foreign Loans: Greece, the Great Powers, and Foreign Debt in the Long Nineteenth CenturyEvdoxios DoxiadisChapter 2. The Political Consequences of the Crisis in Greece: Charismatic Leadership and its DiscontentsHarris MylonasChapter 3. Golden Dawn: From the Margins of Greece to the Forefront of EuropeKostis KarpozilosChapter 4. Protest, Elections, and Austerity Politics in GreeceKostas Kanellopoulos and Maria KousisChapter 5. From Boom to Bust: A Comparative Analysis of Greece and Spain under AusterityBjörn Bremer and Guillem VidalPART II: STATE FUNCTIONS, THE WELFARE STATE, AND THE ECONOMIC CRISISChapter 6. Crisis and the Changes in the Mediascape: Greece and the GlobeFranklin L. HessChapter 7. Crime and Criminal Justice Policy in Greece during the Financial CrisisSappho Xenakis and Leonidas K. CheliotisChapter 8. The Downsizing and Commodification of Health Care: The Appalling Greek Experience since 2010Noëlle BurgiPART III: CHANGES IN GREEK SOCIETY AND CULTUREChapter 9. Gendering the Crisis: Claiming New Values and Agencies Beyond DestitutionAlexandra ZavosChapter 10. From the Twilight Zone to the Limelight: Shifting Terrains of Asylum and Rights in GreeceHeath CabotChapter 11. Giname Kinezoi! (We've Become Chinese!): Critical Developments in the Imaginary of Chinese CapitalismTracey A. RosenChapter 12. Disrupted and Disrupting Consumption: Transformations in Buying and Borrowing in GreeceAimee PlacasConclusionAimee Placas and Evdoxios DoxiadisIndex