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Living Under Austerity

Greek Society in Crisis

Evdoxios Doxiadis editor Aimee Placas editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Berghahn Books

Published:1st Aug '20

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Since its sovereign debt crisis in 2009, Greece has been living under austerity, with no apparent end in sight. This volume explores the effects of policies pursued by the Greek state since then (under the direction of the Troika), and how Greek society has responded. In addition to charting the actual effects of the Greek crisis on politics, health care, education, media, and other areas, the book both examines and challenges the “crisis” era as the context for changing attitudes and developments within Greek society.

Living under austerity is a valid contribution to austerity debates as it furthers comparison across disciplinary approaches…Some of these chapters can be points of reference for future researchers interested in Greece, austerity, crisis, state institutions, and rapid social and institutional change.”• JRAI

“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

“Interdisciplinary, multifaceted, and with abundant empirical observation.”• Othon Anastasakis, University of Oxford

ISBN: 9781789208320

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374 pages