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Carefully documents the details of local experiences at this crucial juncture of global economic shifts
Documents local perceptions of economic crisis in small-town Greece
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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"The Greek crisis has largely been addressed as a drama of loan repayments and fiery public protests. In this evocative ethnography, Knight captures the sense of temporal vertigo induced in an ordinary local community as assumptions about continuing prosperity give way to the apprehension that unfortunate past times are returning. This book is must reading for anyone wishing to understand the social experience and human cost of financial crisis." - Charles Stewart, University College London, UK, and author of Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece (2012)
"Knight's book is a masterful example of how history and anthropology together can explain the tensions of the present through the understanding of how memories of the past are recalled. Like Walter Benjamin's angel of history, being blown backwards towards the future while contemplating the ruins of the past, contemporary Greeks engage with the transformations in their political economic position while making sense of them in terms of past localized experiences. This is a timely and magnificent piece of scholarship." -Susana Narotzky, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Barcelona, Spain"This is a dynamite book, the first ethnographic exploration of everyday life during the Greek Crisis; it is also an engaging meditation on rethinking memory and history, and the fascinating, multi-folded ties of present experience to images of the past. This is far from simply of scholarly interest; questions about what histories are relevant to the present are being debated as part of a struggle over the future of the European Union. Knight's book will undoubtedly enrich these debates. It is a timely contribution, accessibly written, which will make an excellent text for the classroom, as well as for wider discussion." - David E. Sutton, Professor of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, USA></p>
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: History, Time, and Economic Crisis in Central Greece
Authors: Daniel M. Knight
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48695-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-50148-6Published: 20 May 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-69910-0Published: 21 September 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-48695-0Published: 17 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 210
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Economic History, Ethnography, Cultural Anthropology