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Abstract: This survey of the Greek Revolution and the founding of the modern Greek state caters to a broad audience. This book was first published in 2013, and its reissue (along with an abridged English translation) commemorates the bicentenary of 1821. The esteemed and beloved Greek author Athina Kakouri has published prizewinning works, both fiction and non-fiction, in multiple genres, and the present volume provides a brilliant general narrative of one of the most important political and social upheavals of nineteenth-century Europe.The book is divided into four sections: "How Hellenism Survived through the Centuries of Turkish Rule," "What Preceded and Led to the Decision of the Greeks to Revolt on Their Own," "The ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-30T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The Athens riots of 2008, prompted by the murder of the 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos by a police officer, initiated a cycle of protest and unrest throughout Greece. Since then, the country has experienced numerous episodes of brutal violence with political connotations. Framed in terms of the fight against austerity, anti-immigrant aggression, or various anti-systemic struggles, the violence reached unprecedented levels in the midst of the financial crisis, which itself coincided with massive flows of refugees and migrants into Greece. This politically charged violence called into question the fundamental assumptions underlying the post-1974 constitutional settlement (Papadimitriou 2009), which was founded ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-30T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The crucial role of education in preserving Greek-American identity has long been recognized, but serious scholarly studies of institutional and community-based efforts to provide identity-reinforcing education to Greek-Americans have been rare and often confined to unpublished doctoral dissertations. Some work has appeared thanks to the pioneering efforts of Pella Publishing Company in New York City (Psomiades and Scourby 1982; Orfanos, Psomiades, and Spiridakis 1987; and Orfanos 2002, which reprints essays on research done in the 1990s) and other useful information can be found elsewhere for example, (Lagios 1976, still unpublished; Konstantellou 1995; Kyrou and Frangos 2000; and, for recent and ongoing research ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-30T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: So often books based on an author's doctoral dissertation require wading through a thicket of theory before you get to a clearing where the real story begins. Panayotis League does not neglect theory, but he presents his theoretical framework succinctly and swiftly and then leads us into a fascinating world of music and of musicians—especially Anatolian Greeks—who are engaged in preserving and performing the music of the former Ottoman Empire. It is League's conversations with these musicians, some of them three generations removed from the catastrophe that marked the end of the Greek presence in Asia Minor, and his experience performing with them that form the core of Echoes of the Great Catastrophe. This is a ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-30T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: At first blush Joanna Eleftheriou's collection of essays, This Way Back, seems an unlikely fit for a book series rooted "in place": much is written from a neither here nor there place. Then again, for Eleftheriou—the child of a Greek-Cypriot father and a Greek-American mother, raised in both the United States and Cyprus—liminal space is her place. "I was born with nostalgia in my blood," she writes (59), reminding readers that the word nostalgia comes from the Greek words nostos, homecoming, and algos, pain.Eleftheriou's nostalgia is a burden. After all, how much of a homecoming can there ever be when one has little sense of home' And how much pain must one carry beyond the wounds necessary for personal growth'The ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-30T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Using as a case study her extensive on-site ethnographic work on the Thessaloniki Film Festival (conducted mainly between 2008 and 2010), Toby Lee offers a thorough, far-reaching, and ultimately empowering reconceptualization of the public value of cinema and of cultural production more broadly. Countering arguments that seek to establish the significance of the arts, she provocatively but compellingly argues in favor of their "insignificance within dominant hierarchies of value" (22). "The value of mereness," Lee's argument goes, lies in the fact that the arts can "harbor more radical, agonistic and dissenting forms of collectivity" (22), enabling spaces of political possibility that more consequential, serious ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-30T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Tucked in the waters of the southeastern Mediterranean just across from the Levant and Egypt and just over 450 kilometers from the Turkish coast, Cyprus was a base and later a home for the Crusaders and, eventually, until its independence, formed part of the British colonial empire. The island has been simultaneously an object of desire and a conundrum for the Greek and Turkish nationalisms which, since their emergence, have laid claim not only to the island but to the hearts and minds of a large part of its population. Cut off from the Ottoman mainland and wrested from an embattled Ottoman Empire in 1878, Cyprus acquired a culture distinct from those of both of its putative motherlands. The British colonial ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-30T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Based on fieldwork in Crete, Tradition in the Frame is an ethnography that turns the seemingly facile observation that tradition is important to Greeks into a fascinating exploration of how visuality, and photography in particular, shapes dynamics of power and people's understanding of themselves. The book is a mediation on visuality, materiality, and what Kalantzis calls "montage logic." It is also an intimate window onto Sfakia, a mountain village of southwestern Crete that has been an object of intrigue, fear, and disdain from outsiders, with these attitudes often being mediated by visual technologies.Kalantzis reveals a complex, dialectical reality in which stereotypes are lively, generative, and materially ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-30T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Gilbert Bagnani, an Italo-Canadian of privileged origin, came to Greece in late 1921 as a student of the Italian School of Archaeology. Greece had been at war with Turkey since 1919, but what originally looked to be a victorious Greek campaign resulted in one of the country's greatest calamities. Bagnani witnessed life in Greece before and after the Asia Minor Catastrophe of 1922. What makes his case special is that, unlike other students of foreign archaeological schools in Athens, his intellectual curiosity reached far beyond the ivory tower of academia. Socially charismatic, he was quickly admitted to the best salons of local society. His personal papers at Trent University contain long letters to his mother ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-30T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Political violence varies in its manifestations, rationales, and moral justifications. Violent events occur on both ends of the political spectrum. Despite divergences in the ideology, causes, uses, and meanings of violence—the Far Left (FL) calling for the abolition of capitalism and market economy (see March 2008), while the Far Right (FR) adopts a moral panic jargon on the "Islamization" of the West and the challenging of European values (Ebner 2018)—the two camps share common grounds: violent actors from both sides of the political arena express hostility toward parliamentarism, oppose liberal democracy, and exhibit intolerance toward their political and ideological opponents. We shift our analytic perspective ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-30T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The study of political radicalization has boomed in the past couple of decades, a reaction to the rise in terrorist activity, mainly associated with violent, militant Islamism. In this particular context, terrorism is equated with violent action and necessarily entails some form of clandestine organization (Sánchez Cuenca and de la Calle 2009). Radicalization is generally seen as the key mechanism helping to make sense of how individuals embark on a path toward terrorism (McCauley and Moskalenko 2008; Della Porta and LaFree 2012). Exactly how radicalization leads to terrorism, however, remains underspecified. I argue in favor of disaggregating this concept and looking separately at the twin mechanisms of engagement ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-30T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Political violence (PV) is a concept examined in social movement and terrorism studies (Bjørgo 1995; Della Porta 1995). A social movement approach permits a broader conceptualization of violent phenomena within the context of social, political, and cultural conflicts, highlighting that PV is culture-dependent (Rucht 2004). In social movement research, PV has been discussed as a component of broader repertoires of action, the choice of which is related to a set of dynamic interactions between adversaries (Tilly 1978; 2003). In that sense, PV consists of those repertoires of action that inflict physical, psychological, and symbolic damage to an adversary to achieve political aims (ibid.). Social movement scholars ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-30T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Far-right violence has become a serious challenge for Greek democracy in recent years, particularly in the aftermath of the global financial crisis that emerged in 2007–2008. Hundreds of attacks on migrants and political opponents have cost at least five human lives and left dozens of people badly injured. A growing body of literature has covered these developments and discussed country-specific causes and trends (Xenakis 2012; Karamanidou 2016; Galariotis et al. 2017; Georgiadou and Rori 2019; see also Rori, Georgiadou, and Roumanias 2022). Given that existing research tends to focus exclusively on Greece, however, we know less about the extent to which patterns of violence in Greece are similar to or different ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-30T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The Russian Empire's aim of extending its control over the Black Sea and the Mediterranean transformed the southern Balkan Peninsula into one of the theaters in which the First Russo-Ottoman War (1768–1774) unfolded.1 In the course of that war, the Russian Empire sought to link its own campaigns against the Ottomans with Greek insurrectionary activities, mainly in the Ottoman Peloponnese, a region where the majority of the population was Greek Orthodox (Pappas 1991, 69). During the reign of Empress Catherine II, the idea of Greek emancipation from the Ottomans was employed as an instrument of Russian foreign policy, since Russian diplomats assumed that it would appeal to European popular opinion (Smilyanskaya 2015 ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-30T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In the history of the humanities, the middle of the nineteenth century represents a critical moment: human and social sciences were increasingly reconfiguring their methodologies on the model of the natural sciences and the leading position of philosophy within the academic system was being severely challenged (Freuler 1997). In the case of aesthetics in particular, a steady turn towards positivism could be observed, starting in the 1870s. Abandoning Kantian and spiritualist postulates in favor of inductive approaches, a number of scholars began attempting to elaborate scientific accounts of the aesthetic experience, drawing on new research in the fields of physiology and experimental psychology. Initiated in ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-30T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Soon after the Great Fire of Smyrna in September 1922, the Lausanne peace negotiations in January 1923 paved the way for a compulsory population exchange between Greece and Turkey. The British representatives in the ethnically cleansed port city of Izmir came to the realization that the Turkish nationalist authorities were inclined to cause difficulties for the Greeks and other Christians who originated from and wished to return to the city, be they Ottoman or European citizens. According to a report written by a British commander, these people's arrival in and departure from Izmir was being hampered by the Turkish officials. Ordinances of the Kemalist government did indeed state that the Europeans and Greeks ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-30T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This article explores the long, tangled process of political recognition and restitution during the Third Greek Republic, delving into how different governments, political parties, and social groups reinterpreted the 1940s to propagate new interpretative narratives or maintain old ones, develop distinct visions for the country's political future, and ultimately translate some of those visions into law. This analysis of the politics of recognition and restitution will not assume that those involved sought, or indeed achieved, "national reconciliation" (for such an assumption, see, e.g., Siani-Davies and Katsikas 2009, 566–573). Different actors used the term "national reconciliation" to describe distinct, often ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-30T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Professor Vassiliki Georgiadou (Panteion University of Athens) is a leading expert on the Far Right phenomenon in Western Europe (Georgiadou 2008; Georgiadou, Rori, and Roumanias 2018). In her latest book, Georgiadou focuses specifically on the Greek case, but instead of following the recent trend of Golden Dawn-specific scholarship (e.g., Vasilopoulou and Halikiopoulou 2015; Ellinas and Lamprianou 2016; Dinas et al. 2019; Ellinas 2020) she offers a brief but fairly comprehensive study of the historical development of the Greek Far Right. Based on extensive qualitative research into primary source materials (publications and other documents from the relevant political parties), secondary sources, and public opinion ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-30T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Pre-Fascist Italy was a great power in name only. Its attempts to conquer the thinly populated territory of Ottoman Libya in 1911 were frustrated by local resistance. To relieve Italian forces that were pinned down on the coast, the Italian navy resorted to threatening Ottoman positions in the eastern Mediterranean. The most serious move was the occupation of Rhodes and 10 other Ottoman Aegean islands in April 1912. When the First Balkan War broke out in October, the Ottomans had little choice but to sign the Treaty of Ouchy, which effectively conceded Libya and also gave Italy temporary possession of the occupied islands. Italy then entered World War I on the side of Britain and France, having been secretly ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-30T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: With Greek Cinema and Migration, Philip Phillis presents the first comprehensive study of films produced in Greece between 1991 and 2016 that center stories of foreign migrants and refugees. The two dates that bookend the cinematic corpus under consideration identify moments of geopolitical crisis that helped transform Greece from a country of emigration into, first, a destination country for immigrants from its Balkan neighbors and, later, into a transit country for asylum seekers from the Middle East. In 1991, the fall of the communist regime in Albania, followed by civil unrest and the collapse of the country's economy, pushed thousands of Albanians to cross the border into Greece. In 2015–2016, about a million ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-30T00:00:00-05:00
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