Greece in crisis : the cultural politics of austerity / edited by Dimitris Tziovas.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-316) and index.

Introduction/ Dimitris Tziovas -- 1. Narratives of the Greek crisis and the politics of the past/ Dimitris Tziovas -- 2. Amphipolitics: archaeological performance and governmentality in Greece under the crisis/ Dimitris Plantzos -- 3. Crisis brain drain: short-term pain/Long-term gain?/ Lois Labrianidis and Manolis Pratsinakis -- 4. Citizenship and entrepreneurship: Greek America as diaspora at a time of crisis/ Yiorgos Anagnostou -- 5. The economy and ecology of Greek cinema since the crisis: production, circulation, reception/ Lydia Papadimitriou -- 6. Greek museums in time of crisis/ Andromache Gazi -- 7. Feasts in time of 'plague': festivals of western art music in Greece during the crisis/ Katerina Levidou -- 8. Visual encounters with crisis and austerity: reflections on the cultural politics of street art in contemporary Athens/ Julia Tulke -- 9. Nostalgic visions of the Greek countryside in times of crisis: national idyll, personal fulfilment or rescuing the ecosystem/ Trine Stauning Willert -- 10. Undoing his/story: on fathers, domesticity, and agency in Petros Markaris' crisis trilogy/ Patricia Felisa Barbeito -- 11. The unbearable lightness of crisis: (anti-)utopia and middle voice in Sotiris Dimitriou's Close to the Belly/ Maria Boletsi -- 12. Discourses and counter-discourses of the Greek crisis: a critical linguistic perspective/ Dionysis Goutsos and Ourania Hatzidaki.

"Since 2010, Greece has been experiencing the longest period of austerity and economic downturn in its recent history. Economic changes may be happening more rapidly and may be more visible than the cultural effects of the crisis, which are likely to take longer to become visible. In recent times, both at home and abroad, the Greek arts scene has been discussed mainly in terms of the crisis. While there is no shortage of accounts of Greece's economic crisis by financial and political analysts, the cultural impact of austerity has yet to be properly addressed. This book analyses hitherto uncharted cultural aspects of the Greek economic crisis by exploring the connections between austerity and culture. Covering literary, artistic and visual representations of the crisis, it includes a range of chapters focusing on different aspects of the cultural politics of austerity. These include uses of history and archaeology, the brain drain and the Greek diaspora, Greek cinema, museums, music festivals, street art and literature as well as manifestations of how the crisis has led Greeks to rethink or question cultural discourses and conceptions of identity."--Publisher's description.