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Chasing the past : geopolitics of memory on the margins of modern Greece /

Since 2008, Greece has been at the centre of European current affairs due to the financial and economic crisis. However, it should not be forgotten that before the current crisis the political upheavals of the early 1990s and the collapse of Marxist-inspired regimes had already radically transformed...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sintès, Pierre (Autor)
Otros Autores: Money, Jenny (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: [Aix-en-Provence] : [Liverpool] : Provence University Press ; Liverpool University Press, 2019.
Colección:Sociétés contemporaines.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction Shadows and light Memory
  • identity -territory as a trinity for observation Chapter 1: Understanding Greece in the world The geo-political upheavals of the 1990s A new intensity in international migrations and domestic mobility Migration Studies in the Balkans: a multiplicity of perspectives Towards new fields of research Locality as an indicator of globalisation Chapter 2: Conflictual memories and migration between Greece and Albania Migration seen from above Discovering relational space (Re)discovering the link beyond otherness Migration, transnational relationships and minority issues in Greece A new survey deep within the margins Landscape and places: relating the conflict or 'silencing the past'? A never-ending fragmentation? Chapter 3: The Jewish community of Rhodes: a revitalised fragment of the Greek mosaic Historic fragments of Aegean Andalusia A community of memory Juderia rediscovered The Jewish past in action The grindings of memory Towards a successful heritage status: tourism as an ally? Counter-memory and local feeling Chapter 4: Mobilities, heritage and the construction of border territories Return to Thesprotia Reminiscences of 'home' ... elsewhere 'New rural communities' and changing lifestyles 'Good patrimonial practices' in Macedonia Nymfaio: tourism as a sole perspective? Creating order, starting projects The border as a new locus for resources? Geopolitics and cross-border cooperation Chapter 5: Rescaling power in an era of globalisation From roots to pastures new Losing the border and regaining memory(ies) From transformation in the ways of inhabiting place to the mobilisation of memory: territorial impact Using locality to gain 'roots and wings' Effects of globalisation? Institutional back-up for an alternative recourse to the past 'Glocalised' processes? Scales of globalisation in the Balkans Conclusion.