Dreaming Big in Post-War Greece : Neighborhood, Life Style, and Everyday Practices in the City of Thessaloniki /

In post-war Greece, Western Allies, the country's conservative political elite and parts of the middle class have shared a dream of consolidating and maintaining the country's western, bourgeois-liberal orientation. In 1947, with the civil war still raging in the country, the Greek governm...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zermpoulis, Miltiadis (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript, [2023]
Colección:Kultur und soziale Praxis.
Temas:
1900-1999
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Politics and government.
Thessalonikē (Greece) > History > 20th century.
Thessalonikē (Greece) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Greece > Thessalonikē
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Greek words and acronyms used in the text
  • Preface
  • 1. Methodology issues and theoretical starting points
  • 2. Introduction: "Transformation" and "Petty Bourgeoisism"
  • 2.1 Discourses of development and reconstruction
  • 2.1.1 "Underdevelopment" in Greece
  • 2.1.2 Middle class as parasitic and extra-institutional mobility
  • 2.1.3 On petty bourgeoisism: from criticism to connotations
  • 2.2 The analytical category of "class" and its use in the post-war Greek context
  • 2.2.1 Without a bourgeoisie
  • 2.2.2 Ideotype of Greek petty bourgeoisism
  • 2.3 Fieldwork in Kato Toumba
  • 2.4 Modernization, urbanization and ideological "civilizing": an anthropological reading
  • 2.5 Space and objects in the discourses and practices of the noikokyraioi from Thessaloniki
  • 3. Poverty, refugeeism and material adaptation
  • 3.1 The paradigm of Thessaloniki
  • 3.2 About the material recognition of refugeeism: the first home
  • 3.2.1 Poverty, deprivation and strategies to recover a lost world
  • 3.2.2 Short personal and family stories about homes and belongings. Stories of extreme poverty and refugeeism
  • 3.2.3 Efforts of integration and adaptation in the first post-war years
  • 3.2.4 Antiparochi as miraculous adaptation
  • 3.3 The distinction: the "good homes" of the city center
  • 3.3.1 Speaking with a main informant on the fringes of the city center
  • 3.3.2 "Good homes" and architectural heritage of the city: conflicting public discourses
  • 3.3.3 Living in the center: life history
  • 4. Things in post-war home: modernity, innovation and becoming a noikokyra/noikokyris
  • 4.1 From acting subjects to the interaction of subjects-objects
  • 4.1.1 Strategies and practices of integration into a "noikokyremeno" lifestyle. The case of Maria from Toumba
  • 4.1.2 Gender-based performances of the modern. The case of Vasiliki from the second generation of women from Toumba
  • 4.1.3 Homes of "prokopi" and "dignity". Social relations intermediated by material things
  • 4.1.4 The concept of "noble" and "aristocratic" as a normative decoration standard in the homes of noikokyraioi
  • 4.2 The counterexample: "peasants" and "migrants from Germany" in Toumba of "eastern suburbs"
  • 5. "Modern" state, "noikokyraioi" citizens and local shades of "corruption"
  • 5.1 DEI civilization
  • 5.1.1 "In the 1960s, I already had a dishwasher and a mixer, my sweetheart". Objectifications of the "modern" in the example of Antigoni
  • 5.2 Employees versus employees: daily stories of bureaucratic disobedience in post-war DEI
  • Example 1
  • Example 2
  • Example 3
  • 5.2.1 Settlement of refugees or corruption? The production of benefactor citizen through representations of practices of trespassing of public property
  • 5.2.2 "Settlement" of the "benefactor" citizen and public interest

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