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Surplus Citizens - Struggle and Nationalism in the Greek Crisis (Paperback)
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Surplus Citizens - Struggle and Nationalism in the Greek Crisis (Paperback)
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The crisis in Greece has elicited the full spectrum of responses -
from optimism for a left parliamentary politics inspired by
Syriza's electoral victory, to pessimism about the intransigence of
the EU and calls for the reinstatement of full national sovereignty
in Europe. In Surplus Citizens, Dimitra Kotouza questions the terms
of the debate by demonstrating how the national framing of social
contestation posed obstacles to transformative collective action,
but also how this framing has been challenged. Analysing the
increasing superfluousness of subordinate classes in Greece as part
of a global phenomenon with racialised and gendered dimensions, the
book interrogates the strengths, contradictions and limits of
collective action and identity in the crisis, from the movement of
the squares and neighbourhood assemblies, to new forms of labour
activism, environmental struggles, immigrant protests, anti-fascism
and pro-refugee activism. Arguing against the strategic fixation on
unified identities and pointing instead to the transformative
potential of internal dispute within movements, Surplus Citizens
highlights the relevance of a discussion of Greece to collective
action beyond it, as we continue to traverse a global financial
crisis that has provoked conflicts over nationalism, immigration
and the rise of neo-fascism.
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