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Dangerous Citizens - The Greek Left and the Terror of the State (Hardcover, New)
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Dangerous Citizens - The Greek Left and the Terror of the State (Hardcover, New)
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In a striking departure from conventional treatments of the Greek
Civil War and its effects on the people of Greece, Dangerous
Citizens begins by placing it within a larger historical context
beginning in 1929 when the Greek state set up numerous exile and
rehabilitation camps on the Greek archipelago, and extending up
until 2004 with the famous trial of the Revolutionary Organization
17 November. Using ethnographic interviews, archival material,
unpublished personal narratives, and memoirs of political prisoners
and dissidents, Dangerous Citizens examines the various tortured
microhistories that have created the modern Greek citizen as a
fraught political subject. Returning to ethnographic terrain that
is intimately familiar to PanourgiA, she analyzes the difficulties
of conducting ethnographic research on a subject matter that not
only spans several decades but which has also now become
historical. Dangerous Citizens also analyzes how a liberal state
(Greece) engaged in a process of excision of an increasingly large
segment of its population as dangerous to the nation leaving a
fundamental scar that is still visible. Through detailed
ethnographic work, PanourgiA shows that the past is not a space of
comfort, and what people remember as the truth is deeply
instructive of how people manage and negotiate the past without
being mendacious.Between 1929 and 1974 tens of thousands of
dissidents were imprisoned and tortured in concentration and
rehabilitation camps. PanourgiA's anthropological focus in this
book is on two particular camps that have been ignored in the
scholarly literature: Al Dabaa (in Egypt) and YAros (in Greece). In
Al Dabaa, Greek men from Athens were exiled betweenJanuary and June
1945. These men ranged in age from 16 to 60 and had either
participated in the Resistance against the Germans during the
Second World War as members of the leftist army ELAS, or were
members of Athens-based ELAS Youth. They were arrested and exiled
by the British Occupation Forces after the Germans retreated (in
October 1944). YAros is the second camp PanourgiA focuses on, used
as a place of imprisonment, first between 1947-1963, and again
during the dictatorship of 1967-1974. By using a widened historical
frame PanourgiA demonstrates that the effects of the Greek Civil
War are palpable in the everyday lives of Greek citizens even
today.
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