Rethinking a Radical Reputation: An Athens Neighbourhood Between Media Hype and Social Experience
Known for its anarchist and leftist movements, its uprisings and its vibrant counterculture, Exarcheia has long been a symbol of resistance and political activism in Greece. Through the voices and experiences of those who live, work and move through Exarcheia, this book delves into Athens’ most contested neighbourhood – both its visible, striking elements and the unseen, elusive forces that linger in whispers, silences and memories. It unravels the tensions and contradictions of a place where beauty and resistance, decay and resilience are coexistent. Rather than reinforcing or dismissing its clichés and stereotypes, this exploration reveals the layered histories and political narratives that shape Exarcheia’s past, present and future.

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Rethinking a Radical Reputation: An Athens Neighbourhood Between Media Hype and Social Experience
Known for its anarchist and leftist movements, its uprisings and its vibrant counterculture, Exarcheia has long been a symbol of resistance and political activism in Greece. Through the voices and experiences of those who live, work and move through Exarcheia, this book delves into Athens’ most contested neighbourhood – both its visible, striking elements and the unseen, elusive forces that linger in whispers, silences and memories. It unravels the tensions and contradictions of a place where beauty and resistance, decay and resilience are coexistent. Rather than reinforcing or dismissing its clichés and stereotypes, this exploration reveals the layered histories and political narratives that shape Exarcheia’s past, present and future.

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Rethinking a Radical Reputation: An Athens Neighbourhood Between Media Hype and Social Experience

Rethinking a Radical Reputation: An Athens Neighbourhood Between Media Hype and Social Experience

by Maria Kenti-Kranidioti
Rethinking a Radical Reputation: An Athens Neighbourhood Between Media Hype and Social Experience
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Rethinking a Radical Reputation: An Athens Neighbourhood Between Media Hype and Social Experience

by Maria Kenti-Kranidioti

Overview

Known for its anarchist and leftist movements, its uprisings and its vibrant counterculture, Exarcheia has long been a symbol of resistance and political activism in Greece. Through the voices and experiences of those who live, work and move through Exarcheia, this book delves into Athens’ most contested neighbourhood – both its visible, striking elements and the unseen, elusive forces that linger in whispers, silences and memories. It unravels the tensions and contradictions of a place where beauty and resistance, decay and resilience are coexistent. Rather than reinforcing or dismissing its clichés and stereotypes, this exploration reveals the layered histories and political narratives that shape Exarcheia’s past, present and future.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781836951339
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Publication date: 09/01/2025
Series: New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations , #11
Pages: 206
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Maria Kenti—Kranidioti is a social anthropologist and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cyprus. Her research interests include urban anthropology, comparative ethnography, politics, identity, displacement and social movements.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration

Introduction: A Place That Does Not Exist

Chapter 1. Mapping Affective Geographies, Reading Exarcheian Archives
Chapter 2. Narratives of Apoliticisation and Political Performativity
Chapter 3. The ‘Exarcheia Problem’: Moral and Material ‘Wretchedness’ in the Neighbourhood
Chapter 4. Politics of Neglect and Conceptualisations of ‘the State’

Conclusion. Departures. ‘The Metro is Coming!’

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Index

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