4.1.1 Strategies and practices of integration into a “noikokyremeno” lifestyle. The case of Maria from Toumba

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. Acknowledgements 11
4. List of Greek words and acronyms used in the text 13
5. Preface 15
6. 1. Methodology issues and theoretical starting points 21
7. 2. Introduction: “Transformation” and “Petty Bourgeoisism”
8. 2.1 Discourses of development and reconstruction
9. Introduction 33
10. 2.1.1 “Underdevelopment” in Greece 39
11. 2.1.2 Middle class as parasitic and extra-institutional mobility 41
12. 2.1.3 On petty bourgeoisism: from criticism to connotations 41
13. 2.2 The analytical category of “class” and its use in the post-war Greek context
14. 2.2.1 Without a bourgeoisie 48
15. 2.2.2 Ideotype of Greek petty bourgeoisism 55
16. 2.3 Fieldwork in Kato Toumba 59
17. 2.4 Modernization, urbanization and ideological “civilizing”: an anthropological reading 63
18. 2.5 Space and objects in the discourses and practices of the noikokyraioi from Thessaloniki 66
19. 3. Poverty, refugeeism and material adaptation
20. Introduction 71
21. 3.1 The paradigm of Thessaloniki 76
22. 3.2 About the material recognition of refugeeism: the first home
23. 3.2.1 Poverty, deprivation and strategies to recover a lost world 78
24. 3.2.2 Short personal and family stories about homes and belongings. Stories of extreme poverty and refugeeism 82
25. 3.2.3 Efforts of integration and adaptation in the first post-war years 98
26. 3.2.4 Antiparochi as miraculous adaptation 104
27. 3.3 The distinction: the “good homes” of the city center
28. Introduction 112
29. 3.3.1 Speaking with a main informant on the fringes of the city center 116
30. 3.3.2 “Good homes” and architectural heritage of the city: conflicting public discourses 120
31. 3.3.3 Living in the center: life history 123
32. 4. Things in post-war home: modernity, innovation and becoming a noikokyra/noikokyris
33. Introduction 135
34. 4.1 From acting subjects to the interaction of subjects-objects
35. Introduction 140
36. 4.1.1 Strategies and practices of integration into a “noikokyremeno” lifestyle. The case of Maria from Toumba 143
37. 4.1.2 Gender-based performances of the modern. The case of Vasiliki from the second generation of women from Toumba 158
38. 4.1.3 Homes of “prokopi” and “dignity”. Social relations intermediated by material things 166
39. 4.1.4 The concept of “noble” and “aristocratic” as a normative decoration standard in the homes of noikokyraioi 172
40. 4.2 The counterexample: “peasants” and “migrants from Germany” in Toumba of “eastern suburbs” 182
41. 5. “Modern” state, “noikokyraioi” citizens and local shades of “corruption”
42. 5.1 DEI civilization
43. Introduction 201
44. 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 213
45. 5.2 Employees versus employees: daily stories of bureaucratic disobedience in post-war DEI
46. Introduction 226
47. 5.2.1 Settlement of refugees or corruption? The production of benefactor citizen through representations of practices of trespassing of public property 235
48. 5.2.2 “Settlement” of the “benefactor” citizen and public interest 245
49. 5.2.3 The social reproduction of noikokyraios through practices of trespassing of public property in the post-war context of reconstruction 251
50. Conclusions 269
51. References
52. Introduction 277
53. Archives 298
54. Greek TV series 298
55. Journalistic articles 298
56. Filmography 299
57. Electronic resources 299
58. Albums 300
59. List of Figures 301