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

Miltiadis Zermpoulis

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Dreaming Big in Post-War Greece

Neighborhood, Life Style, and Everyday Practices in the City of Thessaloniki

Miltiadis Zermpoulis

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2023

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Kultur und soziale Praxis

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The dream of a better, modern and dignified life in a democratic state that must belong to the West: an ethnography of social change in post-war Thessaloniki.

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Social Sciences Anthropology Social Anthropology

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	7
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
List of Greek words and acronyms used in the text Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
1. Methodology issues and theoretical starting points Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
2. Introduction: “Transformation” and “Petty Bourgeoisism”
2.1 Discourses of development and reconstruction
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
2.1.1 “Underdevelopment” in Greece Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
2.1.2 Middle class as parasitic and extra-institutional mobility Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
2.1.3 On petty bourgeoisism: from criticism to connotations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
2.2 The analytical category of “class” and its use in the post-war Greek context
2.2.1 Without a bourgeoisie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
2.2.2 Ideotype of Greek petty bourgeoisism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
2.3 Fieldwork in Kato Toumba Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
2.4 Modernization, urbanization and ideological “civilizing”: an anthropological reading Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
2.5 Space and objects in the discourses and practices of the noikokyraioi from Thessaloniki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
3. Poverty, refugeeism and material adaptation
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
3.1 The paradigm of Thessaloniki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
3.2 About the material recognition of refugeeism: the first home
3.2.1 Poverty, deprivation and strategies to recover a lost world Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
3.2.2 Short personal and family stories about homes and belongings. Stories of extreme poverty and refugeeism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
3.2.3 Efforts of integration and adaptation in the first post-war years Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
3.2.4 Antiparochi as miraculous adaptation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
3.3 The distinction: the “good homes” of the city center
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
3.3.1 Speaking with a main informant on the fringes of the city center Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
3.3.2 “Good homes” and architectural heritage of the city: conflicting public discourses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
3.3.3 Living in the center: life history Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
4. Things in post-war home: modernity, innovation and becoming a noikokyra/noikokyris
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
4.1 From acting subjects to the interaction of subjects-objects
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
4.1.1 Strategies and practices of integration into a “noikokyremeno” lifestyle. The case of Maria from Toumba Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
4.1.2 Gender-based performances of the modern. The case of Vasiliki from the second generation of women from Toumba Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
4.1.3 Homes of “prokopi” and “dignity”. Social relations intermediated by material things Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
4.1.4 The concept of “noble” and “aristocratic” as a normative decoration standard in the homes of noikokyraioi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
4.2 The counterexample: “peasants” and “migrants from Germany” in Toumba of “eastern suburbs” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
5. “Modern” state, “noikokyraioi” citizens and local shades of “corruption”
5.1 DEI civilization
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
5.2 Employees versus employees: daily stories of bureaucratic disobedience in post-war DEI
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
5.2.1 Settlement of refugees or corruption? The production of benefactor citizen through representations of practices of trespassing of public property Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
5.2.2 “Settlement” of the “benefactor” citizen and public interest Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
5.2.3 The social reproduction of noikokyraios through practices of trespassing of public property in the post-war context of reconstruction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Conclusions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
References
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Archives Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	298
Greek TV series Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	298
Journalistic articles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	298
Filmography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
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June 2, 2023

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9783839464915

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302

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2

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27

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2 schw.-w. u. 27 farb. Abb.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839464915

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