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Kultur und soziale Praxis [More in this series]

Biographical/​Historical note

Miltiadis Zermpoulis holds a PhD in social anthropology from the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, Greece. Between 2017 and 2021 he worked for a migrant organization in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Since June 2021 he has been working as a research associate and deputy head at the Institute for Transcultural Competence at Police Academy of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. His academic interests include material culture, anthropology of space, state culture, social classes, post-colonial theories, ethnic/religious minorities and migration.

Summary note

• In post-war Greece, Western Allies, the country's conservative political elite and parts of the middle class share a dream of consolidating and maintaining the country's Western, bourgeois-liberal orientation. In 1947, with the civil war still raging in the country, the Greek government chooses the path of the capitalist countries and joins the American program for the reconstruction of war-torn Europe. Miltiadis Zermpoulis focuses on the impact and significance of the social and political changes brought about by the civil war, the dominance of conservatives in the political arena and the promotion of political surveillance and compliance technologies in the daily life of Greece's second largest city, Thessaloniki.
• Besprochen in:https://afebalk.hypotheses.org, 13.09.2023

Dissertation note

Doctoral Thesis Universität Makedonien in Thessaloniki, Griechenland 2020

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Frontmatter 1 Contents 7 Acknowledgements 11 List of Greek words and acronyms used in the text 13 Preface 15 1. Methodology issues and theoretical starting points 21 Introduction 33 2.1.1 "Underdevelopment" in Greece 39 2.1.2 Middle class as parasitic and extra-institutional mobility 41 2.1.3 On petty bourgeoisism: from criticism to connotations 41 2.2.1 Without a bourgeoisie 48 2.2.2 Ideotype of Greek petty bourgeoisism 55 2.3 Fieldwork in Kato Toumba 59 2.4 Modernization, urbanization and ideological "civilizing": an anthropological reading 63 2.5 Space and objects in the discourses and practices of the noikokyraioi from Thessaloniki 66 Introduction 71 3.1 The paradigm of Thessaloniki 76 3.2.1 Poverty, deprivation and strategies to recover a lost world 78 3.2.2 Short personal and family stories about homes and belongings. Stories of extreme poverty and refugeeism 82 3.2.3 Efforts of integration and adaptation in the first post-war years 98 3.2.4 Antiparochi as miraculous adaptation 104 Introduction 112 3.3.1 Speaking with a main informant on the fringes of the city center 116 3.3.2 "Good homes" and architectural heritage of the city: conflicting public discourses 120 3.3.3 Living in the center: life history 123 Introduction 135 Introduction 140 4.1.1 Strategies and practices of integration into a "noikokyremeno" lifestyle. The case of Maria from Toumba 143 4.1.2 Gender-based performances of the modern. The case of Vasiliki from the second generation of women from Toumba 158 4.1.3 Homes of "prokopi" and "dignity". Social relations intermediated by material things 166 4.1.4 The concept of "noble" and "aristocratic" as a normative decoration standard in the homes of noikokyraioi 172 4.2 The counterexample: "peasants" and "migrants from Germany" in Toumba of "eastern suburbs" 182 Introduction 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 213 Introduction 226 5.2.1 Settlement of refugees or corruption? The production of benefactor citizen through representations of practices of trespassing of public property 235 5.2.2 "Settlement" of the "benefactor" citizen and public interest 245 5.2.3 The social reproduction of noikokyraios through practices of trespassing of public property in the post-war context of reconstruction 251 Conclusions 269 Introduction 277 Archives 298 Greek TV series 298 Journalistic articles 298 Filmography 299 Electronic resources 299 Albums 300 List of Figures 301

Other title(s)

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

ISBN

• 9783839464915
• 3839464919

OCLC

1382695722

Doi

10.1515/9783839464915

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