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Contents

List of Tables and Figures
Notes on Transliteration
List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Crisis and Austerity
Aimee Placas and Evdoxios Doxiadis

PART I: THE POLITICAL DIMENSION OF THE CRISIS

Chapter 1. The "Illegitimacy" of Foreign Loans: Greece, the Great Powers, and Foreign Debt in the Long Nineteenth Century
Evdoxios Doxiadis

Chapter 2. The Political Consequences of the Crisis in Greece: Charismatic Leadership and its Discontents
Harris Mylonas

Chapter 3. Golden Dawn: From the Margins of Greece to the Forefront of Europe
Kostis Karpozilos

Chapter 4. Protest, Elections, and Austerity Politics in Greece
Kostas Kanellopoulos and Maria Kousis

Chapter 5. From Boom to Bust: A Comparative Analysis of Greece and Spain under Austerity
Björn Bremer and Guillem Vidal

PART II: STATE FUNCTIONS, THE WELFARE STATE, AND THE ECONOMIC CRISIS

Chapter 6. Crisis and the Changes in the Mediascape: Greece and the Globe
Franklin L. Hess

Chapter 7. Crime and Criminal Justice Policy in Greece during the Financial Crisis
Sappho Xenakis and Leonidas K. Cheliotis

Chapter 8. The Downsizing and Commodification of Health Care: The Appalling Greek Experience since 2010
Noëlle Burgi

PART III: CHANGES IN GREEK SOCIETY AND CULTURE

Chapter 9. Gendering the Crisis: Claiming New Values and Agencies Beyond Destitution
Alexandra Zavos

Chapter 10. From the Twilight Zone to the Limelight: Shifting Terrains of Asylum and Rights in Greece
Heath Cabot

Chapter 11. Giname Kinezoi! (We've Become Chinese!): Critical Developments in the Imaginary of Chinese Capitalism
Tracey A. Rosen

Chapter 12. Disrupted and Disrupting Consumption: Transformations in Buying and Borrowing in Greece
Aimee Placas

Conclusion
Aimee Placas and Evdoxios Doxiadis

Index

Living Under Austerity

Greek Society in Crisis

Edited by Evdoxios Doxiadis and Aimee Placas

374 pages, 20 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-78533-933-2 Hb Published (July 2018)

eISBN 978-1-78533-934-9 eBook