 The spatiality of counter-austerity politics in Athens, Greece: Emergent ‘urban solidarity spaces’Athina Arampatzi Urban Studies, 2017, vol. 54, issue 9, 2155-2171 Abstract: Grassroots responses and alternatives to austerity that have emerged in Athens and Greece call for a re-thinking of the recent neoliberal crisis through articulations of contestation ‘from below’. This paper addresses this yet nascent theoretical debate through the notion of ‘urban solidarity spaces’, focusing on the spatiality of counter-austerity politics that emerges in and out of places and expands across urban space and beyond. From survival tactics grounded in Athenian neighbourhoods, such as local solidarity initiatives; to solidarity structures and cooperatives; and broader strategies of transformation and alternatives, such as the formation of a solidarity economy. These aim to constitute an empowering process of solidarity-making ‘from below’, and open up spaces for the practice of bottom-up democratic politics vis-à -vis austerity, a ‘politics of fear’ and crisis. The arguments raised here methodologically draw on activist ethnographic research in the ‘Athens of crisis’, between 2012 and 2013. Keywords: Athens; counter-austerity politics; crisis; solidarity; urban movements; é›…å…¸; å 紧缩政治; å ±æœº; 团结; åŸŽå¸‚è¿ åŠ¨ (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:54:y:2017:i:9:p:2155-2171 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Urban Studies from Urban Studies Journal Limited |
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