Is the crisis in Athens (also) gendered?: Facets of access and (in)visibility in everyday public spaces

Dina Vaiou

City, 2014, vol. 18, issue 4-5, 533-537

Abstract: As the Greek crisis deepens and 'recovery' is constantly postponed to an unknown future, a dominant discourse seems to consolidate which focuses almost exclusively on macro-economic arguments and concerns. Other aspects of the crisis, among which are its gendered facets and unequal effects on women and men, rarely permeate the allegedly 'central' understandings. With the possible exception of unemployment which fares high among left-wing analysts, gender is thought to pertain to a 'special', that is, less important, matter which may detract from the 'main problem'. The paper draws together a series of stories of ordinary women who have experienced deep changes in their everyday lives as a result of austerity policies (unemployment, precarity, salary and pension cuts, shrinking social rights, mounting everyday violence). It argues that emphasis on this scale 'closest in', linked in multiple ways to many other scales (local, national, European, international), reveals areas of knowledge that would otherwise remain in the dark; and that connecting concrete bodies with global processes enriches our understandings with more complex and more flexible variables and informs the 'big pictures' (in this case about the Greek crisis)-and not only the reverse.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.939474

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