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Anarchy in Athens Nicholas Apoifis

Anarchy in Athens By Nicholas Apoifis

Anarchy in Athens by Nicholas Apoifis


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Based on extensive first-hand fieldwork, this book offers rare insight into activist ethnography and the role of emotions and violence in social movement reproduction, with implications extending far beyond the study locale.

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Anarchy in Athens: An Ethnography of Militancy, Emotions and Violence by Nicholas Apoifis

The Athenian anarchist and anti-authoritarian milieu's public protests and battles against the Greek state, police and other capitalist institutions are prolific and highly visible. Away from the intensity of the street-protests and the glare of mainstream media, however, its militants implement anarchist practices whose outcomes are less visible. They are feeding the hungry and poor, protecting migrants from fascist beatings and trying to carve out an autonomous political, social and cultural space. Activists within this movement share politics centred on hostility to the capitalist state and all forms of domination, hierarchy and discrimination. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork amongst Athenian anarchists and anti-authoritarians, Anarchy in Athens unravels the internal complexities within this milieu and provides a better understanding of the forces that give the space its shape.

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'Lucid, sophisticated and suggestive ... this book will certainly speak to the many activist researchers who today are vitally interested in the construction of commoning activities, new forms of anti-capitalist strategies, and the new relationship between local and global struggles.'
- Andrej Grubacic, Director and founder of the Anthropology and Social Change department at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco

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About Nicholas Apoifis

Nicholas Apoifis is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of New South Wales, Australia

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Hellenic turmoil
2. Social movement theory and collective identity
3. Militant ethnography and taking notes in a furnace
4. The early years of Greek anarchism: 'it just doesn't mean anything to me'
5. A contemporary history: 'Fuck May 68, Fight Now!'
6. The anarchist and anti-authoritarian space: tensions and tendencies
7. Street-protests and emotions: a temporary unity
Conclusion: imagining and fighting for alternative realities
Index

Additional information

NLS9781526100634
9781526100634
1526100630
Anarchy in Athens: An Ethnography of Militancy, Emotions and Violence by Nicholas Apoifis
New
Paperback
Manchester University Press
2016-10-19
208
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