Abstract:
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In this paper I analyze how the economic crisis prevailed in the Greek everyday
reality and expose its grassroots meanings and understandings. My aim it to reveal
and analyze the multiple definitions crisis acquires on the social ground and how
people explain the seven-year socio-economic depression brought by the persisting
economic crisis in Greece. Drawing from selected ethnographic cases from Chalkida,
Greece, a mid-sized city at the periphery of Athens, I explore the multiple meanings
crisis and austerity acquires in the social ground and expose the relatedness between
economic activities and social life. To this extent, I examine the various grassroots
economic practices, logics and established socio-economics patterns of diversely
situated people. |