Dreaming Big in Post-War Greece

Miltiadis Zermpoulis

doi:10.14361/9783839464915

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8376-6491-1
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8394-6491-5
Publisher: transcript, Bielefeld
Series: Kultur und soziale Praxis
Volume: 0
Language: English
Pages: 304
Product type: Book Titles

FrontmatterPages 1 - 6 Download chapter (PDF)
ContentsPages 7 - 10 Download chapter (PDF)
Acknowledgements No access Pages 11 - 12
List of Greek words and acronyms used in the text No access Pages 13 - 14
Preface No access Pages 15 - 20
1. Methodology issues and theoretical starting points No access Pages 21 - 32
Introduction No access Pages 33 - 39
2.1.1 "Underdevelopment" in Greece No access Pages 39 - 41
2.1.2 Middle class as parasitic and extra-institutional mobility No access Pages 41 - 41
2.1.3 On petty bourgeoisism: from criticism to connotations No access Pages 41 - 48
2.2.1 Without a bourgeoisie No access Pages 48 - 55
2.2.2 Ideotype of Greek petty bourgeoisism No access Pages 55 - 59
2.3 Fieldwork in Kato Toumba No access Pages 59 - 63
2.4 Modernization, urbanization and ideological "civilizing": an anthropological reading No access Pages 63 - 65
2.5 Space and objects in the discourses and practices of the noikokyraioi from Thessaloniki No access Pages 66 - 70
Introduction No access Pages 71 - 76
3.1 The paradigm of Thessaloniki No access Pages 76 - 77
3.2.1 Poverty, deprivation and strategies to recover a lost world No access Pages 78 - 82
3.2.2 Short personal and family stories about homes and belongings. Stories of extreme poverty and refugeeism No access Pages 82 - 98
3.2.3 Efforts of integration and adaptation in the first post-war years No access Pages 98 - 104
3.2.4 Antiparochi as miraculous adaptation No access Pages 104 - 112
Introduction No access Pages 112 - 116
3.3.1 Speaking with a main informant on the fringes of the city center No access Pages 116 - 119
3.3.2 "Good homes" and architectural heritage of the city: conflicting public discourses No access Pages 120 - 123
3.3.3 Living in the center: life history No access Pages 123 - 134
Introduction No access Pages 135 - 140
Introduction No access Pages 140 - 143
4.1.1 Strategies and practices of integration into a "noikokyremeno" lifestyle. The case of Maria from Toumba No access Pages 143 - 158
4.1.2 Gender-based performances of the modern. The case of Vasiliki from the second generation of women from Toumba No access Pages 158 - 166
4.1.3 Homes of "prokopi" and "dignity". Social relations intermediated by material things No access Pages 166 - 172
4.1.4 The concept of "noble" and "aristocratic" as a normative decoration standard in the homes of noikokyraioi No access Pages 172 - 181
4.2 The counterexample: "peasants" and "migrants from Germany" in Toumba of "eastern suburbs" No access Pages 182 - 200
Introduction No access Pages 201 - 213
5.1.1 "In the 1960s, I already had a dishwasher and a mixer, my sweetheart". Objectifications of the "modern" in the example of Antigoni No access Pages 213 - 225
Introduction No access Pages 226 - 235
5.2.1 Settlement of refugees or corruption? The production of benefactor citizen through representations of practices of trespassing of public property No access Pages 235 - 245
5.2.2 "Settlement" of the "benefactor" citizen and public interest No access Pages 245 - 251
5.2.3 The social reproduction of noikokyraios through practices of trespassing of public property in the post-war context of reconstruction No access Pages 251 - 268
Conclusions No access Pages 269 - 276
Introduction No access Pages 277 - 298
Archives No access Pages 298 - 298
Greek TV series No access Pages 298 - 298
Journalistic articles No access Pages 298 - 299
Filmography No access Pages 299 - 299
Electronic resources No access Pages 299 - 300
Albums No access Pages 300 - 300
List of Figures No access Pages 301 - 304