PDF-(DOWNLOAD)-Indebted: An Ethnography of Despair and Resilience in Greece\'s Second City

This engagingly written and deeply ethnographic work examines the economic and political factors that led to the Greek debt crisis including financial pressures from international lenders unregulated spending by the Greek government predatory bank loans and rising unemploymentIndebted looks closely at the cultural dimensions of the crisis how middle class urbanites experienced the shock of a global fiscal collapse managed societal instability and worked to sustain their families in the face of structural pressures local instabilities and moral imperatives AuthorKathryn A Kozaitis based her analysis on ethnographic research in Thessaloniki the second largest city and cocapital of Greece during the summer of 2009 20112012 and ethnographic updates in 20132019 She places particular emphasis on the lived experience of Thessalonikians in what emerged asa culture of crisiscollective patterned behaviors thoughts and emotions characteristic of a people in sociocultural transformationin an uncertain present marked by past realities and future imaginaries The book synthesizes hundreds of crisis narratives depicting Thessalonikians responsesto their countrys political disaster and downward mobility through the themes of loss and displacement blame and accountability reconfigurations of kinship roles and responsibilities emotional and intellectual awakenings and emergent indicators of survival continuity and renewal throughalternative praxisIndebted is a volume in the series ISSUES OF GLOBALIZATION CASE STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY ANTHROPOLOGY which examines the experiences of individual communities in our contemporary world Each volume offers a brief and engaging exploration of a particular issue arising from globalization and itscultural political and economic effects on certain peoples or groups. 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