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This volume uses new empirical evidence and analytical ideas to study phenomena of fragmentation and exclusion threatening stability and cohesion in Greek society in the aftermath of the crisis. The contributors argue that processes of fragmentation and exclusion provoked by the crisis can be observed on both a material and an ideational level. On a material level, rising levels of unemployment, poverty and inequality have produced new social security “outsiders”, while on an ideational level, a discursive-cultural shift is documented, which has led to new understandings and categorizations of new (and old) insiders and outsiders. Moreover, the volume attests to the aspirations, but also the limitations, of spontaneous civil society mobilization to address the social crisis. Finally, the volume offers a discussion of the political management of social fragmentation and exclusion in Greece both before and after the onset of the crisis. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of social policy and phenomena of poverty, social exclusion and economic inequality, civil society studies, and comparative political economy and politics.
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EDITED BY DIMITRIS KATSIKAS, DIMITRI A. SOTIROPOULOS AND MARIA ZAFIROPOULOU
new perspectives on south-east europe
SOCIOECONOMIC FRAGMENTATION AND EXCLUSION IN GREECE UNDER THE CRISIS
New Perspectives on South-East Europe Series Editors Kevin Featherstone London School of Economics European Institute London, UK Spyros Economides London School of Economics European Institute London, UK Vassilis Monastiriotis London School of Economics European Institute London, UK
South-East Europe presents a compelling agenda: a region that has challenged European identities, values and interests like no other at formative periods of modern history, and is now undergoing a set a complex transitions. It is a region made up of new and old European Union member states, as well as aspiring ones; early ‘democratising’ states and new post- communist regimes; states undergoing liberalising economic reforms, partially inspired by external forces, whilst coping with their own embedded nationalisms; and states obliged to respond to new and recurring issues of security, identity, well-being, social integration, faith and secularisation. This series examines issues of inheritance and adaptation. The disciplinary reach incorporates politics and international relations, modern history, economics and political economy and sociology. It links the study of South East-Europe across a number of social sciences to European issues of democratisation and economic reform in the post-transition age. It addresses ideas as well as institutions; policies as well as processes. It will include studies of the domestic and foreign policies of single states, relations between states and peoples in the region, and between the region and beyond. The EU is an obvious reference point for current research on South-East Europe, but this series also highlights the importance of South-East Europe in its eastern context; the Caucuses; the Black Sea and the Middle East. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14733
Dimitris Katsikas • Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos Maria Zafiropoulou Editors
Socioeconomic Fragmentation and Exclusion in Greece under the Crisis
Editors Dimitris Katsikas National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Athens, Greece
Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Athens, Greece
Maria Zafiropoulou Hellenic Open University Patras, Greece
New Perspectives on South-East Europe ISBN 978-3-319-68797-1 ISBN 978-3-319-68798-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68798-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017961002 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author