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作者

来源

URBAN STUDIES,Vol.54,Issue9SI,P.2155-2171

语言

英文

关键字

Athens; counter-austerity politics; crisis; solidarity; urban movements; SOCIAL-MOVEMENTS; NEO-LIBERALISM; CRISIS; GEOGRAPHIES; EUROPE

作者单位

[Arampatzi, Athina] Univ Leeds, Leeds, W Yorkshire, England. Arampatzi, A (reprint author), Univ Leeds, Sch Geog, Univ Rd, Leeds LS2 9JT, W Yorkshire, England. E-Mail: A.Arampatzi@leeds.ac.uk

摘要

Grassroots responses and alternatives to austerity that have emerged in Athens and Greece call for a re-thinking of the recent neoliberal crisis through articulations of contestation from below'. This paper addresses this yet nascent theoretical debate through the notion of urban solidarity spaces', focusing on the spatiality of counter-austerity politics that emerges in and out of places and expands across urban space and beyond. From survival tactics grounded in Athenian neighbourhoods, such as local solidarity initiatives; to solidarity structures and cooperatives; and broader strategies of transformation and alternatives, such as the formation of a solidarity economy. These aim to constitute an empowering process of solidarity-making from below', and open up spaces for the practice of bottom-up democratic politics vis-a-vis austerity, a politics of fear' and crisis. The arguments raised here methodologically draw on activist ethnographic research in the Athens of crisis', between 2012 and 2013.