Donnerstag, 23. Juni 2016, 18:30 - 19:30 iCal
From NGOs to Solidarity
Refugees, Neoliberalism, and the Specter of the Welfare State in Austerity Greece
Vortragende: Dr. Heath CABOT (University of Pittsburgh)
Institut für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik der Universität Wien
Postgasse 7/1/3, 1010 Wien
Vortrag
Drawing on ethnographic research in Greece since 2005, this paper will track the shift from NGOs to grassroots “solidarity” initiatives as crucial venues for the extra-state provision of aid and care to asylum seekers and refugees. I will argue that this shift must be understood within the ongoing neoliberalization of the Greek state and wider trends toward neoliberalization in Europe. However, the specter of the welfare state continues to haunt these shifts. Even as extra-state forms of social organization increasingly provide services for both citizens and non-citizens in Greece, a longing for a functional and responsible state has also emerged. I will ask what this longing signifies regarding Greek understandings of the State, and the larger role of the welfare state within Europe.
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Kontakt
Petra Greger
Institut für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik
Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
4277 41001
petra.greger@univie.ac.at
Erstellt am Mittwoch, 08. Juni 2016, 09:56
Letzte Änderung am Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2016, 09:21