Tag Archives: Greece

Social Health Clinics and Crisis Management

Social Health Clinics and Crisis Management by Themistoklis Pellas Emergency legislation, economic dispossession, unemployment, police coercion, everyday precariousness, internalization of guilt and shame, racism attribute to the ‘management of crisis’ in Greece. Healthcare financial cuts and restructuring  — under the adjustment programme between the greek state, the euro area Member States and the International Monetary Fund  — parallel racialized and gendered […] read more

Picturing Public Space: Ethnicity and Gender in Iraklio

Picturing Public Space: Ethnicity and Gender in Iraklio by Aris Anagnostopoulos In anticipation of the International Biourbanism Workshop “Socio-Spatial Transformations Under The State Of Emergency” this August in Heraklion Crete we republish here Picturing Public Space: Ethnicity and Gender in Picture Postcards of Iraklio, Crete, at the Beginning of the 20th Century (in Eckehard Pistrick, Nicola Scaldaferri and Gretel Schwörer (eds), Audiovisual Media and Identity […] read more

Socio-Spatial Transformations Under the State of Emergency in Greece

Socio-Spatial Transformations Under the State of Emergency in Greece INTERNATIONAL BIOURBANISM WORKSHOP Heraklion Crete, Greece | August 1st-9th 2014   The Crete Workshop in “SOCIO-SPATIAL TRANSFORMATIONS UNDER THE STATE OF EMERGENCY” will be held in Heraklion (Crete, Greece), August 1st-9th 2014. It aims to delineate the systemic implications of local responses to recession and explore socio-spatial practices that contradict and negate the current economic restructuring regime. […] read more