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Title: Surplus Citizens
Condition: New
EAN: 9780745337784
ISBN: 9780745337784
Publisher: Pluto Press
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 20/07/2019
Item Height: 215mm
Item Length: 135mm
Author: Dimitra Kotouza
Language: English
Subtitle: Struggle and Nationalism in the Greek Crisis
ISBN-10: 0745337783
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Weight: 379g
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: Society & Culture, Social Sciences
Release Year: 2019
Description: The crisis in Greece has elicited the full spectrum of responses - from optimism for a left parliamentary politics inspired by Syriza's electoral victory, to pessimism about the intransigence of the EU and calls for the reinstatement of full national sovereignty in Europe.

In Surplus Citizens, Dimitra Kotouza questions the terms of the debate by demonstrating how the national framing of social contestation posed obstacles to transformative collective action, but also how this framing has been challenged. Analysing the increasing superfluousness of subordinate classes in Greece as part of a global phenomenon with racialised and gendered dimensions, the book interrogates the strengths, contradictions and limits of collective action and identity in the crisis, from the movement of the squares and neighbourhood assemblies, to new forms of labour activism, environmental struggles, immigrant protests, anti-fascism and pro-refugee activism.

Arguing against the strategic fixation on unified identities and pointing instead to the transformative potential of internal dispute within movements, Surplus Citizens highlights the relevance of a discussion of Greece to collective action beyond it, as we continue to traverse a global financial crisis that has provoked conflicts over nationalism, immigration and the rise of neo-fascism.

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