Athens 2012

Geographies of the South. The Study of the Rural Landscape in Portugal: Southern Unicity in Patterns and Changing Functions

“…Athens became the city par excellence of the EU crisis, suffering from austerity and consequent urban degeneration. Northern European, especially German, mass media and power elites have been revisiting Athens as a "soft city" of dystopia (Leontidou 2012a(Leontidou , 2013(Leontidou , 2014Tsilimpounidi 2012). In the EU of the 2010s, there is an obvious process of the reconstruction of the European South -or rather of the periphery, the so-called PIIGS, including Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain -which echoes Gramsci's insightful analysis of "the Southern question" in Italy (Leontidou 2012a).…”