Changing landscapes of urban citizenship: Southern Europe in times of crisis

Zavos, Alexandra; Koutrolikou, Penny; Siatitsa, Dimitra

doi:10.1080/13621025.2017.1307601

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“…The relational city, then, is a place where struggles converge. Social movement scholars show how this plays out across Athenian spatialities of the street, the square, and the neighbourhood (Arampatzi, 2017;Hadjimichalis, 2013;Kaika and Karaliotas, 2016), and the kinds of urban citizenship that emerge as a result (Kandylis, 2017;Zavos et al, 2017). And this knowledge speaks to insights from literatures that map out the spatialities of social movements more broadly: specifically, the ways that place-based struggles become embedded in other places, how ties to places can be mobile, how convergence spaces articulate collective visions produced through relation, and hold many worlds within worlds (Bosco, 2001;Routledge, 2003Routledge, , 2009.…”

Section: Relational Citymentioning

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Circular movements: Migratory citizenships in anticolonial Athens

Western

2023

Environ Plan D

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This essay remaps geographies of belonging in Athens. It thinks the city in circles and circulations, writing an anticolonial Athens made out of nonlinear geographies and histories, anti-border struggles, anticolonial pasts and futures, migrations and mobilisations. The essay writes three circular movements: narrating how Athens is part of a Mediterranean feedback loop in which struggles are in constant circulation; thinking a circular square in the middle of the city as a polis not dictated by ideas of ethnos; and following the ways that people make new choreographies of belonging in the dance circle, finding footwork out of step with the restrictive rhythms of the nation. These movements are forms of spatial resistance, and the essay closes by sharing some methods of movement writing. Through these circular movements, the essay seeks to map ways out of the linear geographies and histories of empire, and the ongoing colonialities of citizenship.

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Section: Relational Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

Circular movements: Migratory citizenships in anticolonial Athens

Western

2023

Environ Plan D

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Marxist Perspectives on Migration Between Autonomy and Hegemony: An Intervention for a Strategic Approach

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Jørgensen

2022

Marx, Engels, and Marxisms

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Crisis Upon Crisis: Theoretical and Political Reflections on Greece’s Response to the ‘Refugee Crisis’

Parsanoglou

2022

IMISCOE Research Series

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In this chapter, I reflect upon the theoretical and political implications of the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ both in terms of governance and sovereignty. The analysis that follows is based on empirical material, namely in-depth semi-structured interviews with different relevant stakeholders, i.e. representatives of authorities, such as the former Ministry of Migration Policy and the Asylum Service, representatives of EU agencies, such as Frontex and DG ECHO, as well as volunteers and activists from Greece and other countries, like Turkey, Spain and the United States of America. I focus on pre-existing and emerging internal contradictions between different actors who have been dealing with refugees. In other words, I try to capture the contingent character of new geographies of control that occurred with the establishment of the ‘hotspot approach,’ in correlation with the shifts in state sovereignty as it has been repositioned through the active involvement of non-state actors – from non-governmental organisations to international organisations and EU agencies – in the refugee/migration management.

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Changing landscapes of urban citizenship: Southern Europe in times of crisis

Cited by 12 publications

References 30 publications

Circular movements: Migratory citizenships in anticolonial Athens

Circular movements: Migratory citizenships in anticolonial Athens

Marxist Perspectives on Migration Between Autonomy and Hegemony: An Intervention for a Strategic Approach

Crisis Upon Crisis: Theoretical and Political Reflections on Greece’s Response to the ‘Refugee Crisis’

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