The social history of modern Greece: a roundtable

Avdela, Efi; Gallant, Thomas W.; Papadogiannis, Nikolaos; Papastefanaki, Leda; Voglis, Polymeris

doi:10.1080/03071022.2018.1394037

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“…Among its central definitional aspects, 'historical reflexivity' as an iterative process of reflection creates narratives of past/present/future practices informed by embodied histories and a sedimentation of narratives over time which become adopted, thus opening the possibility for people to invent historical narratives for change connecting with emotions surfacing though the unsettling practice of reflexivity (Durepos and Vince 2020). These efforts can be seen as contributions to the new shift in the scholarship of social history of Greece further expanding methods, approaches and tools used in historical research (Avdela et al 2018). These renewed foci that give space to emotions and social categories linked with memory have a basis in the important scholarship of influential social and oral historians such as Thompson, Portelli, Passerini and Hobsbawm, to name a few, and can make new compelling contributions to Greek historiography (Passerini 1987(Passerini , 2016Hobsbawm 1994;Portelli 1991;Thompson 1975).…”

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Curatorial Dissonance and Conflictual Aesthetics: Holocaust Memory and Public Humanities in Greek Historiography

Christou

2024

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Despite the increasingly diverse societal landscape in Greece for more than three decades within a context of migration, understandings of its fragile histories are still limited in shaping a sense of belonging that is open to ‘otherness’. While Greek communities have utilised history as a pathway to maintain identity, other parallel histories and understandings do not resonate with ‘Greekness’ for most, such as the case of Greek Jewry. Critical historical perspectives can benefit from tracing ‘re-membering’ as a feminist practice in the reassessment of societal values of inclusivity. Histories of violence and injustice can also include elements of ‘difficult histories’ and must be embraced to seek acknowledgement of these in promoting social change and cultural analysis for public humanities informing curation and curricula. Between eduscapes, art heritage spaces, an entry into contested and conflictual histories can expand a sense of belonging and the way we imagine our own connected histories with communities, place and nation. Greek Jews do not constitute a strong part of historical memory for Greeks in their past and present; in contrast to what is perceived as ‘official’ history, theirs is quite marginal. As a result, contemporary Greeks, from everyday life to academia, do not have a holistic understanding in relation to the identities of Jews in Greece, their culture or the Holocaust. Given the emergence of a new wave of artistic activism in recent years in response to the ever-increasing dominance of authoritarian neoliberalism, along with activist practices in the art field as undercurrents of resistance, in this intervention I bring together bodies of works to create a dialogic reflection with historical, artistic and feminist sources. In turn, the discussion then explores the spatiotemporal contestations of the historical geographies of Holocaust monuments in Greece. While interrogating historical amnesia, I endeavour to provide a space to engage with ‘difficult histories’ in their aesthetic context as a heritage of healing and social justice.

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Curatorial Dissonance and Conflictual Aesthetics: Holocaust Memory and Public Humanities in Greek Historiography

Christou

2024

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“…The military dictatorship of 1967-74 saw a revival of the "glory" of the 1821 revolution and a proliferation of visual representations of women warriors and heroines; after 1974 the history of heroes and heroines became of secondary importance for historians focusing on the social and economic history of the country. 3 But in the 1980s, parliament formally acknowledged the role of the national resistance as well as the history of 6 From the Nation to Emancipation: Greek Women Warriors from the Revolution (1820s) to the Civil War (1940s) Sakis Gekas the Civil War. As a result, a number of statues and busts in public places signify the commemoration of heroines of the war of independence and fighters in the resistance even in the form of the 'unknown warrior' .…”

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From the Nation to Emancipation: Greek Women Warriors from the Revolution (1820s) to the Civil War (1940s)

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2020

Women Warriors and National Heroes

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The social history of modern Greece: a roundtable

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Curatorial Dissonance and Conflictual Aesthetics: Holocaust Memory and Public Humanities in Greek Historiography

Curatorial Dissonance and Conflictual Aesthetics: Holocaust Memory and Public Humanities in Greek Historiography

From the Nation to Emancipation: Greek Women Warriors from the Revolution (1820s) to the Civil War (1940s)

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