000			01750nam a2200157 4500
999			_c512411 _d512411
008			191121b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
100			_aPlantzos, Dimitris _913640
245			_aWe owe ourselves to debt: Classical Greece, Athens in crisis, and the body as battlefield
260			_bSocial Science Information
300			_a58(3), Sep, 2019: p.469-492.
520			_aSince 2009, Greece has been hit by a severe economic recession followed by harsh austerity policies, gradual impoverishment, and ultimately social collapse. This article investigates the cultural landscape of the so-called ‘Greek crisis’, focusing on Athens, the nation’s capital, and the ways the crisis discourse employs biopolitical technologies of dispossession and displacement in order to generate an intensified breed of body-politics. The article’s main case study is documenta 14, a blockbuster exhibition of contemporary art organized in Athens in 2017, seemingly elaborating on the ideas of debt – classical and modern – though in fact promoting neoliberal approaches to public economy and life. The idea of ‘classical debt’, the article concludes, continuously reiterated by both Greece’s defenders as well as its most unforgiving critics, rather than acting as an emancipatory force, ends up producing a public consisting of silent bodies, trapped in highly romanticized discourses of the past and ultimately unable to defend themselves. This tension, however, also provokes narratives and gestures made of contradictions and ambiguity, difficult to map and monitor according to established research protocols. - Reproduced.
650			_aDebt - Greece _913641
773			_aSocial Science Information
906			_aDebt
942			_2ddc _cAR