Greece Crisis

19347118886_ff608f54c6_bThis post highlights recent articles that seek to understand the Greek debt crisis in global perspective. If you have suggestions for additional articles that should be listed here, please contact us

 

NEW: The ‘Greek crisis’ database contains references and links to the works of social scientists who have published on Greece over the last ten years. Much has been said and written about the so-called ‘Greek crisis’ and has circulated through international media and social media. Our aim is to create a comprehensive, organised and searchable open archive of the study of social life, of ‘crises’, and of social change over the past decade in Greece, which we hope will become a port of call for anyone interested in what has been written about the so-called ‘Greek crisis’.  The ‘Greek crisis’ database was created by the project ‘το αρχείο/the archive’, which is an interdisciplinary collaboration between humanities researchers, social scientists, computer scientists and action researchers, exploring the possibilities of experimenting with creative, multimodal, digital and publics-creating methodologies to document social change and to co-create history from below with various communities.

 

The ‘Greek crisis’ database can be accessed and searched here and an excel version of the database can be downloaded here (this version will be periodically updated).

 

 

Short Articles

 

Jamie Martin ‘The Colonial Origins of the Greek BailoutCIGH Exeter 27 July 2015

 

Joseph E. Stiglitz ‘Greece, the Sacrificial Lamb‘ New York Times 25 July, 2015

 

Sadia Abbas ‘Neoliberal moralism and the fiction of Europe: a postcolonial perspectiveOpen Democracy 16 July 2015

 

Chris Arnade ‘Blame the banks, not Greece, for the debt crisis‘ The Atlantic 16 July 2015

 

Balakrishnan Rajagopal ‘Greece: Welcome to the Third World and Here Are Some Lessons’ 13 July 2015

 

Francio Guadeloupe & others ‘Why Greece should matter to us on St. Maarten‘ 13 July 2015

 

Koenraad Bogaert ‘Breaking the Myths of Power: The Struggles of the Haitians, Algerians and Greeks‘ 9 July 2015

 

Africa is a Country ‘What can Africa learn from the Greek crisis?‘ 9 July, 2015

 

Luc Boltanski & Arnaud Esquerre ‘Référendum en Grèce: trouble dans la démocratie‘ Le Monde 2 July 2015

 

Vijay Prashad ‘What if Greece were in the ‘Third World’?‘ 1 July, 2015

 

Kojo Koram and Kojo BarbahGreece and the Underdevelopment of Europe

 

Panayota Gounari ‘Neoliberalism as Social Necrophilia: The Case of Greece‘  Truthout 21 March 2014

 

Longer Articles 

Riad Azar ‘Neoliberalism, Austerity, and Authoritarianism‘ Summer 2015 

 

Heiko Körner ‘The Franc Zone of West and Central Africa: A Satellite System of European Monetary Union‘ 2002 (an older article, but prescient)

 

 

Audio 

Interview with Yanis Varoufakis 13 July 2015

 

Vijay Prashad ‘Debt: Greece and the Global South‘ 9 July 2015

 

Thanks to Jim Conley, Uli Hoeneß, Robbie Shilliam, John Narayan, Maia Pal, Dilip Menon, Sevasti-Melissa Nolas, Christos Varvantakis, Marina Apgar 

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