This 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 Bailout‘ CIGH 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 perspective‘ Open Democracy
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 Barbah ‘Greece 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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