LEADER 02298oam 2200337z- 450 001 9910795344903321 005 20210112203855.0 010 $a1-78680-367-4 035 $a(CKB)4960000000108680 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5791687 035 $a(BIP)062938895 035 $a(EXLCZ)994960000000108680 100 $a20190707cuuuuuuuu -u- - 101 0 $aeng 200 10$aSurplus Citizens : Struggle and Nationalism in the Greek Crisis 210 $cPluto Press 215 $a1 online resource (304 p.) $cill 311 $a0-7453-3778-3 330 8 $aThe crisis in Greece has elicited the full spectrum of responses - from optimism for a left parliamentary politics inspired by Syrizas electoral victory, to pessimism about the intransigence of the EU and calls for the reinstatement of full national sovereignty in Europe. In Surplus Citizens, Dimitra Kotouza questions the terms of the debate by demonstrating how the national framing of social contestation posed obstacles to transformative collective action, but also how this framing has been challenged. Analysing the increasing superfluousness of subordinate classes in Greece as part of a global phenomenon with racialised and gendered dimensions, the book interrogates the strengths, contradictions and limits of collective action and identity in the crisis, from the movement of the squares and neighbourhood assemblies, to new forms of labour activism, environmental struggles, immigrant protests, anti-fascism and pro-refugee activism. Arguing against the strategic fixation on unified identities and pointing instead to the transformative potential of internal dispute within movements, Surplus Citizens highlights the relevance of a discussion of Greece to collective action beyond it, as we continue to traverse a global financial crisis that has provoked conflicts over nationalism, immigration and the rise of neo-fascism. -- 517 $aSurplus Citizens 610 $aSocial movements 610 $aGreece 610 $aHistory 610 $aBusiness & economics 610 $aSocial science 676 $a303.48/409495 700 $aKotouza$b Dimitra$01549586 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795344903321 996 $aSurplus Citizens : Struggle and Nationalism in the Greek Crisis$93807750 997 $aUNINA