Dr Dimitrios Theodossopoulos has had has paper, ‘Infuriated with the Infuriated? Blaming Tactics and Discontent about the Greek Financial Crisis’ published in Current Anthropology.
Current Anthropology explores Greek ‘indignation’ with economic austerity in the general context of the recent financial crisis. It focuses on local ‘indignant’ views as these were expressed during the protest movement of 2011, but also, on the views of Greek citizens who did not participate in the protest. In this respect, the article attempts to depart from simplistic media portraits of the Greek crisis and highlight instead the contradictions and complexity of anti-austerity indignation. In everyday life, indignation with austerity follows a number of different trajectories, some more critical than others. It also reflects a concern about the unsettling of moral community, articulating evaluations that defy established economic narratives. Anthropology can make a major contribution in facilitating an understanding of such local and complex views and the alternative cultural rationalities that are embedded in them
Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios. “Infuriated with the Infuriated? Blaming Tactics and Discontent about the Greek Financial Crisis.” Current Anthropology 54:2. April 2013. View paper