Beyond Spontaneity: Crisis, violence and collective action in Athens
Abstract
This article argues for the analytical potentials of the concept of spontaneity in our effort to understand critically the socio-spatial dynamics of Athens, but especially the contemporary collective protest actions in the city. Such critical understanding emerges as a significant task given the current urgency to grasp the capitalist crisis and the collective reactions to it. However, taking into account the re-configuration of extreme-Right violence in the streets of Athens, the article attempts to revisit the Marxist dichotomy between spontaneity and non-spontaneity. Via an anthropological critique of this distinction, the paper suggests an additional point of focus beyond spontaneity.
- Publication:
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City
- Pub Date:
- October 2012
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2012City...16..535D
- Keywords:
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- spontaneity;
- crisis;
- protest;
- collective action;
- Athens;
- state;
- para-state;
- extreme-right;
- violence;
- anthropology