The Greek Crisis and European Modernity [electronic resource] /
Triandafyllidou, Anna.author.
Kouki, Hara.author.
Gropas, R.editor.
This collection explores the current economic and political crisis in Greece and more widely in Europe. Greece is used to illustrate and exemplify the contradictions of the dominant paradigm of European modernity, the ruptures that are inherent to it, and the alternative modernity discourses that develop within Europe.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : is Greece a modern European country? / Anna Triandafyllidou, Ruby Gropas, Hara Kouki -- International bubbles, currency union and national failures : the case of Greece and the euro / Loukas Tsoukalis -- We are all Greeks now! the crisis in Greece in its European and global context / Yanis Varoufakis -- On the Jacobin dimension of Greek constitutional tradition / Ioannis A. Tassopoulos -- Memoranda : Greek exceptionalism or the mirror of Europe's future? / George Katrougalos -- Religion in contemporary Greece : a modern experience? / Thalia Dragonas -- The Orthodox church in Greece today / Stavros Zoumboulakis -- The crisis and the welfare state in Greece : a complex relationship / Manos Matsaganis -- Is the crisis a watershed moment for the Greek welfare state? the chances for modernization amidst an ambivalent EU record on social Europe / Maria Petmesidou -- Postscript : cultural dualism revisited / Nikiforos Diamandouros.
This collection explores the current economic and political crisis in Greece and more widely in Europe. Greece is used to illustrate and exemplify the contradictions of the dominant paradigm of European modernity, the ruptures that are inherent to it, and the alternative modernity discourses that develop within Europe.
Political sociology.
Europe—Politics and government.
European Union.
Ethnology—Europe.
Regional economics.
Spatial economics.
Political economy.
Political Sociology.
European Politics.
European Union Politics.
European Culture.
Regional/Spatial Science.
International Political Economy.