Ellada Evangelou
Channel: NeMe
Date: 2023-11-18

The area of Liopetri and its environs, the build-up area, orchards and the Potamos, has entered (well behind other communities in the area), the phase of what is widely called development. The paper proposes a socio- cultural and historic approach in our effort to understand the ways with which this process is taking place. The analysis focuses on collective memory as that has been formulated from the late 1950s onwards, how memory and trauma have been preserved, their manifestations in public and private spaces, as well as ways with which these narratives are acutely gendered. The research draws from the locations in and around the village as those relate to past trauma, archival footage related to the predominant narratives which dominates the identity of the village, interviews carried out in the spring of 2023 with Liopetri inhabitants across generations, and area maps.

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https://www.neme.org/projects/a-sea-change/
https://a-sea-change.net/author/NeMe/

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