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Post-growth, post-democracy, post-Memoranda: What can the ‘post-growth’ debate learn from Greece and vice versa?
Anthropological Theory ( IF 2.078 ) Pub Date : 2021-01-24 , DOI: 10.1177/1463499620982121
Maria Markantonatou 1
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The crisis in Greece in the last decade has led to a wide economic transition, raising the question of whether Greece can be understood as a kind of a ‘post-growth’ society. The article has two aims. First, it examines how the Greek crisis has been discussed within the post-growth debate and focuses on three views: Greece as a post-growth anti-paradigm, Greece as an opportunity for democratic post-growth and austerity in Greece as a path for anti-Keynesian degrowth. Second, the article examines how ideas and projects with a post-growth orientation have influenced specific social initiatives born out of the crisis period in Greece. Some of these initiatives are reviewed (self-organized social and economic collectives, grassroots initiatives for solidarity, solidarity economy actions, etc.). As further discussed in the article, these initiatives were part of a broader ‘countermovement’ (Polanyi), and they faded together with other forms of labour and social protest, in accordance with events at the central political scene, and especially SYRIZA’s adoption of Memoranda politics. It is observed that in the post-Memoranda era in Greece, although past strategies of social reproduction are either unavailable (the pre-crisis finance-led growth model) or no longer equally effective (the familistic social model) and fiscal discipline remains, the search for other alternatives, including social initiatives with a post-growth orientation, did not actually extend as was expected, due to some new growth opportunities, e.g. in the field of tourism. It is finally concluded that, although they constituted an important part of the Greek countermovement, born as responses to the crisis, these social initiatives did not manage to consolidate more permanent structures of social action that could successfully challenge the neoliberal agenda.



中文翻译:

后增长,后民主,备忘录后:“后增长”辩论可以从希腊中学到什么,反之亦然?

过去十年中希腊的危机导致了广泛的经济转型,这引发了一个问题,即希腊是否可以被理解为一种“后增长”社会。本文有两个目的。首先,它考察了在后增长辩论中如何讨论希腊危机,并着重于以下三种观点:希腊是后增长的反范式,希腊是实现民主后增长的机会,而紧缩政策是希腊实现增长的途径。反凯恩斯式的退化。其次,本文考察了具有增长后取向的思想和项目如何影响了希腊危机时期后诞生的特定社会倡议。对其中一些倡议进行了审查(自组织的社会和经济团体,基层的团结倡议,团结经济行动等)。正如文章中进一步讨论的那样,这些举措是更广泛的“反动派”(Polanyi)的一部分,根据中央政治舞台上的事件,尤其是SYRIZA对备忘录政治的采纳,它们与其他形式的劳工和社会抗议活动一起逐渐消失。据观察,在希腊的备忘录时代之后,尽管过去的社会再生产战略要么不可用(危机前以金融为主导的增长模式),要么不再有效(家族式社会模式),并且财政纪律依然存在,由于其他新的增长机会,例如在旅游领域,寻找其他替代方案,包括以增长为导向的社会倡议,实际上并未像预期的那样扩展。最终得出的结论是,尽管它们构成了希腊抵抗运动的重要组成部分,但它是为应对危机而诞生的,

更新日期:2021-01-25
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