‘How does a global financial crisis permeate the spaces of the everyday in a city?’
An exploration through film, presentations, and discussion of Athens, a city in crisis and under authoritarian control. Are the same features appearing, if less starkly but just as insidiously, elsewhere? What is to be done? Check out the virtual special issue of CITY here for related articles – free access! http://explore.tandfonline.com/page/pgas/ccit-vsi-athens
Contributions from:
Costas Lapavitsas, economist, SOAS
Lila Leontidou, geographer, Hellenic Open University
Dimitris Dalakoglou, anthropologist, University of Sussex
AntonisVradis, geographer, University of Durham
Adam Elliott-Cooper, geographer, University of Oxford
Bob Catterall, editor, CITY
Saturday, 11 October, 6.00-9.00pm, at the Khalili Theatre, SOAS
The Khalili Lecture Theatre is on the lower ground floor of main College buildings (see http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/#InteractiveMap)
Presented by CITY with crisis-scape (http://crisis-scape.net/) and co-organised with RMF at SOAS (https://www.soas.ac.uk/rmf/)
An introductory quote (below)?
‘Is the anxious, authoritarian, militarized city of self-avowedly fascist police and pitched civil war our present-future? Is this the fate of urbanity itself in our millennial, post-historical times? Is Athens, the purported birthplace of those secular forms we came to so faithfully value— democracy, the polis, the public—the harbinger of their demise?’’
Nasser Abourahme in his contribution to a special feature ‘Crisis-scape: Athens and beyond’, a special feature in CITY, 18.4-5 (early October, 2014)
