[MGSA-L] TOMORROW: Talk on State-Society Relations in Greece before and after the Economic Crisis

[Roilos, Panagiotis]

Dear all,

I would like to invite you to the following event.

Sincerely,
Panagiotis Roilos

Panagiotis Roilos
George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature
Faculty Associate, The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
Harvard University
Founder and Director, Delphi Academy of European Studies

Mahindra Humanities Center, Seminar on MGreek Literature and Culture

Dimitrios Sotiropoulos, University of Athens/Harvard University

Contemporary State-Society Relations in Greece Before and After the Economic Crisis

Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - 6:00pm
Room 110, Barker Center

Chair: Professor Panagiotis Roilos
Abstract

In the past state-society relations in Greece had developed mostly through political clientelist and corporatist linkages between citizens and interest groups on the one hand and the state on the other. Owing to the Greek economic crisis which erupted in 2010, two other modes of state – society relations unfolded: first, citizens, individually and also collectively through their associations, opposed the state and more concretely rejected austerity policies and engaged in typical and more often atypical ways of political participation (repeated violent demonstrations and seat-ins). And second, after welfare state spending was deeply cut and persistently high unemployment and massive closures of small and medium enterprises dominated the private sector, citizens detached themselves from the state, by seeking the support of their family members and social solidarity networks. All three modes through which society related to the state (integration into the state through clientelism and state corporatism, mobilization against the state, and detachment from and avoidance of the state) preceded the eruption of the crisis and had existed in different mixes, but the crisis created new conditions, fertile for the development of the latter two modes.



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