Alternative Formen von Resilienz in Griechenland

Kousis, Maria; Kalogeraki, Stefania; Papadaki, Marina; Loukakis, Angelos; Velonaki, Maria

doi:10.1515/fjsb-2016-0108

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“…Only with regard to multilingual communication activities are Greek groups more internationally-oriented than German organisations, which seem to be more focused on the German speaking countries. Additionally, Greek organisations are much less formalised and professionalised, and are much more contentious in their action repertoires, thus confirming the findings of previous studies (Lyrintzis 2002;Alexandropoulos 2010;Eder and Kousis 2001;Sotiropoulos and Bourikos 2014;Diani and Kousis 2014;Clarke et al 2016;Kousis et al 2016;Simiti 2017). However, differences between countries are primarily related to the level of European commitments and activities, not to the patterns and organisational profiles conditioning 'horizontal Europeanisation'.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…Second, online sources also allowed us to include more recently established groups, such as migration related organisations which appeared during the refugee crisis of 2015, as well as more informal groups that are not easily located in public directories or on formal lists. Finally, although resource-rich organisations may have more developed websites, our approach, using hubs-based websites, usually created by activists themselves, allowed us to have the best available information on an extensive number of informal and grass-root organisations across the national level that is not usually available from other comprehensive sources used by scholars in the domain (Kousis et al 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Germany and Greece, for instance, represent two countries with structurally diverse civil societies (Kousis 1999;Lyrintzis 2002;Anheier and Salamon 1999;Zimmer et al 2009). However, the crises affecting the EU, and Greece in particular, have not only led to a considerable growth in Greek organised civil society (Sotiropoulos and Bourikos 2014;Kousis et al 2016;Simiti 2017), but have also led organisations in both countries to engage more overtly in transnational activities. And while it is to be expected that the three fields of activities have been affected differently by the economic, financial and refugee crises, we cannot overlook that citizens' initiatives and organisations in each of the issue fields have been confronted with crosssectoral grievances and pressures.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Civil society organisations have been engaged in solidarity practices in various issue areas, both within their countries and beyond. This paper is interested in analysing whether and to what extent civic initiatives and organisations are involved in transnational solidarity activities within Europe. Moreover, it wishes to identify those factors that seem to promote or inhibit the scope of transnational European activities. The paper compares the situation in two countries (Greece and Germany) on the basis of data on transnationally-oriented civic groups and organisations committed to organising solidarity activities in three fields of work (disabilities, unemployment and immigration of refugees). The analyses show that most solidarity organisations remain active primarily at the local and/or national level/s, and that only a minority of solidarity organisations are engaged in cross-national activities. European activities are associated with organisations maintaining a web of transnational partners and a more politicised mission. Moreover, formalisation and professionalisation seem to be conducive to transnational activism, as much as to global activism. These findings show that cross-national activism can develop at the grassroots level on the basis of a transnational organisational field that is not nec-C. Lahusen () •

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“…The recent global financial crisis and subsequent austerity policies have had considerable impact on millions of European Union (EU) citizens due to increases in unemployment, cuts in social provisions, decrease in credit access, changes in consuming practices, and dim prospects for the future of children (Giugni & Grasso, 2015;Kalogeraki, in press;Kousis et al, 2016;LIVEWHAT, 2014aLIVEWHAT, , 2014b. Despite differences in the scale of cuts due to austerity-driven reforms in European countries, social security safety nets have been increasingly eroding while at the same time precarity and flexicurity have been continuously on the rise, leading to daily hardships for a wide range of social groups and communities (LIVEWHAT, 2014a(LIVEWHAT, , 2014bNorman, Uba, & Temple, 2015).…”

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Alternative Action Organizations During Hard Economic Times: A Comparative European Perspective

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The aim of this Special Issue is to offer new systematic analyses on European alternative (non)economic solidarity practices since the global financial crisis, that have attracted limited media and scholarly attention. Its seven articles are devoted to multidimensional analyses providing complementary perspectives on alternative action organizations across Europe and rest on Action Organization Analysis, a new hubs-website approach extending Protest Event Analysis. They deal with the emergence and continuity of alternative action organizations in different contexts, while they focus on its multiple tactics and the ways in which they address crisis-related needs under diverse conditions of vulnerability and hardship. Our contributions rely on original data produced in the context of Work Package 6 of the EU-funded FP7 project “Living with Hard Times: How Citizens React to Economic Crises and Their Social and Political Consequences” (LIVEWHAT), conducted across nine European countries.

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“…There is a growing number of studies that describe the role of civic organizations in providing solidarity responses to deficits in social attention by the state or the markets during hard economic times (Baumgarten, 2017;Cruz, Rubén Martínez, & Blanco, 2017;D'Alisa, Forno, & Maurano, 2015;Kousis & Paschou, 2017;Kousis, Kalogeraki, Papadaki, Loukakis, & Velonaki, 2016;Simiti, 2017). They describe how this type of social action combines different forms of social solidarity initiatives trying to alleviate extant grievances as well as aiming for political change.…”

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A Comparative Regional Perspective on Alternative Action Organization Responses to the Economic Crisis Across Europe

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Solidarity alternatives have emerged as the response of organized social activists to periods of economic hardship all over the world, in different times. This article explores to what extent such activities have emerged across European regions following the financial crisis of 2008. Research has addressed the relationship between the economic context and the emergence of alternative action groups, tracing their spatial variation, but few works offer systematic comparative data at the regional level. This article offers a spatial overview of temporal changes among 2,600 Alternative Action Organizations (AAOs) at the regional level in nine European countries, before and after 2008. It also provides evidence of how the number of AAOs and their focus on the most needy change as a function of the intensity of the crisis and its effect on the poor and unemployed. We find no differences between countries either in terms of the number of emerging AAOs nor in their capacity to refocus their attention on the most needy, due to the intensity or type of crisis. We thus confirm existing research that explains alternative action as a response to crisis within the context of resourced and experienced social action organizations rather than as a direct reaction to economic hardship. Our results provide comprehensive evidence across multiple contexts showing that social resilience through alternative action is not produced directly by contextual distress but seems to be mediated by existing resources. This is relevant to understanding the mechanisms behind the widely acknowledged claim that alternative economies arise in contexts of economic crisis.

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Alternative Formen von Resilienz in Griechenland

Cited by 9 publications

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Europäische Solidarität in Zeiten der Krise: ein Vergleich der transnationalen Aktivitäten zivilgesellschaftlicher Organisationen in Deutschland und Griechenland

Europäische Solidarität in Zeiten der Krise: ein Vergleich der transnationalen Aktivitäten zivilgesellschaftlicher Organisationen in Deutschland und Griechenland

Alternative Action Organizations During Hard Economic Times: A Comparative European Perspective

A Comparative Regional Perspective on Alternative Action Organization Responses to the Economic Crisis Across Europe

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