“Insurrection is not a spectacle”: experiencing and contesting touristification in Exarcheia, Athens

Pettas, Dimitris; Avdikos, Vasilis; Iliopoulou, Eirini; Karavasili, Ioanna

doi:10.1080/02723638.2021.1888521

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“…In this context, post-recession touristification, anchored through the engagement of transnational capital, has fostered new and more intense forms of gentrification. The intensity of these recent waves of gentrification is such that it threatens to upend the longstanding social structure of vertical differentiation manifested inside the multi-storey apartment blocks, and triggers multifaceted displacement pressures across the whole of Athens’s core (Pettas et al, 2021).…”

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On the recursive relationship between gentrification and labour market precarisation: Evidence from two neighbourhoods in Athens, Greece

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Gentrification and labour precarisation constitute prominent responses to urban capitalist crises. They have typically been addressed in the literature as distinct processes. Even though they can indeed occur independently of one another, here we argue that they are also often deeply interconnected. To do so, we utilise a mix of fieldwork and secondary data to investigate how gentrification has both fostered labour precarisation but also how it has been supported by it, within a context of economic recession yet growing tourist inflows into two neighbourhoods (Koukaki and Kerameikos) in central Athens, Greece. Our findings show that the growth of precarious labour in construction has facilitated the development of several gentrification loci whilst, in turn, gentrification’s consolidation has encouraged the growth of poor working conditions in local lodging, hospitality/catering, and creative activities. Ultimately, in highlighting the role of labour precarisation in gentrification, the paper argues that these processes are more than mere parts of an opportunistic conjuncture. Instead, their interconnectedness constitutes an integral part of the city’s contemporary urbanisation, being a continuation of the crisis-struck, construction-driven economic models that have historically characterised much of the Mediterranean European Union.

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On the recursive relationship between gentrification and labour market precarisation: Evidence from two neighbourhoods in Athens, Greece

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“…The commercialisation has several aspects, including an ever-increasing number of cafes and catering outlets that cash-in on the exilic qualities of the area. Indeed, the phenomenon of anarcho-tourism has become a marketable product facilitating capitalist infiltration into the exilic space (Pettas et al 2021). The Exarcheiabased anarcho-communist group Class Counterattack (2018) refers to this as the "alternativisation of Exarcheia", highlighting that the neighbourhood is becoming a destination for a supposedly radical form of tourism wherein "anarchism" and "resistance" serve as a "scandalous experience", and where one can take part in "tours of political spaces and squats" (Class Counterattack 2018).…”

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“…Emblematic of the creeping touristification of the exilic space is the explosion of short‐term rentals, particularly Airbnb (Pettas et al. 2021). By January 2022, there were over 9,000 listings in Athens, and Exarcheia was the neighbourhood with the second highest concentration, with around 800 listings, roughly 85% of which were listed as the entire apartment and were of high availability, almost certainly meaning that no long‐term tenant lived there (Inside Airbnb 2022).…”

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Battles forSocio‐SpatialHegemony in the Exilic Space of Exarcheia

Ryan

2022

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The neighbourhood of Exarcheia in Athens, Greece has long been recognised as the socio‐spatial epicentre of the Athenian anarchist and anti‐authoritarian milieu wherein several self‐organised spaces, groups, and initiatives have thrived. In this paper, I characterise Exarcheia as an exilic space within the capitalist world‐system. Exilic spaces are paradoxical spaces of relative and precarious autonomy grounded in the principles of self‐organisation, solidarity, and mutual aid. While I highlight Exarcheia’s exilic status, I also investigate significant internal problematics and tensions. Specifically, I investigate the construction and implementation of a hegemonic project at the exilic scale revolving around the perception that certain anti‐social actors were gaining ground in the neighbourhood whose behaviours constituted a direct threat to Exarcheia’s exilic status. I then problematise the hegemonic consensus and identify a counter‐hegemonic response consisting of marginalised voices opposed to the hegemonic project in both theory and practice, signalling a crisis of exilic hegemony.

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“…Terms like overtourism (Goodwin, 2021), (Szuster, et al, 2021), (Jover & Díaz-Parra, 2020), (Khomsi, et al, 2020), (Kim & Kang, 2020), (Mihalic, 2020), (Cheer, et al, 2019), (Cheung & Li, 2019), (Eckert, et al, 2019), (Jacobsen, et al, 2019), (Milano, et al, 2019a), (Dodds & Butler, 2019), (Kay Smith, et al, 2019), (Perkumienė & Pranskūnienė, 2019), (Koens, et al, 2018), (Peeters, et al, 2018), (Goodwin, 2017), surtourisme (France, 2019), anti-tourist sentiment (Kim & Kang, 2020), (Nunkoo, et al, 2020), (Hughes, 2018), (Papathanassis, 2017), tourismphobia (Matteucci, et al, 2021), (Milano, et al, 2019b), touristification (Pettas, et al, 2021), (Butler, 1980), degrowing tourism (Fletcher, et al, 2019), (Higgins-Desbiolles, et al, 2019 appeared in everyday use due to research, but the phenomenon in its full extent was not understood in time due to the lack of multidimensional interpretations.…”

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Studying tourist congestion as a form of overtourism through Tripadvisor reviews: Case study: Charles Bridge, Prague

Drăgan¹,

Camară²

2022

Zb Depart geogr, turizam i hotel

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Overtourism is a current phenomenon which also includes crowds of people in a tourist destination. This research analyzes overtourism to a much visited tourist objective through Tripadvisor reviews, by highlighting the key concepts which are suggesting the existence of the overtourism phenomenon. The method consisted to examine the reviews posted on Tripadvisor by the tourists who visited one of the most important tourist attractions in Prague, namely Charles Bridge. The tool used for this purpose was Leximancer program. Using an analysis from multiple perspectives (during the 2019 low and peak tourist season, and during the Covid-19 pandemic), the results of the concept maps captured the intensity of the phenomenon of overtourism in all three contexts. Thus, specific themes and concepts generated by the program suggest that Carles Bridge suffers from overtourism regardless of the tourist season.

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“Insurrection is not a spectacle”: experiencing and contesting touristification in Exarcheia, Athens

Cited by 23 publications

References 36 publications

On the recursive relationship between gentrification and labour market precarisation: Evidence from two neighbourhoods in Athens, Greece

On the recursive relationship between gentrification and labour market precarisation: Evidence from two neighbourhoods in Athens, Greece

Battles forSocio‐SpatialHegemony in the Exilic Space of Exarcheia

Studying tourist congestion as a form of overtourism through Tripadvisor reviews: Case study: Charles Bridge, Prague

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