Living with diversity or living with difference?

Großmann, Katrin; Alexandri, Georgia; Budnik, Maria; Haase, Annegret; Haid, Christian; Hedtke, Christoph; Kullmann, Katharina; Shokry, Galia

doi:10.2307/j.ctv92vpp2.15

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“…Its deserted commercial streets, full of closed-down shops remind the visitor that the area was one of the most crisis-ridden districts of the capital (Balampanidis 2017). Its housing stock, consisting mainly of old, low-rent apartments, made inner-city accommodation affordable for low-middle class populations (Gribmann et al 2019). However, in Akadimia Platonos tolerance and solidarity co-exist with xenophobia.…”

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confidence: 99%

Escaping Gentrification?

Zervou¹,

Dragouni²

2022

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures

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Contemporary carnivals represent rather banal spectacles, harnessed by institutional control and stripped of their meaning as disruptive processes of revelry, expressivity and defiance. However, when organised at grassroots level, carnivals may retain their subversive character, revealing intentions to cross the limits of urban normality. By drawing on ethnographic data, this article explores the carnival of Metaxourgio in Athens, performed in a multicultural neighbourhood at the heart of the metropolis by a small group of young artists and creatives. Based on the notions of liminality and threshold, it analyses how the carnival creates a temporal universe that challenges mainstream perceptions of public space and Otherness, contests gentrification and seeks to maintain a sense of community in a world of ever-shifting boundaries of precarity.

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Section: The Metaxourgio Carnival: the Secondand The Only Real -Life ...mentioning

confidence: 99%