The Performance of Anxiety: Greek Narratives of War in Kosovo

Brown, Keith; Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios

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“…Sutton 2003: 204;Brown & Theodossopoulos 2000;. In this respect, I would agree with Bastea's comment that 'we resemble our neighbours more than we resemble our ancestors ' (2003: 167).…”

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“…Despite their attempts to analyze political circumstances in terms of international relations, the subjects of this study do not abstain from recycling hypothetical scenarios and conspiracy theories that ultimately present Greece and Turkey as predictably non-sovereign countries whose policies are dictated by larger and more powerful interests, states and coalitions (cf. Brown & Theodossopoulos 2000.…”

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“…Papadakis 1994;Sutton 2003;Brown & Theodossopoulos 2000. Agency is then to be found not only in political decisions, but also at the point of intersection of the personal and the intimate with the imagined collectivity of the Self and the Other(s), which can be both discursive and practical in the sense that it can inspire action.…”

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Phantom Menace: What Junior Greek Army Officers Have to Say about Turks and Turkey

Kirtsoglou¹

2006

South European Society and Politics

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“…Sutton 2003: 204;Brown & Theodossopoulos 2000;. In this respect, I would agree with Bastea's comment that 'we resemble our neighbours more than we resemble our ancestors ' (2003: 167).…”

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2006

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“…This position seeks to address ethnographically the purported supremacy of Western rationality, which often does not withstand the close scrutiny of an anthropologically situated analysis (cf. Brown andTheodossopoulos 2000, 2003;Kirtsoglou and Theodossopoulos 2010). Finally, the Tanzanian experience of post-socialist governance (discussed below), which brought little change to local political organization while perpetuating power asymmetries, is an excellent example of the violation of the social contract through the processes of modernization that should guarantee it.…”

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Rhetoric and the Workings of Power--the Social Contract in Crisis

Kirtsoglou¹

2010

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… since you know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. -Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War Rhetoric, Agency, and the Workings of PowerAs social, cultural, and political subjects, we are all constituted in power. Power is not something external to the subject, but rather a context and an idiom of subjectivity. It is creative and generative, as Foucault (1977) would argue, and also relational insofar as it is manifested in relationships (Etzioni 1993;Kritzman 1988;Wolf 1999). It has long been argued that resistance itself, as Foucault ([1976] 1990: 95) put it, "is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power" (see also Abu-Lughod 1990;Mitchell 1990; Reed-Danahay 1993;Williams 2008). In a recent article on autonomy and the French alter-globalization movement, which also builds on Donald Moore's (1998) argument, Williams (2008: 80-81) claims that "[r]esistance … emerges not from an originary site but from oppositional practices, which … are always relational and dynamic."The present collection of articles focuses on such relational and dynamic (mostly discursive) practices, seeking to examine the connections between power, identity, history, and agency. Imbued with historicity and inspired by local narrative, the contributions to this special issue do not conflate poweras a concept and context-with Western powers as political formations. They rather attempt to deconstruct relations of power; to examine the consequences of the excess of power inherent in modern political processes; and to recover agency by taking local commentary seriously. | Elisabeth Kirtsoglou

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“…Local actors in Greece have been noted for their skill in articulating arguments that blame the great powers as agents of disaster (Herzfeld 1982(Herzfeld , 1992. They have been also noted for their skill in interpreting contemporary events in terms of familiar historical patterns (Sutton 1998) and for the analytical, pointed and irony-prone disposition of those interpretations (Brown & Theodossopoulos 2000Kirtsoglou 2006). All these characteristics have been apparent in the Greek version of anti-American discourse, which, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, has acquired an increasingly central stage in Greek local level conversations about the aetiology of political events.…”

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The Poetics of Anti-Americanism in Greece: Rhetoric, Agency, and Local Meaning

Kirtsoglou¹,

Theodossopoulos²

2010

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Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. The poetics of anti-Americanism in Greece: rhetoric, agency and local meaning Elisabeth Kirtsoglou & Dimitrios TheodossopoulosAbstract: In this article, we examine the content and rationale of anti-Americanism in Greece, drawing ethnographic information from two urban centres, Patras and Volos. We pay special attention to the conspiracy prone attributes of Greek anti-American rhetoric, and, instead of simply dismissing it, or seeing it primarily as a manifestation of nationalist thinking, we attempt to unpack the threads of meaning that make it so appealing in local contexts. We look in particular at the aetiology of blame within this particular discourse and try to explain the specific readings of history and politics that make it significant in local contexts. We argue that Greek anti-Americanism has an empowering potential for local actors, as it provides them with a certain degree of discursive agency over wider political processes that are beyond their immediate control.

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The Performance of Anxiety: Greek Narratives of War in Kosovo

Cited by 35 publications

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Phantom Menace: What Junior Greek Army Officers Have to Say about Turks and Turkey

Phantom Menace: What Junior Greek Army Officers Have to Say about Turks and Turkey

Rhetoric and the Workings of Power--the Social Contract in Crisis

The Poetics of Anti-Americanism in Greece: Rhetoric, Agency, and Local Meaning

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