Katerina Nasioka is the coauthor of Gender and Journalism in Greece (2008) and author of Ciudades en Insurrección: Oaxaca 2006/Atenas 2008 (2017). She has also published articles in various journals on recent social struggles in Greece. Her research interests concerns urban space, critical theory, and social insurrections.
Beyond Crisis: After the Collapse of Institutional Hope in Greece, What?
SKU: 9781629635156
Editors: John Holloway, Katerina Nasioka, and Panagiotis Doulos
Publisher: PM Press/ Kairos
ISBN: 9781629635156
Published: 2019
Format: Paperback
Size: 9 x 6
Page count: 256
Subjects: Political Science/Economics
Praise
“Beyond Crisis does not look on the bright side. It looks
straight into the eye of the storm and unfolds the hopelessness of
conventional left politics in Greece and how it became part of the
unfolding cycle of state violence and austerity. And it unfolds the
community of hope, its courage of resistance and negativity, that has
come to fore in Greece, and elsewhere too, as the direct democracy of a
society of the free and equal.”
—Werner Bonefeld, professor of politics, University of York, England
“With Jeremy Corbyn calling for a ‘new way of doing politics’ and
offering hope to millions, the publication of this book about Greece’s
erstwhile ‘Government of Hope’ is timely. The questions it asks are
essential. How does rage, hope and optimism turn into to despair and
depression? Why can’t the institutional Left break through the ‘Wall of
Reality’? And, if not Syriza, Podemos or Corbyn’s Labour, then what?”
—David Harvie, The Free Association
“Beyond Crisis is a beautiful and unusually rewarding book.
This extraordinary collection of essays combines theory with passion and
impresses by its sweep and scope. Bursting with ideas and observations,
with an ear for lyrical phrases, this highly original account of social
struggles in Greece offers a fresh perspective on capitalism,
resistance and dignified life beyond crisis.”
—Andrej Grubacic, coauthor of Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History
“This book shows that the Greek crisis is testament of the
impossibility of capital as a form of human society. Radical hope exists
not in the abstract utopia of the party, but in the concrete utopias at
the grassroots.”
—Ana Dinerstein, author of The Politics of Autonomy in Latin America: The Art of Organising Hope
“This is not just one more book on the past, present and/or future
dark aspects of economic crisis in Greece. It is not an analysis of
‘impossibility,’ but rather a courageous and challenging voice talking
about something which is rarely mentioned in the political, economic,
sociological, and anthropological discourses about crisis: hope!”
—Diana Riboli, professor of sociology, Panteion University, Athens
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